Sophie is an Organizational Psychologist and Executive Coach, and has partnered with hundreds of organizations from various industries, ranging from early stage startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, empowering leaders to achieve their team’s goals. As the first employee at Torch, a VC backed tech scaleup in Silicon Valley, she built both the coach operations and customer success departments from scratch, experiencing first hand what it takes for a company to go from an idea to a series C raise. Prior to living in the US, Sophie worked as an HR leader in the non-profit space, building and leading the People Operations department of an NGO that brings safe sanitation solutions to hundreds of families in Peru.
Sophie is passionate about helping individuals expand their self-awareness. She firmly believes that the workplace needs to be leveraged as a unique environment to grow as human beings, in order for each of us to connect to our true purpose and have the best possible impact on our surroundings.
Sophie holds a Masters Degree from Columbia University, with a specialization in Emotional Intelligence and Executive Coaching. She has lived and worked in three continents and speaks German, Spanish and English fluently. When she’s not working, she enjoys chasing her one-and-a-half-year-old son around, observing his little personality shine through and trying to decipher his first words. She enjoys running half-marathons, loves experimenting with her Thermomix in the kitchen, and tending to her vegetable garden. Sophie and her family recently moved back to her hometown, Vienna, after living abroad for ten years.
