Delphine Luginbuhl, a trained engineer turned coach and work psychologist, combines scientific rigor with a human touch. After a 25-year corporate career, including 6 years developing her own entrepreneurial activity, she now puts her experience to work for the teams and managers she coaches. With her energy, humor and conviction that positive psychology can transform work, she helps everyone to rediscover meaning, cohesion and confidence.
An engineering graduate of the École Centrale Paris, I first explored the richness and diversity offered by a major industrial group, working for the EDF Group. I held a number of positions there, including Operations Agency Manager, Marketing Innovation Project Manager, HR Innovation Project Manager, Head of the Enedis Diversity and Inclusion Department and finally Internal Consultant.
Over the years, I came to realize that what I was most passionate about was the people behind organizations. Driven by the desire to make this the heart of my profession, I trained in professional coaching, then in occupational and health psychology.
Today, I work as a coach, speaker, consultant and trainer. I am also co-author of three books published by Eyrolles: Cultiver l'optimisme, J'arrête de renoncer à mes rêves and Trop bon, trop con?.
I work on topics such as team building, positive psychology and communication. I cover topics such as strengths, optimism, benevolence, quality of life at work and customer relations. I mainly coach managers, project leaders and teams, while regularly working with executives on leadership and cohesion issues.
My approach is based on Positive Psychology applied to the world of work, and I'm also a certified coach in Process Communication, Appreciative Inquiry and Lego Serious Play, powerful tools for fostering self-awareness, collective creativity and relational intelligence.
I contacted NUMA on the advice of someone who knew them well and told me that my profile would certainly fit in well with the NUMA spirit... she was right! What I like most about your approach is your pragmatism (it's by putting theory into practice and not the other way round), as well as the team spirit (everyone is very friendly and I really feel part of NUMA, even though I'm "just" a service provider coach.
My main strength in this respect is my excellent memory, which enables me to recall many anecdotes from my career and relate them to the experiences of participants. It often happens that participants come up to me at the break to ask me to tell them other anecdotes.
Moreover, having been a manager, project leader, employee and coach, I have a very cross-disciplinary view of the issues that managers encounter, and of how their teams can deal with them.
Finally, beyond these collective dynamics, my training as an industrial psychologist helps me to understand individual mechanisms.
For me, the key to success is to involve participants on all 3 levels: cognitive (what I understand), emotional (what I feel) and conative (what it makes me want to do).
So :
And of course, the atmosphere is very important: I always use humor in my entertainment, so that people have a good time!
I draw heavily on the principles of positive psychology, which guide my approach to facilitation and coaching. I like to alternate between theoretical contributions, concrete experiments and anecdotes drawn from my professional and personal life, or from my general knowledge... all with a touch of humor, essential for creating a benevolent and stimulating learning climate. And above all, I make sure that interaction with participants is ongoing: in my opinion, this is the key to a lively and lasting learning experience.
Finally, as a systemic coach, I like to observe team dynamics in their entirety and help each individual to identify his or her strengths in order to enhance both individual fulfillment and collective performance.
The quotation that goes with me most is from Marcus Aurelius: "Give me the courage to change what can be changed, the strength to endure what cannot be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other".
And Alain too: "Pessimism is mood, optimism, willpower!"
Delphine Luginbuhl, a trained engineer turned coach and work psychologist, combines scientific rigor with a human touch. After a 25-year corporate career, including 6 years developing her own entrepreneurial activity, she now puts her experience to work for the teams and managers she coaches. With her energy, humor and conviction that positive psychology can transform work, she helps everyone to rediscover meaning, cohesion and confidence.
An engineering graduate of the École Centrale Paris, I first explored the richness and diversity offered by a major industrial group, working for the EDF Group. I held a number of positions there, including Operations Agency Manager, Marketing Innovation Project Manager, HR Innovation Project Manager, Head of the Enedis Diversity and Inclusion Department and finally Internal Consultant.
Over the years, I came to realize that what I was most passionate about was the people behind organizations. Driven by the desire to make this the heart of my profession, I trained in professional coaching, then in occupational and health psychology.
Today, I work as a coach, speaker, consultant and trainer. I am also co-author of three books published by Eyrolles: Cultiver l'optimisme, J'arrête de renoncer à mes rêves and Trop bon, trop con?.
I work on topics such as team building, positive psychology and communication. I cover topics such as strengths, optimism, benevolence, quality of life at work and customer relations. I mainly coach managers, project leaders and teams, while regularly working with executives on leadership and cohesion issues.
My approach is based on Positive Psychology applied to the world of work, and I'm also a certified coach in Process Communication, Appreciative Inquiry and Lego Serious Play, powerful tools for fostering self-awareness, collective creativity and relational intelligence.
I contacted NUMA on the advice of someone who knew them well and told me that my profile would certainly fit in well with the NUMA spirit... she was right! What I like most about your approach is your pragmatism (it's by putting theory into practice and not the other way round), as well as the team spirit (everyone is very friendly and I really feel part of NUMA, even though I'm "just" a service provider coach.
My main strength in this respect is my excellent memory, which enables me to recall many anecdotes from my career and relate them to the experiences of participants. It often happens that participants come up to me at the break to ask me to tell them other anecdotes.
Moreover, having been a manager, project leader, employee and coach, I have a very cross-disciplinary view of the issues that managers encounter, and of how their teams can deal with them.
Finally, beyond these collective dynamics, my training as an industrial psychologist helps me to understand individual mechanisms.
For me, the key to success is to involve participants on all 3 levels: cognitive (what I understand), emotional (what I feel) and conative (what it makes me want to do).
So :
And of course, the atmosphere is very important: I always use humor in my entertainment, so that people have a good time!
I draw heavily on the principles of positive psychology, which guide my approach to facilitation and coaching. I like to alternate between theoretical contributions, concrete experiments and anecdotes drawn from my professional and personal life, or from my general knowledge... all with a touch of humor, essential for creating a benevolent and stimulating learning climate. And above all, I make sure that interaction with participants is ongoing: in my opinion, this is the key to a lively and lasting learning experience.
Finally, as a systemic coach, I like to observe team dynamics in their entirety and help each individual to identify his or her strengths in order to enhance both individual fulfillment and collective performance.
The quotation that goes with me most is from Marcus Aurelius: "Give me the courage to change what can be changed, the strength to endure what cannot be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other".
And Alain too: "Pessimism is mood, optimism, willpower!"
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