Pascale Cotton

Current

Founder & director at A + B (Sole Proprietorship)
Founder & director at Pascale Cotton - translations into French

Past

Coach at Own company
Country Director for Switzerland at Coachville
Owner at ADF

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Education

Coachville
Toastmasters International
Various NLP training institutes

University of Geneva
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau
Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III)
Oxford University - Exeter College
Various universities

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Industry

Professional Training & Coaching

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Pascale Cotton’s Summary

Coach training at Coachville (USA), the biggest coach training institute in the world (www.coachville.com):
- Thomas Leonard School of Coaching
- Graduate School of Coaching
- and the various Coachville programs in the areas of e-marketing, corporate coaching, small business coaching, etc.
Coaching practice since 2002.
Founding member of Coachville (2001)
Founding member of the International Association of Coaches (IAC) (2003).

Multiple trainings in many American coaching techniques (Coachville), NLP or Neuro-Linguistic Programming (Master Practitioner) and American marketing and business development methods (particularly e-marketing).

I am based near Geneva, Switzerland, but I coach clients from various countries on five continents in French, English or German. The coaching takes place through the phone and Internet.

Pascale Cotton’s Specialties:

Coaching of
- expats or diplomats (integration, overcoming culture shock, intercultural leadership, multicultural teams, work/life balance, networking, career development)
- "trailing spouses" who want to develop their own career or to create their own "portable business"
- international or mobile solo professionals, entrepreneurs, infopreneurs and small business owners, who want to create and develop their own "portable business" or virtual business using the Internet and e-marketing.

Pascale Cotton’s Experience

Founder & director
A + B (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

October 2002 — Present (7 years 2 months)

Coaching in ENGLISH, FRENCH or GERMAN.

I coach mainly clients who live and/or operate in an intercultural background:
- expats
- diplomats or international civil servants
- "trailing spouses" (executives or entrepreneurs)
- multicultural teams
- managers who work internationally, in the context of mergers/acquisitions or in multinational companies.

I am also specialized in the coaching of international or mobile entrepreneurs / solopreneurs / netpreneurs / infopreneurs, who want to create and develop their own "portable business" using their personal expertise and all the possibilities of the Internet. I also help them develop multiple streams of income and passive revenues, for example through the creation of infoproducts.

As an infopreneur:
Creation, translation and publishing of info-products: ebooks, audio, video, e-courses, tele-trainings, etc.
Founder & director

Pascale Cotton - translations into French

(Translation and Localization industry)

1979 — Present (30 years )

Translations
- from English into French
- from German into French.

Areas:
- Banking, finance, insurance
- Micro- and macro-economics, management, consulting, training, entrepreneurship
- Medicine, biotechnology, pharmacy
- Environment and new energies
- Communication and PR
- Telecommunications, IT, new technologies.
Coach

Own company

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

2002 — 2009 (7 years )
Country Director for Switzerland

Coachville

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

2003 — 2006 (3 years )

As the Country Director of Coachville (the biggest coach training institute in the world) for Switzerland, I organized a number of international teleconferences for coaches in French, English and German, in which experts were invited to speak. I also created the virtual Europe-America Chapter of Coachville (through teleconferences) and the local Coachville Study Groups in Geneva.
Owner

ADF

(Privately Held; Military industry)

June 1979 — May 2004 (25 years )

I created my first agency offering "sci-tech" translations and conference interpreting (simultaneous & consecutive) at the age of 23, even before leaving University. I have been very successful as a translator, simultaneous interpreter & agency owner at the international level. In the course of time, I created several translation & interpreting agencies in Germany (Freiburg), Switzerland (Basel, Zurich and Geneva) and France (Saint Genis Pouilly).

Pascale Cotton’s Education

Coachville

Coaching 2002 — 2009

Coachville, USA
Training, group coaching and e-learning - through the phone and the Internet

Activities and Societies:

Training (individual coaching, group coaching, creation and leading of teleclasses).
Also:
Graduate School of Coaching
School of Corporate Coaching
School of Small Business Coaching
and various other programs about traditional and electronic marketing, solopreneurs, etc.
Member of the Research & Development team of Coachville since 2002.
Toastmasters International

Competent Toastmaster // Competent Leader , Public speaking training , 2002 — 2008
Various NLP training institutes

Master Practitioner in NLP , Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) , 1994 — 2002

I have studied NLP with trainers from Germany, Switzerland, France, England and Canada.
I integrate many NLP tools into my coaching.
University of Geneva

Conference interpreting 1995 — 1996

Geneva University, Switzerland.
Conference interpreting (simultaneous and consecutive)
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau

Postgraduate studies , Political science and French, English and American literature , 1988 — 1995

Freiburg University, Germany.
Studies at to PhD level (dissertation unfinished).
Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München

Political science 1980 — 1981

Munich University, Germany (one full winter semester 1980-81)
Università degli Studi di Firenze

Italian language, society and literature 1980 — 1980

Florence University, Italy
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III)

M.A. + DESS (postgraduate degree) , Translation - Linguistics , 1974 — 1980

Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
Postgraduate degree in linguistics and translation theory.
Postgraduate degree in scientific, technical and financial translation.
Oxford University - Exeter College

Political science, British history and British literature 1979 — 1979

Postgraduate international program under Lord Crowther-Hunt's guidance in one of the oldest colleges of Oxford University.
Various universities

Languages

Activities and Societies:

I am totally trilingual in French, English and German.
I speak and read Italian fluently.
I also studied the following languages for various periods of time:
- Latin
- modern Greek
- Spanish
- Japanese
- Russian

Additional Information

Pascale Cotton’s Websites:

Pascale Cotton’s Interests:

intercultural or cross-cultural issues, personal development, professional development, France, Germany, Switzerland, French-German relationships, European-American relationships

Pascale Cotton’s Groups:

IAC (International Association of Coaches)- Founding member
ACE (Association for Coaching Excellence) - Founding member
Founder of the Intercultural Coach Network (for professional intercultural coaches or expat coaches)
Various Coachville Communities
Founder of the Europe-America Virtual Chapter of Coachville (2003-2006)
Founder of the Coachville Study Groups in Geneva/CH (2003-2006)
Dialogin - The Delta Intercultural Academy
Rezonance
Member of many international clubs and associations
My own blog communities for expats and international entrepreneurs
Several Entrepreneur Meetups in Geneva, Lausanne and Paris
Toastmasters
YourBestYearYet
In Geneva: GWIT, American Club in Geneva, Expat Expo
Swiss Entrepreneur mailing list
Blog Squad
Swiss List
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