Career

A career built from frontline experience

From sociocultural work to executive leadership: more than thirty-three years dedicated to ageing, social work and organisational transformation.

Leadership was never a promotion goal. It became the means to give teams sound conditions in which to fulfil their mission, and to put management rigour at the service of human values.

Portrait of Joël Goldstein early in his leadership career
Joël Goldstein — personal archive.

ETSA Conseils

Founder, Director and senior consultant in organisation, management, gerontology and social and care project leadership.

Pro Senectute Geneva

Director General. Restructuring, governance, service development, partnerships, public and private funding, day-centre refurbishment and a new head office.

EMS Les Marronniers

Director. Institutional, human and financial responsibility; ten years leading the new 63-room care-home project.

EMS Les Marronniers

Social worker supporting residents and families in coordination with teams and the health and social-care network.

EMS Les Marronniers

Sociocultural worker. The beginning of an approach based on life projects, participation and opening the institution to the city.

Social work and gerontology

Diploma in social work, further education in social services, care-home director training and a university continuing-education certificate in gerontology.

Helping relationships

Advanced transactional analysis training, Jungian approaches, Ericksonian hypnosis and a CAS in clinical sexology.

Passing knowledge on

HES practice educator recognised since 2007, with adult-education experience in gerontology.