How does Fabienne make decisions?

Fabienne Wettstein decides sometimes with the head, sometimes by gut. In the Big Five profile, openness to new experiences is medium and conscientiousness is medium.

What does Fabienne react critically to?

Above all when something touches Fabienne’s core concerns: “That her professional work ends up producing more paper than actual emission reductions” and “That her own flying and consumption habits cost her credibility the moment someone asks more closely.” The bias that shapes Fabienne’s judgment most is “good-conscience offsetting (moral licensing).”

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For pretesting content from the perspective of “Project officer at a climate-protection foundation, carbon-offset and advisory projects”, Life-World “The Reflective · Openness & Intellect” — before real budget goes into marketing or research.

Fabienne Wettstein

Project officer at a climate-protection foundation, carbon-offset and advisory projects · Winterthur, Töss district, Canton of Zurich

◆ Synthetic persona — not a real human Buying Role: Sustainability / ESG Life-World: The Reflective · Openness & Intellect Decides: mixed 36 yrs · Switzerland

Fabienne Wettstein, 36, lives in a housing co-op in Winterthur's Töss district and works for a Zurich climate-protection foundation — raised on a Thurgau fruit farm, trained as an environmental engineer at ZHAW Wädenswil. Ultra-precise in project phases, sloppy in the weeks after — and wrestling with the contradiction between her job and the occasional flight to her best friend in Lisbon.

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Tech affinity

Professionally proficient: project databases, emissions calculators and collaboration tools she masters without training. Privately pragmatic rather than enthusiastic — a second-hand mid-range smartphone used until the battery gives up, no smart-home devices, no interest in new hardware for its own sake. New apps she only tries when a friend explicitly recommends them.

Defining bias

Because she works professionally on cutting emissions, she allows herself private exceptions — above all the yearly flight to her best friend in Lisbon — that she would judge critically in others. Her professional commitment acts like a credit balance she unconsciously draws down; the bad conscience gets neutralized with an extra voluntary offset payment, without ever quite disappearing.

How she decides

At work, clear criteria lists and a fixed procedure for every project decision. On uncomfortable private decisions — quitting, switching, committing — she leans toward avoidance: she keeps gathering information, postpones to “next week” and in the end often lets outside deadlines take the decision off her hands instead of making it herself.

Personality · Big Five (OCEAN)

What makes Fabienne tick

Openness

62 · medium

Conscientiousness

58 · medium

Extraversion

35 · medium

Agreeableness

60 · medium

Neuroticism

55 · medium

Cognitive Biases

The thinking patterns behind the judgments

good-conscience offsetting (moral licensing) high

bubble confirmation medium

the-sacrifice-has-to-pay-off thinking medium

Values

Sustainability
Impact orientation
Thrift
Community
Honesty

Fears

That her professional work ends up producing more paper than actual emission reductions.
That her own flying and consumption habits cost her credibility the moment someone asks more closely.
That the foundation has to cut jobs once the funding period runs out and she would have to start over.
A quieter, private worry: that in her mid-thirties she still doesn't know whether she wants to stay in Winterthur or start again from scratch.

Motivations

Delivering projects with an impact that can be proven, not just claimed.
Securing her co-op flat and her modest budget for the long run without leaving the job she likes.
Staying true to her Thurgau roots without moving back there.
Not hiding the contradictions in her own behavior, but learning to live with them.

Common questions

Fabienne at a glance

How does Fabienne make decisions?: Fabienne Wettstein decides sometimes with the head, sometimes by gut. In the Big Five profile, openness to new experiences is medium and conscientiousness is medium.
What does Fabienne react critically to?: Above all when something touches Fabienne’s core concerns: “That her professional work ends up producing more paper than actual emission reductions” and “That her own flying and consumption habits cost her credibility the moment someone asks more closely.” The bias that shapes Fabienne’s judgment most is “good-conscience offsetting (moral licensing).”
What is Fabienne suited for as a test persona?: For pretesting content from the perspective of “Project officer at a climate-protection foundation, carbon-offset and advisory projects”, Life-World “The Reflective · Openness & Intellect” — before real budget goes into marketing or research.

What Fabienne pays attention to

What convinces Fabienne — and what puts Fabienne off

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Convincing

Sustainability · Impact orientation · Thrift

Off-putting

That her professional work ends up producing more paper than actual emission reductions. · That her own flying and consumption habits cost her credibility the moment someone asks more closely.

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Buying behavior & triggers

Buys sparingly and deliberately: clothing and household goods tend to be second-hand or from co-op stores; bigger purchases she researches for days, comparing repairability before price. Brand loyalty is thin — durability beats trend, and she has worn the same raincoat for eight years. On the weekly shop, a plastic-tub ready-made salad lands in the basket next to the organic vegetables when the evening is short; a compromise she doesn't make a fuss about.

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Typical objections

“Is the impact proven or just claimed?” — she draws a sharp line between a working project and a good campaign. “Can it be repaired?” comes before the price, and anyone who talks around an answer or replaces debate with outrage has lost her. In the background the budget keeps score: the health-insurance premium, the ZVV annual pass and her pension ETF leave little room — bigger wishes she postpones indefinitely without feeling deprived.

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Media use & channels

Reads the Winterthur local paper's app and the Tagesanzeiger online, plus specialist newsletters on climate policy and offset standards. TV rarely runs; if anything, Swiss television's Tagesschau. On Instagram she follows environmental organizations and her own floorball league, hardly posts herself and at most comments matter-of-factly under other people's posts. The fastest way to reach her is a short, concrete email — she does not appreciate unannounced calls.

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Language & tone

Plain-spoken but not loud: clear and tenacious on substance at work, reserved in private until trust has grown. Winterthur dialect in everyday life, clean standard German in reports and with outside partners; climate-scene anglicisms like offsetting or co-benefits come naturally, but she deliberately translates them for lay audiences. She'd rather arrive on time with one crisp question than a long preamble — small talk is duty rather than pleasure.

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Scoring points takes documented numbers instead of pretty words. Show me what your product verifiably achieves — sources, criteria, ideally its limits too — and I'll check it calmly myself. I buy rarely and prefer things that can be repaired, so don't push for a quick close. One short, concrete email does more with me than three unannounced calls. If something only sells a good feeling, I'll notice — telling impact from symbolism is what I do for a living.

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