Region · Rapperswil & Obersee
A sparring partner in Rapperswil-Jona and around the Obersee. From outside.
I’m Winn Chelini, an independent confidant and sparring partner for personal and business questions – in Rapperswil-Jona, Schmerikon, Uznach and Lachen. Someone from outside your circle, not a therapist: at your home, at your office, on a walk across the footbridge or online, in English or German.
Rapperswil-Jona and the Obersee
By the lake, people know each other. Some things still go unsaid.
The towns around the Obersee, the upper end of Lake Zürich, are small enough that you meet the same people at the harbour, at the club and at school. That builds closeness – and makes it hard to talk openly about doubts with anyone from your own circle.
That goes for families who have lived by the lake for generations and for families whose business grew up here. It goes for people who commuted to Zürich for years and now have more time than they would like. And it goes for those who inherit, where the house by the lake comes with the family’s questions attached.
If you live in Pfäffikon SZ, Wollerau or Freienbach, the same formats are on the page Zug and the Höfe.
Situations that are typical here
An inheritance
The house by the lake, a share in the company, money you didn’t expect. Everyone has an opinion about it. You want to talk first to someone who gains nothing either way.
Gone quiet
Many years together, and it isn’t bad – just quiet. You want to work out for yourself what is missing before you raise it at home.
Our marriage isn’t bad, just quiet. Can I think it through on my own first?
Years of commuting – and now?
For years, off to Zürich early and back to the lake late. The children have left home, the job is no longer what it was – and the question of what is yours now is suddenly on the table.
Where everyone knows your family
In Schmerikon, Uznach or Jona, people know your family. A decision that would get people talking is one you want to think through first with someone who isn’t part of it.
Your parents’ company
A family business by the lake, in the family for generations. Everyone assumes you will take over. Whether you want to, you haven’t told anyone.
You could take over the family business. You do not want to.
Sell or keep
There is an offer for the company. For the family, more hangs on it than figures: who stays, who goes, what becomes of the name. You want to sort it out once before you decide.
From outside
Based in the Zürich Oberland. Not from your village.
I live and work in Wetzikon, about 20 minutes from Rapperswil. Close enough to be with you quickly – but I’m not in your club, not in your industry and not at your children’s parents’ evening.
I have no mandate, no commission and no stake in what you decide. You don’t have to wonder whom I’ll be talking to next week, or whose side I’m on. And you don’t have to prove anything to me. That makes it easier to say the things you would normally keep to yourself.
You already have experts. What I offer is an independent view from outside – and where you need a specialist, I’ll tell you so and point you to the right person.
What discretion means in practice
- I don’t record our conversations.
- I keep only brief notes and destroy them no later than 12 months after we finish.
- I report to no one – not to your family, your business partners or your employer.
- Even the fact that we know each other stays between us.
- Invoices show the format and the date, never your topic – and can be made out to your company.
Confidential – agreed in writing, with its limits stated openly.
Where we meet
On the footbridge, along the shore or at your home.
An open conversation needs a place where no one is listening in. I come to wherever that is for you – in Rapperswil-Jona and on both shores of the Obersee.
On-site sparring
At your home
In Rapperswil, Jona, Schmerikon or Lachen: at home nobody overhears and you don’t have to go anywhere. Often the calmest place to talk openly.
At your office
In the evening once it is quiet, or during the day on a Monday. Whether you tell anyone who I am is entirely up to you.
A quiet place you choose
Away from the office and away from home. You suggest the place; I’ll be there.
Walk & talk
Many people think more clearly on their feet – side by side rather than face to face. Here are three suggestions. Or show me a route of your own.
Across the footbridge to Hurden
From Rapperswil across Lake Zürich on the wooden footbridge, part of the Way of St James. Open, flat and right out on the water.
Along the shore
From the harbour in Rapperswil along the shore towards Jona. Quiet, level, with the Obersee in view.
Up to the Lindenhof
The hill by the castle above the Old Town, looking out over both parts of the lake. Short, but good for the start or the end of a conversation.
Remote sparring
By video or phone
When you commute, between two appointments, or for a follow-up. The same approach, the same confidentiality.
Practical
Travel, areas and languages.
Travel from Wetzikon
Travel included
Rapperswil is about 20 minutes away. Travel is included – on both shores of the Obersee, as everywhere within 60 minutes’ drive of Wetzikon.
Crossing the Seedamm can take considerably longer at peak times – I plan for that, so you don’t have to. Places further away by arrangement; I’ll tell you the travel cost in advance.
Where I come to you
Obersee
- Rapperswil-Jona
- Schmerikon
- Eschenbach SG
- Uznach
- Hombrechtikon
- Lachen SZ
- Altendorf
Höfe (Canton Schwyz)
Pfäffikon SZ, Wollerau and Freienbach: see Zug and the Höfe.
Languages and times
English or German – or both, switching whenever it helps. Use whichever lets you say most precisely what you mean.
By arrangement: mostly in the evening, on Mondays also during the day, and on Saturdays and Sundays.
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Formats
Four formats. Around the Obersee, travel included.
A session around the Obersee costs you no more than one in Wetzikon. You pay per session – no subscription and no package.
Confidential conversation
Phone or video
On-site sparring
At your home, your office or a quiet place of your choice
Walk & talk
By the lake or in the woods – route chosen together
Remote sparring
Video or phone
On site and on a walk, 90 minutes are possible on request. The fee is fixed and depends on the format and the length of the conversation, never on who you are. I tell you what it is in the confidential conversation – before the first session, not after. If you would like to know it beforehand, I will also tell you by e-mail or phone, without you having to book a call.
Questions
Rapperswil-Jona and the Obersee: short answers.
Our parents are getting older, and things are getting difficult between us siblings. Who do I talk to?
With someone who has no role in your family. Who takes care of them, who decides what happens to the family home, who is already getting more – these questions come while the parents are still alive, and they reopen old roles between siblings. In the conversation we work out what you yourself want and what you will say to your siblings, before it turns into a dispute. I talk only with you, not with the whole family. Care arrangements, powers of attorney and inheritance law stay with the specialist services and your lawyer.
Since the inheritance or the sale, everyone behaves differently. Who do I talk to about it?
With someone who wants nothing from you. Friends turn cautious or demanding, the family starts counting, and advisers call who never called before. Then there is your own question: how much of this is really mine now, and what do I want to do with it – or without it? That is what we talk about, confidentially and with nothing to sell. I give no investment or tax advice, have no partners at banks and take no commission. More in the note Inherited or cashed out: who has no stake in you?.
My spouse and I run the company together. Who do I talk to when business and marriage get tangled?
With someone who belongs to neither of you. When the company has a say at the kitchen table and the marriage at the office, you lose sight of both: what is a business dispute, what is a personal one – and what do you yourself want? Sparring is a conversation between two people: I talk with one of you; if your spouse also wants a counterpart, I name a different professional. For joint conversations, mediation or couples counselling fit better.
Wetzikon is close to the Obersee – won’t we run into each other anyway?
It is close: about 20 minutes to Rapperswil. But I’m not part of your village, your club or your industry. And even the fact that we know each other stays between us.
The confidential conversation. No obligation.
20 minutes by phone or video, in English or German. You don’t need to prepare or explain anything. Afterwards you will know whether my way of working suits you. I read every enquiry myself – from the first contact to the last conversation, you deal with the same person.
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