1:1 coaching
Individual coaching on leadership, career clarity and using your strengths – as a short focused process or a deep dive over several months.
About us
About PurposeCoach® – who we are and how we work
PurposeCoach® is a Swiss coaching organisation operated by WBC Wellbeing Business Community GmbH, with a studio in Wabern near Bern. We support professionals, leaders and entrepreneurs with strengths-based development, leadership coaching and career clarity – on site near Bern and online across German-speaking Europe.
Gallup Certified Strengths Coach · profilingvalues® Mastercoach · Certified Purpose Coach®
What to expect
Strengths before deficits
We start from what reliably works for you – with Gallup CliftonStrengths® 34 as a starting point, not a label.
Making values visible
profilingvalues® is a vendor-validated reflection instrument. It provides material for conversation about value preferences and current strain, not a diagnosis.
Transfer into daily work
Every session ends with one concrete action for the next two weeks. Progress shows up in behaviour, not in notes.
Clear boundaries
Coaching is reflection and development work. It does not replace medical treatment or psychotherapy – we refer on where needed.
How it works
Free 30-minute consultation
We clarify your topic, the right format and whether we are the right fit. No sales pressure – “you need something different” is a valid outcome.
Baseline assessment
Depending on the assignment: CliftonStrengths® 34, profilingvalues® or a structured goal clarification. You receive your results in writing.
Working phase
1:1 sessions at a fixed rhythm, with implementation in between. You decide what we work on; we bring structure and constructive disagreement.
Closing and record
We document what changed and what you continue without coaching. Outcomes are your own assessment, and we label them that way.
Who is this for?
- Leaders who want to sharpen their own style instead of learning another model
- Professionals aged 30–50 facing a directional decision
- Entrepreneurs redistributing team roles according to strengths
- People experiencing boreout or a loss of meaning who want a workable direction again
„Above all the process gave me language: I could finally name why some tasks drain me and others don’t."
Client, senior management role · Anonymised self-report after a 1:1 process
Organisation, responsibility and methodology
Who is responsible for this content? PurposeCoach® is the coaching brand of WBC Wellbeing Business Community GmbH, Seftigenstrasse 302, 3084 Wabern near Bern. The company is registered in the Swiss commercial register and can be verified via Zefix. Content, choice of methods and quality assurance sit with Philipp Fuchs, founder and Lead Coach.
What experience stands behind it? Philipp Fuchs has worked as a coach since 2016 and has delivered more than 400 individual coaching sessions to date. That figure comes from internal session records and counts paid 1:1 sessions only – no group formats, talks or intro calls.
How do we work methodically? We combine strengths diagnostics (Gallup CliftonStrengths® 34), values clarification (profilingvalues®) and goal-oriented behaviour work. The instruments produce hypotheses, not truths: what holds true is decided in conversation and in practice, not in a report.
What does research say about coaching in general? The meta-analysis by Theeboom, Beersma and van Vianen (2014) finds positive effects of coaching on performance, coping, attitudes and goal attainment across 18 studies (Hedges’ g = 0.74 for performance and skills). That is evidence about coaching as a format – not a claim about any individual process with us.
Why no success percentages? We do not publish figures such as “+40 % satisfaction”, because we document no baseline, no measurement instrument and no defined measurement point. What we show are qualitative, anonymised practice observations, explicitly labelled as client self-reports.
How we report numbers and evidence
Every number on this website names its source, period and counting method – or it does not appear. Research figures are cited with study and reference; vendor-side research (for example from Gallup) is labelled as such.
Figures from our own practice come from internal records and are narrowly defined (example: “more than 400 individual sessions since 2016” means paid 1:1 sessions). Client outcomes are self-reports without standardised measurement and are never converted into percentages.
Bern location and online coaching across DACH
On-site appointments take place at our studio at Seftigenstrasse 302 in Wabern near Bern, about ten minutes from Bern main station. For Zurich, Basel, Lucerne, Ticino as well as Germany and Austria we work fully online via Zoom; in our experience the quality of the work is the same, while scheduling becomes far easier.
Prices are binding in Swiss francs. For clients in Germany and Austria we quote euro amounts as an approximate guide only (“approx. X €”), because exchange rates move.
What we work with
Four building blocks that combine depending on the assignment.
Strengths and values assessments
Gallup CliftonStrengths® 34 and profilingvalues® as a baseline, each with a debrief session and written results.
Courses and masterclasses
Small-group formats on strengths, purpose and the Enneagram – online via Zoom or as a full course day, with a maximum of ten seats.
Certified Purpose Coach® training
A six-month programme for people who want to offer strengths- and purpose-based coaching themselves.
Philipp Fuchs
Founder and Lead Coach, PurposeCoach®
Philipp Fuchs has worked as a coach since 2016 and has delivered more than 400 individual coaching sessions (internal session records). His focus is strengths-based development for professionals and leaders, and career reorientation.
Coaching-Ansatz: How he works: clear hypotheses instead of interpretations, every session ends with one concrete next action, and outcomes are named as the client’s own assessment.
- Gallup Certified Strengths Coach
- profilingvalues® Mastercoach
- Certified Purpose Coach®
- Coach since 2016, more than 400 individual sessions
Short glossary
- CliftonStrengths® 34
- A Gallup instrument that ranks 34 talent themes in a personal order. It measures patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving – not skills or performance.
- profilingvalues®
- A vendor-validated reflection instrument covering value preferences and current strain. It is not a clinical diagnostic procedure.
- Purpose
- Working definition: a durable answer to what someone applies their strengths for beyond a single job – testable in decisions, not in wording.
- Self-report
- A person’s statement about their own change, without a standardised instrument. We label practice examples this way instead of converting them into metrics.
Sources and transparency
- Theeboom, T., Beersma, B., & van Vianen, A. E. M. (2014). Does coaching work? Journal of Positive Psychology, 9(1), 1–18. — Meta-analysis of 18 studies on coaching effects for performance, coping, attitudes and goal attainment.
- Gallup: CliftonStrengths® — Vendor-side information and research about the instrument – labelled as such.
- Zefix – Swiss commercial register — Verification of the operating company, WBC Wellbeing Business Community GmbH.
- International Coaching Federation / EMCC Global — Industry standards for ethics and professional practice. No membership or accreditation claimed.
Frequently asked questions
PurposeCoach® is the coaching brand of WBC Wellbeing Business Community GmbH, Seftigenstrasse 302, 3084 Wabern near Bern. Philipp Fuchs, founder and Lead Coach, is responsible for content and methodology.
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