CeOH is a not-for-profit platform whose mission is to contribute to better understanding and managing the complexity of human organizations. For this purpose, CeOH aims to bring together researchers, professionals and practitioners in the fledging field of Organizational Health. Our aim is to nurture, develop and disseminate the discipline for the improvement of organizations, their staff, and society at large.
The Team
CEOH is embodied by a circle of purpose-driven and dedicated professionals and innovators such as practitioners, researchers, and business leaders.
Gabrielle OrtaisFounder & Board Member
Advisor, coach, consultant and teacher. Helps organizations, teams, relationships and individuals develop from within in order to create, grow and transform.
Why I care
“I have sought to integrate the business and human sides of organizations in a holistic management approach for all my professional life. I founded CeOH to offer answers to do so.”
Pascal GueissazBoard Member
Founder and advisor of Umeo, a Swiss group of recruitment and healthcare businesses. Loves initiating and supporting the development of businesses, and engaging in society’s crucial issues.
Why I care
“The analogy of organizational health leads to developments that will help companies progress towards a functioning more compatible with human nature and overall performance.”
Thomas JaecklinBoard Member
Pediatrician and intensive care physician, developing drugs for rare and underserved diseases in large pharmaceutical companies and Biotech.
Why I care
“After more than 20 years in large institutions and successfully creating a healthy work environment on a smaller scale, I am convinced that Organizational Health will be the next paradigm shift in modern human systems.”
Dick A. RügerAssociate
Coach and advisor for leaders, executives, partners & teams in search of growth and connection. Helps them to discover and unfold new information that allows them to grow and transform.
Why I care
“My dream is that everybody can work and live without fear. CeOH is the home from which we can support this!”
Jan ProvoostAssociate
Freelance writer and writing coach. Motivated by science, humanism, and a dream of a regenerative, healthy world.
Why I care
“CeOH’s vision is one I relate to, a vision I want to support wholeheartedly.”
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patients in care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."
Thomas Edison
4 Guiding principles that shape our path& the way we work
1. We take the whole system into account
we advocate a holistic, integrated view of human systems.
2. We simplify the inherent complexity
we acknowledge the systemic complexity and focus on reducing it to simpler terms and actionable approaches.
3. We put humanism to action
we take a humanistic view and use it as fundament for concrete, pragmatic action.
4. We turn vision into reality
we dare dream of healthier organizations in a better world and focus on principled pragmatism to bring our dream closer to reality.
3 values guide our behavior& the decisions we make
1. Consciousness
we nurture consciousness and higher awareness as a natural way to shift behavior and practices.
2. Love
we care, and we actively seek growth and empowerment in ourselves and others, with respect and confidence.
3. Courage
we dare challenge the status quo and develop from within, and lead others to do along the same path of courage.
4 Guiding principles that shape our path& the way we work
1. We take the whole system into account
we advocate a holistic, integrated view of human systems.
2. We simplify the inherent complexity
we acknowledge the systemic complexity and focus on reducing it to simpler terms and actionable approaches.
3. We put humanism to action
we take a humanistic view and use it as fundament for concrete, pragmatic action.
4. We turn vision into reality
we dare dream of healthier organizations in a better world and focus on principled pragmatism to bring our dream closer to reality.
4 Guiding principles that shape our path& the way we work
1. Consciousness
we nurture consciousness and higher awareness as a natural way to shift behavior and practices.
2. Love
we care, and we actively seek growth and empowerment in ourselves and others, with respect and confidence.
3. Courage
we dare challenge the status quo and develop from within, and lead others to do along the same path of courage.