DBA (h.c.)
Partner · Leadership Advisor
Selected Experience & Credentials
Managing Director, Glion Institute of Higher Education (since 2025) — ranked #3 worldwide for Hospitality & Leisure Management (QS 2026), with campuses in Switzerland and London
CEO, Geneva Tourism & Conventions (2010–2018) — Geneva was twice named best city-break destination during his tenure
CEO, Edipresse Digital, and member of the Edipresse Group corporate management board (2008–2009)
easyJet (1999–2007) — board member, easyJet Switzerland; General Manager Commercial for Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Eastern Europe as the airline grew from 10 to 200 aircraft; launched the Geneva base, first European base, with 1.5 million new passengers in 18 months
Board Member, Hôtel des Horlogers; Advisory Board Member, CABANNER
Advisory committee member, Doyof Al Rahman Program, part of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 (2019–2020)
National Sales & Marketing Director, L’Oréal Suisse (until 1998)
Certified Professional Coach (ACTP, ICF) — IDC Institut de coaching (2018–2019)
High Performance Leadership program — IMD (2013)
Master’s degree in political science — University of Geneva
Doctorate of Business Administration, honoris causa (2016)
At INLIBRIUM, Philippe works with leaders whose judgment everyone around them trusts, and who are rarely asked what carrying that responsibility costs. As Partner and Leadership Advisor, he helps clients look closely at the decisions, relationships, and routines through which others experience their leadership. His contribution is advisory and non-clinical, coordinated with the program’s clinical and psychological specialists.
Philippe has spent more than three decades leading organizations through growth and change. He began as a Club Med tour guide working in four languages, and went on to senior roles in consumer goods, aviation, media, tourism, and education. Across all of them, the work has been the same: take a complex organization, simplify how it is run, and make room for the people in it to do their best work.
His role at Glion sits unusually close to INLIBRIUM’s own. Glion trains future leaders of luxury hospitality, a discipline built on the quality of human attention, and it now teaches wellness and longevity alongside hospitality and business. Philippe brings that standard of care, and an operator’s eye for what makes it real, to the experience INLIBRIUM offers its clients.
His reference point is servant leadership: listening before acting, clarifying direction, removing obstacles, and making room for others to own their work. He favors neither performance nor prescription. For Philippe, durable leadership rests on the disciplined alignment of judgment, conduct, and accountability.