Anders Fleischer
Anders Fleischer is an internationally active and recognized Executive Coach with 20+ years’ leadership experience in a variety of roles (coach, general manager, sales/marketing and operation). He founded Righthought GmbH in 2002 were his main area of focus is executive one-to-one coaching with additional activities in team-building.
Currently Anders works mainly with senior level management in international companies, such as Nestle, Swiss Life, Shell, Holsim, and ABB. Here he’s role is both executive coaching and functioning as a sparring partner in organizational development, business culture and team effectiveness. Additionally he is associated with the Institute of Management Development (IMD) working with faculty in delivering leadership programs for both open and company programs.
Anders approaches coaching as a trusted conversation. After mutually establishing the coaching agenda with the client, Anders then used a wide range of skills / tools to move the learning along. These include challenging and reframing, finding motivation for change, input of leadership style and giving feed-back. Anders quickly builds a rapport and ensures a practical and useful outcome. His style is best described as challenging, intuitive and business focused, with an emphasis on leadership growth.
As an example Anders had coaches a functional head (department of 500+ people, financial industry) in an on-boarding situation – including leadership role definition, team effectives and managing the political environment. Another mandate was a heavy industry business executive (2500 people, 2 BCHF turnover) preparing for a step onto the company board, focusing on executive presence, building alliances and leading through others.
Formerly, Anders held various positions at Nokia Telecom including General Manager of Operations for the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland from ‘97 to ‘99, leading a team of 500+ people and managing a turnover of 130 mEuro. Before that he was Head of Operations for China, with full business responsibility for 250 employees and turnover of 65 mUSD. His last position in Nokia was General Manager in Singapore. Having lived and managed large organizations in many different countries in Europe and Asia, he has a solid leadership experience as well as excellent insight into cross-cultural issues, in both business and people management.
Anders holds a B.Sc (Engineering), a BBA (Supply Chain), a M.Soc.Sc. (Counseling) and a Master of Advanced Business Practices (Cross Culture). Anders holds various certificates in organizational development and psychometric tools, inc. MBTI I & II, several 360 feed-back instruments (e.g. MRG, PDI Profiler), Global Competencies Inventory (Kozai) and MotivationFactor.
Anders lives in Zurich, with his Finnish wife Päivi.
