Meet Your Expert Course Leader

Mario Castagnetta is the Founder and Director of Synchronicity SA, an international human resources consulting company based in Geneva, Switzerland, providing medium-to-large international organisations with products and services in the domain of personal development and potential, management development, talent engagement and retention, knowledge sharing, coaching and career counselling.

Synchronicity supplies its services to well known medium-to-large international organisations such as Agilent Technologies, Bulgari, Cap Gemini, Ernst&Young Consultants, Cisco, Ferrero, Firmenich, Hewlett-Packard Europe, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hitachi, Nespresso, Nestlé, Nextrom, Novartis, Philip Morris, SGS, ST Microelectronics, T-Systems and Zurich Insurance.

Before establishing Synchronicity, Mario was a Training & Development Manager at Hewlett Packard in Italy (1988-1995) and in Switzerland (1995-97).

Since the founding of Synchronicity, he has been invited regularly by IMD Management Development Institute (Lausanne) to participate as a coach in both public (Mobilising People) and private (RWE, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Bertelsmann, Borealis, Adecco, Shanska) programmes.

Mario is also an executive coach. In the last 10 years he has coached senior directors and executives in a number of well-known companies (Al Hokair, Bulgari, Nextrom, Novartis, TetraLaval, Hewlett Packard, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst&Young Consultants and T-Systems).

Mario graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Clinical Psychology from the University La Sapienza, Rome in 1985.