Thies Posken

Thies is an executive coach, mentor, facilitator and an associate consultant of c-Growth. His areas of expertise are Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Organizational Transformation, Strategic Planning and Workshop Facilitation.

He is a Professional Certified Coach PCC/ ICF and has also been certified in Advanced Ontological Coaching by the Newfield Network – USA & Chile, Team Coaching Tetra-Map – USA, Team Coaching Activision – France and Positive Intelligence/ S. Chamine – USA, Psychological Safety – USA.

Thies has 30 years of corporate experience as a global senior executive in  500 companies, having lived in Hamburg, Paris, New York and Rio de Janeiro. After having studied in Germany & Holland, Thies started his international corporate career with the #1 Beauty Company L’Oréal, in Paris. In 2013, after 17 years in International Marketing and as Global Brand President of the leading Salon Beauty Brand L’Oréal Professionnel, he decided to transition into HR.

Responsible for Leadership Development & Transformation at L’Oréal LatAm, he led a major Organizational Change process to boost trust, cooperation, feedback culture, strategic planning and organizational effectiveness.

Certified Coach since 2018, he is continuously taking complementary studies about the evolution of leadership practices, people engagement and wellbeing.

With over 6 years of coaching experience, Thies’ international client portfolio includes major corporations like L’Oréal, Coca-Cola, BASF, Colgate Palmolive, Mars, ABInbev, American Express, Bradesco, Capital One, Toyota, Fujitsu, Siemens, Meta, Breitling, Adidas and Accenture.

CEO/Trade Marketing – São Paulo:

Client recognizes opportunity to shift leadership style towards a more human and empathic approach. Coachee designs a new system of leadership values and the deriving actionable behaviors with high impact on people engagement.

DIRECTOR/ Sales Operations/ IT – San José, California:

After a career of over 30 years, coachee feels stuck, demotivated and expresses a desire to reinvent himself in order to open new career opportunities. Through the coaching process, client defines a personal sense of purpose & new life vision and designs an ambitious but realistic action plan to achieve his goals.

Thies has degrees from the Hamburg School of Business Administration and studied at NYU Stern School of Business & CEDEP Paris, European Center for Executive Development.