Dear all

I am an organizational development consultant with 42 years of experience, specializing in decentralized structures and participatory decision-making. I would like to offer my expertise pro-bono to support NGOs and purposeful organisations in Moldavia  in optimizing their governance and organizational structures. This year I have been working in Georgia and Romania.

Possible support includes:

- Workshops or coaching on participatory decision-making processes,

- Supporting in optimizing governance structures, collaboration, feedback etc,

- Mentoring NGO teams on effective delegation and decentralization.

I am open to have a brief introductory meeting (remote) to discuss potential approaches. Attached you find a 2-pager about my abilities and background. Feel free to come back to me, so we can start the dialogue. 

Kind regards

Marc Wethmar from Zurich
marc.wethmar.corporatedevelopment.ltd

Marc Wethmar MScBA
Seefeldstrasse 253
8008 Zurich
Mobile    +41 79 252 92 19
marc@wethmar.ch
https://www.marcwethmar.ch/en/about

english profile 

I believe in the power of leadership as a shared task of the team (shared governance)

here the offer

I am committed to donate my time and abilities to

purpose-driven organizations in Eastern Europe

 

Marc Wethmar MScBA

Facilitating islands of coherence and humanity

- purpose driven, mindful and appreciative posture-

 

WHY

I am deeply passionate to donate my abilities and time to organisations based in eastern Europe, which are committed to contribute to a better world.

WHAT

My abilities are the fruits of more than 40 years of work, 13 as a leader - 6 years on C-level - and 25 years as a coach and consultant for organisational development, mostly self-employed; worked and lived in the Netherlands (1^st home country), Germany and Switzerland (2^nd home country), where I live now. I am married to a wonderful French Swiss woman; we have 4 grown up sons. I am relentlessly curious to discover Eastern Europe.

                                                                           

1. Possible Fields of work
   1. You suffer from slow decision making and low participation of your staff? Together we can start a journey for decentralized power structures, e.g. self-management, Sociocracy could give support us, like role-based collaboration, etc. In many cases I start by reviewing and refining the purpose, together with the staff, as the purpose serves as main navigator for self-management.
   2. You lack coherence and long for truly human encounters in your organization?     I can support the co-creation of islands of coherence and humanity. By organizational development and community building, based on values as common ground.
   3. You feel increasingly that your organization is hooked to the past and long for reinventing the organization?I can facilitate a process which enables your organization to connect to your emerging future, based on Theory U from Otto Scharmer.
   4. The founder of your organization is losing strength or is absent and there is no obvious successor for the role of source. Work with source enables you to work with this and find solutions. I can guide you through this process.
   5. You are the leader of the organization and feel exhausted or uninspired and need someone to work with, so you can feel fully alive again. I can be your individual coach. Issues can be Leadership, personal mastery, etc.
   6. Your team is exhausted, uninspired or there are constraints in the collaboration and a lack of meaningful conversations. I can facilitate Team development, issues can be e.g. psychological safety, wellbeeing & resilience, team dynamics, purpose refinement and capacity building.

 

2. My Abilities

1. Training listening and awareness skills, based on the work of Otto Scharmer, I am a certified practitioner in Presencing.
2. Leverage the collaboration, from autopilot to debate to dialogue and generative mode.
3. Training patterns to foster self-management, e.g. decision making, I am a certified Sociocracy-S3 practitioner.
4. Assessment of the values on an individual, team and organisational level. I am a certified value match practitioner.
5. Establish mindfulness practises for the wellbeing, resilience and working with focus. I am a certified mindfulnesspractitioner in organisations.
6. Training appreciative communication, when dealing with tensions, conflicts, feedback etc, based on non-violent communication. I was trained by the founder, Marshall Rosenberg. 

 

3. Examples of my pro bono work in 2025

1. Agricultural school in South Caucasus (Georgia)
   • Supporting a school manager in leadership and collaboration issues.
   • Consulting the school management in developing frameworks which support the emerging future
2. Developmental Organisation in Georgia & Armenia (HQ in Switzerland)
   • Coaching of a project manager and the country manager
   • Establish Mindfulness-practices for the personal mental wellbeing and resilience in the turbulent times of the country
3. Foundation for non-formal education of young people (Romania)
   • Coaching of the Founder and Director and many other collaborators
   • Fostering practices for decentralized organisation and collaboration
   • Team development (e.g. psychological safety, listening skills)

 

HOW

4. Framework of our collaboration

• My offer is to donate my capacities and time in Ukraine, because there are only few experienced consultants available and/or there is insufficient budget for paid consulting services.
• I intend to support the people and the organisation on site, during a stay of 2-3 weeks, possibly to be prepared and followed up by online sessions.
• The process to come to the assignment will be online and consists of
  • getting to know each other and finding out if our personalities match well
  • understand your needs, the relevant issues and if I can match my capacities
  • the mutual agreement of the assignment (intentions, timespan, planning, etc.)
• Travel and accommodation costs are your investment.
• Feel free to contact me to start the dialogue > Here you can find my profile with video and here my LinkedIn Profile

“When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.”

​– Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize-winning Chemist –