Trained as a social scientist, Claude André Ribaux was originally engaged as manager of international public health initiatives, mainly working for the international Red Cross movement, where much of his time was in project development and working as a consultant in change processes and conflict transformation in complex political environments.

He initiated his own training organization in 1991 and started work as a full time coach and therapist in 1999. His experience was used in many Asian countries such as Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Vietnam, Mongolia, Sri Lanka.

He is also a founder of CASPEA, a 'peace through sport' organization. Today he runs his own coaching and training organization in Switzerland, and is specialized in teaching active-alert hypnosis.

Over the past 25 years he has conducted far more than 10,000 therapy and coaching sessions and provided hundreds of days of training.