Barbara THOMA

Personal Data

  • Managing Partner
  • “I enjoy the pleasure of supporting and encouraging people, of seeing new things, or seeing them from a different angle.”

Competencies and Fields of Work

Consulting projects for business culture and for internal communication, Leadership Development, Coaching, internal data collection, potential analysis; Working languages: German, English

Education

  • 2024 Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach
  • 2019 Accreditation BELBIN ® Team Role
  • 2018 Accreditation RTZ Resilienz Business Coach, Bambus Prinzip ®, Ella Amann, Berlin
  • 2016 Certification CAPtain Potential analysis
  • 2010 Leading Bold Change, iSB licensed Trainer by J.P. Kotter
  • 2010 Accreditation ESCI (Emotional and Social Competency Inventory), HayGroup, London
  • 2008-2009 Coaching II course, PROFESSIO Academy, and certified coach according to Deutscher Bundesverband Coaching e.V. (DBVC)
  • 2005 Certified SIZE trainer and consultant, Top im Job/ F. Zehetner
  • 2001-2002 Post Graduate Management course (PGM), WU Vienna/ Prof. Dr. H. Kasper
  • 2000-2001 Education in the field of “Systemic Constellations in Organisations”, Dr. I. Wressnig
  • 1994-1998 Education as Transactional Analyst and supervisor, Trigon/ Dr. W. Vogelauer
  • 1992 Education as a behaviour trainer, Univ. Prof. Dr. Th. A. Bauer
  • 1988-1991 Study of psychology with focus on social and economic psychology (not terminated), University Vienna

Professional Experiences

  • 1996-present Managing Partner of ARGO
  • 1995 Founder member of ARGO
  • 1992-1995 Self-employed trainer and personnel developer for a training-company in the field of financial services
  • 1989-1993 Leader of an evaluation team at a leading market and motivational research institute

Contact

b.thoma@argo.at