Charles François Bill
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Adress
24 chemin Magnin
1261 Longirod, Switzerland
Year of birth
1959
Nationality
Swiss/French
Languages
English/French (mother tongues)
German (B1-B2)
Areas of expertise
Work experience
Education and training
Other
Experience at PwC
Coaching, Mentoring, Transformative leadership, Developing high-performing teams, Sales excellence, Personal effectiveness, Creative problem-solving, Communication skills, Effective writing, Productive meetings
Owner, Director, Senior Coach and Facilitator, CapeCoach
10.2024 – present
Director, Learning & Knowledge leader, PwC Advisory EMEA
10.2006 – 06.2025
Director, Performance Improvement, PwC Consulting Switzerland
10.2001 to 10.2006
Owner, Management and Training Consulting, Essor Conseil, Antibes (FR) and Languazur Training Center, Cannes (FR)
1997 to 2001
Managing Director and Trainer, Training Consultant, inlingua and ASC International House, Switzerland
1985 to 1997
Mastery, MG Taylor System and Method, Designing and delivering complex collaborative work using The Collaboration Code, Imaginal Labs, New York
2022
Advanced Certificate in Coach-Mentoring (Merit), Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Oxford School of Coaching and Mentoring (OCM), London
This qualification is CAT credit rated by Oxford Brookes University (40 CATS points at Master Level 7) and carries the EMCC Quality Award kite mark at Practitioner Level
2010
Masters in Business Administration (1st year), Kaderschule Graduate Business School, St. Gallen, under the auspices of the Strathclyde Graduate Business School, Glasgow
1997 to 1998
Bachelor of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
1977 to 1980
I was appointed to the Executive Board of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) Switzerland in April 2025 and currently serve as Vice-President.
During my time with PwC, I was responsible for Learning & Knowledge within the Advisory practice across the EMEA Cluster and I contributed to Business Development and other initiatives. Prior to that, I delivered change management, risk management and training projects for PwC clients.
Specific examples of client projects:
Innovation and creative problem solving – Large European organisation, delivery of virtual training sessions in problem reframing, creative problem solving and storytelling (2020)
Leading teams / Managing conflict / Performance management – European Union agency, providing in-depth interpersonal skills training to management level teams, including use of various tools and models such as Heron, Belbin, Tuckman, Thomas-Kilmann, Johari’s window, DISC, McLelland, Hersey and Blanchard, Litwin and Stringer, Back & Back, GROW, de Bono, etc. (2006)
Strategic planning – Swiss-based international NGO, providing a methodology and framework for strategic planning while simultaneously helping with team-building efforts in the executive group (2003 – 2004)
Licensing system – European sports association, training in implementation and change management of a new licensing system for sports clubs (2002 – 2003)
Risk Management – Swiss telecommunications client, increasing awareness of the importance of risk management in operations and the techniques and methods for assessing and mitigating risk (2001)
Facilitation skills / Train-the-trainer – Swiss industrial client, preparing an internal team to roll out technical systems and process training (2001 – 2002)
Finance training – Swiss telecommunications client, transitioning from the incumbent government PTT division to being a commercial telco (2001 – 2003)
Specific examples of firmwide initiatives for PwC:
EMEA Partner Development Programme – part of the faculty delivering a blended learning experience for future Global Relationship Partners, and responsible for one of the Action Inquiry Groups. In this context, I worked with the programme leads and the rest of the faculty to introduce concepts such as Business Model Reinvention and Value in Motion (2020 – 2025)
“Reinventing the Future” – part of the global coaching faculty accompanying a “Futurist” Partner and a group of participants (2020 – 2022)
EMEA Business Accelerator programme / EMEA Account Planning eXperience programme – lead designer and facilitator for an innovative format bringing client teams (and sometimes their clients) into PwC’s Experience Centres to solve problems and drive account success using the BXT approach (2019 – 2022)
BXT problem-solving and innovation approach – consulting to the team implementing BXT across EMEA, assisting with designing and delivering BXT training modules for all levels both virtually and face-to-face (2019 – 2024)
“Pursuit Coaching Accreditation Programme”– working with global Clients & Markets and an external coaching academy to design and deliver a programme for Pursuit coaches to qualify for International Coaching Federation accreditation (2012 – 2022)
“Pursuit” business development framework – working with the EMEA and global leadership to design and deliver the full implementation, including communications, change management and training modules (2010 – 2025)
“Fever Pitch” business development framework – working with the Eurofirms leadership to design and deliver the full implementation, including communications, change management and training modules (2005 – 2010)
Induction, consulting skills, business development and methodology training (2001 – 2025)