Franziska Kunz is employed as a coach, trainer, facilitator, mediator, and negotiator at verhandlungstark.ch. Her work focuses on conflict management, interpersonal skills (power skills), communication, negotiation, and behavioral adjustments and advancements in individuals, groups, and organizations. Her strength is in fusing hard data with persuasive abilities.
Her mission as a coach and trainer is to empower individuals and groups to co-create the desired results of negotiations. She assists business owners and executives in bringing about change by educating them and/or their teams to acquire the essential power skills and creating the organizational procedures that result in the intended negotiation outcome. She does this as a solution-focused coach, sparring partner, and facilitator.
Since 2013, Franziska has operated as a solution-focused coach and trainer in her own right. The International Coaching Federation awarded her a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) certification in 2016. With an emphasis on brain-friendly and sustainable learning, she became the first qualified trainer in Switzerland in 2019 after gaining her certification as a qualified Trainer for “Training from the BACK of the Room.”
As a trained mediator at the University of St. Gallen (Mediator IRP-HSG) since 2007, Franziska Kunz has also worked as a trained organizational development consultant (Trigon Entwicklungsberatung [Prof. F. Glasl], bso-recognized) since 2011.
In addition to her extensive expertise, Franziska serves as the managing director and president of the board of directors of a real estate firm and fills in as a substitute judge at the Zurich District Court on a part-time basis. She teaches negotiation and other power skills competencies that are crucial at the negotiating table in her capacity as seminar leader for power skills seminars and “Train the Trainer.”
Franziska is co-author of “Magic Pictures and Metaphors – How Shaping Together Makes a Difference” and “Solution-Focused Conflict Management in Organizations.” In the book, she explains how those involved in a fight may come together once more by going through a collaborative design process that builds commitment, strength, and confidence.
