MSc. Jean-Christophe Duméril

Work at ZHAW

Position

• Consultant and Lecturer, IAP Center for Leadership, Coaching & Change Management
• Lecturer in CAS and training courses on Leadership, Agility and Coaching
• Consulting and accompanying Companies, Teams and Individuals
• Management Consulting & Coaching, accompanying Change Processes
• Agile Leadership, Leadership in a Digital Context, Business & Requirements Engineering

Focus

• Agility
• Change management and organizational development
• Leadership and Management
• Personal and Human Resources Development
• Management Coaching and Consulting
• Internationales Project Management
• Requirements Engineering, System Engineering, Process Improvement
• Specialized didactics

Teaching

(see also Activities at the ZHAW)

Experience

• course director, leadership trainer and coach
  Swissmem Academy
  08 / 2015 - 04 / 2017
• Diverse leadership & management positions with profit and loss responsibilities
  SCS, ERNI Consulting, Swissmem
  09 / 1999 - 04 / 2015
• Engineer and project manager in business services and industry (CH, USA, F, I, D)
  Thomcast AG and SCS
  04 / 1994 - 05 / 2007

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Agile Coach / Agile Coaching
  Brainbird
  01 / 2023 - 04 / 2023
• Various courses, including by individual trainers / Coaching, Organizational Psychology, Leadership
  SEI, BWI, Grundl Leadership Akademie, individual trainers, IAP
  1999 - 2019
• INSIGHTs Accreditation, Visual Facilitation, IREB Requirements Engineering,… / Communication, Presentation, Facilitation
  Various academies
  1999 - 2019
• SVEB
  Swissmem Academy
  2015 - 2016
• EMBA Executive Master of Business Administration
  ZHW
  2004 - 2005
• Postgraduate Degree in Specilized Didactics
  ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
  09 / 1999 - 08 / 2001
• Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
  ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
  09 / 1987 - 04 / 1993
• Matura Typus B
  FGZ
  09 / 1984 - 08 / 1987

Network

Media presence

• Applied Psychologie: Agility - Pandora's box or the better way to work?
• Applied Psychology: Agile leadership - how are leaders doing?
• Agility: the answer to fundamental human needs

Publications

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

Duméril, J.-C. (2026) 'Coaching für Projektleitende und -begleitende', in Lippmann, E., Garcia, T., and Klink, T. (eds) Coaching : Angewandte Psychologie für die Beratungspraxis. Berlin: Springer, pp. 473–497. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-71516-1_26.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• J. Chr. Duméril (2013), Ensuring the sustainable success of strategic projects, EXPERIENCE, ERNI CONSULTING, 57, 10-17
• J. Chr. Duméril (2014), Increase the client's level of maturity, competent consulting partners for customers, EXPERIENCE, ERNI CONSULTING, 60, 24-29
• J. Chr. Duméril (2015), The best strategy is an economy of resources, product innovation and development strategy review, EXPERIENCE, ERNI CONSULTING, 65, 4-11

Other publications

• J. Chr. Duméril & Lippmann-Pfister-Jörg (Hrsg.) (2019), Chapter "Informing as a management duty", Handbook of Applied Psychology for Leaders, Springer
• J. Chr. Duméril & Chr. Negri (Hrsg.) (2019), Chapter «Agility Suitability Check», Psychologie des Führens in der Arbeitswelt 4.0, Springer

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