Company Profile
More than 15 years
experience in helping people
improve the way they work.
We work in the following
languages:
 | English |
| French |
| German |
| Italian |
| Danish |
| Spanish |
Based near Geneva,
Switzerland, we work world-wide with our customers to provide a service that
makes a difference.
Christine Petersen, Founder and Managing Director of VIRAK
- petersen@virak.com
 Christine
has been managing large, multi-national projects Europe-wide since 1990. She is
now based in Switzerland, speaks
Danish, English, French, Italian and German fluently, and has been
training in these languages since
1999.
Her experience as a Project Manager led her to
realise the vital importance of using people management skills in Project
Management. Christine founded VIRAK in 2001 in order to be able to train, coach
and consult full-time and has since built up an important client base throughout Europe.
Christine's approach to training is to ensure
that the course content clearly targets the needs of the participants, that they
learn quickly and are ready to apply their new knowledge and self-awareness as
soon as they are back in the work environment. She believes that if participants
are enjoying themselves, are interacting and are actively participating, then
they will be much more likely to achieve this goal.
Steven Sloan, Director of
VIRAK - sloan@virak.com
After graduating from Glasgow University
with a B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering, Steven worked in multi-national, hi-tech
companies gaining experience in a wide range of functions – Services, Sales,
Human Resources and Communications.
Involvement in business process improvement,
specifically related to new product development and introduction,
gave him a hands-on appreciation of the need for project management both as a
discipline and a culture in driving change within organizations.
Above all, Steven believes that project
management processes and tools should be used to support the work and should not
in themselves become an overwhelming burden on project teams.
Anders Pedersen, Director
of VIRAK - pedersen@virak.com
 With
experience in training
clients and colleagues since
2000, training and all its
aspects have been a very central part of Anders's professional career since he
finished his master degree in economy and finance in 1999. Anders is very
confident standing before any audience doing what he enjoys most – teaching and
encouraging his audience with often very different backgrounds to learn and
transform sometimes highly complex subjects into “human language”.
Anders has a patience with which he gives
his audience room to learn and he has always enjoyed finding, matching and
challenging each participant's different levels and competencies. He does this
using his natural empathy and well developed sense of humour. Seeing the
progress and providing the right tools for each individual is what drives
Anders.
Michèle Longpré, Associate of
VIRAK - longpre@virak.com
 A
Swiss and Canadian national, graduated from Sherbrooke University,
Canada with a Master’s degree in Education
Management, Michèle has
been working in the field of management and training for more than 20
years.
PMP certified, trilingual in French,
English and German, Michèle has time and again demonstrated her
professional expertise in developing and implementing multilateral
projects world-wide.
Several multinationals, governments and NGOs have benefited from her
services in overseeing projects in multicultural and multidisciplinary
environments. She combined this expertise with many years of training.
Michèle believes that training is a personalized development experience
based on the needs, objectives and constraints of the organization and its
culture. Her competency and experiential based training approach
ensures
coherence between the needs of the individuals and the needs of the
organization.
John Ronald, Associate of
VIRAK - ronald@virak.com
John
graduated in 1983 with an Engineering degree BSc.Hons from Southamption
University and has worked in several multi-nationals and start-up's in
various international roles across several countries. He has over 15
years experience in complex project and program management and various
industries, with teams spread across the world.
He
understands the complexities of matrix management and communicating well
across boundaries so the project runs smoothly with minimum surprises.
The power of teamwork and building strong rapport as well as facing any
challenges head on, so they don't fester downstream.
John's
approach to training is a participative style, so that student's can
obtain maximum benefit and relevance from the challenges you face in
your job today.
Thomas Süssli, Associate of
VIRAK - sussli@virak.com
Thomas
has acquired a large experience in Project Management by managing several
projects of reorganisation and implementation of new IT applications
worldwide although his career.
After
having worked for banks in Switzerland and abroad for over 15 years as
operations manager, Thomas has been working as an independent consultant
since 1999.
Besides being a project manager, Thomas has been active in teaching and
coaching of bank employees, IT specialists and students in finance for
over 10 years now.
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