Tamara Garcia

Work at ZHAW

Position

• Co-lead Centre Leadership, Coaching, and Change Management
• BSO-certified coach and organizational consultant in organizations, and lecturer in coaching and organizational development
• Programme Director MAS Organisational Development, Coaching and Supervision
• Program Director of the DAS in Systemic Dynamics in Organizational Consulting and Coaching

Focus

• Organisational Development and Change Management
• Coaching
• Team Development
• Leadership Development

Teaching

• CAS Coaching
• MAS Organisational Development, Coaching and Supervision
• WBK Personality and Leadership
• DAS Dynamics in Organisational Development and Coaching
• WBK Coaching with AI and VR
• CAS Supervision

Experience

• Co-Lead Center for Leadership, Coaching & Change Management
  IAP Zürich
  08 / 2023 - today
• Coach, Organisational consultant and lecturer at IAP
  IAP Zürich
  04 / 2014 - today
• Before and during university 9 years work experience as Flight Attendant (First, Business and economy class, in Management diagnostics and personnell development.
  Edelweiss Air
  08 / 2006 - 12 / 2014

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Master of Science in Psychology / Major in Personnel and Organizational Psychology; Biligual studies: German, English and French Exchange Semester at University of São Paolo, Brazil (2013/2014) (in Portuguese)
  University of Fribourg
  09 / 2011 - 09 / 2014
• Bachelor of Science in Applied Psychology / Exchange Semester at Columbia University, New York, USA (2010/2011)
  ZHAW
  09 / 2008 - 09 / 2011

Continuing Education

• Organisational Development
  Management Center Vorarlberg (MCV)
  06 / 2022
• Coaching, Team Development and Organisational Development at the Milton Erickson Institute, Dr. Gunther Schmidt, Heidelberg
  Milton Erickson Institute
  05 / 2019

Network

Social media

LinkedIn

Publications

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

• Ulbrich, S., & Garcia, T. (2026). Coaching mit künstlicher Intelligenz und Virtual Reality. In E. Lippmann, T. Garcia, & T. Klink (eds.), Coaching : Angewandte Psychologie für die Beratungspraxis (pp. 837–861). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-71516-1_43
• Garcia, T. (2026). Der hypnosystemische Beratungsansatz. In E. Lippmann, T. Garcia, & T. Klink (eds.), Coaching : Angewandte Psychologie für die Beratungspraxis (pp. 163–184). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-71516-1_10
• Garcia, T., & Grossrieder, T. (2026). Personenzentriertes Coaching. In E. Lippmann, T. Garcia, & T. Klink (eds.), Coaching : Angewandte Psychologie für die Beratungspraxis (pp. 71–87). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-71516-1_5
• Grossrieder, T., & Garcia, T. (2026). Diversity im Coaching. In E. Lippmann, T. Garcia, & T. Klink (eds.), Coaching : Angewandte Psychologie für die Beratungspraxis (pp. 751–786). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-71516-1_40
• Lippmann, E., Garcia, T., & Klink, T. (2026). Einleitung. In E. Lippmann, T. Garcia, & T. Klink (eds.), Coaching : Angewandte Psychologie für die Beratungspraxis (pp. 901–906). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-71516-1_45
• Lippmann, E., Garcia, T., & Klink, T. (2026). Methoden von A bis Z. In E. Lippmann, T. Garcia, & T. Klink (eds.), Coaching : Angewandte Psychologie für die Beratungspraxis (pp. 907–940). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-71516-1_46
• Garcia, T., Hoffmann, C., & Pfister, A. C. (2019). Psychologische Grundlagen. In E. Lippmann, A. C. Pfister, & U. Jörg (eds.), Handbuch Angewandte Psychologie für Führungskräfte : Führungskompetenz und Führungswissen (pp. 97–156). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55810-2_5

Other publications

• Garcia, T., & Eberhardt, D. (2016). Alter und älter werden - was bedeutet das? In D. Eberhardt (ed.), Generationen zusammen führen: mit Millennials, Generation X und Babyboomern die Arbeitswelt gestalten (pp. 77–110). Haufe.
• Negri, C., & Garcia, T. (2014). Aufrechterhaltung von Fähigkeiten. Tages-Anzeiger, 27. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4258

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