Sonja Buholzer

Sonja A. Buholzer is a bestselling Swiss writer specializing in management consulting and business coaching. She is a professional keynote speaker and a widely known coach who especially focuses on the role of and opportunity for women in career positions. She is the adviser of business leaders and politicians, noting "Men are persistent, women are stubborn. But where would men be without women!"
Biography
Personal life
Buholzer was born and raised in Lucerne. From 1984 through 1985, she was a scientific assistant and lecturer in the State University of New York system, earning a Master's degree in 1985. She returned to Europe to earn additional advanced degrees—a Master's degree in Literature, Philosophy, and History from Zurich University, and the PhD in Philosophy in 1987, with a doctoral dissertation about medieval mystic Mechthild of Magdeburg. She started her career as a bank director, charged with the responsibility of managing the global conglomerate's international training and administration. She lives now in Zurich.
Career
Across the two decades since earning her educational degrees, Buholzer has authored over a half-dozen business ethics and professional advice books that have earned spots on the best-seller lists. Her books maintain that philosophy and business are intertwined, and she attempts to demonstrate how success and ethics go together. On the basis of this expertise, she has expanded her career into the realm of paid speaking engagements before executive boards and governmental bodies. The German Manager Magazin recognized her as possibly the world's best female coach of professionals. She bemoans the "error" of women who hold the unfortunate attitude that money is inherently a bad thing. If women are to stop accepting one-third less pay for the same job performed by men, then women need to lose this attitude about money.
In one of her recent books, Shark leadership, Buholzer notes that people in senior management gladly participate in extreme sports—mountain climbing, marathons, and the like. They want to test their limits, just as divers will test their limits and anxieties if they encounter a shark undersea. But, Buholzer notes that each year, there are typically fewer than 10 fatal shark attacks, while humans are responsible for the death of perhaps 200 million sharks per year. She recommends that top managers actually go diving with sharks to learn their own fears and prejudices, then deal with them.

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