Patti demonstrated excellent coaching skills adhering to the ICF core coaching competencies. She provided a safe, professional, flexible, and supportive coaching presence. She was an expert active listener; she asked powerful questions, used direct communication, and led her clients to effective planning and goal setting. Patti has a gift for providing strong support and partnership throughout the sessions. She consistently and skillfully followed her client's direction. Patti demonstrated a true talent for listening below the surface and brought ideas to light for possible exploration with her client.

Sheri Boone, MCC, BCC - ICF Mentor Coach

Patricia has the warmest and compassionate coaching style. Her energy reflects a deep caring and willingness to walk the dark alleys and point the way to the sunny spaces in life. She's right there with you the entire time.

Joan Ramstedt-Andersen, PCC - Ramstedt & Associates - Newport Beach, CA, USA

Patti Risch is the consummate professional. While working at the Upper School of the Zurich International School, she competently and professionally dealt with a wide range of issues in her counseling role. This included bereavement counseling, bullying, family counseling, providing teacher emotional support, anorexia, depression, academic assistance, and student transition issues. Where necessary and relevant, she would refer families to and liaise with professional psychologists and psychiatrists. On a personal level, Patti is someone who enjoys being around people. She has a great sense of humor and has the flexibility and easy going nature to mix with all different personality types.

Jon McLeod, former Upper School Principal - Zurich International School

Patti is an inspiring and wonderful coach and she truly drives sustainable change. She has a natural gift which enables her to connect easily with all kinds of people from high school, college students to professionals across different continents. Patti has an intuitive, flexible and individualized approach to coaching that drives concrete and amazing results.

Cristina Haas - Zürich, Switzerland

Patti guided me to recreate my life, to set goals and to find a new beginning on a new path. I have a clearer and greater vision of my strengths and how I can use them to serve myself in positive ways and ultimately to be able to serve others. She has supported me to find balance in my life. I feel empowered and much stronger. Patti brings presence and trust to the coaching relationship. She clearly tapped-in on my strengths and my potential. I now believe in myself and my vision. This journey brings great joy to my life."

Kirsti Heiskanen, Finland and Switzerland, Pilates Instructor, The Pilates Center, Boulder, Colorado, USA

It is impossible to walk away from a discussion with Patricia Risch without feeling enriched. The long-term, positive and sustainable changes help her clients to move forward. Her professional background, experience, compassion and continuous expansion of her skills make her an invaluable resource for those seeking a clear, positive and at times, alternate path.

Francine Goodman, MS-CCC, SLP - Speech-Language Pathologist - Zürich, Switzerland

Patti is a gifted, intuitive teacher who is exceptionally well attuned and sensitive to the emotional and intellectual needs of her students and colleagues alike. She has an almost uncanny instinct for recognizing, understanding, and interpreting the moods, dispositions, and feelings of any person with whom she interacts. She has also developed a finely attuned sense of school culture and ethos, a gift which she is able to put to excellent use in advising Principals and other Leadership Team members, especially in crisis situations. Patti's ongoing work and professional development in the field of transformational and interpersonal coaching with both adults and adolescents reflects this unusual strength of hers.

Peter Mott, former Director - Zurich International School

Patricia is a kind-hearted and fierce coach which is a powerful combination. She helped me slow my mind down and focus on the beingness of my intentions. A wonderful experience with a great coach. Thanks!

Paul S. Sanbar, PCC - Certified Coach Supervisor - Los Angeles, CA, USA

During all the years I have known Patricia, I feel very fortunate to have worked with such a professional, compassionate and caring educator. In every capacity, Patricia demonstrates a high level of professionalism combined with strong inter-personal skills, which greatly facilitates her work with children and adults.

Ji Han - Director of Curriculum and Learning - Zurich International School

Patti is caring, reliable and committed. She is balanced and mature with a generously warm perspective of life and the world around her. Her personal stability is evident in her constant positive attitude to her work and the people around her.

Annika Hansson, RN - Zurich International School