PwC Life and Career – Michka Guerrier

1. Your profession: Tell us what you do – for PwC and with regards to your very own career.

I am leading data-driven services for financial process optimisation at PwC and have been working on these topics for the past 17 years out of Paris, London and now Zurich.

Four years ago, I created a company which focuses on bringing key learnings, knowledge, strategies from the world of elite sports into the business world. Sports have always played a great role in my life – I have played tennis competitively up to semi-professional level in my youth, competed as an amateur in Thai boxing and free grappling, and competed in ultra-trails such as “La diagonale des fous” and “Eiger 101”. I have been a dedicated mountaineer and climber for more than ten years. So, naturally, I associate with boxing champions, explorers, cave divers, psychologists, nutritionists for an ambitious mission – and feel personally driven to make companies and our society a place where humans can grow wholly, despite or due to the challenges on the way. I achieve this by running seminars and workshops, training and coaching sessions in order to help teams, people and companies fuel their resilience and un-tap their potential while maintaining a healthy mental and physical balance.

The topics of human growth, achieving resilient balance and un-tapping one’s full potential mentally, socially and physically has always been at the core of my interest and my life so it was only natural for me to try and bring my learnings to a larger audience.

2. Your path: What made you pursue this journey, and at what point was it clear for you that making your passion for coaching was more than a hobby but a personal career path for you?

Having worked with numerous companies in multiple countries for almost two decades, I have had sufficient time to form the opinion that this vision of achieving human growth in companies and society still had room for progress. It seemed to me that the existing training and transformation programmes addressing these topics were a bit too entrenched in mainstream methods and beliefs. I had the conviction that more could be done to un-tap sustainably the whole human potential and, to achieve this, a more experience-based approach would be well suited. And so I associated with these great athletes and fantastic human beings I had met in my sporting ways and developed a new approach, which we then started rolling out.

The topics of human growth, achieving resilient balance and un-tapping one’s full potential mentally, socially and physically has always been at the core of my interest and my life so it was only natural for me to try and bring my learnings to a larger audience that might also benefit from these experiences and methods that I considered life-changing.

It is a career path for me because I did not only want to be and live the change, I wanted to see the same positive effects being adapted all around me. My career now allows me to bring these changes to my clients in my workshops and seminars.

3. Your balance: How did PwC support you on this journey, and how do you manage both streams of your career?

I was given the opportunity to launch my programmes at our firm, and PwC has continuously given us feedback on the workshops which allowed us to progress continuously. We worked together with the PwC key talent programmes as well as the leadership explorations and the “Be well, work well” programme. We have teamed up for a great collaboration and an opportunity to explore these new methods jointly!

Managing both work streams – my job at PwC and my personal projects – meant that I actually needed to upskill my own resilience further, managing my time and energy in a more knowledgeable manner and setting myself boundaries. It’s been worth it.

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