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The SGIS Annual Conference at the Institut Florimont, 1213 Petit-Lancy
Friday March 24th and Saturday March 25th, 2023
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Before starting as a Director for the NEASC Commission on International Education, Jeff served as a NEASC Commission Member and Visitor from 2009-2015. From 2008-2016, he was a partner at Educators’ Collaborative, an executive search and consulting firm, assisting schools worldwide with leadership recruiting and development, strategic planning, and governance. In 2012 Jeff co-founded OESIS Group – a US and international partnership of K-12 thought leaders and practitioners aimed at sparking conversations and innovations to support best practices of teaching and learning in an increasingly globalized world.
Jeff was founding Director of School Year Abroad/Italy and served as Headmaster of TASIS-The American School in Switzerland.
He earned both his BA (Philosophy) and MA (English Literature) from Georgetown University.
Claire Drury is an experienced Learning and Organisational Development Consultant, Coach and Facilitator. She designs and delivers behavioural development programmes and partners with intact leadership teams to reinforce and sustain existing cultures or ignite culture change. Prior to becoming an independent consultant in 2005, Claire was Head of Learning & Development at a global financial services firm. She designed and implemented a wide range of behavioural development programmes, appraisal systems, competency frameworks and 360degree feedback assessments, plus talent and graduate programmes.
Session:
What is leadership behaviour? Why develop leadership behaviour in schools?
The steps to achieving results. Enablers, blockers and the roles of the Heads of Schools
After a career as a Middle Years Programme and Diploma Programme teacher in various countries (Switzerland, China, United Kingdom), as well as a member of school leadership teams and as an author of educational books, Remy is now working as IB World Schools Senior Manager. This department was established in 2017 to support authorized schools in delivering quality education. The two main roles of the department are to be the voice of schools within the IB to advocate for their needs and to evaluate schools in a supportive manner to create opportunities for each school to grow. Rémy is there to support schools in their development and implementation of their IB programmes.
Après une carrière d'enseignant du Programme d’éducation intermédiaire et du Programme du diplôme dans divers pays (Suisse, Chine, Royaume-Uni), ainsi qu'en tant que membre d'équipes de direction d'établissements scolaires ou rédacteur d'ouvrages pédagogiques, Rémy travaille en tant que Responsable confirmé du Service des écoles du monde de l'IB. Ce département, créé en 2017, a pour mission d'aider les établissements autorisés à dispenser une éducation de qualité. Les deux rôles principaux de ce département consistent à être la voix des établissements scolaires au sein de l'IB afin de défendre leurs besoins et à évaluer les établissements de manière solidaire afin de créer des opportunités de développement pour chaque établissement. Rémy est là pour aider les établissements dans leur développement et leur mise en œuvre des programmes de l’IB.
Olivia is a teacher, school and organisational leader, and a lifelong learner. She has taught in and led departments and schools in South Africa, England, and Bahrain. She worked as a teaching and learning consultant in the UK before taking up a role as an adviser for the Department for Education's National Strategies for School Improvement. She is both a schools evaluator and a school improvement champion. Prior to joining CIS, her role as CEO of British Schools in the Middle East (BSME) brought about significant organisational growth and development in the region. She is currently completing her MBA in Educational Leadership.
Olivia prides herself on being a collaborative colleague, coach and mentor. School improvement work is not only a strength, it’s what she enjoys most; the development of training and development resources for schools plays a key part in her commitment to school improvement. She also recognises the balance required between the support and challenge required to affect change.
Dr. Christoph M. Ott is a member of the Board of the Leysin American School, a university lecturer, and the Managing Director of Quality Schools Certificate, a Swiss-based quality certification for schools. He has extensive enrollment management experience in international markets and guiding organizations to achieve long-term goals. Forward-thinking and innovative strategic thinker with the ability to build cross-functional teams, develop comprehensive programs, and improve service quality. Christoph is skilled at introducing new and innovative ideas into secondary education and implementing them through empowerment, motivation, and inspiration.
Dr. Christoph M. Ott est membre du conseil d'administration de la Leysin American School, chargé de cours d'université et directeur général de Quality Schools Certificate, une certification de qualité Suisse pour écoles. Il possède une vaste expérience de le marketing international et d'orienter des organisations à atteindre des objectifs à long terme. Penseur stratégique et innovant, il est capable de constituer des équipes pluridisciplinaires, de développer des programmes et d'améliorer la qualité du service. Christoph est capable de lancer des initiatives novatrices dans l'enseignement secondaire et de les implementer à travers la responsabilisation, la motivation et l'inspiration des collaborateurs.
Steven delivers mental health courses in French for pro mente sana since 2019. In addition to mental health promotion and prevention, he works in Lausanne as an independent sex therapist, sexual health counsellor and Breathing Coordination MDH practitioner.
Steven has Master of Arts, a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Sexual Health recognized by Sexual Health Switzerland, and a certification in Clinical Sexology and Sex Therapy recognized by the Swiss Society of Sexology.
Steven worked since 2019 on the adaption in French of the Mental Health First Aid courses (Adults, Youth, Managers) in Switzerland. He leads the French instructors training team and is an experienced instructor.
Internet links:
https://ensa.swiss/fr/premiers-secours
https://bienatoi.ch
Ayant grandi à Bruxelles et vivant en Suisse depuis plus de 13 ans, Jenny Ebermann est une Leader, Coach et Formatrice internationale, innovatrice et visionnaire. Ayant un bagage en sport, économie et management, Jenny travaille présentement en tant que Directrice Exécutive pour la Suisse d’une ONG mondialement reconnue.
Avec plus de 17 années de gestion efficace d’équipes multiculturelles, diverses et virtuelles, elle possède une expertise variée au sein de différentes entreprises et organisations, notamment dans le secteur public, en Organisations Internationales, ONGs et grandes multinationales (B2B/ B2C) dans différents pays et continents.
En tant qu’ancien Membre du Conseil d’Administration de l’Association Européenne des Approches basées sur la Pleine Conscience (www.eamba.net) et en tant que Membre active de l’Association MBSR en Suisse (https://www.mindfulness.swiss), Jenny est passionnée en ce qui a trait à la pleine conscience, la communication et le leadership au niveau local et international.
Détenant un CAS et un Diplôme en Coaching ainsi qu’ayant des certifications additionnelles en communication interculturelle, leadership, formation et médiation, Jenny apprécie de pouvoir travailler moyennant des outils systémiques et basés sur la pleine conscience.
Par ailleurs, elle est formée en pleine conscience pour adultes par l’Université de Bangor, UK et adhère aux Standards de Qualité anglais. Pour les enfants/adolescents, Jenny s’est formée auprès de mindfulschools.org (États-Unis) et est certifiée Eline Snel (“Mindfulness matters”) aux Pays-Bas.
Dr Mecky McNeil is a British-qualified doctor and general practitioner, experienced in looking after adults and children with a range of mental illnesses, including anxiety, depression, eating disorders and schizophrenia, and caring for suicidal and acutely psychotic patients.
Part of the team at Pro Mente Sana since 2019, Mecky helped to developed the ensa Mental Health First Aid English courses for adults and youth in Switzerland. Mecky leads the English instructor training team and is an experienced instructor.
Mecky currently collaborates with UNICEF and Z Zurich Foundation on a global project aimed at supporting young people’s mental health.
Hyperlinks:
https://ensa.swiss/en/first-aiders/
https://www.unicef.org/partnerships/z-zurich-foundation
Jessica Minahan, MEd, BCBA, is a licensed and board-certified behavior analyst, special educator, as well as a consultant to schools internationally (www.jessicaminahan.com). Jessica has over seventeen years of experience supporting students who exhibit challenging behavior in urban public-school systems.
She is the co-author of The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students (Harvard Education Press, 2012) and author of The Behavior Code Companion: Strategies, Tools, and Interventions for Supporting Students with Anxiety-Related or Oppositional Behaviors (Harvard Education Press, 2014).
Après des études de sciences économiques en France puis en économie du développement à Genève (IUHEID), avec pour objet d’étude l’exclusion sociale au Burkina Faso, j’ai intégré l’Institut Florimont en 2002. J’y enseigne l’économie, le droit et les sciences politiques. J'ai créé en 2012 un bureau d’orientation qui accompagne dans leurs projets plus de 400 élèves chaque année.
A côté de mon travail à Florimont, j’anime des ateliers en “intelligence collective”. Je suis aussi instructeur d’apnée (Aida) et fustier (Log Builder). Dans des collectifs citoyens, j’ai créé et animé des projets liés à la transition vers plus d’autonomie et de résilience. Dans l’orientation, le cœur de mon métier est la rencontre avec les jeunes et leurs projets d’avenir - l’essence de ma profession - pour révéler chacun à ses talents.
Jenny Mosley is a national and international educational consultant, author and publisher. Based in the UK, with 45 years of experience in schools. Jenny has developed her ‘Golden Model’ approach for Early Years and Primary, interweaving rafts of key ideas promoting staff and pupil wellbeing, listening systems, positive behaviour, school values and calmer lunchtimes and playtimes. With the aim of creating safe learning communities where all children and adults feel valued, respected and listened to, Jenny is in great demand for her inspiring talks and motivational workshops. Jenny’s key areas of expertise include staffrooms, classrooms, dining halls and playgrounds. All of Jenny’s systems promote wellbeing in schools. Her ‘Five Wells for Wellbeing’ were adopted by the National College for School Leadership, UK.
Jenny has taught MEds in Education at two universities and her work has been featured many times in the press and aired on the BBC. Jenny travels tirelessly to work with staff and children in schools across the UK and internationally.
More recently, Jenny has created therapeutic training resources aimed at School Recovery and continues to create online resources so that schools can access her support for positive relationships, respectful school communities, speaking and really listening to each other and, importantly, fun, games and enjoyment at school.
Empowering Parents, Educators, Leaders and Teams
With creative, practical and experiential resources in today’s fast changing world.
Izumi Takase is a Swiss Licensed Trainer and Career Coach. She founded iPostiveLINC in October 2016.
She worked for 20 years at a Swiss Human Resources, Consultancy in Geneva. As a Senior Consultant, she supported the private industry sector, public institutions such as universities (Geneva, Lausanne, Neuchatel, The Graduate Institute), and schools (Ecolint).
Currently, she is a corporate trainer (P&G, HP, Ferring, Givaudan …), the Moser School (certified as Positive Discipline Lab School) and trains primary and secondary teachers in Geneva and Nyon. She also works with the Geneva Public Schools (DIP), HEP (Haute Ecole Pédagogique BEJUNE) and GIAP (Groupement Intercommunal pour l'Animation Parascolaire).
Izumi facilitates workshops in English and French for parents and educators, management development interventions, Teambuilding workshops, addressing communications and conflict management, and change management issues.
Ingénieur en Informatique et Systèmes d'Informations et Ingénieur Européen en Informatique et Systèmes d'Information - Spécialisation en Intelligence Artificielle
Titulaire du module "Comportement Organisationnel" du MBA en Intelligence Artificielle de l'université de Cumbria (UK) et du Robert Kennedy College (Zurich, CH)
Titulaire du Brevet Fédéral de Formateur Suisse
Seul Master Trainer PNL francophone au monde pour Richard Bandler
Seul Grand Master Trainer Tony Buzan francophone au monde (Mémoire, Mind Mapping,Lecture Rapide)
Vice Président du groupe Tony Buzan International, Représentant exclusif du Groupe pour l'Europe
Vice Président de l'ONG Brain Trust pour l'éducation des enfants défavorisés
Gérant de Michel Wozniak Sàrl et propriétaire de la marque OptimiStra®
Amy Bray is Director of Another Way, a UK environmental education charity she founded when she was 16. Through Another Way, she has planted over 30 000 trees, has given talks on climate change, plastic pollution and sustainable living to schools, community groups, businesses and events, and has created numerous resources and certifications to empower people to live more kindly with our planet. Amy is a committee member for the UN Decade of Ocean Science, and has received a number of prizes including the Cumbria Woman of the Year in 2019 and the UK Prime Minister's Point of Light Award for her work. She is currently in her third year studying Marine Biology at the University of Exeter.
Amy will talk about her experiences as a young campaigner at school, her story founding Another Way, how young people can be equipped with the tools they need to help solve the climate crisis, and how we can all make a difference. She will also describe Another Way’s new Power of Ten project, a network that will bring together young changemakers from around the world and provide them with the skills and resources to carry out successful environmental projects in their schools. She will also talk about how teachers can support their students in becoming empowered young people with the skills they need to lead and thrive in the environmental or social justice sector.
President of Climate & Sustainability, Co-Founder of SHE Changes Climate, Advisor to the UN
Elise Buckle is President and Director of Climate & Sustainability, a platform of collaboration for change-makers focusing on partnership development for climate, people and nature. She is also the Co-Founder of SHE Changes Climate, an initiative focusing on women empowerment, and Board Member of the Climate Action Accelerator.
Elise is highly committed to making this world a better place for people and nature. She has been working in the field of sustainable development and climate change for nearly twenty years and truly believes in radical collaboration, skillful diplomacy and movement building.
Her vision is that we can all work together as One team for One Planet, going beyond logos, egos and institutional boundaries to address the planetary emergency and shift towards a systemic transformation for climate, people and nature.
She is working both at global and local levels: “thing global, act local” is her preferred mode of action.
At COP26 in Glasgow, she hosted and moderated the COP26 Nature Day focusing on cities and regions, sharing best practices with mayors and local leaders around the world for a nature positive and climate neutral recovery.
She is currently advising the COP27 Presidency team on inclusiveness and diversity.
She has been advising the UN on the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda with a focus on partnership development for Climate, People and Nature.
Giulia is the Director of the Natural Climate Solutions Alliance, a platform supported by WBCSD and the WEF, bringing together public and private stakeholders to identify opportunities and barriers to investment into carbon credits in new, and existing markets, to increase financing for natural climate solutions.
Previously Giulia served as Deputy Director of the Global Business and Biodiversity Programme at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). During her tenure at IUCN, she headed projects in renewable energy, tourism, sport, agri-food, apparel, mining, infrastructure, and oil and gas sectors. She also convened numerous multi stakeholder processes, such as the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative, bringing together global companies in the aluminium value chain and civil society organizations, that led to the first global aluminium sustainability standard. She designed the Cerrado das Aguas Consortio, uniting Nespresso and other global coffee companies with local stakeholders to collectively tackle land restoration; and coordinated the Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel, enabling scientists to provide independent advice to oil and gas representatives and NGOs.
At UNEP, Giulia was coordinating the Tour Operators’ Initiative, the first tourism initiative for sustainability, connecting tour operators and three UN agencies.
Chief, Executive Director Office, UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).
As the Chief of the Executive Director Office, Jonas Haertle develops and oversees strategic projects for the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), one of the United Nations’ official training organizations, and advises its Executive Director on strategy, mission and activities. From 2010 to July 2018, Mr. Haertle was the Head of the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), an initiative founded by the United Nations Global Compact and leading business school associations. He led the global secretariat and build PRME into the world’s largest initiative on responsible management education.
From 2007-2010, he was the global lead of the UN Global Compact’s Local Networks in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. Mr. Haertle has written and contributed to a number of publications and academic articles on corporate sustainability and responsible education and serves on the advisory boards of a number of education organizations. He holds a master's degree in European Studies of Hamburg University in Germany. As a Fulbright scholar, he also attained a MSc degree in Global Affairs from Rutgers University in the USA.
Julia Marton-Lefèvre was Director General of IUCN from 2007 to 2015. Prior positions include Rector of the UN affiliated University for Peace: Director of LEAD International and Director of the International Council for Science. She currently serves on the boards of NGOs, foundations, universities and corporations, and chairs the Board of Trustees of the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT; the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement; the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund; the Villars Institute Foundation and the Strategic Advisory Council to the French think tank, IDDRI.
The government members of IPBES elected Julia as a member of the IPBES Bureau in 2019. She has been on the board of ASU’s Global Institute of Sustainability since its inception, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Global Futures Conference. She lectures regularly on environment & sustainable development topics in various universities including Yale University where she was the Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Environment.
Alban is the co-founder of Beauty Disrupted, conscious beauty for all genders, designed in Stockholm and carefully crafted in the South of France. All Beauty Disrupted products, from shampoo to body wash and shaving, come as luxuriously lathering solid bars that smoothly follow the contours of the human body. Beauty Disrupted haircare and beauty bars are 100% plastic free, certified vegan and completely free of harsh ingredients. The bars come in beautiful packaging made of recycled cardboard and are produced using 100% renewable energy.
Each of Beauty Disrupted’s haircare and beauty bars avoid at least 2 plastic bottles. Beauty Disrupted donate 20% of our profits to organizations that protect the planet and combat climate change and are b-Corp certified.
Previously Alban spent 20 years in the tech industry at HP in various senior international sales and marketing roles and at Logitech as GM across EMEA and APAC. While putting a lot of effort in driving sustainability in these companies, Alban wanted to put sustainability truly at the center of his professional life. When he and his co-founder, Svante Holm came across an article in Forbes that stated that about 80 Billion plastic bottles of shampoos and conditioners are trashed every year and less than 10% are actually recycled, many ending up in the Ocean, they decided to quit their tech careers and created Beauty Disrupted.
Alice Richard is a sustainability catalyst, designing and leading inspiring learning experiences that help bring sustainability and meaningful content to life. As a former innovation consultant, United Nations staff member, and product designer, Alice’s career has been built around products and collaborations that drive positive change. Today, with her sustainability training company Co-CREATE ImpACT, she provides services to a wide range of educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and corporations. She runs Sustainable Development Goal training for the United Nations, designs game-based approaches to energy sustainability for the European Commission and gets big businesses such as Oracle to ‘think out of the box’.
She has worked with a number of international schools in Switzerland including Le Rosey and Ecolint, as well as higher education institutions such University of St Gallen and Boston University, nurturing students changemaking skills and using play to explore the consequences of our actions.
Alice brings together genuine passion for making the world a better place with her 20+ years of experience and expertise to advance sustainability on a daily basis with inclusive, energising and thought-provoking training.
Website: https://cocreateimpact.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alice-richard/
Sustainability Expert
Leader in Water and Ocean preservation
Specialist on systemic change and system-thinking approaches
Passionate about creating real change in the world
Speaker
Coach
Anne-Cécile is an award-winning sustainability expert. Experienced in driving positive change through international platforms, her work is supported by her impressive qualifications and training from The Tavistock Institute, Harvard’s Executive Leadership Program and WWF. With more than twenty years of experience on a global scale in marketing, sponsorship and management, she has worked with some of the world’s biggest names including NGOs, media outlets, sporting events and international brands. She created Blueshift an agency specialised in sustainability consultancy in 2009. In 2011 Anne-Cécile joined the Race for Water Foundation as director. The Foundation’s core aim was to identify, implement and promote solutions for a new social circular economy around plastic waste, in doing so preserving water and our oceans.
Christina Bornatici completed her studies in international relations and socioeconomics at the University of Geneva. Since 2015, she is a researcher at FORS - the Swiss Center of Expertise in Social Sciences, where she is involved in the development of European research infrastuctures. Since 2018, she is also a PhD candidate at the University of Lausanne. Her research interests lie in the field of gender equality, where she mainly focuses on attitudes towards gender equality and couples’ work-family organisation. In 2022, she published an comprehensive report on the situation of young women in Switzerland under the mandate of the Federal Commission for Women’s Issues.
Christina Bornatici a effectué ses études en relations internationales et en socioéconomie à l'Université de Genève. Depuis 2015, elle est chercheuse à FORS - le Centre de compétences suisse en sciences sociales, où elle participe au développement d'infrastructures de recherche en Europe. Depuis 2018, elle est également doctorante à l'Université de Lausanne. Ses intérêts de recherche portent sur l'égalité des genres. Elle s'intéresse notamment aux attitudes envers l'égalité des genres et à l'organisation travail-famille des couples. En 2022, elle a publié un vaste rapport sur la situation des jeunes femmes en Suisse sur le mandat de la Commission fédérale pour les questions féminines.
Monika was born and grew up in London and read Law at the University of Birmingham. She has worked in search and recruitment within the education sector since 2007, leading the international and independent schools consultancy division at The Times Educational Supplement (now TES Global) and subsequently for independent search firms and directly with schools. This has included working with individual schools, Boards and ‘not for profit’ organisations as well as large multinational school groups, investors, education providers and school brand international expansion & start up projects; creating whole school HR and recruitment plans and appointing to executive & senior support function roles. As such, her network covers both the educationalist and commercial & operational side of school leadership.
Alongside her work in search, Monika specialises in delivering training on best practice recruitment, recruitment strategy & retention and process management.
Valerie Hannon is a global thought leader, inspiring systems to re-think what ‘success’ will mean in the C 21st, and the implications for education. The co-founder of both Innovation Unit and of the Global Education Leaders Partnership, Valerie is a radical voice for change, whilst grounded in a deep understanding of how education systems currently work.
After a distinguished career within education, Valerie now works independently to support change programs across the world. She has advised governments and worked with systems and schools on every continent, working with some of the most challenged as well as the leaders in education innovation.
Valerie advised the OECD on its Education 2030 project. She is a regular keynote speaker and facilitator at international conferences and workshops, drawing upon her substantial research and publications.
Valerie was the Australian Learning Lecturer for 2020 on the subject of The Future School. The resulting book FutureSchool is published by Routledge. In 2021 she received the Edufuturists’ award for Outstanding Achievement in Education.
Valerie is the Chair of the Haringey Education Partnership and a Trustee of Apps For Good.
Associate Professor Eeqbal Hassim is an internationally recognised expert in intercultural education, the development of complex capabilities, and education in transnational contexts. He is an independent education consultant and an Honorary Principal Fellow at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education (MGSE), The University of Melbourne.
Eeqbal is an Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)® Qualified Administrator. He works extensively with schools, school systems and school organisations, both internationally and across a range of curricula. He has collaborated with the Council of International Schools (CIS) on a broad range of research, intercultural learning, global citizenship, and diversity, equity, and inclusion projects over the last seven years.
He is also a member of the CIS Board Committee on I-DEA (Inclusion via Diversity, Equity and Anti-racism).
Sean Lionadh is an award-winning poet, filmmaker and speaker from Glasgow, Scotland.
His short film, Time for Love, which explores the experience of modern day homophobia was seen by more than 16 million people online when it was released by BBC.
When visiting schools, Sean uses his work as a starting point for discussions on empathy, queer identity and experience, and allyship.
(Organisation suisse d'aide aux réfugiés (OSAR))
Having completed a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Literature and a Master’s degree in German Literature, I worked as a middle school teacher and as an adult educator for German. At the same time, I was finalizing my Federal Trainer Diploma. I then worked a couple of years as a social worker. Nevertheless, my predilection area being migration and integration, I started looking for an opening in the vast world of NGOs.
Luckily for me, I didn’t have to look for a long time. I’ve started working for the Swiss Refugee Council in January 2021 as a training co-manager in French-speaking Switzerland.
