"Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it."

George Bernard Shaw

Your career has a pulse.
Let's find it again.

Career coaching, advice and strategy for professionals ready to move, grow, or simply breathe new life into their work — through honest conversation, proven frameworks, and a partner who's walked 800+ people through the same crossroads.

A diverse team of professionals — men and women of different backgrounds — collaborating in a bright office
800+professionals partnered with, 60+ nationalities
Partnering With You

Career coaching, advice and strategy, blended around what you actually need.

  • 01

    Career transition

    Changes in role, organisation, industry, or geography — navigated with a clear plan, not guesswork.

  • 02

    Career empowerment

    Managing conflict, difficult relationships, workload, and stress — so work stops running you.

  • 03

    Applications, sharpened

    Cover letters and CVs built to say what you actually bring.

  • 04

    Mock interviews

    Real rehearsal ahead of the real conversation — so nerves don't cost you the room.

  • 05

    Sustainable networking

    A strategy for building relationships that outlast any single job search.

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Coaching

Powerful questioning, techniques and methods that help you tap into your own inner resources to find the answer.

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Advising

Tools, frameworks and direct advice, used where direction — not just reflection — is what's needed.

Free to start

Every partnership begins with a free, no-pressure exploratory conversation.

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The Process

A career transition, mapped step by step.

  1. 1

    Career compass

    Your North Star — defining a career vision to support your decision-making.

  2. 2

    ABC planning

    Defining and planning a roadmap for targeted career exploration.

  3. 3

    Your story

    Identifying and articulating what makes your story compelling.

  4. 4

    Personal branding

    LinkedIn and the career documents that support it.

  5. 5

    Networking strategy

    Identifying the right people, and developing your approach and messaging.

  6. 6

    Interview prep

    Real rehearsal ahead of the real conversation.

  7. 7

    The first 90 days

    Navigating a new role, and successfully managing the transition in.

Beyond Career Transition

Assessment-led work, for leaders and for harder moments.

Leadership Development

A validated assessment as the mirror — matched to what you need to see clearly, then built on together.

Option A

LCP — Leadership Circle Profile

Self-assessment, or paired with a full 360 from colleagues.

Option B

Hogan Assessment

A structured read on personality, values, and derailers under pressure.

Managing Difficult Situations

When conflict, pressure, or a stuck relationship needs more than a conversation — start with the data.

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Hogan or LCP assessment

Whichever instrument fits the situation best.

2

Followed by coaching

Working the results into real, lived change.

For Institutions

Running a programme for a university or business school?

I design and deliver career workshops for higher education and business schools, from student cohorts to executive programmes.

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Personal Branding

More critical than ever in a complex, competitive market.

Your brand extends further than the company on your badge. Whether you're job-hunting or growing internally, being clear on your value proposition is what moves things forward.

  • Explore your personal vision, values and internal motivators.
  • Name your "gremlins" — the hurdles — and work out how to move past them.
  • Get challenged to articulate what you want, and align it with where your career is headed.
  • Revisit your past and see how even small experiences shaped the brand you carry today.
Is This For You?

You don't need a crisis to start a conversation.

Feeling like your career has stagnated, and needs new life breathed into it?

Frustrated — or "trapped" — in your current job?

Sensing that your career needs a redesign, not a patch?

New to the Lausanne–Geneva region and unsure how the Swiss job market works?

Struggling to position a genuinely diverse professional background?

Finding that people don't quite grasp your value proposition?

Coming back from a career break, low on confidence?

Let me partner with you if you

Want to take control of your career.

  • Want to feel empowered in the work you do
  • Want to feel free of a job or company, not chained to it out of fear
  • Want to understand your value proposition — and say it out loud, clearly
Portrait of Dominique Gobat, professional career coach
Dominique GobatCareer Coach, Advisor and Strategist, Lausanne
About Me

Your career. By design. Make your next move count.

19
years partnering with people on career transition & development
800+
people coached, from more than 60 nationalities
25
years living and working in Switzerland

I firmly believe each of us already holds the resources to make a positive impact in what we do. My job is to help you find them — using a blend of coaching and advising, tools and frameworks, and honest personal understanding.

Nineteen years partnering with people on career transition and development — including years spent in higher education — have given me a front-row seat across every function and industry: marketing, communications, technology, education. I've worked with organisations of every size and shape, from start-ups to multinationals, for-profit to non-profit.

Allow me to partner with you in developing your career, and enjoy the journey.

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Credentials & CertificationsAssociate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coach Federation (ICF) — Erickson Certified Professional Coach (ECPC), Erickson Coaching International — Hogan Assessment Certification, Hogan Assessments — Leadership Circle Profile (LCP) Certification, Leadership Circle
Let's Collaborate

Start your journey with a free conversation.

Send an email or give me a call to set up an exploratory conversation, free of charge. If I don't pick up, leave your name and number — I'll get back to you shortly.

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