Tamara Garcia

Work at ZHAW

Position

• Head of Center for Coaching and Organizational Change
• 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

• Wegener, R. et al. (2026) 'And the journey of coaching continues', in Wegener, R. et al. (eds) Coaching in the Age of AI. Cham: Springer, pp. 3–10. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-23332-5_1.
• Wegener, R. et al. (2026) 'Concluding chapter: navigating the future of coaching and artificial intelligence', in Wegener, R. et al. (eds) Coaching in the Age of AI. Cham: Springer, pp. 187–191. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-23332-5_17.
• Lippmann, E., Garcia, T. and Klink, T. (2026) 'Einleitung', in Lippmann, E., Garcia, T., and Klink, T. (eds) Coaching : Angewandte Psychologie für die Beratungspraxis. Berlin: Springer, pp. 901–906. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-71516-1_45.
• Garcia, T. and Grossrieder, T. (2026) 'Personenzentriertes Coaching', in Lippmann, E., Garcia, T., and Klink, T. (eds) Coaching : Angewandte Psychologie für die Beratungspraxis. Berlin: Springer, pp. 71–87. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-71516-1_5.
• Garcia, T. (2026) 'Der hypnosystemische Beratungsansatz', in Lippmann, E., Garcia, T., and Klink, T. (eds) Coaching : Angewandte Psychologie für die Beratungspraxis. Berlin: Springer, pp. 163–184. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-71516-1_10.
• Grossrieder, T. and Garcia, T. (2026) 'Diversity im Coaching', in Lippmann, E., Garcia, T., and Klink, T. (eds) Coaching : Angewandte Psychologie für die Beratungspraxis. Berlin: Springer, pp. 751–786. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-71516-1_40.
• Ulbrich, S. and Garcia, T. (2026) 'Coaching mit künstlicher Intelligenz und Virtual Reality', in Lippmann, E., Garcia, T., and Klink, T. (eds) Coaching : Angewandte Psychologie für die Beratungspraxis. Berlin: Springer, pp. 837–861. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-71516-1_43.
• Lippmann, E., Garcia, T. and Klink, T. (2026) 'Methoden von A bis Z', in Lippmann, E., Garcia, T., and Klink, T. (eds) Coaching : Angewandte Psychologie für die Beratungspraxis. Berlin: Springer, pp. 907–940. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-71516-1_46.
• Garcia, T., Hoffmann, C. and Pfister, A. C. (2019) 'Psychologische Grundlagen', in Lippmann, E., Pfister, A. C., and Jörg, U. (eds) Handbuch Angewandte Psychologie für Führungskräfte : Führungskompetenz und Führungswissen. Berlin: Springer, pp. 97–156. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-55810-2_5.

Other publications

• Garcia, T. and Eberhardt, D. (2016) 'Alter und älter werden - was bedeutet das?', in Eberhardt, D. (ed.) Generationen zusammen führen: mit Millennials, Generation X und Babyboomern die Arbeitswelt gestalten. Freiburg: Haufe, pp. 77–110.
• Negri, C. and Garcia, T. (2014) 'Aufrechterhaltung von Fähigkeiten', Tages-Anzeiger, p. 27. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-4258.

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