Pierre-Olivier Botteron is the founder of People On Board GmbH, a consulting firm specialising in company culture, HR transformation and leadership development. With over 25 years of international HR leadership experience, he supports leaders and organisations in Switzerland and internationally who want to align their culture, practices and teams with their strategic ambitions.

His professional career has been built in contexts of significant complexity. For over a decade, he held the position of VP Human Resources at Swissôtel and FRHI Hotels & Resorts, with responsibility for more than 30 properties, 8,000 employees and 15 countries. As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, he led large-scale HR transformations in demanding multicultural environments, process digitalisation, leadership development, and management of major organisational changes.

Before joining global luxury hospitality, Pierre-Olivier Botteron began his international career as a field administrator with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), progressing to Head of Administration in one of the organisation's largest delegations, across three missions in Côte d'Ivoire, Afghanistan and Rwanda. This experience durably shaped his understanding of human dynamics in organisations under pressure, and his conviction that culture is always in the end, a matter of people.

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He holds an MSc in Change Leadership, a joint programme from HEC Paris and the University of Oxford (Saïd Business School), a BSc from the École Hôtelière de Lausanne, and a Healthcare Leadership Certificate from Stanford University. He works primarily in French, English and German.