Düsseldorf/Zurich, 20 December 2024 - CCounselors, the German-Swiss strategic communications consulting firm, is expanding its circle of partners: Katrin Nesemann and Patrizia Ribaudo will join Peter Dietlmaier, Matthias Goldbeck, Jürgen Homeyer, Christian Lawrence, Richard Lips, Gisela Piltz, Birgit Rügert and the Swiss partners Dominique Reber, Victor Schmid and Michael Schoenenberger in January 2025.
Katrin Nesemann is an experienced communications consultant with expertise in transformation processes, corporate culture and public affairs. At CCounselors, she strengthens the "Transformation & Corporate Culture" profile and supports companies in strategically shaping complex dialog and transformation processes. From her previous roles as Managing Partner at Witten Group and Head of Internal Communications at Vontobel, she brings extensive experience in business transformation, restructuring, cultural change, leadership and team building activities. Prior to that, she worked for 15 years in the fields of public affairs, corporate communications, crisis communications and science & health care. With 30 years of experience in designing workshops and conferences and as a systemic coach, she brings exceptional expertise to transformational change.
"I help companies not only to strategically manage transformation processes and communicate them successfully to the market, but also to integrate them into the corporate culture - so that they are effective and sustainable in the long term," says Katrin Nesemann.
Patrizia Ribaudo has 20 years of experience in the communications industry. As a former financial journalist and communications professional in companies, associations and agencies, she has excellent knowledge of the financial industry. Most recently, she was Head of Communications at Bankhaus Metzler. Prior to that, she held the same position for more than seven years at the German Investment Funds Association BVI. She brings with her many years of experience in communications consulting for international and national financial companies.
"In a rapidly changing world, companies face the challenge of communicating their story, vision and strategy to relevant stakeholders. In a time of transformation, a company can only maintain its reputation and compete in the long term if it is able to do this in a credible way, both internally and externally," says Patrizia Ribaudo. "The demands on communications are therefore constantly increasing. I'm delighted to be able to contribute with my experience.
CCounselors' consulting services are provided exclusively by partners, who, at the same time, also bear entrepreneurial responsibility and are shareholders in the consulting firm. Each client is personally and comprehensively supported by one of the partners for the entire duration of the mandate. In accordance with the consulting needs of the clients, the individual complementary fields of expertise existing within the partnership are provided in a bundled form.
CCounselors is active as a strategic consulting firm for a large number of family-run and listed companies and their bodies, as well as for associations from a variety of industries. Especially in the area of litigation communication, Düsseldorf based CCounselors have been cooperating with renowned lawyers for many years.