About us
Géraldine Duvanel and Barbara Ferrari place their expertise and network at the service of their clients, supporting them in their strategic and operational challenges with tact, know-how and efficiency. They rely on a recognised network of experts in human resources, organizational development and communication, who can be mobilised according to the specific needs of each mandate.
Géraldine Duvanel
From her earliest professional experiences, Géraldine Duvanel developed an approach centred on dialogue, narrative and relationship. As a specialised educator working with placed youth and their families, she was confronted early on with contexts marked by adversity, where trust is built step by step.
She continued her path at the University of Fribourg, where she spent twenty years combining research and teaching, first in curative education and later in social work and social policy. Her doctorate, grounded in a life-narrative methodology, fed an expertise in narrative analysis that she now applies to reading organisations, with a strong interest in governance and institutional dynamics.
After several years as a partner in a consulting firm, she founded takt in 2020, driven by the wish to bring academic knowledge closer to the field. There she developed a systemic approach to organisations, drawing on her skills in institutional analysis, conflict management and group dynamics to support both calm periods and moments of strong turbulence, in service of transformation, human relationships and organisational systems. She also co-directs the HEIG-VD’s CAS in workplace mediation.
Barbara Ferrari
Over a career spanning Switzerland and abroad, Barbara Ferrari has developed a holistic approach to organisational development, bringing together human, strategic and cultural dimensions of organisations. She draws on a systemic perspective to support organisations through transformation, with particular attention to the dynamics of change.
She holds a Master’s degree in literature, an MBA and a federal diploma in public relations. She worked in public administration and SMEs before supporting multinational clients at a major international consulting firm in Amsterdam. She joined takt consulting in 2021 and is now a partner there.
She works in particular on leadership, governance, team effectiveness and communication, as well as supporting organisations through uncertainty. Her work is conducted in French, German, English and Italian. Alongside her consulting activities, she teaches at SUPSI (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland) and at HEG Fribourg, delivers corporate training, and designed SUPSI’s Executive Summer School.
