Dominik Beat Grolimund, MSc

Work at ZHAW

Position

• Coach, consultant and lecturer at the IAP Institute of Applied Psychology, Center for Coaching and Organizational Change
• Co-Program Director, CAS Coaching in Practice
• Co-Program Director, CAS Coaching in Practice Online

Focus

• Coaching and Coaching Psychology
• Team Development
• Leadership Development
• Organizational Development and Change
• New Work, Agility and Learning Agility
• Supervision and Peer Consultation

Teaching

• Supervision in the Master's Program Applied Psychology
• Communication and Counselling Skills in the Bachelor's Program Applied Psychology

Experience

• IT Security Awareness and Data Protection Trainer
  Health Info Net AG
  01 / 2021 - 02 / 2026
• Research Assistant
  Organizational Development and Consulting Group, Department of Psychology, ZHAW
  08 / 2019 - 07 / 2021
• Workforce Planning, Dispatching and Bicycle Courier
  Veloblitz Cooperative
  03 / 2011 - 04 / 2021
• Deputy Managing Director, Co-Managing Director and Managing Director
  Lily's AG
  10 / 2014 - 04 / 2018
• Support Engineer
  Restaurant Gasometer AG
  08 / 2012 - 09 / 2014
• Support Engineer
  EBP Switzerland AG
  08 / 2008 - 07 / 2012

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Master of Science ZFH / Applied Psychology
  ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
  09 / 2021 - 08 / 2023
• Bachelor of Science ZFH / Applied Psychology
  Zurich University of Applied Sciences
  09 / 2018 - 08 / 2021
• Federal Vocational Baccalaureate / Health and Social Care
  Berufsmaturitätsschule Zürich
  08 / 2014 - 07 / 2016
• Federal VET Diploma in Information Technology, / Systems Engineering
  Berufsschule Uster
  08 / 2008 - 07 / 2012

Continuing Education

• Continuing Education Business Training Special: Advanced Systemic Structural Constellations for Organizations and Personal Development with Dipl.-Psych. Insa Sparrer and Prof. Dr. Matthias Varga von Kibéd
  SySt® Institute for Systemic Training, Continuing Education and Research, Munich
  10 / 2026
• Business Training: Systemic Structural Constellations for Organizations and Personal Development with Dipl.-Psych. Insa Sparrer and Prof. Dr. Matthias Varga von Kibéd
  SySt® Institute for Systemic Training, Continuing Education and Research, Munich
  10 / 2025
• Hypnosystemic Consulting, Team Development and Organizational Development with Dr. Gunther Schmidt
  Milton Erickson Institute, Heidelberg
  11 / 2024
• Holacracy Practitioner Training
  Dwarfs and Giants, Online
  05 / 2021

Network

Membership of networks

LinkedIn

Media presence

Psychology in Practice: Holacracy – A Question of Culture?

Publications

Books, peer-reviewed

Hertel, A., Herzog, J. and Grolimund, D. (2024) Selbstorganisation mit Holakratie : …eine Frage der Kultur!. 1. Auflage. Berlin: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-68777-2.

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

• Grolimund, D. (2026) 'Online-Coaching', in Lippmann, E., Garcia, T., and Klink, T. (eds) Coaching : Angewandte Psychologie für die Beratungspraxis. Berlin: Springer, pp. 815–835. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-71516-1_42.
• Grolimund, D. B. and Costa, G. (2021) 'Team-Motto-Ziel-Intervention in der Praxis', in Diedrichs, A., Krüsi, D., and Storch, M. (eds) Durchstarten mit dem Team : Aufbau einer ressourcenorientierten Zusammenarbeit mit Verstand und Unbewusstem. Bern: Hogrefe, pp. 163–166. doi: 10.1024/86031-000.

Other publications

• Grolimund, D. B. (2023) 'Coaching – Teil einer Reise', Punktum, 2023(3), pp. 30–31.
• Nagel, E., Zirkler, M. and Grolimund, D. B. (2021) 'Bedingt anschlussfähig : was bedeutet es 'Unternehmen' zu beraten?', Journal bso, 2021(3), pp. 4–8.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Grolimund, D. B. (2021) 'Psychologie der Agilität', in Workshop Schweizerischer Berufsverband für Angewandte Psychologie, online, 2. März 2021.
• Grolimund, D. (2020) 'The psychology of agility', in The NextGen Enterprise Summit 2020 : from traditional to adaptive and purpose driven organizations, Paris (France), 26-27 November 2020. Available at: https://www.thenextgenenterprise.com/.

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