About Us

cocoate.com is an independent management consultancy, based in France and working internationally.
Specialised in three areas – Consulting, Coaching and Teaching – cocoate.com

  • develops web based strategies for process and project management and public relations
  • build websites and web platforms
  • provides customized trainings for open source content management systems Drupal, Joomla! and Wordpress
  • coaching to develop and improve management and leadership skills
  • and develops educational projects with the focus on non-formal and informal learning.

Christine Graf

Christine Graf is the owner of cocoate.com. She has a Master in Business and Administration and is a certified coach (CTA) using transactional analysis methods. She started her professional experiences as a marketing and sales assistant. For many years, she was a finance manager for foreign trade. Christine Graf worked as an office and sales manager in different German affiliated groups.
Since 1998, she has been self-employed as a management consultant with emphasis on knowledge and strategic management, community development and communication strategies. She has many years of experience in international project management for profit and non-profit organisations.

For the realization of projects she works with a team of designers and programmers and with:

Hagen Graf

Hagen Graf is an author at the publishing houses Markt und Technik, Addison-Wesley and Packts Publishing. Apache Webserver, Datenspione stoppen, Mambo, Joomla! and Drupal have already been published in several languages. DVD video trainings about Joomla!, Drupal and Second Life have also been part of his work.

Isabell Schulz

Isabell Schulz has a Bachelor in International Business and Marketing and has been mainly working as a project manager and marketer. Isabell entered the Drupal world by recording a French Drupal 6 training DVD and by co-organising DrupalCon Paris. She continued as a project manager for DrupalCon Copenhagen and moved to Sweden to work for NodeOne. Isabell currently works as event coordinator for the Drupal Association, and at cocoate she is responsible for marketing. Since 2008, she has also been involved in the development and implementation of European educational projects, thanks to which she has gained inter-cultural communication and managerial skills.