Jun
17, 2025
15:00 - 16:00 CET
English
Stay ahead in your career by embracing lifelong learning! Join this exclusive keynote session with Thomas Neufing, a Senior Training Officer, executive coach, and leadership facilitator at the UN. With over 30 years of experience, he has guided senior leaders and UN staff in career growth through strategic skill-building. Discover how continuous learning strengthens leadership, enhances professional development, and drives success in today’s evolving workplace.
Chief of the Centre for Learning and Multilingualism at the United Nations Office at Geneva.
- Leader in learning and talent development focusing particularly on leadership and management development programmes and senior leaders executive coaching.
- Chief Learning Officer in different international organizations (OSCE, UN Secretariat, UN Staff College) after various UN field assignments (Haiti, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo) totalling 30 years of international experience.
- Executive coach (ICF-certified), certified mediator, certified in Human Capital Leadership (Wharton) and Strategic Human Resources Management (Cornell).
- Facilitator of UN Leaders Programme editions in New York, Geneva, Turin, Singapore and Cape Town.
- Lead facilitation of senior leadership team retreats among others for Head OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism (2016), UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2016), Director-General UN Geneva (2018), Executive Director UNEP (2018), Executive Secretary UN Biodiversity Convention (2019), UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs/Emergency Relief Coordinator (2022). Humanitarian Coordinators Retreat with OCHA USG and ASG 2023,2024 and 2025.
(Facilitator) Jesús is presently working for the United Nations Office at Geneva in his capacity as Chief of the Management and Communication Unit at the Centre for Learning and Multilingualism. He considers himself a life-long learner and has a multi-disciplinary background: a degree in modern languages, a post-graduate degree in pedagogy and a Master’s degree in Human Resources. The learning and development field has been his professional home for over 18 years.
In addition to his full-time job, he is the co-chair of the International Organizations Coaching Network, a forum open to internal coaches working in International Organizations based in Geneva, and The Learning Lab, a community of practice for learning managers working in the United Nations Secretariat.
