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…where grit and visionary leadership empower purposeful growth.
We enable personal, organizational and strategic growth through clarity, courage and authentic, experienced leadership.
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Empowering conscious leadership
We empower leaders and organizations to thrive consciously - beyond uncertainty, beyond buzzwords and beyond traditional transformation. Through clarity, courage, and authentic leadership, we enable growth across three essential dimensions:
1
Personal growth
Developing leadership capacity and resilience to navigate complex challenges with confidence and purpose.
2
Organizational growth
Building cohesive, high-performing teams and cultures that unlock collective potential and sustainable results.
3
Strategic growth
Clarifying vision and execution pathways that create genuine market differentiation and lasting value.
Why we matter
#thry(f)rame
In today's complex business environment, leaders face unprecedented challenges. Our approach cuts through the noise to deliver what matters most.
Humans are overloaded
Executives, teams, and individuals face unprecedented pressure in our hyperconnected world. We cut through the noise, enabling leaders to focus on what truly drives value and meaningful outcomes rather than exhausting themselves on distractions.
Transformation fatigue is real
Endless cycles of change often stall or exhaust organizations, creating cynicism instead of progress. We simplify complexity, humanize execution, and ensure transformations actually transform - creating sustainable momentum instead of short-lived initiatives.
Markets demand more
Today's environment requires speed, vision and integrity - not just incremental improvements. We deliver all three, grounded in real-world executive experience rather than abstract frameworks or theoretical models that fall apart in practice.
Unlocking your potential - our core offerings
At thryf, we offer a suite of integrated services designed to empower leaders and organizations at every level, fostering growth, resilience and sustainable impact.
1. Visionary leadership & strategic direction
Define clear, compelling visions and develop actionable strategies that drive market differentiation and long-term success. Navigate complexity with purpose.
2. Clifton strengths-based development
Unlock individual and collective potential through tailored development programs. Build cohesive, high-performing teams ready to tackle any challenge.
3. Transformation & growth consulting
Guide your organization through impactful change, simplifying complexity and humanizing execution. Achieve sustainable momentum and measurable growth.
4. Additional strategic offerings
Complementary services to enhance your strategic capabilities and operational excellence. Tailored solutions for unique organizational needs.
Each offering is delivered with authenticity and grounded in real-world executive experience, ensuring practical and impactful results.
1. Visionary leadership for strategic direction
#thry(f)ocus
Our flagship offering provides 1:1 and group sparring for CEOs, founders and senior executives seeking a trusted, experienced partner. We work closely with you to:
1. Value creation
We help clarify your strategy and refine your organizational vision & mission, ensuring a strong foundation for future growth.
2. Shape business models
Together, we reinvent business models, paving the way for sustainable and innovative growth.
3. Prepare for key decisions
We prepare you for critical decisions and successful board engagements, ensuring you're ready for impactful moments.
4. Unlock bold strategies
When uncertainty looms, we help you unlock bold yet executable strategies, turning challenges into clear pathways.
This high-impact collaboration delivers clarity precisely when you need it most, transforming complex challenges into focused direction and purposeful action.
2. Clifton strengths-based executive & team development
#thry(f)uel
We believe resilience and results come from leveraging natural talents, not patching weaknesses. Our Gallup-certified approach builds sustainable excellence through authentic strengths.
Individual excellence
Certified coaching strengthens self-awareness, energy management and personal effectiveness for individuals and executives navigating complex environments and high stakes decisions.
Team transformation
Custom programs for leadership teams build trust, collective intelligence, and execution capability - focusing on authentic strengths instead of artificial metrics.
Measurable impact
Our approach delivers quantifiable improvements in decision quality, execution speed, and team cohesion - translating directly to business outcomes.
3. Transformation & growth consulting
#thry(f)ulfillment
Moving from complexity to clarity
We specialize in untangling stalled, siloed, or unclear initiatives that have lost momentum or direction. Our expertise helps organizations:
Unwire complexity
Identify and eliminate unnecessary complications blocking progress
Bring clarity
Re-anchor strategy to execution for mergers, digital acceleration, and organizational turnarounds
Create flow
Move from noise to productive momentum with a human-centered lens
4. Additional strategic offerings
#thry(f)low
Workforce & Capability shaping
We design future ready workforces through skills forecasting, hybrid work models, talent ecosystems and leadership pipelines - vital capabilities in high-cost innovation hubs like Switzerland. Explore our network.
Advisory & Board engagements
Supporting boards and executives with governance, innovation strategy, transformation oversight and ethical technology implementation for balanced growth.
Interim executive engagements
Providing acting executive roles (CEO, CIO, CTO, CDO, Innovation/Strategy/Program Lead) during critical transitions - bringing immediate leadership capacity and trusted direction.d
About Bruno
"I have always believed that grit changes everything. Not talent alone, not intelligence, not resources - but the perseverance to keep moving forward when the path is uncertain."
This core belief shapes thry(f)orward:
To work with humans as they are, not as they are "supposed" to be.
To embrace the unknown instead of fearing it.
To think big, act big and achieve things you never believed possible.
Born in technology, grown through leadership across continents. Bruno has led organizations through transformation, growth and reinvention in Europe, India and the Americas. He combines deep entrepreneurial and operational experience with an authentic, human-centered style - equally at home in the boardroom, with teams in transition, or guiding executives 1:1.
Building and scaling large technology and consulting organizations across industries
Leading complex transitions, carve-ins, acquisitions and exits
Driving sustainable growth while keeping people at the center
Above all, Bruno believes in the power of grit, curiosity and human connection, to help individuals, teams and organizations reach what once seemed out of reach.
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