Doris Gottlieb brings a broad range of experience to her work as an organizational consultant, facilitator and coach. Since she began her career in this field in 1998, she has worked with groups from all levels of society from top-ranked executives to refugees. This diversity of clientele is testimony to Doris’ abiding interest in people and the dilemmas and challenges they face as they navigate their professional and personal lives and their relationship to the societies in which they live.

In 2005 she founded Contorno Consulting to stimulate professional development and support organizational change. Doris’ work with Contorno centers on creating learning opportunities that
enhance and integrate different, often competing ideas, visions and values present in organizations in
this time of increasing complexity and interconnectedness.

Doris works predominantly in international contexts where either the workforce is international, products and services span borders or the societies in which her clients work have become increasingly culturally complex.

While her skills have allowed her to work in many different settings and capacities one theme has
remained constant; an interest in how people function and make sense of the increasing complexity presented to them by society as well as by the organizations in which they must live and work. Working with people so that they can (re)connect with their creativity, resilience and resourcefulness in these environments has been an abiding passion in her work.

Prior to her consultancy work, Doris worked as a Lecturer in Communication both in Spain and at the Institute for Higher European Studies in the Hague. She trained as an organizational consultant and
trainer at the Institute for the Application of Social Science (IAS) in Haarlem, the Netherlands and is certified as a coach from the European Association for Supervision. Doris works in three languages, Dutch, English and Spanish. She has a Master of Science in Mass Communication from Boston University.