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BIOS ARE IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER, BASED ON LAST NAME. TO FIND A BIO: • Use the FIND feature: go to Edit / Find or press CTRL+F (if your toolbar is in English) • Or view them in Slide Sorter format to browse through all (View / Slide Sorter) © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 1
Timothy Altaffer ASSOCIATE PARTNER BRAZIL Timothy (Tim) has developed his professional career through more than 25 years in senior leadership positions in the fields of consumer packaged goods, life sciences and management consulting. His most recent position was as a Senior Partner at the management consulting firm KC&D, where he provided solutions and coaching to top level executives in industry leading companies. In this role, he mainly worked with clients on strategy, strategy execution and management processes. Prior to that, he was a Senior Partner at the executive solutions firm Nosal Partners. LANGUAGES • English • Portuguese EXPERTISE • Strategy and • • • planning Corporate governance Managing turnarounds Leadership development Coaching and mentoring Organizational effectiveness and culture © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. In his roles as President at Ducoco Alimentos S. A. and Business Unit Head for Medical Nutrition Brazil at Novartis, Tim led organizational and divisional restructuring and change management. His management experience also includes serving as President of Bacardi Martini do Brazil Ltda. and as General Manager for Budweiser Brazil Ltda. /. Anheuser Busch International, for four years each. In addition, Tim held a number of positions in business development, marketing, product management and sales early in his career. Tim is a professor of marketing and planning at the São Paulo business graduate schools Insper and ESPM. He serves on the Board of Directors for Hospital Samaritano, as well as for the Special Olympics of Brazil. With a B. S. in economics from Lehigh University, Tim also holds an M. B. A. in Finance from New York University. A United States citizen, he has lived in Brazil since 1988 and has a deep understanding of Brazilian and Latin American business culture. Tim is married and has two lovely daughters. He is fully dedicated to and extremely proud of this loving and caring family. In his free time, Tim enjoys running, reading, traveling and rooting for his favorite soccer and American football teams. | 2
Alejandro Altieri LANGUAGES • Italian • Spanish • English • German • French • Portuguese EXPERTISE • Executive coaching • • (teams and individuals) Leadership Development Experiential training Diversity management Negotiation/Conflict Management © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Based in Switzerland, Alejandro works internationally as an Executive Coach, Teacher and Trainer. He supports diverse global companies in the design and delivery of customer specific programs. His main areas of expertise are Leadership and Team Development. Having travelled and worked in more than 35 countries, he has remarkable experience in the management of international projects with both cross cultural and cross functional teams. His business background involves one of the leading packaging companies in Switzerland, working closely with International Luxury Brands and Pharmaceutical companies. Today he works as a consultant for industries in the field of banking, finance, media & entertainment, pharmaceuticals, insurance, state defense, automotive, food & beverages, chemicals, education, communications, transport and construction, as well as with NGO’s and international institutions. Most of Alejandro’s interventions are at the core of Leadership Development being it through training, individual or team coaching. He addresses the skills and mindsets that enhance competitiveness and peace of mind. He works regularly with cross cultural teams in Europe and Asia, bridging and leveraging on diversity for superior results. Alejandro is a Licensed Psychologist from the University of Buenos Aires with a Postgraduate in Training and Development of Human Resources. Training regularly on different coaching approaches, he works closely with different international faculty representatives specialized in Culture Change, Leadership Development, Team Development, Hostage Negotiation and Conflict Management, among others. He also works with a variety of profiling tools and had intensive training in experiential learning techniques and diverse business simulations. Alejandro lives in Switzerland, at the shore of a lake that invites him to kayak and enjoy bicycle rides when he is not travelling.
Jerónimo Amuchástegui Herrera 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border LANGUAGES • Spanish EXPERTISE • Organizational development • Leadership and coaching • Negotiation strategies • Organizational diagnostics • Change processes Jerónimo has 22 years experience as an organizational development consultant focused on Integral Organizational Transformation Process as well as training instructor, facilitating groups and processes. In the last 9 years he has intensified his coaching practice with various organizations. He worked for over 15 years in private companies as Training Manager at Gillette and Moctezuma Brewery and Director of Organizational Development at Grupo Mexicano de Desarrollo. In the past 18 years, he participated in different areas of a major financial company both consulting, providing group training interventions and coaching as well as throughout acquisitions, mergers and cultural change. He was also involved these last 10 years in the development of Banco Compartamos, a microfinance institution for women micro entrepreneurs, dealing with the design and delivery of the leadership program and developing the annual climate diagnostics. Jerónimo holds a degree in Business Administration from the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) in Mexico. He conducted postgraduate studies in Mexico and he graduated in Organizational Development from the University of the Americas (UDLA) in Learning Organizations by UIA. In 2003 he received the International Coaching Certification by The International Society of Neurosemantics and in 2004 he was certified in Ontological Coaching by Newfield Consulting. He is constantly seeking personal and interpersonal development and has been interested in different currents such as Gestalt, Person Centered Approach (Carl Rogers), NLP, etc. . This has enabled him to expand his conceptual framework as well as experience first hand development processes that allowed him to develop other complementary tools to apply with his clients. He is happily married and a father of three children. In his spare time he enjoys music, reading, traveling and meeting new cultures. He is also an enthusiast runner who enjoys sports and races. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 4
JULIE ARSENAULT Julie’s deepest aspiration is to support leaders in creating extraordinary corporate cultures and genuinely fulfilling lives. She is highly effective at energizing individual leaders and team to catalyze genuine transformation and create pivotal environments for sustainable growth. LANGUAGES • English • French EXPERTISE • Facilitating transformational workshops & top team alignment sessions • Executive coaching • Individual & organizational culture diagnostics © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Julie’s diverse experience across law, business and coaching uniquely positions her you to help organization orchestrate fundamental change. She started over twenty years ago as a corporate lawyer specializing in securities law and merger and acquisitions with an international law firm based in Montreal. In 2000, she decided to reorient her career after completing an MBA in international business development and strategic management working with international retail chains. After working alongside executives for over fifteen years, she has, for the past decade, been actively focused on leadership development, executive coaching, cultural transformation, culture assessments and team dynamics. And has been part of conceiving and facilitating transformation projects in several multi national organizations. She has a Degree in both Civil and Common Law from the University of Ottawa, Canada, and graduated with an MBA from the University of British Columbia and London Business School (International Exchange Program). She is fluent in both English and French. She lives in Montreal, Canada. Julie is the founder and volunteer of a women's mentoring program. She is also actively involved in the arts and sit on the board of directors of several cultural institutions. Julie is an outdoor adventurer and yoga teacher (500+ teacher training program). | 5
Lúcia Antunes Baracat LANGUAGES • English • Portuguese EXPERTISE • Team development • People management and coaching • Recruitment and selection • Negotiation © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. With over 12 years experience in multinational companies, she had the opportunity to manage large teams. During this period, she also actively participated in the process of changing values and culture. She was a member of the management team responsible for recognizing and developing talents who later assumed leadership positions in the company. Lúcia learned that the job of a leader is to enable the development of team members and assure they are working in a conscious manner. She believes that this is only possible with transparency, clear communication and trust. Lúcia is a creative problem solver, very determined, likes challenges, changes and teamwork. She holds a BA in International Relations from the UNESA. She is also a Predicitve Index® certified analyst and did several courses in the area of human resource management, with emphasis on: Analytical and Creative Thinking in Business Problem Solving, Leading Leadership Transition Program and Professional Selling Skills. She is married and has an 11 year old son. In her spare time, Lúcia enjoys doing activities with her family, reading, drawing and painting. She has also a great interest in theology. | 6
Pablo Aversa Pablo is a member of Axialent’s Faculty Network since 2010. With a broad range of industry and retail experience, he has special expertise in communications and media, consumer goods and services, mergers and acquisitions, sales and marketing, culture change and general management. LANGUAGES • English • Portuguese • Spanish EXPERTISE • Executive coaching • Culture and Prior to entering the Executive Coach profession, Pablo developed his career in Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. With more than 20 years of professional experience, among other positions, he was the marketing vice president for Walmart in Brazil and Customer Development Manager for Pepsi. Co. Both a Spanish and Italian citizen, he graduated in business administration from de University of Rio de Janeiro Estate (UERJ) and received an M. B. A. from BSP / University of Toronto. He is fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish. Pablo and his wife, Milena, just celebrated Ágata’s first year, their first daughter. organizational change • Mergers and acquisitions © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 7
Eser Aydoslu Eser joined Ekser Consulting in 2010 as an executive coach and trainer. In that year, she also participated in a coaching seminar by Fred Kofman and she became a qualified Axialent Executive Coach. She currently works as a freelance management consultant, trainer and executive coach. Her field of expertise is leadership projects and has worked with many major local and international companies. LANGUAGES • Turkish • English EXPERTISE • Leadership Development • Executive Coaching She began her career as management trainee in the Purchasing Department of Merck Sharp & Dohme, UK and Turkey. In 1999 she moved to Sales & Marketing as product manager, where she was responsible for promoting the products, preparing marketing plans, managing the opinion leader relationships, training the District Managers and field force. She held several professional development trainings for around 70 members of her team. From 2003 2009, she worked in the family business of Ayhavuz Ltd. Şti as Business Development Manager. In 2008, she joined Navitas, a training and consultancy firm, as management consultant and trainer. Since then, she has given numerous trainings on leadership skills and executive coaching in various multinational companies. After graduating from Industrial Engineering Department of Technical University of Istanbul, Eser carried her studies in the University of Nottingham, UK where she completed an MBA in Finance. She also received training on “Effective Negotiation Skills”, “Effective Presentation Skills”, “Coaching Employees” internally, and on managerial skills at Management Center Europe in Brussels. In 2010, she graduated from Adler International Learning Center. She lives in Istanbul with her husband, and two sons. She enjoys all kinds of sports, but she is a keen tournament tennis player. She has numerous medals and trophies in tennis. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Kathy ball-toncic 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border LANGUAGES • English • French • Italian • Spanish • Croatian EXPERTISE • Executive Coaching • Leadership Development • Organizational progress • Workshop design and facilitation © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Kathy developed her professional career through more than 10 years in senior leadership positions in the corporate world and over 25 years of successful sales, marketing and business development experience. She is a corporate and leadership coach, with a passion for women’s leadership development. She is the founder of the consulting firm The 262 Group, and the founder of Omgeo’s Women’s Network (OWN). She is a former director and faculty member of the Graduate Program in Executive Coaching at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology in Boston. Prior to founding The 262 Group in 2006, Kathy worked in sales and marketing positions where she collaborated with CEO’s, managers, directors and teams to achieve their goals. Her experience includes start up companies, non profit organizations and major corporations, including Omgeo (a Thompson Financial/DTTC company), NYFIX and Babson University. As a Managing Director for Invest. Tech, she built the marketing department, drove new business growth, and created fresh markets and opportunities. As an Executive Director for Omgeo, she designed, launched and grew a successful global partner organization servicing over 60 partners worldwide, managing all facets of program (sales, marketing, and technology) to significantly grow revenue via partnerships. She has managed large global teams in many of her roles and has built world class service organizations. Kathy holds a B. A. in Psychology from the University of Colorado where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and an M. A. in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from Boston University. She developed her studies in Leadership and Coaching at Harvard University Extension, Kellogg Executive Education, Babson Executive Education, INSEAD, and completed her coaching training and intensive leadership program at The Coaches Training Institute in California. In addition, Kathy has a keen interest in volunteerism and works for several non profit organizations. She is an executive coach volunteer for the Social Innovation Forum, The Impact Center in Washington DC and for Habitat for Humanity. She was a “Woman of the Year Nominee” in 2004 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and has raised over $100, 000 for charity while training for and running marathons. An avid marathon runner, Kathy has a unique philosophy around the disciplines of marathons as they relate to leadership. | 9
Alejandra Barbarelli Color photo LANGUAGES • Spanish • English • French • Italian EXPERTISE • Leadership and Team Development • Coaching • Training with theater techniques • Processes effectiveness • Cultural Change • Strategic Alignment © 2014 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Alejandra has more than 15 years of experience in Leadership Development, Team Management, Facilitation of Process Effectiveness, Strategic Alignment and Human Resources Systems (including ERPs implementation) in international and multicultural environments. Prior to becoming a consultant, she worked as Director of Human Resources Services and Manager of Compensation and Benefits at Electronic Data Systems (currently Hewlett Packard) and as leader in various areas of Human Resources in multinational companies in the banking and electricity industries. She has also been professor at various universities, both undergraduate and graduate levels. During four years was Head of the Thesis Department in the Master in Organizational Coaching at the University of Salvador in Buenos Aires. Nowadays, Alejandra is an academic collaborator at the Coaching Superior College in Madrid. Alejandra holds a degree in Business Administration (UBA), an MBA in Human Resources (Universidad del Salvador –State University of New York) and postgraduate studies in Coaching, Psychodrama and Playback Theatre. Alejandra enjoys integrating her passion for theater in workshops and programs aimed to develop leadership skills as well as raising awareness about environmental care, violence prevention and social inclusion. She has also developed a methodology for training which integrates coaching with playback theater, through a company of actors, actresses and musicians. In her continuous quest to integrate individual and team skills development with gaming and entertainment experiences, she is currently writing a novel about this issue and she is involved in "edutainment" projects development (education plus entertainment online) Born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) currently lives in Madrid (Spain) with her husband. | 10
Cathy Bernatt Cathy has a 30 year background as experiential educator and facilitator working in both the public and private sector. Living in Japan for the last 20 years, Cathy spent 7 years as a Senior Corporate Trainer inside a major Japanese corporation. Her career evolved by following an insatiable desire to develop deep awareness from the inside out as both an individual and a leader and to help others in the world to do the same. In 1999 she decided to fulfill a dream and vision of helping “Realize Unlimited Potential in People & Organizations” when she started Creating…®, which specializes in conflict facilitation, leadership training, organizational development, and Executive & Team Coaching. LANGUAGES • English • Basic Japanese EXPERTISE • Conflict facilitation • Custom offsite facilitation (experiential & process work) • Organizational change • Leadership development With 30 years of diverse experience with Outward Bound, Cathy has designed and directed programs that focus on teambuilding, communication, leadership and self discovery. One such program, the Outward Bound Japan Corporate English Camp for Japanese corporate leaders had the core goals of overcoming internal barriers to communicating in English. She is currently International Program Coordinator of Outward Bound Japan and Leader of Outward Bound International Global Facilitation Network. Throughout her career, Cathy has observed the impact that experiential and action learning methods have on helping clients achieve extraordinary results. She has worked with a wide range of clients from all over the world in settings that range from a 47 meter tall ship to the corporate boardroom. Her clients include multi national corporations, NGO’s and educational institutions in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada, and Central, Eastern & Western Europe. Cathy is a Certified Professional Facilitator, with two Master's Degrees, one in Leadership Studies and a second in Conflict Facilitation and Organizational Change. She is working on a third graduate degree in Process Work. Her current work is focused on helping impact deep social and world change in Asia, South Africa and The Middle East. She holds a B. A. with a double major in Philosophy & Neuropsychology and a B. Ed with teaching qualifications in Junior Intermediate (specialist in English). Cathy is also certified in MBTI, Team Management Profile, PDI 360 Assessment and several others. In her spare time Cathy plays Japanese drums (taiko) semiprofessionally and manages the Badjie Education Fund she began in 1999 that puts 23 West African Gambian children through school each year. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 11
Jorge A. Bianchi CHILE COUNTRY MANAGER Jorge leads Axialent 's practice in Chile. His career as an advisor and consultant spans over more than 17 years, servicing large multinational organizations in many different countries in North America, South America and Europe, from economic sectors such as Telecommunications, Airline & Transportation, Consumer Products, Retail, Manufacturing, Mining, Oil & Energy, Media Broadcasting, as well as public and non profit organizations. LANGUAGES • English • Spanish • Portuguese EXPERTISE • Strategy & Management • Conscious Capitalism, • • Business and Leadership Organizational Development & Cultural Transformation High-performance Leadership and Teams Inner Management Techniques Entrepreneurship & Emerging Social Business Models © 2013 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. In the early 2000’s, Jorge’s fast paced career as a Strategy and Performance Management consultant eventually led him to realize that better strategies and business models, coupled with solid implementation execution and measurement, were not enough to allow clients to go beyond a certain threshold in business performance. A piece was missing: how to help leaders develop more encompassing visions, be more inspired and nurture more effective cultures, as well as how to facilitate teams in their developing of practices that lead to high motivation, involvement and capability, and thus high performance. Jorge dove deeply into identifying key drivers that make people develop and accomplish great visions, a journey that led him to a wide variety of techniques and understandings, which he now successfully integrates into servicing clients. As an international speaker, Jorge delivers dynamic, paradigm shifting lectures in unique fusions of state of the art science, day to day pragmatism and mega trends in Organizational and Human Development as well as emerging business and social dynamics. Jorge has performed as a director for several organizations and was a Co founder and Partner of Vantaz Consulting, as well as a senior consultant for Ernst & Young Consulting LLP in his early career. He graduated with honors with a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and a Master’s degree in Business from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Jorge enjoys nature and the ocean greatly. He currently lives in Chile with his wife, their two daughters and four dogs. | 12
Mark Blanchard Mark is a Consultant at Axialent, global leaders in culture transformation. He helps multinational organisations to drive sustainable behavioural change across languages and cultures. He is a chemist with a 20+ year career spanning the chemicals and pharmaceuticals industry, latterly at Astra. Zeneca, holding increasingly senior positions across operations, procurement and R&D business areas. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Business collaboration • Culture change • Entrepreneurship skills development • Team and individual coaching • Facilitation © 2013 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. As a leader of culture change within Astra. Zeneca, he first worked with Axialent in 2011 and trained to become a Conscious Business champion, working with senior leaders and teams across R&D to design and deliver programmes to help create a culture that nurtured creativity, innovation and collaboration and support the discovery and development of new medicines for patients. In 2014, he left Astra. Zeneca to set up Orca Partnership Ltd and has worked with clients across the pharmaceutical industry, focusing on collaboration capability and entrepreneurship skills development. In 2014 he joined the Axialent Faculty Network. Mark is a lucky husband a very proud dad and happy hudad. | 13
Jazmin Bibian Rodríguez Díaz Color photo LANGUAGES • Spanish EXPERTISE • Social Management • Project Development • Differential Approach • Comprehensive assistance for victims of conflicts She has a professional degree in Business Administration and International Business, and is expert in Public Management at University of Santander UDES; she has based her work experience on the field of administrative and social management; she has contributed to the assembly and implementation of alternative development projects for the eradication of illicit crops in conjunction with the US Government through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), creating undertakings in the agricultural sector as a basis for the establishment of socio economic development projects in critical sectors of the country. At the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), she has supported the comprehensive implementation of humanitarian actions for victims of armed conflicts, as well as victims at risk due to natural or man made disasters. She has 16 years of work experience what gives her knowledge on State organization, institutionalization, social inclusion, social network building, and design and implementation of intervention models in vulnerable communities through cross cutting equity and gender perspective management in programs and projects developed. She is currently an advisor to the Unit for Assistance and Comprehensive Reparation for Victims of the Colombian Government (UARIV), in the area of integral support, and is also an active member of the technical leadership committee in the pilot project developed by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for people with disabilities. She is married with one kid; she likes reading and having a healthy life. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 14
Laura Boscolo Laura has a broad international experience in human resources management, development, training, recruiting, leadership, tutoring and mentoring as well as organizational development and consulting. Color photo She brings more than 30 years experience as Entrepreneur and Executive to major Global Corporations. She is an effective team player and leader, recognized as a dynamic facilitator with engaging personality. Acute strategic thinking about people and business development, she has a very supportive yet direct style that creates strong empathic rapport. LANGUAGES • Italian • English EXPERTISE • Executive Coaching • Team Coaching • Leadership and Team Development • Organizational Culture Change • Change Management • Cross-Cultural Awareness • Start-ups As an Executive Coach and Counselor her focus is on providing effective development coaching and training, strategic innovative thinking, successful strategic change and leadership programs linked with business and personal benefits. She bases her expertise on career guidance and potential development, on the strong Corporate experience understanding customer needs and intercultural relationship. Laura provides also a strong experience in team coaching and leadership team facilitation. Laura has served different industries, enhancing a wide experience mostly on Banking, Insurances, Telecommunications and Media, Pharmaceutical, Luxury, Automotive, Shipping, Engineering and Technology. She has also successfully designed and facilitate projects with start up Companies. Laura holds an Economics Degree from Universitá degli Studi “La Sapienza” in Rome, Italy. She also has an Advanced Diploma of Executive Coaching, Ao. EC ICF and a Counseling Diploma from Scuola di Psicologia Si. Co, as well as an Education to Development Diploma from UNICEF. Laura is an MBA Affiliate Professor at ESCP School of Management teaching Organizational Behavior and Leadership Skills. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 15
Karen Boskemper Karen is an Executive Coach and Learning Consultant with a passion for coaching, training, and fostering personal effectiveness in practical ways. LANGUAGES • English • German EXPERTISE • Leadership • • • development Executive coaching Performance management Program design and facilitation Cross-cultural collaboration Personal effectiveness © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. She currently works with national and international consulting companies, lending her expertise on large client projects in individualized leadership development programs, executive coaching, custom training design, and performance management. She also has extensive international and cross cultural experience having delivered development and coaching services in North America, Europe, Asia, and South America. Over the years she has worked on client projects with Yahoo!, Dell Computers, Microsoft, Axa Insurance, Pentax Medical and several government agencies. Prior to being an independent consultant, Karen was the Manager of Leadership Development and Enterprise Learning responsible for leadership development and enterprise learning in large financial institutions. In that role, she collaborated with leaders to develop learning strategies that addressed specific business unit needs, and designed, developed, and delivered training via classroom, virtual learning, and one on one coaching. During that time, Karen played an integral part in the enterprise wide leadership development and change management initiatives for senior leaders, corporate managers, and sales and servicing associates. Karen studied Language and Business Commerce in Germany and France, and is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coach Federation. She is certified in a number of 360° assessment tools and holds a training certification from the American Society of Training and Development. She currently lives in Washington D. C with her husband of 21 years and their three “furry” children. | 16
Philip Botha has held various management positions during his career to date, including that of co founder, partner and Managing Director of Headspace PR; Marketing Director of Yahoo! Germany; and Vice President: Consumer and Commercial Marketing International of Universal Music International. He has also been facilitating and designing Leadership Trainings on behalf of Axialent since 2009. With his background in international business management, Philip started coaching executives in 2005, certified as a professional coach and now specialises in individual and group executive coaching, leadership training and personal development. LANGUAGES • English • German • Afrikaans EXPERTISE • Leadership Development • Leadership and Emotional Intelligence skills & competencies • Change Leadership • Cross Cultural Development • Personal Development • 360 Tools He draws on his extensive experience when working with his clients, who range from international captains of industry to CEOs and senior executives; from small companies to multi billion dollar corporations. Based in Düsseldorf, Philip coaches in English and German from New York to London, Frankfurt to Moscow. Philip integrates his senior corporate background, expertise in individual and group coaching, as well as his experience as a yoga instructor, to help his clients develop individually or as a group, and to meet their own objectives, as well as their organization’s business goals. Having coached and trained groups totaling more than 850 executives from all levels, one of his recent projects entailed group coaching and training the entire management of Bosch Siemens Northern Europe, including the senior leadership team as an intact team. Philip holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Hon) degree in Business Administration from the University of Pretoria. He is a professional certified coach (PCC) through the International Coach Federation and was trained and certified as a professional co active coach (CPCC) through the Coaches Training Institute in London and San Francisco. He certified in group coaching with Potentials Realised, and is certified in various 360 tools from Human Synergistics and The Leadership Circle. He is also a certified Leadership Trainer with The Leadership Circle Born in South Africa, Philip emigrated to Germany in 1992 and has subsequently been based in Frankfurt, London and Munich. He currently calls Düsseldorf his home. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 17
Patricia Bouvard Patricia is an experienced trainer, coach and facilitator who, for 15 years was an export manager, in charge of the development of the South American and Asia Pacific markets for international perfume, cosmetics, fashion and decoration companies, such as LVMH, Givenchy, Paco Rabanne, Pierre Balmain, Caron and Revillon. She was also the Vice President in the US for a french decoration company and was given the mission to set up and develop their subsidiary. LANGUAGES • English • French EXPERTISE • Executive coaching • Team building • Leadership development • Change management She has now 13 years’ experience, facilitating multinational groups in Europe. She specialized in behavioural change in leadership, management, customer and change issues. One of her most recent engagements included guiding a global insurance company through a cultural change; the main challenge was to change from a financially focused company to a more customer and people focused one. She is also a top executive and senior managers’ coach for global organizations. Patricia is an entrepreneur and is the co founder and managing director of Horizon Performance Conseil. For over 6 years she was the co founder and co director of forest Consulting in France. Her company’s challenge is, on the one hand, to help organizations to consider the human being as the focus of their attention and, on the other hand, to be aware that collective intelligence will often be the key for innovation and sustainable success. She delivers key note speeches at International Business Schools on these themes and will soon be adding the “Y Generation” on her list! She is an NLP Master Practitioner, a certified coach in systemic analysis and modelling technics and was trained by Robert Dilts in France, Belgium and at the University in California. Her creativity led her to co create the Persona Method (psychological profiles and personal resources). This method is at the crossroads of the Commedia dell’arte, NLP, Transactional Analysis and the systemic approach. She trains trainers on this method and delivers workshops on the issues of management, customer knowledge and personal growth. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Some of her recent customers include: Altana Pharma, Amazon, Axa, Cephalon, EADS, Eli Lilly, HP Compaq, Novo Nordisk, Suez, UBS, Transocean and LVMH. Patricia is known for her energy and dynamism in supporting individuals and teams and for her sense of commitment. She strongly believes that the learning process can be fun and light in the approach with a sustainable impact for people and organizations. | 18
Francis Briers LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Leadership and • • Management Experiential training and facilitation Coaching and Mentoring Emotional Intelligence Stress Management Francis has worked as a trainer and facilitator with individuals and groups for the last 15 years helping people become more aware, empowered, and effective. In the corporate world he held positions in Learning and Development and front line management working primarily in Financial Services and Retail. He began working as a freelance Training Consultant in 2008 and in this capacity has worked across a range of sectors, with everything from small businesses and charities to global corporations. Francis has worked with participants from all over the world ranging from students to CEO’s. He has designed programs from short half days to year long senior leaders development for businesses in Europe, the USA, Asia and the Middle East. He has experience working with leadership and management, culture change, employee engagement, communication and influence, stress management and resilience, coaching and mentoring, and team building. Francis has a particular strength in embodied training methods. This is supported by over 20 years of study and specific research in how to apply this expertise to the field of leadership and professional excellence. He is a lead tutor on a year long professional training in how to work with the body for trainers and coaches. Francis’ other study includes: a BA from a top UK drama school, Appreciative Inquiry, Pearson Marr Type Indicator, Uzazu Embodied Change Facilitation, black belt in Karate, being a qualified Interfaith Minister and Spiritual Counsellor, and ‘The Samurai Game’, a unique leadership simulation originally created by George Leonard. Francis is the author of 3 books on personal and professional development, the latest ‘The Little Book of Appreciation’ designed to support the culture and behaviour change work Francis has most recently been involved in. In his spare time Francis trains in Karate, dances, indulges his love of books, and lives very happily with his wife and young son in East Grinstead, UK. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 19
Céline Brillet Céline is a Leadership Coach and Facilitator. She accompanies leaders who wish to take their teams and themselves to a higher level of accomplishment, success, and fulfillment. As a Coach and Facilitator, she is able to navigate her clients through politically sensitive environments and use her creativity to encourage them in trying new approaches and points of view. She considers herself a “catalyst of change”. She has gained vast cultural awareness and understanding by living in eleven cities across four continents. Approach and sensitivity is everything in international business and Céline supports her clients in managing all the nuances of thinking globally, acting locally and influencing across geographies. LANGUAGES • English • French • Spanish EXPERTISE • Change Management • Executive Coaching • Leader-Coach • Leadership Development • Teambuilding • Women Leadership She started her career as an auditor and consultant at Arthur Andersen, focusing on financial institutions. Capitalizing on this experience, she worked in Investment Banking at JP Morgan Chase, with clients in the Telecoms, Banking, Chemicals, Consumer Goods, and Pharmaceutical sectors. Following this experience, she moved to Deutsche Bank’s Private Wealth Management division where she developed her leadership skills working as a Sales Manager. While in her leadership role, Céline became intrigued by the potential of individuals and made a radical career change to pursue this journey by becoming a Coach and Facilitator. Today she works with clients in the Aerospace, Automotive, Computer, Consumer Products, Education, Financial Services, Food and Beverage, Pharmaceuticals, and Technology sectors. Céline has received a Bachelor of Science dual degree in International Business and Finance from Georgetown University and a Master's of Business Administration from INSEAD. She has obtained a PCC level certification from the International Coach Federation. She is a graduate of the Coach University Core Essentials Fast Track Program and Advanced Corporate Coaching Program. She is licensed to facilitate The Coaching Clinic® and Navigational Conversations™ Programs, and is certified to administer the Thomas International DISC and Insights Discovery® assessments. Céline is passionate about travelling to new destinations. She also enjoys taking black and white portraits, engaging in exploratory cooking, and participating in half marathons around Europe. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 20
Andrew Brown Andrew partners with clients in building effective leadership cultures, through developing leadership capacity at the individual, team and organisational level. He supports clients to address their business strategies through developing effective leadership mindsets and practices. He has held executive positions across the Asia Pacific region, including Chief Financial Officer for Philippine AXA Life, Chief Actuary for AXA Life Singapore and head of Learning and leadership Development for AXA Australia. Andrew has also led and managed significant cultural change initiatives, focused on embedding distributed leadership across organisations. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Leadership Effectiveness • Executive Coaching • Cultural Change He has been a council member for the Institute of Actuaries of Australia (IAAust), and a member of the global AXA Learning and Development Board. Andrew participated as a panellist in the keynote address for the 2011 Melbourne Business School Future of Learning Conference. Andrew writes a regular column on leadership in the Actuaries Magazine and has been a lecturer in Business Writing on The Commercial Actuarial Practice subject since its inception. He also lectures on the Actuarial Control Cycle at Melbourne University He is a certified coach, master practitioner and trainer in NLP and Neurosemantics. He is accredited in culture and individual assessment methods such as the Organisational Cultural Inventory (OCI), Baron Emotional Intelligence (EQ i), Herrmann Brain Thinking Preferences (HBDI), Myers Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI), Life styles Inventory (LSI) and The Leadership Circle (TLC). Since 2011, Andrew has run his own consulting business, lead. first. , specialising in leadership development. Andrew lives in Melbourne with his wife and three children. He has completed a Bachelor of Science, a Diploma in Education, is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia and a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 21
Loretta Brown A leadership expert and executive coach, Loretta specialises in the development of strategy and leadership capacity in public, private and non profit organisations. Throughout her career, she has been involved in leadership roles and has been a company director for 12 years. This provides her a sound understanding of the leadership landscape of a commercial environment. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Executive Coaching • Leadership Development • Team Coaching • Vision and purpose coaching The desire to “change the world” meant an early career in community development, social work and social change. She has a been strategic sounding board for senior managers for over 20 years. Her specialty is working with decision makers who tend to be too busy but are ready to take the next step up. She helps people have more fun, build successful results focused teams and to create profitable, ethical organisations. She is passionate about high quality professional development of leaders in service to organisations and communities. Loretta has been developing leaders in one to one coaching engagements, as well as within executive leadership programmes. As Corporate Programe Director at the New Zealand Leadership Institute, University of Auckland, Business School, she has led long‐term leadership development programmes with organisations from every sector. Loretta holds a MA of Social Work. She has been instrumental in developing the coaching and mentoring profession in New Zealand, advocating ethical and professional practice and is founder of the New Zealand Coaching and Mentoring Centre. Her considerable knowledge and experience has been recognized with the achievement of a Master Coach accreditation from EMCC (European Coaching Mentoring Council). She is also certified in Supervision, by the Centre for Supervision UK and a member of ICF (International Coaching Federation). She lives in New Zealand with her husband two children. She enjoys spending time with her family, swimming in the ocean and growing vegetables on Waiheke Island, NZ. Loretta is greatful to be living in a safe and abundant part of the world. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 22
Jenna Buffaloe In her consulting work, Jenna focuses on leadership development, executive coaching, cultural assessment, and team dynamics. She has worked with a variety of clients in the technology and professional services industry within the U. S. and internationally. Jenna began her career as a lawyer, first as a Public Defender, later as a Litigation Associate at one of the largest U. S. firms, and then as a spokesperson for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She left law to pursue a masters in psychology. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Executive coaching • Cultural assessment • Team dynamics • Conflict resolution • Personal Jenna received a B. A. magna cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University, a J. D. with honors from Harvard Law School, and a Master’s in counseling (Jungian) psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She trained to be a coach at Newfield Network and is a registered psychotherapist in Colorado. She is based in Boulder, Colorado, where she enjoys a rigorous yoga practice, life in a mountain town, and time with her two year old daughter. effectiveness • Meeting facilitation © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 23
Daniel Bulacio Color photo LANGUAGES • Spanish EXPERTISE • Executive and organizational coaching • Training highperformance teams • Managing cultural change in organizations • Ontological Coaches Trainer © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Daniel has extensive experience as business consultant on leadership training, with a systemic view of both people and organizations, developing effective communication skills as well as human growth. He is also an advisor on training high performance teams, executive coach and Life Coach. For over 16 years, Daniel was Ex Director of one of the top Japanese electronics company. He was responsible for negotiations between the different electronic boards and the national government in the project "Compre Nacional" , he carried out the start up of subsidiaries in Brazil and Spain, and also led work teams. From 1998 onwards, he has been dedicated to advising government agencies and SMEs in MERCOSUR. Daniel has an educational background in Foreign Trade, Marketing and Psychology. He started his professional coach training in Chile in 1998, certifying as Ontological Coach in the Latin American School of Coaching, supported by the Argentina Association of Professional Coaching and International Coach Federation, dedicating his life to studying human behavior in different areas. Daniel is also a workshop facilitator on topics such as market research, product development and leadership for the University of Belgrano, Government of the City of Buenos Aires and Sebrae in Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre. He intervenes in the exchange of businessmen from both countries as party negotiator. Daniel is a founding partner of the ICF (International Coach Federation) and partner of Business Management Consulting, an international consulting company specializing in management skills, strategic planning, negotiation and leadership. In addition, he is partner of Recrearte a School of Professional Coaching dedicated to training coaches and holding open workshops on effective communication and emotional mastery. As an active person, he balances his love of rugby, reading and cinema, with aerobic exercise. He is married, father of three children and enjoys spending his free time with his family. | 24
Janine Bushby Janine has 25 years of experience as a senior manager, consultant, and strategist in the public and private sectors. With a background in business, her current professional roles include facilitator, coach, and public speaker. When she ran her own corporate consulting company, Janine’s work centered on organizational and individual transformations and implemented change through leadership, team, and personal change initiatives. She also specialized in learning interventions and coaching for individuals and teams participating in negotiations. Her consulting clients have included BHP Billiton, the Department of Commerce, Westfield, Pronto Software, Amcor, and Asteron Financial Services. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Leadership skills • Organization development • Cultural change • Executive facilitation and coaching Over the last 10 years, Janine has consulted in the redesign of learning, organizational development, and human resource functions for a wide range of industries, as well as IT implementation projects. She has also worked extensively as a consultant in the financial services industry, mainly in the insurance and banking sectors. In her role as Executive Adviser for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Janine was accountable for designing programs for the leadership team, with the objective of reaching cultural change through enhanced leadership. She was also the head of HR services learning for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, where she established a Greenfield Learning site servicing 16, 000 employees. Janine has a keen interest in social policy and has worked as an adviser to the Tasmanian government. She also enjoys studying Asian languages and culture. She has been a participant in international delegations to Japan and received a scholarship for nine months of travel within the Asian region. Janine holds a B. A. , an M. B. A. , and diplomas in education, linguistics, and Gestalt Counseling. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 25
Isabel Cabanis Isabel is a communications expert with working experience in a broad range of communications related topics and projects, from corporate strategy rollouts and customer communication standards to optimizing internal communications and coaching of managers to develop their personal and operational communication skills. Isabel started her career 1991 as a Project Manager in advertising, where she gained sound knowledge about internal and external communication strategies, processes, and measures. LANGUAGES • English • German EXPERTISE • Culture audits and • • • change programs Development and piloting of communication processes Workshop design and facilitation Communication standards and internal communications Brand strategy and implementation Coaching for effectiveness © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. She has been working in consulting since 1999, increasingly focusing on the human dimension and behavioral aspects. Isabel first worked in corporate identity, and in 2001 she became engaged in culture change programs, developing skills in mission , vision , and value definition and strategy implementation plans. She worked for brands including Mercedes Benz, Deutsche Bank, ARAG Insurance, Pentax, and Burger King, among others. More recently in her career, Isabel was a self employed project manager and trainer, focused on communications, culture and leadership. Isabel studied marketing communications consulting at the Hanseatic Academy for Marketing and Communications Media and economics at Fernuniversität Hagen. Residing in Landsberg near Munich, Isabel enjoys ‘the best of both worlds’, including her consulting work and spending time with her husband their children Anton and Carla. Whenever she gets a chance, she enjoys hobbies like yoga, reading, walking and writing. | 26
Patrick Campiani Patrick has developed expertise in team performance and organizational culture serving clients across Asia, Europe and the U. S. An entrepreneur at heart, Patrick created new businesses in industries such as high technology, agro industry and foodservice. He has also worked as a consultant for entrepreneurs in a variety of industries, specializing in venture development in emerging markets. LANGUAGES • English • Spanish EXPERTISE • Team Performance • Leadership Development • Coaching and Mentoring • Organizational effectiveness and culture Earlier in his career, Patrick worked for Citigroup where he managed a regional business unit in Argentina. He later founded and acted as CEO of Advertium, an online media marketplace with operations in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. Prior to Advertium, he founded and led Brickell Key Foods, a U. S. based beef trading operation, and Argentine Natural Beef, the leading importer and distributor of premium Argentine beef cuts in the U. S. market. In 2001 and 2002, Patrick served as Managing Director for Endeavor, a non profit organization pioneering a new approach to international development based on supporting entrepreneurship in emerging markets. In this role, he did consulting work for more than 40 companies in a variety of industries across Latin America. Patrick received a B. S. in industrial engineering and management from the Catholic University of Argentina. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Patrick currently lives with his wife and three children in Key Biscayne, Florida in the U. S. He is a tennis aficionado who also enjoys outdoor activities such as marathons, triathlons, scuba diving, and skiing. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 27
Pablo Carter ASSOCIATE PARTNER Pablo is a consultant, facilitator, coach, and keynote speaker with more than 20 years of experience in leadership development and effectiveness and has worked with an important number of executives from organizations in Mexico, the United States, Spain, France, Canada, Belgium, the UK, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, the Caribbean, Central America, and the South Cone. LANGUAGES • English • Spanish • French EXPERTISE • High-performance leadership and teams • Effectiveness and personal and organizational development • Cultural diversity in the corporate world • Cultural transformation in organizations © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. In his work, Pablo incorporates principles stemming from conversational competences, brain preferences, discovery of talents, strengths and skills, NLP, Immunity to Change, empathic listening, conflict resolution, emotional intelligence, and personal leadership. He combines the personal, team and organizational dimension to the work with his clients, based on his extensive experience in the field of leadership and effectiveness. With certifications in Time Management, Principles Based Leadership, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Constructive Negotiation, Executive Coaching, and different diagnostic tools, Pablo also integrates these disciplines in his program designs to customize them to the needs of each organization, aiming to understand them systemically and propose solutions that effectively impact business results. As a mentor of other facilitators and coaches, in the last years he has led different TTT programs in organizational talent development. Pablo received an MSc and Ph. D in physiology in Paris and a Master’s in Latin American Literature in Venezuela. He has published numerous papers for national and international scientific magazines. In 1987, Pablo married his wife Cristina, with whom he has since lived in Venezuela, France, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. They have one son, Pablo Javier, who is 23 years old. | 28
Sudhir Chadalavada Sudhir partners with successful leaders, who are willing to push the envelope, to achieve breakthrough results in business execution, leadership effectiveness and pursuit of purposeful life. He is the Founder of Uni. Ti Group where he has served as a trusted advisor and executive coach for some of the top global organizations and CEOs of companies. Previously he worked as CEO, COO and VP of Marketing and Business Development in the technology industry. He was an Associate Partner at Pw. C (Pricewaterhouse. Coopers) and spent more than 10 years with Intel and Toshiba in marketing and management roles. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Leadership • • Development Business Performance Organizational Transformation Strategy Implementation Team Building A pioneer in the implementation of enlightened leadership principles in business organizations, Sudhir specializes in helping top leaders unleash their greatness and unlock the organizational value. He helps bring purpose to every aspect of their business and life. This has a dramatic impact on their ability to inspire the leadership team and the organization to outstanding performance. One of his recent clients, the President of Premier Commercial Bank, was nominated for the Ernst and Young entrepreneur of the year award in 2011. Sudhir speaks and writes passionately on the new rules of capitalism, the socio economic shift, and the changing role of business organizations and leadership. He teaches a course in Mastery and Leadership to corporate executives and MBA students. He engages his audience and clients with passion, candor and practical wisdom that naturally result from his vast professional experience and inspiring personal journey. Sudhir dug deep in search of a practical process to develop peak performing business leaders and organizations and foster an environment of inspired action. He practiced advanced human potential and self mastery techniques with eclectic global leaders and masters and integrated them with superior business practices and cutting edge work in neural science. He holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York and a BS in Electronics and Communication Engineering from India. An avid sports lover and a fitness fanatic, Sudhir enjoys Tennis, Yoga and nature walks. He lives in Orange County, California and is married with three children. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 29
Francisco Cherny CEO As a member of Axialent’s founding team, Francisco combines the experience of opening new markets, partnering with global clients in their transformation journeys, and creating business operating platforms from scratch. 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border LANGUAGES • English • Spanish EXPERTISE • Coaching and facilitation • Teamwork and organizational leadership • Human issues that hinder business success • Learning and personal effectiveness © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. In his prior position as General Manager for Axialent Europe, Francisco pioneered our presence in that market serving clients in over 20 cities in the region and creating a team of 80 consultants. Before that, he was Vice President of Business Development leading our global Marketing & Sales efforts and opening new markets in Latin America. Prior to Axialent, Francisco was a consultant for the Department of International Relations at Shell Capsa responsible for diagnostics and strategic planning of all community development programs, implementing a process to assess projects’ feasibility and decide on funding, and creating a guidebook on project assessment and execution that became a reference in the Corporate Social Responsibility community. Francisco studied business administration with an emphasis on non profit organizations. He was the Director of the non profit Fundación Iniciativa, which promotes leadership amongst Latin American youth, and has presented in many workshops on topics including “Youth Participation in Social Development” and “Leadership in Non Profit Organizations. ” In recognition of his involvement in the community and successful career at a young age, the Argentinean Magazine Twenty three named Francisco a “Model for Society” in October 2000. In his free time, Francisco enjoys trekking in the outdoors, practicing sports such as soccer and tennis, and reading history and fiction. He also likes to travel and experience new cultures. | 30
Bray Cohen 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Leadership • Team Functionality • Executive Coaching • Cultural Transformation • Systems Thinking Bray has worked for 20 years as a consultant, coach and facilitator. He draws upon a broad and deep base of training, knowledge and experience. His key quality is that he is able to integrate and balance the people issues with the hard core business objectives. The result is that he is able to implement change, maximise effectiveness and build productivity. Bray has partnered a diverse range of major organisations with the financial sector being a particular focus since he was part of the cultural transformation team building constructive culture at ANZ. The process being heralded as innovative and formed the basis of a Harvard University case study. He has continued that focus in working with NAB, Esanda Finance, Mercer Superannuation, Wesfarmers Insurance and Coles in significant cultural processes and leadership development, working with the senior executive teams in Australia, India, New Zealand in Asia. Bray fine tuned his strategic and business acumen in his early career working as a retail pharmacist, owning and running a number of pharmacies in and around Melbourne. He has also been Director of a successful consulting company. Bray partners with Axialent and continues to demonstrate his passion and expertise in working with leadership, team functionality, values alignment and delivery on client organizations' key objectives ; recent projects being with St. Vincent’s Health Australia, Mission Australia and Insurance Group Australia and Toll Transport. With a desire to keep at the edge of learning and growth, Bray continues to add to his post graduate qualifications in adult learning and training, organisational change, behavior and team dynamics, systems thinking and others. He is a recent graduate from John F. Kennedy School at Harvard where he focussed on the leadership that is required to mobilise successful large scale complex change and individual immunity to change. Bray lives in Melbourne with his family and spends time maintaining his energy by going to the gym, yoga and bushwalking. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 31
Chua Chong Hock is a skilled Executive and Organizational Coach, Trainer and Facilitator with extensive expertise in the assessment and development of individuals, teams and organizations. 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Senior Leadership Development • Executive Coaching • HR/OD Consulting Over the last 25 years, he has worked with more than 250 senior leaders from multinational corporations across different industries, cultures and nationalities in the Asia Pacific region, both in the private and public sectors. After successfully completing the integration of 2 large petroleum companies in the Asia Pacific region, he started his own Leadership Development and Executive Coaching practice in 2000 that provides executive coaching services and customized leadership development (LD) programs for organizations. He has facilitated LD workshops for senior leadership teams in the Banking, Petro/Chemical, Pharmaceuticals/Healthcare, IT/Software/Engineering & Hospitality industries. He has also worked with leaders facing global and sustainability challenges. He was also one of 2 global facilitators for a 5 day senior LD program developed by the Hay Mc. Ber group and trained more than 350 senior managers in Asia Pacific, Europe and Africa. He is a Feedback Specialist and Executive Coach, familiar with the major 360 feedback instruments from CCL, INSEAD, PDI and Hay. He helps leaders identify and avoid key derailments through personal transformational experiences at work. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore and a Master’s degree in Adult Learning and Education from the George Washington University, USA. He has professional graduate diplomas in Human Resource Management and Development, and Training and Assessment. Chua is married and lives in Singapore. In his spare time he loves to read. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 32
Siew Lee Chua has more than 10 years of experience working in Training and Development. For the past four years she has worked as National Head of Sales Training AXA Minmetals Assurance in Shangai. Among her responsibilities she set the training direction and plan and implemented the training system for all distribution channels including Agency, Advisor, Bank Assurance and Group Businesses. She hired and developed a training team of more than 70 professionals, she successfully implemented a Train the Trainer program and Trainer Certification processes to standardize and guarantee high quality of delivery throughout the country. LANGUAGES • Chinese • English EXPERTISE • Executive Coaching • Leadership Development • Competency Model • Cultural Change From 2001 to 2007 she worked for Generali China Life Insurance holding different positions such as National Head of Generali China Innovation Academy (staff training), Head of Training and Head of Sales Training. Her main responsibility was to set up the HR training function in China; to set training direction and lay down executable learning blueprint for HR development; to work with Generali Corporate University in Italy for key training initiatives roll out in China; partnering with HR manager in competency development project; planning and implementing yearly training plans for all levels of staffs; conducting Training Needs Analysis (TNA) and measuring post training effectiveness. She is a Certified Facilitator of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People from Malaysia licensee of Franklin Covey and a Certified Facilitator of 2012 & Beyond program with AXA University. She obtained a certificate of Training and Development (CITD) from IPD UK and Completed NLP Practitioner Certification. Chua Siew Lee holds a Bachelor of Arts (1 st class honors) majoring in Chinese Studies from the University of Malaya in Malaysia and a Master of Arts in Chinese Studies from the same university. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 33
Shawn Chung 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border LANGUAGES • Mandarin • English • Taiwanese EXPERTISE • Organizational and • • leadership development Organizational change facilitation Participatory workshop design Executive coaching, life coaching Action learning coaching © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Shawn has been a full time organizational development consultant, professional meeting facilitator and leadership development trainer since 2002, and a coach since 2007. He has a great deal of experience in designing and facilitating workshops to help the clients develop their organizations and leadership. Besides being a facilitator, he is a facilitators’ trainer, helping other facilitators develop their skills. He also devoted to promotion of facilitation, and has been co translated and published 4 books on this topic, plus he also runs a monthly facilitators’ forum in Taiwan. He is a Certified Professional Facilitator by IAF (International Association of Facilitators); a CTo. PF (Certified Technology of Participation® Facilitator) and certified trainer of To. P Facilitators by ICA (Institute of Cultural Affairs). He is also a CALC (Certified Action Learning Coach) by WIAL (World Institute for Action Learning) and a certified DISC trainer by Persolog. Shawn has been working with clients in various industries, including High tech Manufacturing, Finance, Pharmaceutical, Internet and Software, Media, Mobile, Wholesale and Retail, FMCG, etc. He also works periodically with some NPOs to contribute to society. In his leisure time, Shawn likes reading articles and watching interesting videos on You. Tube. He is based in Taipei, Taiwan and works in greater China. He lives with his wife Laura and their cat Orange. | 34
Noel Clerkin With a corporate and management background, Noel centers his work as an executive coach around helping clients identify and overcome barriers to their objectives. Noel draws on 12 years of experience in corporate life, where he held commercial and people management roles in the Banking and IT sectors, as well as 10 years of experience as a coach and facilitator since changing career in 2001. He has completed more that 1, 500 hours of 1: 1 coaching. LANGUAGES • English • French EXPERTISE • Professional coaching • Account management • Meeting and project facilitation © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Currently, Noel provides a combination of account management services and group facilitation to senior executives. He is also an accomplished keynote speaker who regularly addresses large audiences on culture change programs. Noel holds a B. A. in European Business Studies from the University of Ulster and a Master's (Maitrise) in International Trade from the University of Caen in France. He continued his studies in Coaching Mastery and is qualified as an NLP Master Practitioner. He is also skilled in using assessment tools such as Myers Briggs Type Indicator, DISC and Life Styles Inventory. He is originally from Ireland has lived in Paris, New York and London, where he currently resides. | 35
Mariana Cogswell 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border Mariana is a communication specialist and a corporate leader with a passion for human connection and women’s leadership development. She is the founder of A Kasha Recursos Infinitos, a company for professional training, coaching, and culture development and the women’s circle Gestadoras de Futuro, that fosters a well rounded appropriation of femininity. She’s also a TED licensee, organizer and host of TEDx. Da. Luz, in São Paulo. From 2006 to 2010 she worked for Talent Advertising as Head of the Strategic Planning , where she was responsible for rebuilding team ethos and elevating strategic expertise recognition in the marketplace. LANGUAGES • Portuguese • English • Spanish EXPERTISE • Executive coaching • Cross-cultural collaboration and communication • Cultural change • Personal effectiveness • Team building Before that, she developed her career over 20 years in the advertising business handling major brands in the consumer goods, services and telecom industries. From market research, strong analytical skills led her to consumer intelligence in the advertising business and further to the coordination of tasks and purpose as a team leader and team player. She is driven by the clarity and connection of personal and collective values in building healthy working environments. Mariana holds a bachelor degree in Advertising. In 2010, she chose to make a career shift following her calling to create meaningful working relationships through genuine and effective personal communication. She attended the “Dialogue Experience Group” at Escola de Diálogo de São Paulo, where she learned and practiced over 1, 200 hours of different creative and productive social interaction techniques. In her free time she enjoys studying mythology, philosophy, human behavior, humanity’s legacy, among other self actualizing activities. She loves being with her family, hosting small and cozy gatherings, and travelling to learn as much from nature and different cultures as possible. She is married and a proud mother of two adorable girls. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 36
Bray Cohen 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Leadership • Team Functionality • Executive Coaching • Cultural Transformation • Systems Thinking Bray has worked for 20 years as a consultant, coach and facilitator. He draws upon a broad and deep base of training, knowledge and experience. His key quality is that he is able to integrate and balance the people issues with the hard core business objectives. The result is that he is able to implement change, maximise effectiveness and build productivity. Bray has partnered a diverse range of major organisations with the financial sector being a particular focus since he was part of the cultural transformation team building constructive culture at ANZ. The process being heralded as innovative and formed the basis of a Harvard University case study. He has continued that focus in working with NAB, Esanda Finance, Mercer Superannuation, Wesfarmers Insurance and Coles in significant cultural processes and leadership development, working with the senior executive teams in Australia, India, New Zealand in Asia. Bray fine tuned his strategic and business acumen in his early career working as a retail pharmacist, owning and running a number of pharmacies in and around Melbourne. He has also been Director of a successful consulting company. Bray partners with Axialent and continues to demonstrate his passion and expertise in working with leadership, team functionality, values alignment and delivery on client organizations' key objectives ; recent projects being with St. Vincent’s Health Australia, Mission Australia and Insurance Group Australia and Toll Transport. With a desire to keep at the edge of learning and growth, Bray continues to add to his post graduate qualifications in adult learning and training, organisational change, behavior and team dynamics, systems thinking and others. He is a recent graduate from John F. Kennedy School at Harvard where he focussed on the leadership that is required to mobilise successful large scale complex change and individual immunity to change. Bray lives in Melbourne with his family and spends time maintaining his energy by going to the gym, yoga and bushwalking. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 37
Andrew Cohn works globally as a consultant, facilitator, coach/counselor, and problem solver for businesses and individuals. Andrew’s work improves his clients’ business results and culture, and enhances individual performance and satisfaction. Andrew brings clarity, resolution, and alignment to business leaders and their teams. He helps focus leaders at all levels on what matters most and how to effectively act on it. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Leadership Development Team Development Conflict Management Executive Coaching Ethics and Compliance • Organization Development • • © 2014 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Prominent clients have included Johnson & Johnson, Vanguard, Deloitte, Microsoft, Viacom, Hershey, BASF, KPMG, Fulton Bank, Edward Jones, Guy Carpenter, and Cisco. He has also taught leadership, ethics, conflict resolution and mindfulness at the MBA and undergraduate levels. Andrew also coaches MBA students at the Wharton School in Philadelphia, as well as exectives in Wharton’s Advanced Management Programs. Andrew practiced law for seven years prior to founding his own organizational consulting firm. He earned his Juris Doctorate at Loyola Law School, an MA Applied/Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica, and a Bachelors Degree in International Relations (emphasis on international business and economics) from Boston University. He also practices and teaches Aikido. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and son. | 38
Carla Collenette LANGUAGES • English • French EXPERTISE • Leadership for Sustainability • Women in Leadership • Executive coaching © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Carla holds a Masters degree in Management Learning and Leadership and has worked as a coach, facilitator and culture change expert for large companies as well as the United Nations and various non governmental organizations. She has taught at IMD and INSEAD Business Schools where she co directed executive development programmes focusing on sustainability leadership. As well as working as a consultant to organizations, Carla has held management positions in Getty Images (London) and at the World Wildlife Fund (Switzerland) where she was responsible for the development of strategic partnerships and the design, delivery and marketing of the One Planet Leaders Programme. Carla’s first degree was in Health Sciences and she began her professional career in healthcare, gradually transitioning into group dynamics and learning & development after working at Brathay Hall and seeing the power of experiential learning to affect personal change. Having worked in a huge variety of settings, from gender diversity training in Senegal to CEO retreats in Europe, Carla is a strong believer in the importance of integrity and standing up for what you care about. She volunteers for local organizations such as http: //www. embercombe. co. uk/ and is a facilitator for http: //www. risingwomenrisingworld. org/ Originally from the UK, Carla has lived in Switzerland Spain but has recently returned to her home in the South West of England, where she enjoys walks in the countryside, local ale and improvisation theatre. | 39
Gilles Cormerais Gilles has 25 years of experience in the IT industry at the national, European, and international level for multinational organizations, serving in technical, sales, marketing, and management positions. He served for four years at Intel Europe in England as Business Development Manager and four years as Marketing Director at Zenith Data Systems Europe in Paris and later for nine years as a Managing Director at META Group France, Acxiom France. LANGUAGES • French • English • Spanish EXPERTISE • Executive coaching • Leadership and change management • Business Development • Impeccable communication • Career and life project management © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. He switched careers to pursue his desire to help others as a consultant in the areas of personal evolution, development and career assessment, among other things. In this role, he has facilitated programs in French and English on leadership development, performance, and change management in the energy, environment, and financial sectors. As a Managing Partner at a Human Resources development consulting firm, he was an Executive Coach for managers and teams for more than six years. Primary themes in this work included preparation for career changes, launching strategic projects, and identifying, sharing and implementing corporate visions and objectives. For 4 years became Director, Training & Professional Development – Europe, Middle East & Africa at SMART Technologies to create the department from scratch to the development of 18 Certified Training Centers across the region. Gilles graduated with a B. S. in electronics and furthered his education in Human Resources management (IGS), coaching, team building, and transactional analysis (Transformance and ATORG). He is certified MBTI and LSI. He has lived in Los Angeles, Oxford in the U. K. travelled all across South America and now lives in Paris with his English wife. He is passionate by motor sports, participated in rallying races and regularly drive on racing tracks in France. | 40
Alexandre Costa Working over 15 years as a management consultant with the senior management of large companies in Brazil, Latin America and Europe, Alexander holds experience on corporate projects and operations strategy, organizational development, change management, merge and acquisition, human resources, strategic planning and operational improvement. Over the past four years, he has worked as an independent consultant, focusing exclusively on development projects and organizational change as well as the development of the top team through executive coaching. LANGUAGES • English • Portuguese EXPERTISE • Organizational development • Change management • Executive coaching • Performance Improvement • Strategic Planning © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Master in Business Administration from FEA / USP Universidade de São Paulo and Owen School of Management / Vanderbilt University (USA), Alexander is a certified coach in Integral Coaching™ by Integral Coaching Canada (Canada) where he also serves as a Mentor and Faculty Member. In addition, he has expertise in Spiral Dynamics™ by National Value Center (U. S. ) Alexander lives in São Paulo with his wife and son. He enjoys music, sports and outdoor activities. | 41
Claudia Crescenzi has over 20 years experience in corporate organization, leadership development and human resources with professional development. Color photo LANGUAGES • Italian • English EXPERTISE • Change Management • Executive Coaching • Team Building • Leadership Development © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. She has worked as a consultant on projects of corporate restructuring, corporate communications and the development of new services and business. She has worked as part of a team during the transformation of an international Merchant Bank from the public to private sector specializing in change management. Having considerable experience both as a consultant and senior manager within company structures she is able to understand quickly the challenges managers are facing. She has a particularly detailed experience of implementing change and rebuilding teams to meet new challenges. She designs and runs management development course, also writing and publishing articles relevant to career coaching. Some of the companies with whom Claudia has worked with are: Ericsson, Saba Italia (Abertis Group), De Cecco, Right Management, Lazio Regional Government, among others. For these companies she developed projects of change management, leadership development, team building, motivation and self confidence, executive coaching and team coaching. Claudia holds a Bachelor Degree in Political Sciences from the Urbino European University. She is also certified as a professional coach and in 360° tools. | 42
Laurent Criou Laurent is a qualified Executive Coach and Leadership Development Specialist with over 15 years of experience in the field. He is the Director of ‘Leadership Elements’, supporting the leadership development needs of senior executives and organisations. Laurent is an Executive Coach at the INSEAD Global Leadership Centre (IGLC) as well as an Associate Coach at the Centre for Creative Leadership (CCL) where he coaches senior executives either in small groups or individually. He also works directly with global and Asian organisations supporting the development of their senior talent and consulting with them on leadership development and assessment initiatives. LANGUAGES • English • French • Basic Mandarin EXPERTISE • Executive Coaching • Leadership and Talent development • HR Strategy • Organizational Culture His previous work experience include active contribution to the development of leadership at AXA, the global insurance company for over 10 years. He started by designing and managing senior development programs for AXA Group’s top 300 leaders. He then became the Director of Talent & Leadership for AXA UK, where he built a leadership and technical development solutions as well as led the implementation of a new talent strategy. Finally, as head of the AXA Asia Pacific Campus, he has been responsible for the design and delivery of leadership and talent development strategies across the Japan Asia Pacific region. Prior to joining AXA, Laurent was the Assistant Director of INSEAD Executive Education Custom Programs, where he primarily designed senior executive customised programs for multinational organisations in partnership with INSEAD faculty. He holds a Master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He is an alumnus of INSEAD’s Executive Masters Degree in Organizational Psychology. He is certified in MBTI, LSI, Hogan, Baron EQi and other 360 assessments. In addition, he is member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations (ISPSO). Laurent is based in Singapore and has lived and worked in France, the US, China and the UK. In his spare time, he enjoys long distance running, diving and writing. He loves travelling and discovering new cultures. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 43
Füsun Çağan Füsun started working for Ekser Consulting 18 years ago as Instructor for Grid Personal and Organizational Development program and Consultant. She has been leading the Content Development Team for 10 years. She has broad experience in designing and facilitating training programs intended to enhance executive leadership. LANGUAGES • English • Turkish Before starting with Ekser, Füsun worked several years in the advertisement industry, serving clients such as Unilever, Johnson&Johnson, Colgate Palmolive, among others. In June 2006 she obtained her Career Consulting Certificate from GCDF at Bahçeşehir University. She also completed the Foundations of Coaching, Coaching in the Context of Work and Moving toward Artful Coaching training programs at the Adler Coaching Academy Certification Program. She attended the “Application Coaching” training program delivered by Fred Koffman in Paris, France. Füsun holds a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from Bosphorus University. EXPERTISE • Executive Coaching • Content Development • Executive Leadership © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 44
Canan Aratemur Çimen Canan has been working as a consultant for Ekser Consulting since 2006. She has vast experience in human resource development, training development and facilitation as well as coaching and assessment. 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border LANGUAGES • English • Turkish EXPERTISE • Career Development • Executive Coaching • Leadership Development • Assessment • Content Development © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Before starting to work in Ekser, she worked in Human Resources departments of Du. Pont, Avea and D&R; specifically in recruitment, training & development projects. Her one to one Coaching experience includes outplacement projects, coaching people both for their career decisions and for developing their performance and fulfillment. Canan holds a Bachelors Degree from the department of Sociology and completed her Masters Degree in Educational Sciences, Adult Education Program at Bosphorus University. She is now continuing her Ph. D in the same field. She also attended and completed a Global Career Consulting Certification Program (GCDF) at Bahçeşehir University and completed the Foundations of Coaching, Coaching in the Context of Work and Moving Toward Artful Coaching trainings at the Adler Coaching Academy Certification Program. Since 2008, she has also been working as a volunteer and consultant in Educational Volunteers Foundation in Turkey. Canan is married and resides in Istanbul. She likes to be part of the academia and enjoys reading novels, writing articles in a newspaper, puzzles and travelling. | 45
Claire d’Aboville Color photo LANGUAGES • English • French • German EXPERTISE • Executive coaching • Team coaching • Team facilitation • Leadership development • Human resources consulting • Assessments © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. With a background of 17 years in Human Resources and Consulting, Claire is a coach and consultant for mid level managers and top executives. She is very experienced in cross cultural settings –having worked for many multinational companies and lived in France, Germany, the UK and the US. She has worked with more than 45 nationalities. Claire is the founder of Partners in Coaching Ltd, a company that provides executive coaching, leadership development, group facilitation, assessments and training for corporate and individual clients from a range of industries. Clients include various branches of the United Nations, Société Générale, BNP Paribas, HSBC, L’Oreal, Mars Group, Unilever, Mondelez, Spotify, Electrolux. She has also helped build post merger cultures. She enjoys working in international contexts and with expatriates. Previously, Claire served as a Senior Consultant on Human Resources issues at Hay Group in London for five years. She has also served as Senior HR Support at Dresdner Bank and as European HR Specialist at Unisys Europe and Data General Europe. At Cadbury Schweppes, she contributed as HR Manager and member of the Executive Committee. She has served as a school Board member. Claire holds a Master’s in Business from Dauphine University in Paris and has attended MBA classes at Baruch College in New York. Accredited PPC with the International Coach Federation, she has also trained in team coaching. She is a member of the ICF and the Association for Coaching. A French citizen, Claire has spent most of her adult life abroad and currently resides in London. She works equally well in English and French and speaks German fluently. She has raised her two children to be trilingual. Claire is passionate about nutrition, global travel, and leading a healthy lifestyle. | 46
Carlos Delgado Torres Architect, consultant, executive coach, semiologist, Carlos is passionate about Consciousness Development and Value Generation for enterprises and has 24 years of solid expertise in management consulting, commercial development, Marketing, branding, operations and top management in global CPGM –Consumer Packaged Goods Manufacturers- companies. Carlos has spent most of his professional life managing and coaching multi disciplinary, multi cultural teams, developing their optimal creative, productivity and thought leadership potentials delivered through their businesses and core values. Has also acquired a deep understanding about mass consumer foods, health & wellness, mobile communications and building construction. LANGUAGES • Spanish • English • Portuguese • Italian EXPERTISE • Business Culture • Business Development • Leadership & High Performance Teams • Multicultural change management • Trascendental Meditation & Ayurveda • Semiology © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. His multi national responsibilities allowed him to meet and understand several cultural environments in Latin America, North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, where he was responsible to develop and implement global commercial and organizational development platforms As a corporate executive, Carlos has performed diverse leadership and general management roles in global companies like Frito Lay, Mars, Coca Cola Femsa and Vitalmex. As a consultant, he was consulting director for LATAM and Development Partner for México at Kantar Retail, part of the WPP global group. Has also been member of the board at Plantavante & Trendease International. Carlos graduated as an Architect from La Salle University, the IPADE Top Management School of Business and has additional studies in Marketing, leadership Semiology and is an active practitioner of Trascental Meditation and Ayurveda. Is also a certified Executive Coach by the ICC from the UK. Carlos loves outdoor sports like biking and trekking, as well as reading, music and dancing. He is dedicated in life and soul to Ana Cecilia, Mateo and Nicolás, his wife and sons. | 47
Joselyn Di. Petta Color photo LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Diversity and Inclusion • Communications for behavior change • Workshop design and delivery • Facilitation • Cross-cultural collaboration • Team building © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Joselyn is a Gender and Social Inclusion Specialist with over 10 years of experience in communications for behavior change; project design, implementation and management; training design and delivery; advocacy and strategic communications; and monitoring and evaluation. She has lived and worked in North America, Europe, Sub Saharan Africa, and the Middle East. Throughout her life, Joselyn has been a fervent supporter of various forms of social justice. She has been most active in numerous gender and environmental causes in the field of international development and has taken on a number of positions in the US and abroad focused on social and gender inclusion. Much of this work has centered on attitude and behavior change aimed at having a transformative impact at the household, community and national level. After a career focused on addressing international concerns, Joselyn came to realize that she wanted to work on stimulating social impact closer to home. Recognizing the fundamental importance of a healthy, supportive organizational culture, she is embracing the intrapreneurial aspects of gender, social and diversity inclusion. She continues to work to help others to acknowledge culturally rooted biases and overcome institutional obstacles related to difference in order to create robust, aligned and productive communities, organizations and cultures. Joselyn has a BA from Case Western Reserve University where she focused on Environmental and Gender Studies. She also holds a Master of Public Policy degree, with a concentration in International Policy and Development, from Georgetown University. Joselyn lives in Washington DC. In her spare time, she enjoys exploring nature, cooking vegetarian food and making jewelry. | 48
Catia di Stasi LANGUAGES • Portuguese • English • Italian • French • German EXPERTISE • Career counseling • Leadership • • development Executive coaching Team coaching Managing transitions Collaboration across boundaries © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Catia developed her career in the corporate world in Marketing & Communication and Retail Auditing, having occupied leadership positions in national and multi national companies from the luxury segment, services and manufacturing. She has studied and worked in different countries such as England, Switzerland, Germany and spent eight years living and working in Italy. In 2005 she started a post degree in Career Consulting driven by her desire to help people in their professional and personal development, building a new career for herself as a Coach, Career Transition and Talent Development Consultant. From this moment on, she has helped young and senior leaders from Brazilian and multi national organizations through career counseling, executive coaching, leadership development programs, leadership potential mapping programs and competencies mapping. Catia has acquired experience in a great range of industries such as food, pharmaceutical, finance, media & entertainment, agro industry, cosmetics and telecommunications; Nestlé, Danone, Astra Zeneca, Natura Cosméticos, Banco Itaú, Cielo, Vivo, Grupo Ultra, Grupo Abril, Syngenta, SCJohnson, Unilever are some of the companies she has served. Prior to Axialent, she worked with DBM LHH and she collaborates with the Center for Creative Leadership – CCL for Leadership Development Programs in Latin America. Catia holds a Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from FGV Getúlio Vargas Foundation, a post degree in Career Consulting from the Administration Institute Foundation of the University of Sao Paulo, both in Brazil. She attended a specialization course in Marketing & Sales at the Milan Centre of Management (CESMA) in Italy. She is a certified coach by Erickson College, Canada, ACTP. Catia is currently a Professor at Insper Executive Education courses supporting leaders to develop their leadership skills and enhance their impact in the organization. She is also a member of the board of Habitat for Humanity. Catia lives in Sao Paulo and enjoys her free time playing tennis, practicing yoga and meditation, ball dancing and travelling. | 49
Corrado Docente Color photo Corrado has over 10 years experience in Corporate and Executive Coaching. He is an expert in the development of transversal skills in organizations, his professional background has been built first as a young entrepreneur and then as marketing consultant in different companies. He is the founder of Ricchezze Umane S. A. S. , a coaching and learning company specialized in coaching and active in consultancy research. He has worked with different industries, such as manufacturing firms, banks, service companies, fashion companies, consumer and hard goods companies. LANGUAGES • Italian • English Before this, Corrado has worked as a Commercial Manager and as Marketing and Innovation Consultant for companies within the fashion industry. His main interest is to help organizations in changing the cultural approach to business to reach excellent results. EXPERTISE • Change Management • Executive Coaching • Team Building • Leadership Corrado has a Bachelor Degree in Political Sciences with an economic specialization from the University of Catania, as well as studies in Marketing from the Meet School of Perugia. Development • Marketing and Sales Management © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. He is an enthusiastic fan of life, happily married with a German wife and they have two wonderful children. Corrado is the president of a non profit parents’ association running a Waldorf School for children. He enjoys reading, playing volleyball and travelling to be acquainted with new places and cultures. | 50
Manuel Dovalí Manuel holds a degree in Information Systems, however since 1997, he became interested in human development and decided to start a new career in the field of stress management therapy, based on meditation. 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border LANGUAGES • Spanish EXPERTISE • Coaching • Stress management • Meditation • Gestalt therapy Since 2005, he is a Meditation Instructor certified by the Osho Meditation Center Mexico. He has created a workshop called Introduction to Meditation "Meditar Simplemente, Simplemente Meditar ", a stress reduction workshop called "Meditando Sobre tu Estrés" and a number of therapeutic programs for stress reduction called "Manejo Integral del Estrés" based on Mindfulness Meditation and Osho’s Active Meditations. With his program of Integrated Management of Stress, he has been invited as facilitator by Prem Chandrakala, therapist of Osho International Center (Mexico), the Instituto de Investigaciones Eléctricas, the Laboratories Sanofi aventis, the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, the Laboratories Lilly of México, ITESM Cuernavaca campus to participate in the Graduate Skills Development and Managerial Competencies. He is currently director and therapist at the Clinic Reducción del Estrés ATENPLE. In addition to his bachelor's degree in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of the UNAM and the Masters in Information Systems from ITESM, Manuel has a Masters in Gestalt Therapy from the Instituto de Terapia Gestalt Región Occidente, SC (intern). He has participated in various workshops and courses among which are: "Date With Destiny" by Anthony Robbins, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey, " Semiología de la Vida Cotidiana (enseñanzas del cuarto camino)” by Alfonso Ruíz Soto. Within the field of meditation, he has participated in several workshops by the Kuthumi Institute, the Organization Dhama, and Osho Meditation Center in Mexico. In his spare time, Manuel enjoys photography, which he uses as a means of artistic expression, and music, especially jazz and classical. He is also fond of cinema, reading, tennis and meditation. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 51
Jeroen Drontmann Having worked as a change management consultant and coach for the last 20 years, Jeroen strives to make success geared changes in individuals, leaders, and organizations. Jeroen started his career as a management consultant at Holland Consulting Group, where he worked from 1984 to 1991, after which point he moved to Coopers & Lybrand, where he worked for three years. He went on to found Drontmann Consultancy, which later became Heart Matters. LANGUAGES • English • German • Dutch EXPERTISE • Leadership development • Cultural change • Individual and team coaching © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Jeroen’s passion is connecting people with themselves and with each other. He has published several articles on this topic as well as two books, Persoonlijk Succes (Personal Success) in 1993 and Hoofd ontmoet Hart (Head meets Heart) in 2002. With a law degree and a postgraduate degree in management consulting, Jeroen specializes in leadership development and cultural change. He has carried out performance coaching workshops and has been a leading coach for Price Waterhouse Cooper’s Leadership Development programs on both the European and global levels. In 2005, Jeroen co founded The Global Leaders Academy, a global network of leaders in business and society. The Academy provides a broad range of peer group learning experiences and events, which encourage self motivated communities of learning to form across organizations, sectors, and nations. In addition to his other endeavors, Jeroen designed and currently co produces the Heart at Work® program, which facilitates a collective search for core values and is produced in close cooperation with music, theatre, internal branding, and communication specialists. | 52
Ana Isabel (Anabel) Dumlao Anabel has nineteen years of experience in the field of human capital consulting. Recently she has led a team of consultants specialized in providing expert solutions to businesses with operations in the Iberian region, particularly large multinationals, in the field of total compensation, talent development, leadership, cultural transformation & change management, and employee engagement. She has consulted with companies across multiple industries, including financial services, chemical, life sciences, FMCG and telecommunications. LANGUAGES • English • Spanish • Tagalog EXPERTISE • strategic alignment • • • between people and business organizational culture change leadership development employee engagement mergers & acquisitions talent management manager capability training design and implementation © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Alongside her generalist HR consulting experience, she project managed HR due diligence and post merger integration projects for over 20 corporate transactions in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining Axialent, Anabel was Director of Compensation & Talent Consulting at Aon Hewitt Spain. She joined the former Hewitt Associates in 2004, after contributing for seven years as a management training consultant at Ernst & Young. An engaging speaker, she has chaired roundtables at Factor Humano Congress in Madrid, the meeting point of reference for the Human Resources professionals in Spain. Some of her most recent clients include P&G, BBVA, Ferrovial, Société Générale, La Caixa and Merck KGa. A. Anabel holds a double Degree in Law and Business Economics from Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE E 3), Spain Based in Madrid, Spain, Anabel has working experience in Europe, Latin America and China. She was born and raised in Manila, Philippines. Besides her work, she is passionate about journaling and paper crafts, and enjoys baking and cooking for family and friends. . | 53
Albert Durig is a seasoned management consulting professional specializing in executive leadership development, cultural change management and strategic planning. Over the past 2 decades, he has worked numerous leadership teams and developed long term visions and short term execution programming with senior level leadership teams. In the past, Albert held positions as President of US Operations for Axialent, as well as Chairman of Burson Marsteller’s Technology Practice for both Latin America and the United States, Director of Mexican Operations for Retail Planning Associates, and General Manager of L. I. A. Limited’s Caribbean Operations. LANGUAGES • English • Portuguese • Spanish EXPERTISE • Leadership • Teams • Corporate Governance • Strategic planning • Cultural Change Albert has published numerous articles in several countries including the United States, Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico. His publishing and public speaking endeavors have focused on corporate communications, leadership in times of change, and business agility. Some other companies Mr. Durig has worked with include, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Motorola, VISA, Glidden, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), LAN, TAM, UNFPA, Hewlett Packard, NCR, Sun Microsystems, SAP, Qualcomm, Comercial Mexicana, Banco Mexicano, Ban. Pais, Banco Internacional, Banco del Sureste, Playtex, the Mexican Ministry of Culture, the Mexican Ministry of Tourism, the National Museum of American Art, a Smithsonian Institution, and the National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property. Mr. Durig received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications, and his Master of Arts degree in Sociology with an emphasis in statistics and research methodology from the University of Louisville. Mr. Durig is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Today, Mr. Durig lives with his wife and two children in Buenos Aires, Argentina. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 54
Denise Dziwak Denise has been working with people and organizations for over 15 years helping them grow in consciousness and achieve their purpose which provides them with lives filled with meaning, happiness, peace and love for themselves and those around them. She works as a coach, corporate strategy consultant, author and speaker at the individual and organizational levels. Her strengths include high levels of intuition and empathy; creativity that helps people achieve outstanding results; motivated discipline, with which nothing seems impossible if taken one step at a time; and she is a visionary by nature, helping others create their own vision and strive for it with determination and clarity. LANGUAGES • English • Spanish EXPERTISE • Executive coaching • Spiritual Coaching • Applied Creativity to Problem Solving (Design Thinking) • Community & Cultural Building © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Denise had a successful corporate career that spanned over 10 years at Procter & Gamble, specializing in Marketing Strategy, where she led the training of thousands of executives in all of Latin America. She worked as an internal consultant at P&G using her skills in creative problem solving. She writes since 2013 in a blog to help people grow in consciousness (Florecer del Alma) and is working on her book on conscious parenting. Denise graduated with honors as an industrial engineer from ITBA (Technological Institute of Buenos Aires) in 2001. She is a certified coach graduated as Ontological Coach from ICP (Instituto de Capacitación Professional) in Argentina 2011 and Coaching and Neurolinguistic Programming but the ICC, 2009. She is certified as Touch for Health Therapist, by Mathieu Thie from TFHKA (Touch for Health Kinesiology Association), USA 2012, has been developing as a an Inner Bonding facilitator with Dr. Margaret Paul since 2012 and is certifying as Conscious Business Coach with Fred Kofman in 2016. She has been married for over 15 years and has 3 beautiful children who are the engine of her mission in life. One of her passions is to understand learn from people, which has led her to live in several countries (Venezuela, Guatemala, and Panama) and now lives in Peru since January 2015. She loves outdoor sport in contact with nature: running, walking, trekking, skiing, sailing and is a Yoga practitioner and student since 2003. She enjoys learning as much as teaching about topics of spirituality, meditation, philosophy, and psychology. In addition to her other many passions, she recognizes herself as an actress, singer, and amateur dancer. | 55
Hylke Faber With a background in business, Hylke’s career focus is management consulting and training. He served as a Partner at Strategic Decisions Group for six years, leading some of the firm’s largest accounts, spearheading the development of new service offerings, and heading people development. He also advised the C suite of many pharmaceutical, biotech, and medtech companies on topics including corporate strategy, business unit strategy, entry into new markets, acquisitions and alliances, and decision processes. Hylke received an IMS Thought Leadership Award in recognition of his work shifting pharmaceutical sales and marketing approaches. LANGUAGES • Dutch • English • French • German • Spanish • Frisian EXPERTISE • Strategy • • development Executive coaching Team development Transformational innovation Process design and facilitation © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. From 1995 to 1999, Hylke worked as a consultant at Towers Perrin, where he conducted and managed business unit strategy, sales, marketing and organization transformation engagements for pharmaceutical, financial services, and other industries. Hylke is passionate about bringing out the best in people, teams and organizations, exploring what motivates them, and developing their path to sustainable growth. After completing a B. S. in business administration from the Netherlands Business School, Hylke moved on to pursue a Master’s in international relations from John Hopkins University. In addition, he completed the coaching training program with New Field Network. In his free time, Hylke studies Buddhism and practices meditation, yoga, aikido, and singing. He aims to integrate lessons from these disciplines with his leadership development work with clients. Hylke is a Dutch citizen. Though he lives in New York, Hylke considers himself a world citizen, having lived and worked in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. | 56
Andrea Facchini Andrea has international consulting experience, particularly in the UK and the Middle East. He has worked in a diverse range of market sectors including financial services, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, hospitality, transportation, retail and energy. LANGUAGES • English • Italian EXPERTISE • Psychometrics • Leadership development • Leadership derailment • Training • Coaching • Facilitation © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. He began his career working in care management for Westminster Council and was a key contributor to the development and implementation of the organization’s change strategies throughout the restructuring in 2007. Following his experience in social care, Andrea’s passion for psychology and people prompted him to pursue a further career in business psychology. In 2010, he became an independent Business Psychologist designing and delivering bespoke training and development programs, as well as providing high impact solutions to support small and large corporations. Andrea holds a Bachelor‘s degree in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Occupational Psychology from the University of London. He is also accredited to BPS level A and B standard in psychometric testing. He is a member of the British Psychological Society Division of Occupational Psychology and the Association of Business Psychologists. He specializes in selection, assessment, coaching, leadership and talent management using inventories published by Hogan Assessment Systems. As a master practitioner, Andrea is also one of the UK’s leading trainers of Hogan Certification Courses. He has a passion for the arts, music, photography, cinematography, international cuisine and culinary styles. He is fond of travelling as a means to learn about different cultures and ways of living. | 57
Maria Ferrante Maria is a content development professional with a focus on instructional design, leadership development and culture assessment and development. She is passionate about connecting people with ideas and practices that help them develop as integral human beings. Color photo LANGUAGES • English • Spanish EXPERTISE • Instructional Design • Culture assessment • Report writing • Coaching Since 2011, she has been part of Axialent’s Faculty of consultants, focusing first on culture assessment and development as culture expert and report writer for over 10 clients from various industries in Latin America, Brazil, Europe and the US. She has also created customized assessments for Axialent clients and participated in the development, piloting and statistical testing of Axialent’s own 360 Conscious Business diagnostic tool. Currently, she’s focused on instructional design and product development for the North America Region and coaching engagements with clients. Maria started her career as an English language professional, teaching writing and literature for A level and IGSCE students, and as a translator for various organizations, like the World Bank. In 2005 she entered the corporate world as a member of the Content Development Area at Axialent. As the company grew, she took on the challenge of creating and managing the Diagnostics area, in charge of all quantitative and qualitative assessments conducted with clients. The area became internally upheld as the standard for customer service. Maria then expanded her role to managing the whole Client Support area, where she implemented a change in structure and key systems that significantly improved effectiveness and client satisfaction rates. In 2011 she became a consultant, specializing in diagnostics and content development and later coaching. Maria has an educational background in Philosophy and English studies. She holds a degree magna cum laude in English studies and teaching. She has specialized in Integral and Transpersonal psychology and coaching, and is certified as an Axialent application coach. She has extensive experience in assessment tools and is certified in Hogan Assessment Systems, Lifestyles Inventory, Organizational Culture Inventory and DISC. Maria lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina with her seven year old son. In her spare time she enjoys practicing tai chi, taking long walks in nature and learning new things. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 58
Karen Foundling Karen is a an exceptionally creative Learning & Development professional who, with a wealth of experience & knowledge from both the commercial world and the arena of coaching & facilitation, helps people leap beyond what is known and safely navigate towards a new future. LANGUAGES • English • Conversational Spanish EXPERTISE • Programme Lead Consultant • Leadership & Team Development, • Individual & Team Coaching • Creativity & Innovation • Emotional Intelligence • Embracing Change • Hogan Psychometrics • Graphic Facilitation • Working with International groups/ Global Organisations • Experiential Facilitation – design & delivery • Accelerated Learning © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. • Graphic Facilitator Karen has extensive experience of leading, designing & delivering programmes, from global graduate & hi potential talent groups through to senior leaders. Most recently she has been working with a global tech organization in the US, creating & delivering a culture change & leadership development programme for their top 2% of leaders worldwide. This included in person workshops, individual & team coaching and group webinars. She has also been leading a team of consultants in the design & delivery of a large global leadership development programme (2000+ participants in the last 5 yrs) for an international blue chip financial institution and more recently has developed & delivered Axialent’s first, purely online, transformational leadership programme for another global blue chip organization. Her 20+ years of experience at the ‘pointy end’ of international business, ensures Karen’s consulting, facilitation & coaching, is always mindful of any cross cultural aspects, incorporates the impact of the VUCA environment, and is aligned to the organisation’s core values and behavioural competencies. She stays focused on delivering to the organisation’s strategic needs; optimising the link between mindsets, skillls & behaviours, and the cultural shift needed for teams and leaders to be successful today & in the future. Equally, due to her original fields being Psychology and Design, Karen brings great warmth, compassion and a sense of possibility to all her clients; helping teams & leaders reach strategic alignment & effectiveness, whilst maintaining an atmosphere of wellbeing. Karen has been directly involved in the world of learning & development since 2005, working with organisations to create high potential development programmes, leadership initiatives, & facilitating teams to become highly effective. She has a passion for creativity, innovation and accelerated learning; a firm believer that people are more able to learn & change when the learning experience is perceived as enjoyable and safe. She is also an accredited in Hogan Psychometrics, LSI, is an NLP practitioner and an | 59
Juliet Fraser Ellis With thirty years of experience in facilitation, consulting and leadership, Juliet’s work focuses on supporting leaders to implement cultural change, corporate vision & values and business plans. She has helped clients improve performance in areas such as leadership development, management capability, planning & processes, corporate communication, customer experience and increasing sales. Some of Juliet’s clients have included Astra. Zeneca, Bosch Siemens, British Midland Airways, BUPA, Coca Cola, Continental Tyres, HSBC, Microsoft, Mitsubishi and Saga. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Performance consulting and coaching • Training • Culture change initiatives • Effective communication, Customer Service and Sales © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Juliet has worked with Axialent since 2009 and has delivered Conscious Business workshops on a global scale. One client, a multinational pharmaceutical company, engaged Juliet to deliver these workshops to help its leaders deal with extreme organisational changes. Recently she has been working with Microsoft to deliver team development for leadership teams in the UK. This work has been supported by 1: 1 coaching. Earlier in her career, she spent 12 years at Merchants (now part of Dimension Data) in a number of roles ranging from Head of HR, Sales Director, Managing Director and Senior Business Consultant. Juliet is an Emotional Freedom Techniques practitioner and a qualified assessor for the British Quality Foundation. She has delivered coaching and workshops in cultural change, performance improvement and Conscious Business in countries such as the US, the UK and Sweden, Japan, China and India. Juliet has also set up and run 5 day confidence building courses for teenagers. She also delivers pro bono training and coaching in life skills and effective communication to teachers and students in local schools. She lives in Oxfordshire, England. | 60
Kingshuk Ganguly is a consultant and keynote speaker, specialising in facilitation, assessment and coaching. 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border LANGUAGES • English • Hindi • Bengali EXPERTISE • Executive coaching • Performance management • Team diagnostics & development • Strategic alignment • Impeccable communication In his corporate life of two decades, Kingshuk played various roles in Sales, Collections, Underwriting and Leadership Development across industries (Steel, Heavy Engineering, Financial Services, Outsourcing and Life Insurance). In his last role, Kingshuk was VP & Head (Organisation Development) at AXA Life, India. His team was responsible for Performance Management, Learning, Talent Management, Internal Communication and Culture in the organization of 6, 000 employees across 180 locations. His prior positions have been with market leaders in the Mutual Fund industry, and diversified conglomerates, among others. Kingshuk is an Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA in Finance. He is a Member of NTL (USA). He has completed the Group Relations Conference from The Tavistock Institute (UK) and is a Results Certified Coach. He is also trained on Feedback Coaching from CCL (Singapore), and certified on Facilitation Skills from GE Crotonville and Six Sigma (Green Belt). Kingshuk is also certified on multiple instruments (MBTI Step II, Life Styles Inventory, Workplace Big 5, BELBIN Team Role, Thomas Profiling) which he has applied in team building, new leader onboarding, team redesign as well as in assessments tasks for IT, BPO, Retail and Life Insurance companies. He is a visiting faculty at some of the leading Business Schools in India, teaching short modules on Managing Change; Executive Presence and Authentic Communication. In 2008, he was selected as a Fellow of The Wharton School (US). His interests include reading and driving into the countryside. Kingshuk and Haimanti have two daughters, based out of Mumbai (India). © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 61
David Gebler Named again in 2014 as one of America’s top Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior, David Gebler is an innovator of new approaches that integrate culture, ethics, values and performance. With over 25 years’ experience advising global organizations such as JP Morgan Chase, AOL, General Dynamics, Staples, Sun Life Financial, Boeing and Molson. Coors on how to reduce people based risks while improving productivity and corporate reputation. In his work for Axialent, David has developed and led workshops for clients such as Cisco, Microsoft, and Cigna among others. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Organization Development • Ethics and Compliance • Team Development A business lawyer by training, David received his J. D. from the University of California, Davis and is a member of the bar in California, Massachusetts and Israel. As an attorney in private practice with firms such as Proskauer, and as corporate counsel for Gamma International, David gained extensive experience in both bank regulatory and software licensing issues. In Israel David worked for CBS Records International as Director of Business Affairs and as a staff lawyer for El Al Israel Airlines. David is a Kallman Executive Fellow at the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University and is on the International Advisory Board of Suffolk University’s Graduate Program in Ethics and Public Policy, where he teaches Business Ethics. A frequent speaker and panelist, David has appeared on Fox News, CNN, CNBC, and WGBH. David’s latest book, The 3 Power Values: How Commitment, Integrity and Transparency Clear the Roadblocks to Performance was published by Jossey Bass/Wiley in 2012. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 62
Barbara Geels-Dingle Barbara has acquired valuable knowledge about Leadership and Organizational Development, Culture Change Management, Executive Coaching and Team Building in her involvement of large global programs with major corporations in the Financial Services, Technology and Pharmaceutical industry. She is actively involved in the design of leadership and culture change programs tailored to each client’s needs. Barbara is the Business Manager for North America providing impeccable coordination and client care to help organizations fulfill their purpose through the development of conscious leaders, aligned teams and cultures of excellence. LANGUAGES • Dutch • English • French EXPERTISE • Executive Coaching • Culture change program • Leadership development • Diversity and inclusion © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Barbara is an executive coach trained by CTI (Coaches Training Institute) and the Axialent application coaching methodology. Barbara worked 10 years in the Travel & Tourism industry where she developed her project management and event coordination skills. She was in charge of organizing multiple regional events, such as designing and promoting the re opening of resorts as well as board of director meetings, product launches and weddings. She also managed large scale corporate events of 500+ participants. Throughout her professional career, she gained international experience working in countries such as the France, Greece, the Bahamas, and the Netherlands Born in The Netherlands, Barbara now lives in Key Biscayne, FL with her husband their dog. In her free time Barbara enjoys cooking and playing tennis as part of a Women’s league. | 63
Richi Gil MANAGING DIRECTOR & CHIEF CULTURE OFFICER Managing Director and Chief Culture Officer of Axialent, Richi is a seasoned executive with more than 20 years in global organizations and extensive experience in leadership development, organizational effectiveness, and the corporate world. During his tenure with Axialent, Richi worked with senior leaders and their teams, coaching and facilitating processes that helped these teams significantly improve their own and their organizations’ performance. He is also a culture expert and helps clients develop the behaviors, symbols and systems required to accomplish the desired business strategies. LANGUAGES • English • Spanish EXPERTISE • Corporate leadership challenges • Coaching and mentoring • Sports and business: engaging the flow • Human issues that hinder business success Richi made career strides during his years of work for EDS, a global IT services enterprise. As a Senior Vice President for HR in Latin America, he led a culture transformation effort for the top leaders, personally coaching and mentoring the senior executives of the region. The sales growth and total contract value increase were outstanding and EDS Latin America became an icon of success in EDS global. After earning a degree in industrial engineering from the University of Buenos Aires, Richi participated in IDEA’s Executive Business Program, an experience that enriched his practical skills in Conscious Business philosophy related to coaching, teaching, and facilitation. Richi is an intense sportsman and has participated in several international marathons, holding 3 05’ mark in the 26. 2 miles. Among his many outdoor activities, Richi also runs adventure races and eco challenges in teams, experiencing teamwork to the maximum. One of his accomplishments in outdoor sports has been summiting Aconcagua. Richi works at integrating the physical, the cognitive, and the spiritual realms into a successful and balanced life. He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with his wife and daughter. He has three older boys living in Europe and Argentina. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 64
Valentín Giro Cata Valentín has experience in international consulting and multilateral organizations, such as World Bank and United Nations. His specialties are social responsibility and sustainable development. Earlier in his career, Valentin worked at the firm Booz·Allen & Hamilton and had both governments and private sector clients. With a degree in business sciences and a Master’s in international relations from Tufts University’s Fletcher School, Valentin also holds an M. B. A. from the School of Business Administration and Upper Management in Barcelona, Spain (ESADE). He is also certified as Executive Coach from the International Coach Federation (ICF). LANGUAGES • English • Spanish • Catalonian EXPERTISE • RSC and strategic • • alignment Dialogue with interest groups Leadership development Competencies in high-performance teams Experience learning © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Nowadays, Valentin is an academic collaborator at ESADE, where he teaches Executive Education, In Company Training, and M. B. A. programs. As a consultant, Valentin enjoys integrating his passion for mountain climbing in workshops and programs for businesses interested in experience learning. He uses climbing and the mountain itself as metaphors for the challenges that people and teams face within organizations. An active climber and sportsman, Valentin made an expedition in 2004 to K 2 (8. 611 m), peaked the K 3 or Broad Peak (8. 047 m), and completed the Grand Sea of Sand trek in the Lybian Desert, all team excursions he made with the Spanish TV program "Al Filo de lo Imposible". He is co author of the book “La Cumbre Infinita – Relato de una expedición y espejo de una empresa” which gathers a series of key learnings that are common to people who struggle to achieve their dreams, whether in a company or in the high peaks of the Himalayas. | 65
Edvard Ghirelli Consultant with over 35 years of experience in Strategic Alignment projects, Leadership and Team Building. Professor of the MBA HR in the FIA Foundation Institute of Management and Professor of Leadership in the Business School at São Paulo. Expert in building high performance and strategic alignment teams. Works in leadership development, both in learning processes as organizational and cultural transformation programs. Advises the development and orientation of executives through coaching. LANGUAGES • English • Spanish • Portuguese He worked as Human Resources Executive for more than twenty years in companies like TRW of Brazil, Saab Scania in Brazil, Bonfiglioli Corporation, Bompreço Group and Editora Abril. EXPERTISE • Strategic Alignment • Leadership and Also has credits of the Master of Science in management from California American University and attended Leading Organizational Change at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Team Building © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Psychologist, specializing in Human Resource Management from FGV / SP and a graduate degree in Business Administration. | 66
Cathy Glass MANAGING PARTNER Cathy leads our global Culture Practice. She has a passion for identifying what a company can do to build a performance enhancing culture and helping them bring it to life, in practical ways that make it stick. Her current work includes a five year project with a leading pharmaceutical company building a culture of innovation and in Australia guiding global insurance company on cultural integration post merger. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Linking culture, business performance, and behavior • Organization culture assessment and strategy • Culture development planning and advice • Coach to leaders and change agents © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. For more than twenty years, Cathy has worked in Australia, Europe, US and South America with companies, most with global footprints including mining and exploration, banking and finance, education, pharmaceutical and manufacturing. Through these practical experiences, Cathy gained understanding of people and what drives human behavior at work, enhanced as well by her earlier work as a psychologist, social researcher and complemented by her practical experience as a senior executive at the University of Sydney. A psychologist with honors in Behavioral Sciences from Aston University, UK and postgraduate qualifications in psychotherapeutic counseling, Cathy is fascinated by what new science tells us about organizational and personal development. She enthusiastically leads seminars on this topic at the CIPD management conferences in London and at the University of Lancaster Management School. Cathy spent 20 years living in Australia and currently lives in the UK. She loves yoga and the Rolling Stones. | 67
Galit Goldsman Galit has acquired valuable knowledge about Leadership and Organizational Development, Culture Change Management, Executive Coaching and Team Building in her involvement of large global programs with major Latin American corporations in the Financial Services, Technology and Pharmaceutical Industry. LANGUAGES • Spanish • English EXPERTISE • Conscious Business • Leadership and Organizational Development. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Galit holds a Business Administration degree and has been providing impeccable coordination and client care as a Project Manager for over 4 years at Axialent to help organizations fulfill their purpose through the development of conscious leaders, aligned teams and cultures of excellence. She joined Axialent shortly after finishing high school to work within our Finance & Administration team where she helped in building up our expenses system processes as well as our internal invoicing and Business Planning platforms. Before joining Axialent, she was Assistant to the General Director´s at the Jewish Film Festival in Punta del Este, Uruguay. Galit is currently training to become a certified coach. She lives in Buenos Aires, and in her spare time enjoys reading, and playing tennis with her friends. | 68
Georgina González Lara With 27 years of experience in management consulting and communications, Georgina (“Gina”) is a consultant, coach, communication specialist, professor, and social sciences researcher. After starting a career in journalism, Gina went on to study organizational development and work professionally in this area with leaders in different companies and groups, including Mexican universities. In her consulting work, she draws heavily on her dual expertise in communication and organizational development. LANGUAGES • Spanish • English EXPERTISE • Strategic communication • Organizational culture • Change management • Systemic organizational diagnostics • Application of cocreation models In her career, Gina has designed and implemented communication strategies and change processes for different clients. Most recently, she served as Associate and Director at Integralis Consulting Group, a company dedicated to organizational development. Gina’s passion is facilitating co creation processes with groups of leaders and helping them make significant behavior transformations. Gina has worked for clients including Televisa, Liverpool, Presidencia de la República, Kellog’s, Prodigy, Industrias Mabe, Gigante, Mexicana de Aviación, Grupo Angeles, Farmacias del Ahorro, Medicall Home, and Kostal Mexicana, among others. Gina holds a B. S. in social communication sciences and a Master´s in investigative journalism, both from the Anáhuac Universtiy. She also received a diploma in innovation in organizational communication and certification in systemic coaching from the Technical Institute of Monterrey (ITESM) and is certified in Systemic Family and Organizational Therapy from the Sowelu Institute. Gina teaches courses on Organizational Change and Culture, Leadership, and Consulting at the Technical Institute of Monterrey, Anáhuac University, and the Universidad Autónoma of Querétaro and has authored a number of articles on organizational development and critiques of T. V. content. In addition, Gina was the editor of the book Método Ser +, which targeted small business leaders’ development in Mexico. Gina and her husband Luis have a 20 year old daughter who is studying psychology. Gina likes movies, theater, reading, and traveling and greatly enjoys being with her family. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 69
Cristián González Rast CONSULTANT IN ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS, AXIALENT CHILE Cristián holds a Business Administration degree from the Catholic University of Chile, he is certified by The Florida Society for Bioenergetic Analysis as Facilitator for interventions in Bioenergetics and certified by The Newfield Network in Professional Ontological Coaching. Cristián has the ability to generate individual and group discussions to generate learning spaces and commitment, expansion of capabilities and alignment of team members to achieve extraordinary results. His role is to expand the capacity for effective action to achieve results, both in individuals as in teams, through theoretical and experiential workshops in transformational learning. LANGUAGES • Spanish • English EXPERTISE • Human Resource • • Training Facilitator Experiential Learning Emotional Intelligence Ontological Coach Background in Marketing, Communications and Sales © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Since 2008, he serves as an Independent Consultant and Ontological Coach with clients such as Enap, Dalkia, Embotelladora Andina, CMPC, Chilquinta, Concha y Toro, Puma, Forestal Arauco, Parque del Recuerdo, Atlas Copco, GMS, SNC Lavalin, BBOSCH, Grupo Santander, Coorpvida, Bigger, General Treasury of the Republic, Polpaico Group, BBVA Group, Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission, among others. Previously, he served for 5 years in ORBI Consultores as Senior Consultant and Ontological Coach, working with the following clients: CCU, Banco Itau, Banco Estado, ING Isapre Salud, ING Life Insurance, Minera La Escondida, Larrain Vial, Kaufmann Mercedes Benz, Commercial ABC, Cepech, AFP Habitat, Derko Suzuki, Cencosud (Jumbo Hypermarkets, Easy, Paris), Forestal Celco, ADT Security, University of the Americas and Banchile Inversiones, among others. Cristián has a background of 10 years of experience in marketing, communications and sales, both in consumer products as well as intangible services for multinational and local companies, serving as Account Executive, Project Consultant and Brand Manager in companies such as Gartner Group, The Walt Disney Company, Seagram, Dimasa and Gillette. | 70
José María Grinda Hernández An entrepreneur, consultant, technological specialist, lecturer, and personal coach, José María (or “Pepe”) Grinda has worked with a number of senior managers for organizations in Mexico and Spain. As a coach, he incorporates principles stemming from Fred Kofman’s Metamanagement, conversational competences, brain preferences, discovery of talents, strengths and skills, NLP, negotiation strategies, empathic listening, and conflict resolution. LANGUAGES • Spanish EXPERTISE • Leadership, teamwork, and effectiveness • Organizational cultural change • Personal and organizational development • Applied new technologies to human development As a consultant, Pepe Grinda works in business strategy, organizational communication, and the handling of conflicts among departments. His clients include Daimler. Chrysler, The Coca Cola Company, Sun Microsystems, Campbells, Seguros Imbursa, and other Mexican companies. Pepe Grinda has had much success as an entrepreneur developing projects and software implementation for groupware and e learning. In his career, he has served as Business Partner at Lotus and Advance Business Partner at IBM. Pepe Grinda graduated from the Upper Management program of IPADE at the Iberoamericana University with a major in business administration. He regularly updates his professional skills through the institute’s annual continuity program. He has also studied Theory of Constraints Eli Goldratt (Goldratt Asociados, S. A. de C. V. ), Control of Quality Six Sigma (Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey), Leadership Process: Motivating Achievement (Spencer Sheik Capers & Associates Inc. ), Customer Centric Selling, and Ontology of the Language with Fernando Flores. Pepe Grinda was granted the International Certification of Coaching Executive by The International Society of Neuro Semantics, which is recognized by The National Board of Counselors of the U. S. A. In his spare time, Pepe Grinda enjoys exercising, meditation, reading, going to the cinema, and surfing the Internet. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 71
Santiago María Guerrero Santiago has 15 years of experience in Management of Human Resources in different multinational retail companies in Argentina and Chile. 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border LANGUAGES • Spanish EXPERTISE • Leadership development • Teambuilding • Executive coaching and mentoring • Organizational Culture © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. After receiving his degree as a Professional Ontological Coach at Newfield Network in 2007, he decided to end his corporate career in order to start his own consulting company, Business Management Consulting, specialized in executive coaching and facilitation of leadership training programs, construction of high performance teams, organizational culture and working environment. At the end of 2010, he created his own Ontological Coaching School “Recrearte” in Argentina and Paraguay to contribute to the spreading of this discipline for companies and people that wish to expand their capacity to act and achieve more effective results. He is a Human Resources Management graduate from Universidad del Salvador and has a diploma in Business Coaching (grupo Sincro) and specialized studies in NLP with master coach Lidia Muradep (Practitioner and Master levels). Founding member of Argentina ICF (International Coach Federation), he has written several articles about his speciality, being a guest columnist in the management Latin American portal Inyes Latino. He is passionate about golf, a sport he combines with his other favorite hobby: travelling in order to visit and discover other places and cultures. | 72
Andreas Gutjahr With a background marketing, Andreas has worked as a consultant, trainer, coach, and facilitator for the past decade. LANGUAGES • English • German EXPERTISE • Leadership strategies • Conflict resolution • Stress management • High-performance teambuilding • Impeccable communication • Large group events © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Andreas got his start at a market research institute in Germany working with premium brand companies like Mercedes Benz, BMW, BAT, Nestle, and Braun/Gillette. He worked in sales and developed trade marketing to improve relationships between consumer brands and retail business for the international company Rosenthal, where he worked for five years. Andreas also managed the brand re launch for Flagship Stores by aligning brand, corporate, and individuals' values. Andreas was also involved in the Internet revolution, having managed a start up business in online marketing for three years. After these job experiences, Andreas began training young professionals in leadership, and soon afterwards he switched his career focus. He co created leadership development training programs for GOLDPFEIL AG, a German fashion company where he was Executive Manager. He also co founded the Integral Forum in Dortmund, Germany, where he facilitated group meetings and taught Ken Wilber’s AQUAL and Spiral Dynamics. With an M. B. A. in marketing and Human Resources from the University of Applied Sciences Rheinland Pfalz Ludwigshafen, Andreas also studied organizational behavior as a postgraduate student at San Francisco State University. In addition, he holds a doctorate in marketing and brand communication from the European University of Economics in Budapest, Hungary. Andreas has been practicing Hatha Yoga since 1986 and ZEN since 2003. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, playing guitar, sailing, tennis, basketball, and soccer. He also volunteers for Lions Club International and is co founder of the Integral Forum Dortmund. | 73
Marius Hansa Marius is a senior facilitator/consultant with more than 15 years of experience as a leader and executive in national and international consultancy companies. Working for major industries like Financial Services, Tourism, Automotive or Consumer Electronics he consulted companies like Samsung, Deutsche Bank, TUI, General Motors and many others. Following his corporate career Marius now has over 15 years’ experience of working as a consultant, facilitator and coach, in the last five years his clients being mainly big multi national companies like Bristol Myers Squibb, Aleris, QVC, Autodesk and Lufthansa. LANGUAGES • English • German EXPERTISE • Leadership development • Executive Coaching • Cultural Transformation • Change Management / Change Leadership • Developing High Performing Teams • Marketing- and Sales Strategies © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Marius has held numerous roles throughout his career – like Creative Director and Deputy Managing Director, Director of New Business and Managing Partner; he was leading national and international teams and companies in the areas of marketing, sales and communications. Marius is based in Wiesbaden, Germany and a member of the Axialent faculty for more than eight years. | 74
Jens U. Hansen GENERAL MANAGER EUROPE, GLOBAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border LANGUAGES • English • German • Danish • Swedish • Norwegian EXPERTISE • Leadership transformation • Leadership adaptation • Adaptive game perception • Digital disruption • Reliance to constant change • Strategy • Business model innovation • Global leadership mindset © 2013 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Jens Hansen is an executive and non executive leadership advisor in an adaptive and global perspective. He has vast experience in leadership transformation and adaptation to the digitalized and socialized 21 st century, based on business model innovation and customer centricity under digital disruption. Some of his key consulting engagements are post merger leadership guidance for fast adaptation and building resilience to constant change, while maintaining the required market initiative. Jens has worked with senior leadership in life science, technology, media, central government and public service. He has again and again proven how to bring best trades across industries and cultures with a deep understanding of European challenges and opportunities. His merits include successful change execution with experience in managing high profile projects, mergers and acquisitions, while championing innovation, transformation and adaptation across business operations cultivating stakeholder relationships to gain ‘buy in’ while adopting a consultative approach to effectively analyze and delineate strategic business and project needs. Jens utilizes an inspirational and motivational leadership style to enthuse and engage high performance senior leadership teams; demonstrates in depth analytical and strategic ability to facilitate operational and procedural planning while driving satisfaction through the promotion of transformational change. Lufthansa, Takeda, Ferring, A. P. Moller Maersk, Velux, Microsoft, The Tribune Group, , Toronto Star, Saxo Bank, Bank J. Safra Sarasin are examples of clients that Jens has worked with. In his role as member of Axialent ‘s executive committee he is contributing to the constant innovation across our global regions. As general manager for Europe he is especially focused on assisting European corporations to contribute to and to benefit from the significant development and growth in Asia, Africa and parts of South America. | 75
Jacqui Hazell Jacqui is a Leadership Coach, Organisation Development Consultant a highly skilled Workshop Designer and Facilitator. She combines extensive director level commercial experience with coaching and facilitation skills in her work. She has deep experience of working with individuals and leadership teams and implementing company wide initiatives aimed at optimizing individual and collective performance. She has significant competence in bringing clarity and purpose to teams and building and sustaining high performance. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Facilitation • Workshop Design • OD Strategy • Constructive Culture • • • Enablement Leadership Development 1 2 1 Executive Coaching Mentoring Team Coaching & Development Strategy into Action Facilitation Graduate development /mentoring © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. She has worked as a director across a wide range of business functions and has deep experience of facilitating executive teams to craft and deliver strategic agendas. She worked for many years as a Head of Strategy and Business planning for a FTSE 100 subsidiary where her primary role was to facilitate board strategy and craft and deliver implementation plans. She has designed and implemented business and people strategies and directed large scale organisational change. Her work often requires her to define and enable business outcomes through leadership capability reviews and development events, focusing on shifting leaderships behaviours. She has a particular passion for working with clients to enable them to gain an insight into the behaviours and underlying mindsets which help and hinder their effectiveness. She sees this as a core foundation for transformational change , personal fulfillment and sustained success. She has experience as a consultant with large blue chip and global companies in financial services, large scale service providers wealth management , retail, as well as Universities, Professional Services and Telecoms. She has worked successfully with people of differing levels of experience, from ambitious young Graduates to highly expert University Professors and main Board Directors and has extensive experience of working with culturally diverse groups. Jacqui has led consultant delivery teams for Axialent , acting as lead facilitator and client contact, liaising with the client to design and review conscious business programmes. Jacqui is accredited by Hult Ashridge Business School as an Executive Coach and has run workshops at their coaching conferences. She is a Fellow of the CIPD, a member of The European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and The Association of Coaching (AOC). She has an MSc with distinction in Executive Coaching, Postgraduate qualifications in strategic HRM and held the post of Learning Director with the Association of Coaching Supervisors. She is accredited to administer Human Synergistics LSI and is an MBTI Practitioner. She is certified to assess, select and develop using the suite of HOGAN assessment tools. She is married with 3 young adults who call her mum. | *
Cristina Heredia Consultant & Coach in Organiza. Tional Development Cristina has more than 12 years of experience in leading organizational learning programs, where the participant´s experience is the key of the proposal in the context of consulting and related materials. Her engagements range through Leadership, Change Management, Culture, Strategy, Motivation and Emotional Intelligence. As a differentiating factor in all her interventions and her consulting work she integrates the emotional dimension and corporeality, linking the BEING with the DOING as a label that identifies it, thus creating very attractive formats to conduct seminars and workshops, and making activities and exercises as participative and inclusive as possible. LANGUAGES • Spanish • English EXPERTISE • Experiential Learning • Emotional Intelligence • Ontological Coach. She holds an Educator degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She has a certification in Professional Ontological Coaching from The Newfield Network (2000). Cristina has participated in a Facilitator Program in the American School of Transpersonal Psychology (2006 2008). She has also trained as a Facilitator in Bioenergetics interventions in The Florida Society for Bioenergetic Analysis (2010 2012), in addition to taking courses in various body disciplines, bioenergetics, emoting dawn, Graham contemporary dance technique, among others. She has been hired by companies and institutions to implement programs in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay and Central American countries. Cristina has worked with multiples companies such as: Johnson Diversey, ; Dalkia. Grupo Eolia; Sura, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay; ING; Chilquinta; Zofriy Manantial, among many others. She practices dancing as one of her hobbies, watching films and reading are some other activities that complement her work. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 77
Dolores Hernández Color photo LANGUAGES • English • Spanish EXPERTISE • Organizational culture • Leadership development • Team performance • Qualitative research • Instructional design With a background in Socio Cultural Anthropology Dolores is a culture diagnostic and culture change expert, who has participated in over 30 organizational culture and team performance diagnostic processes for clients, in industries such as finance services, telecommunications, retail & consumer goods, pharma and healthcare. In addition, she has ample experience in leadership development focusing on the design of leadership solutions and customized training programs for clients. Since she joined Axialent in 2006, her main area of focus is content development of new IP and content customization, both for clients and internal readiness processes. In 2008, she also took on knowledge management responsibilities, transferring client experiences to leverage best practices across the organization and promoting a culture of continuous improvement through learning and innovation. Dolores also acquired experience in the fields of research, instructional design and visual design, resulting in the creation of customized surveys and feedback forms, customized training programs and compelling materials. As Content Development coordinator and manager she developed strong people management skills. She is truly engaged with her team members and Axialent staff through coaching, mentoring and facilitation of readiness sessions. Prior to joining Axialent, Dolores worked at the NGO Fundación Poder Ciudadano as Assistant to the Citizenship Building Area focused on addressing issues related to democracy and promoting social, civic and political integration amongst the population. Between 2001 2003 Dolores also worked for the Program for Young Negotiators (developed by Harvard Business School and customized to the Argentinean culture) teaching negotiation and conflict resolution skills to school kids for the use of problem solving and prevention of violence. In addition, she has experience as a freelance research assistant, supporting international researchers in Buenos Aires on investigations in different fields such as education and health. Dolores lives in Buenos Aires and enjoys reading, listening to music, cooking and travelling. In her spare time, she also likes practicing Pilates and rollerblading. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 78
Martin Herrera is a world class leader characterized by his drive and a unique ability to integrate execution excellence and strategic thinking. With a solid track record developing and growing business in Latin America, Martin has deep knowledge and experience in strategic and business planning, execution excellence and value based sales & marketing – working with companies ranging from large multinationals to start ups. LANGUAGES • English • Spanish EXPERTISE • Strategic planning • Business Planning • Corporate Governance & Execution Excellence • Leadership © 2014 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Mr. Herrera has over twenty years of experience in the technology industry working with senior level executives. He held several senior sales positions in Microsoft, and worked as support to the Latin America VP as Business Manager in charge of Business and Strategic Planning, as well as Corporate Governance. As an independent consultant, Mr. Herrera has worked with several multinational companies including Microsoft, Mercado Libre and TIM while also participating as a board member at Infocorp. He is an active member in the Endeavor community, both evaluating and coaching regional entrepreneurs. Martin is a graduate in Business Management from ORT Uruguay with a Masters degree in Psychology from University of Santa Monica, California. He has enhanced his experience through executive training on Leading Organizational Change at Columbia Business School and Competitive Strategy at and Kellogg School of Management. Mr. Herrera currently lives in Montevideo, Uruguay and is fluent in English, Spanish and conversational Portuguese. | 79
Pablo Herrera Pablo has over 20 years of experience working on issues related to consciousness and human relations. He has extensive practice facilitating groups of various sizes and in different contexts such as businesses, schools and universities. 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border LANGUAGES • Spanish EXPERTISE • Workshop design and facilitation • Stress management • Team facilitation Between 2002 and 2010 he worked full time giving workshops and conferences with Grupo Omnilife in Mexico, United States and 11 Latin American countries. During those years he was dedicated to designing and delivering workshops to large groups (between 300 and 400 people per group). Among others, he conveyed a stress management, quality of life and exercise in various companies through a program called “Pon la mente de tu lado”(Put your mind on your side). Pablo was also host of a radio program on human relations in Radio Red, one of the largest radio networks in Mexico. For many years he worked in nonprofit organizations and participated in a research project of Georgetown University on hemispheric migration which culminated in the publication of a book he co authored. He also worked as a psychotherapist for couples, families and individuals. Pablo holds a B. A. in Psychology from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in México and he was selected by the National Science and Technology Institute (CONACYT) among the best students of Mexico. Pablo also has a Masters degree in Psychology from the Americas University, where he obtained the Summa Cum Laude Medal. He has participated in the Diploma in Positive Psychology at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Pablo is particularly interested in the study of stress reduction through Mindfulness and interpersonal neurobiology by studying the relation between mind, brain, welfare states, relationships, and everything related to health, quality of life and work. He lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico and has two extraordinary children. For the last 10 years he has been intensively practicing yoga and meditation. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 80
Michelle Hollingshead Michelle is committed to helping individuals and organizations leave a meaningful imprint on our world. She designs and delivers innovative leadership development programs and is a strategist on large scale organizational change initiatives. Michelle leads corporate culture transformation, where she bridges gaps between people from diverse backgrounds and cross functional teams. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Executive Coaching • Leadership Development • Organizational Change Management • Corporate Culture Transformation • Program Design • Mindfulness and stress management Michelle has over 15 years’ experience in learning and development. She focuses on mindfulness, authentic communication, gender and leadership, and personal change as the foundation for sustainable culture transformation. Michelle has coached and consulted with executives, managers, and teams in Fortune 500 companies, privately held companies, and non profit sectors. She has worked with organizations such as Lexmark, Cisco Systems, Johnson Controls, Nationwide Affinity Solutions, Brown Forman, University of Kentucky, Microsoft and others. Michelle completed her professional coach training through Coach University and is a PCC credentialed member of the International Coaches Federation. She is a graduate of the Coaches Training Institute’s intensive Leadership program. She holds a Masters of Education in Curriculum Development from Lesley University. Michelle is certified in Life Styles Inventory, Life Styles Inventory with Item Level Feedback (360), Organizational Culture Inventory, and Organizational Effectiveness Inventory as well as extensive training in yoga, meditation and mindfulness practices. Michelle began her career in multicultural education before transitioning to coaching, consulting, and entrepreneurship. She is an award winning teacher, yoga enthusiast and proud mother of two. . | 81
Laura Hsu Laura is the Chairperson of Open Quest Facilitation Technology. She is the first Asian Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF) by the International Association of Facilitators (IAF). She specializes in assisting breakthrough to the desired change in individuals and organizations. Based in Taipei, she has extensive international and multicultural facilitation experience in USA, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Nepal, Austria, Uganda, Ethiopia and Belgium. She has been a Board Member of the International Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA) representing Taiwan, and between 2003 and 2005 she was the Asian regional representative of the IAF. LANGUAGES • Chinese • English EXPERTISE • Organizational Change • Leadership Coaching • Strategic Planning She focuses on the implementation of organizational change, facilitation training, leadership coaching, and strategic planning projects. To provide custom made service, she masters in a great range of methodologies including Technology of Participation, Appreciative Inquiry, Graphic Facilitation, Participatory Decision Making Process and Mediation. In addition, she has been also part of the faculty team of the United Nations in Management Development Programs since 2009. Among her corporate clients we find 3 M, Abbott, AC Nielson, Allianz, Avon, Corning, Daimler, Degussa, Dun & Bradstreet, Flextronics, GSK, J&J, MSD, Microsoft, Motorola, Nortel, Novartis, Philip Morris, Roche and Yahoo! among others. Media reported on success stories about her projects, including EMBA magazine, PC Home website, Business Weekly Magazine, Economic Daily News, Commercial Times, Human Capital Magazine and Manager Magazine. Laura holds a BA in International Business Management from National Taiwan University and a certificate in Positive Social Change in Appreciative Inquiry from the Management School of Case Western Reserve University. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 82
Christian Hvidbo Christian has developed his professional career through more than 25 years in the areas of Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and FMCG. He has held senior positions as Global Head of Learning, Group Employee Engagement Manager, Western Europe OE –L&D and Talent Manager, and Global Change Cultural Manager. Christian’s focus is on helping organizations drive up their performance through leadership development and behavior coaching. LANGUAGES • English • Spanish • Portuguese With a distinct passion for building strong leadership and culturally resilient teams, he is known for facilitating from the heart, being challenging whilst empathetic, sharing professional and personal experiences, that results in a strong and unique ability to inspire, influence and motivate people cross culturally. EXPERTISE He is recognized for client rapport and interpersonal skills, that lead to robust business partnering and trust based relationships, thus helping people thrive and perform. • Culture and behaviour change. • Leadership Development • Senior Leadership Team Building • Strategic Alignment and Engagement. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Born in Argentina and brought up in Brazil, he has lived in London and is currently living in Amsterdam. Along the years, he obtained extensive travel experience, managing trans nationally and leading projects throughout Europe, US, Asia and Latin America. Christian quickly adapts to diverse locations, cultures and work environments. He is married and has two teenage children. He is an avid marathon runner, and in his free time, he also practices yoga and is engaged in charitable work. | 83
Andrea Ingrisch With a background in business and psychology, Andrea works as an executive and life coach, consultant, project manager, and team facilitator. In this field, she has served a variety of clients in the professional services, media and telecommunications, industrial goods, healthcare and financial services industries, among others, in Europe and the U. S. LANGUAGES • English • German EXPERTISE • Executive and Team Coaching • Strategy implementation • Organizational and cultural change © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Andrea worked as Project Leader for The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Berlin where she ran projects in strategy development as well as implementation, with focus on changing organizational structures and cultures, leadership paradigms, and key processes. During her time at BCG, she worked extensively with senior executives and their teams, facilitated workshops, and conducted one on one coaching. In addition to consulting, Andrea has worked in the corporate world. She served as the Head of Operations Improvement for AOL Europe and assisted the European CEO in restructuring the organization across three countries. She also led a major transformation within the company’s sales force. Andrea holds a degree in psychology from the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and an M. B. A. from INSEAD, Fontainebleau and Singapore. She was certified as a coach by the Coaches Training Institute, and in 2010, she became an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation. | 84
Miguel Ángel Isla Zavala Miguel Ángel is an entrepreneur, consultant, coach, lecturer, and designer who has worked with various organizations´ executives in Mexico, South America and Spain. As a coach, Miguel Ángel aims to integrate lateral thinking, conversational competencies, talent and strength discovery, NLP, negotiation strategies, empathic listening, and conflict resolution. His areas of expertise include Leadership, High Performance Teams and integration, creativity, lateral thinking and Public Relations. Miguel Ángel’s educational background blends the creative with the practical. He studied industrial design in Copenhagen and pottery in Labisbal and Manises, Spain. He studied in Mexico, an MA in Human Development. LANGUAGES • Spanish EXPERTISE • Leadership, coaching, teamwork and creativity • Cultural diversity in the Latin American corporate world • Personal and organizational management • Cultural organizational change and alignment © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. He has coached workshops and seminars in educational institutions and private companies such as Microsoft, Citigroup, Oracle, Telefonica, Johnson & Johnson, Takeda, Afore Banamex, Grupo Alfa, Brewery Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Heineken among others in the area of Leadership, Communication, Creativity, Marketing, human processes development, stress management, breathing and meditation, and energetic movement for physical and mental development. He has also successfully developed Multi Level Marketing (MLM) networks in Mexico, Chile and Colombia. Miguel Ángel has been designing and producing pieces of art since 1985. He has exhibited his work in private and public exhibitions since 1983 in the cities of Valencia and Gerona, Spain, in Copenhagen, Denmark, and in Cancun, Guadalajara, San Miguel de Allende, Queretaro, Acapulco and the City Mexico. In addition, he has avidly practiced Tai Chuan for over 30 years and currently leads Tai Chuan groups in Mexico City. In his free time, he enjoys attending cultural activities, hiking, sailing, playing tennis and soccer as well as other team sports. | 85
Robbin Jorgensen Robbin is President and Funder of the Ignite The Next International™. She’s a successful business woman with 15 years’ experience in sales and marketing, training and business development. She works with individuals and corporations to help them make the impact they want to have through executive coaching, leadership development and training programs. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Professional coaching • Women's leadership • Leadership development • Motivational speaking As Director of Corporate Relations for the American Heart Association, Robbin recruited and trained hundreds of volunteers and was responsible for raising several million dollars thorugh corporate sponsorships and fundraising activities. In addtion, she developed and presented numerous training programs at local, statewide and national conferences including Building Corporate Relationships, Creating Customer Loyalty, Customer Retention, and Developing Recognition and Cultivation Programs. Robbin was awarded the Heart Association’s New York State Business Development Award for her accomplishments. While with the Hearst Corporation, she was responsible for running a multi ‐million dollar classified vertical, held various sales and management roles and won numerous awards for her accomplishments. As Regional Sales Director, she was responsible for developing sales teams in multiple markets and increasing the digital sales of the group to several million dollars within the first year with a focus on social media advertising solutions. Robbin is a Certified Professional Co ‐Active coach trained through the Coaches Training Institute and a graduate of their intensive ten ‐month leadership program. An accredited member of the International Coach Federation, she is also a facilitator of The Leadership Circle Profle and Culture Survey. Robbin's Bigger Game and passion is to honor and serve professional women around the world by guiding and supporting them to reclaim who they are, stand in their own power and live their lives on purpose. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. In addition to private & group coaching programs, Robbin delivers workshops and retreats for like minded women to fuel the flames of transformation, and speaks publicly about how women can unleash possibilities to become change agents in the world. | 86
David Kallás David has over 10 years of experience in consulting. Since 1998, he has served as a consultant in strategy management, business process redesign and balanced scorecard. Color photo LANGUAGES • English • Portuguese • Spanish EXPERTISE • Strategy and strategic management • Balanced scorecard • Redesign of business processes © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. In 2005, he made a career change and decided to start his own company and enhance his teaching activities. He created KC&D, a consulting and education company, which has been experiencing high growth rates even during the 2008 2009 crisis. David is a PHd in strategy by FGV EAESP, and has a master's degree in administration from the University of São Paulo, with specialization at the University of Stockholm. He is also a professor of Insper, FGV, FDC, HSM Education and Executive Director of Anefac, National Association of Executives in Finance, Administration and Accounting. He is author and co organizer of the book Strategy Management: Experiences and Lessons of Brazilian Companies (Elsevier, 2005) and co author of the book Executive MBA (Scott, 2008). He currently lives in Brazil. He enjoys spending free time with his family and friends, playing football and running | 87
Amy Kessel 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Instructional Design • Facilitation & Training • Executive Coaching • Leadership Development © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Amy Kessel is a dynamic instructional designer, leadership coach and facilitator who helps her clients move into more intentional and authentic ways of living and leading. Through coaching and leadership development with a focus on emotional intelligence and positive psychology, Amy’s clients cultivate not the only outward results they seek, but also a great and lasting sense of personal fulfillment. Her expertise in linking strategy to experiential design allows organizations to bring their strategy to life through the power of the mindsets and behaviors of their people. Amy is passionate about design and facilitation and has created both virtual and in person group coaching programs for entrepreneurs, emerging leaders and executives. In her courses Amy draws heavily on concepts from neuroscience, Conscious Business, and emotional intelligence. She incorporates current industry trends in learning and development, while optimizing learning through the creation of “user friendly” tools and models. She recognizes the need for meaningful collaboration from start to finish, and uses her seasoned coaching skills to garner input at every stage of the process – from vision to completion. Amy consistently seeks to iterate, creating innovative solutions that deliver personal learning that is relevant, effective and sustainable for its audiences, while driving real business impact. | 88
Markus Kristen Markus is an executive coach and facilitator who works within group dynamics to increase team performance and does one on one coaching with leaders of globally active firms. Over the past decade, he has worked with the teams of a wide range of companies in the financial and pharmaceutical industries, among others. In his career, Markus has combined executive coaching, leadership training, team facilitating and outdoor training aspects into an effective workshop design. One of his recent coaching projects in which he used this approach involved coaching an American executive of an international pharmaceutical company for 12 months on leadership and interpersonal and intercultural communication. LANGUAGES • English • German EXPERTISE • Coaching and Markus was educated in Germany and England has a Master’s in pedagogic psychology. He was trained at facilitation and coaching schools in Germany and Great Britain and is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), the Co active coaching community and the German Association for coaching and training (dvct)In addition, Markus is a Certified Professional Co active Coach. . He lives in Hamburg, Germany. training • Leadership development • Team building • Skillful communication and conflict resolution © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 89
Magdalena Kulicka Color photo LANGUAGES • English • Polish EXPERTISE • Executive Coaching • Leadership Development • Negotiation and Conflict resolution Magdalena is a coach, trainer, and facilitator who believes that people perform at their best when they are being truthful. She brings 20 years experience in leadership practices and personal development and has worked for several industries such as FMCG, Financial, Pharmaceutical, IT, Logistic, Services, Insurance, Higher Education and Consulting. She currently works at her own company Coaching Human Capital, providing mostly co active coaching and team coaching/ workshops. She also co works with international consulting companies, is accessor and exterminator at the International Coach Federation (ICF) and Faculty member providing organizational coaching at The Coaches Training Institute (CTI). Her professional experience includes more than 1000 hours of coaching, as well as workshops and trainings for top executives and managers. She has designed and delivered training programs, specializing in executive, team and personal coaching as well as negotiation and conflict resolution. She has an energetic, passionate approach to solving problems and engaging with clients in a truthful and respectful manner. She was Director of Human Resources Department at Masterlink Express Ltd. part of Sweden Post and also worked as Senior Consultant and Co owner for Companies: Human Capital Group. She began her carrier in Yes Consensus. These roles gave her hands onexperience, from the diagnosis to the creation and implementation of development training programmes and appraisal systems. Magdalena holds a Master Degree of Psychology with specialization in Work and Organisation Psychology from Warsaw University. She is a Professional Certified Coach by the ICF, Certified Professional Co Active Coach by CTI. Additionally, she is Organizational Relationship Systems Coach by Center for Right Relationship and Authorized Facilitator of Team Diagnostic Assessment by Team Coaching International and Trainer Providing Managerial Skills workshops and Trainings. She is member of the International Coach Federation and board member of Co Active Coach Association. She has also several publications on negotiation skills and decision making, and has held presentations on these topics in international conferences in Washington, Rotterdam and Łucznica. Magdalena currently lives in Warsaw with her family. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 90
Ekkehard Kuppel Ekkehard is a global citizen with deep leadership experience across a wide range of roles (CEO, investor, entrepreneur, consultant, board member), industries (services, FMCG, media, financial institutions), countries (Germany, Spain, France, USA, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Switzerland), and companies (Axialent, Adecco Human Capital, Lee Hecht Harrison, Jacobs Holdings, 20 Minutes Holding, Mc. Kinsey & Co) In his mid 40 s he recognized that he had put a lot of professional energy on the “hard stuff” (strategies, structures, numbers); and he experienced the need and the opportunity to integrate additional key drivers for success—namely, balanced relationships and cultures as well as self actualization and purpose. LANGUAGES • German • English • Spanish • French • Portuguese EXPERTISE • High Performance • • Teams Strategic management and alignment Organization and Governance Culture Change Executive development For this purpose Ekkehard founded sum people. Today he is helping CEOs, top executives, and their teams integrate the 3 dimensions: It (goals, tasks), We (relationships), and I (self). Ekkehard is also the founder of Mountain Wisdom, a Swiss foundation that takes CEOs to the mountains to explore the fundamental questions in life. “During my corporate career I was focused on solving problems. This is what I had learned and what I was good at. Later in my career I asked: how did I contribute to these problems? I recognized that my executive task focus did limit my ability to productively relate with colleagues and partners (and actually my family) and it did not allow me to explore who I was and what I really wanted to do with my life. ” “I am still very passionate about business, I love strategy and high performance; today I am convinced that in order to achieve sustainable success we have to apply the same standards of excellence to the human dimension. ” “The corporate world is full of task oriented, hard working and ambitious executives. I want to work with those who are curious and open to integrate the We- and the I-dimension at the service of a better It (results, performance). It is my purpose to help executives take their heart to work. ” Ekkehard holds an engineering degree from the University of Karlsruhe, in Germany, a post graduate degree in international management from the Université Paris Dauphine, and a Doctorate degree in economics from the University of St. Gallen, in Switzerland. Ekkehard lives in Switzerland with his wife and two children. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 91
Kyoko Kusama Kyoko came into the field of leadership development and career counseling with more than 25 years of business experience in sales, customer service and administration. Having worked for Citibank Japan for more than two decades, Kyoko has held a variety of managerial positions, including Cash Management Business Manager and Sales Administration Head. She also led a major change initiative for three years as the Quality Director and certified Cross Functional Process Improvement Facilitator. These experiences allowed Kyoko to deepen her skills in project management, facilitation and leadership development. LANGUAGES • English • Japanese Since 2005, Kyoko’s focus has been on leadership and career development. In addition to being a certified Industrial Counselor and a Career Development Advisor, she draws on her experiences in business and management in her work. She is also actively involved in non profit organizations providing career development programs for women. EXPERTISE • Leadership A native of Japan, Kyoko lived in the United States for 10 years, and her B. S. in psychology is from the College of Mount Saint Vincent of New York. She enjoys performing arts and is passionate about going to the opera and ballet. • • development Career development Team building Project facilitation Coaching © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 92
Lisa Lahey ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER Ed. D, is Axialent’s advisor in personal and organizational transformation. Together with long time collaborator Robert Kegan, Ph. D, she is credited with a breakthrough discovery of a hidden dynamic, the “immunity to change, ” which impedes transformation. For over 20 years, Lisa and Robert have studied why people struggle to make the changes that would significantly improve their lives, and repeatedly fail at it: from losing 10 pounds to becoming better leaders, through eating healthier food or quitting a bad habit. By means of a step by step, deep soul searching methodology, Lisa and Robert guide people to close the gap between their good intentions and their behaviors. LANGUAGES • Spanish • English EXPERTISE • Immunity to change • Leadership and change management © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This work is now being used by executives, senior teams and individuals in business, governmental, and educational organizations in the United States, Europe, and Asia. It has also recently expanded its reach through the Immunity to Change MOOC, Harvard Graduate School of Education's 1 st MOOC to be taken by any individual through the Ed. X online platform. Lahey and Kegan recently received the Gislason Award for exceptional contributions to organizational leadership, joining past recipients Warren Bennis, Peter Senge, and Edgar Schein. In 2013, they received the Vision of Excellence Award from Harvard’s Institute of Coaching. Lisa is also Co director of Minds at Work, a consulting firm serving businesses and institutions around the world, and faculty at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. She is also regularly asked to present her work throughout the world, most recently in Australia, China, Kazakhstan, and New Zealand. Her seminal books, How The Way We Talk Can Change The Way We Work (2001), and Immunity to Change (2009) have been published in many languages. Lisa has been on the faculty of the World Economic Forum’s Davos Conference, and had her work featured in the Harvard Business Review, The New York Times Sunday Business Section, Oprah Magazine and Fast Company. For the past several years, Lisa has served as a trusted advisor and executive coach to leaders in the private and public sectors worldwide. A passionate pianist and hiker, Lisa lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband two sons. | 93
Philippe Laurent Philippe is working in companies as a talker, a coach and a trainer. He spent six years in a monastery between 18 and 24 years old, and discovered China as a missionary. His background in philosophy, theology and mandarin Chinese has been completed in 1994 by a master in Company Administration (IAE). He has been certified from the Dojo Coaching School (Paris) in 2006. After ten years in France within ALSTOM Transport SA, his dream becomes reality : he is sent to Shanghai to manage a metro project as Finance, HR and local manager. This experience in a multi cultural context is an opportunity to capitalize on “Happiness at Work”, the core of his today’s activity. LANGUAGES • French • English • Chinese Mandarin EXPERTISE • • • Happiness at work Leadership Emotions Engagement Chinese culture Talent development © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Philippe enjoys speaking and writing. When he published his first book “Le Bonheur au travail” (Les Editions du Siecle) in July 2010, happiness at work was a strange subject for companies. Today this subject is a concern not to be any more a problem. More and more companies are asking him to talk about it to increase awareness. He has done a TEDx talk in EMLyon in Nov. 2013 and is columnist for Lexpress. fr Magazine. As team facilitator and trainer, Philippe helps managers to create the conditions of happiness at work : delegating with trust in order to have time to lead the team and develop the individual talents. His passion for games transforms the training sessions into pleasant moments where everybody can reflect on his daily way of working, feel the importance of emotions at work and the benefits from mutual aid. In 2016 he provided 54 days of training in 9 companies located in France and in China. The YES WE CAN Groups ® he created in 2008 is an efficient post training service to develop mutual help between trainees and ensure the implementation of the individual commitment taken by the trainees. In 2016, Philippe has coached individually 16 managers (154 hours). In partnership with AKTEOS, he has provided 26 days of training to 8 companies about the Chinese culture. | 94
Lorenzo Osvaldo Lavolpe Lorenzo has extensive experience working in private companies of Argentina in the sector of Banking, Telecommunications and Services. He held managerial roles in local and international projects, with regular assignments abroad. LANGUAGES • Spanish • English EXPERTISE • Executive coaching • Organizational change • Management processes Since 2005 he works as an independent consultant and coach in the fields of organizational change processes, management process improvement, management of special projects, and executive coaching. Some of his clients are IBM Argentina, Molinos Río de la Plata, Todo Moda, Isadora, Aradhana S. A. , Quilmes Pack S. A. , Ansabo S. A. During 2003 and 2004 he worked in Canada and was in charge of the strategic design, financial planning and the organization of an Argentine Canadian company that imports and processes exotic wood floors. Throughout his professional career, he managed teams in the areas of Administration, Finance, Systems and Management Control Systems and led the deployment of large information systems and the implementation of business units, developing and coordinating multidisciplinary work teams. He is a graduate Public Accountant and also has a bachelor degree in Business Administration from the University of Buenos Aires. He attended a postgraduate program of Corporate Social Responsibility from San Andrés University, and also holds a master in E Business and E Commerce from Belgrano University. He has certifications of various courses in Ontological and Organizational coaching. Lorenzo is founder and coordinator of RAP(Red de Aprendizaje Permanente) a Lifelong Learning Network In his free time, he enjoys reading, watching movies and practicing yoga. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 95
Philippe Leonard LANGUAGES • English • French EXPERTISE • Leadership development • Executive coaching • Team efficiency and alignment • Emotional intelligence • Interpersonal relationships • Assertiveness and self-esteem • Culture change • Organization operating system © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Philippe offers a combination of 15 years of hands on experience in managing and leading people in international organizations, along with 12 years expertise in leadership development and coaching. His mission is to help people and organizations connect to their true nature and express it successfully, skillfully and sustainably. Central to his approach is the ontology of leadership: who one is “being” as a leader shapes one’s perceptions, emotions, creative imagination, thinking, planning and consequently one’s actions in the exercise of leadership. In addition to this, Philippe combines in his practices the integral model, generative change, neurolinguistic programming, and conscious business. This combination allows the discovery of linguistic, emotional and physical distinctions supportive of culture change, breakthrough thinking, authentic leadership and teamwork. Philippe is committed to facilitating the emergence and expression of leadership in individuals, groups and organization. Since 2003, as an executive coach and a facilitator in people and organizational development, he has worked with individuals, teams and organization from 30 different nationalities on 5 continents in many different sectors including automotive, banking, consumer goods, energy, financial services, insurance, ITC, luxury goods, pharmaceutical, public sector, public relations and public affairs. Philippe has several certifications in the fields of management, marketing, communication and coaching (Newfield Ontological Coaching, Generative Coaching). In addition, he is a master practitioner and a trainer in Neurolinguistic Programming. He is a qualified practitioner of several development tools for leaders and team such as: Barrett Cultural Transformation, Workplace Big 5, Conflict Dynamics Profile, Life Style Inventory, MPA/Mindsonar, MBTI and Firo B. Philippe is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and a Mentor Coach affiliated at the International Coaching Federation (ICF). | 96
Laurence Leveque Color photo Laurence is a coach and facilitator. She helps teams and individuals to set their vision, build on their expertise and competences, and improve their business efficiency. She works with cross functional and multicultural teams, coaching complex projects and change management. One of her favorite subjects is interpersonal communication. She is experienced in developing and facilitating leadership programs for company executives. Laurence is very much focused on talents as a platform to drive change, and she often integrates different creative approaches to coach individuals and teams. She is convinced by the power of working at the mind, emotional and body level. LANGUAGES • French • English EXPERTISE • Executive coaching • Leadership development • Inter-personal communication • Team building • Career coaching © 2014 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Laurence has a Master degree in Engineering (Ecole Centrale Paris) and has worked for over 15 years for major multinational corporations, where she held various management positions in R&D, Technical Services, Sales, and Strategic Marketing. She has a vast experience in project team management and product innovation, in international environment. Throughout her career, she took pride at highlighting and valuing the link between individual skills and the expected business results. She decided to dedicate her time to people development in 2007, trained in coaching, systemic approach and facilitation. She is an NLP Practitioner, and is licensed to use various tools such as The International Profiler (intercultural competencies), TMSDI (team roles), Human Synergistics LSI and LI (styles of interactions with others). Laurence is passionate about children development and is happy to dedicate time to her family. She is a swing dancer and likes Jazz music for its creativity and freedom. | 97
Frieda Lin 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border LANGUAGES • Mandarin • English EXPERTISE • Organizational and leadership development • Strategic planning • Decision making Frieda dedicates herself into organizational development and transformation through variety of tailor made leadership programs as a full time facilitator, trainer and organization development consultant since 2005. She has years of experiences in helping multinational companies in consensus building, multilevel decisional making, strategic planning, leadership development and corporate wide communication meetings. Frieda is an IAF certified professional facilitator as well as a certified CTo. PF (Technology of Participation) facilitator and trainer by Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA) as well as certified MBTI trainer. She has more than 14 years of hands on executive leadership experiences in multinational companies. Frieda worked in a multinational English Learning Product Company at annual revenue of 250 millions in the market of Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. She grew with the company through the positions of Service Specialist, Chief of Staff, Sales Group Leader, Service Director, Training Director and trained Black Belt of Six Sigma to promote Six Sigma in the company. She has been promoted through all level of managerial positions. Successfully building up and managing the infrastructure of service to support the dramatic growing sales, Frieda then chose to focus her energy and contribution in people development and strategic planning with senior executives for service/business development until 2003. Afterwards, Frieda joined Johnson & Johnson Consumer Taiwan as organization development manager. She mainly contributed in the global competitiveness assessment project which intended to strengthen the organization through continuous process improvement. Her Six Sigma knowledge was well utilized and integrated in leading the projects to complete the global assessment and building up the foundation for improvement. Furthermore, she joined the regional team in developing series of programs to introduce the Six Sigma based managerial philosophy and roll out to other Asian J&J counties. She has worked with variety of industries, including high tech, pharmaceutical, computer manufacture, software design, banking, FMCG, automobile, etc. She mostly designs the participatory process for organizations to transform in consensus building or business planning as well as provides participatory leadership programs to develop leadership capacity. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 98
Leanne Lowish Leanne is Head of Delivery Excellence for Axialent in the North America region. She has worked as an executive consultant, coach, team coach, coach supervisor and facilitator for 18 years, since 1998. Leanne has lead a wide variety of change initiatives and diverse teams in the corporate, public and voluntary sector. Her clients include: Microsoft, Cisco, Pinterest, BNP Parabas, HSBC, Astra. Zenca, Sapient. Nitro, British Gas Business, Gazprom, Sackers LLB, Cap. Gemini, Bespoke Foods Ltd, Ceroc UK, Bupa, The Metropolitan Police, Ministry of Defence, Greenpeace, RAPt, LVSC, Hope Worldwide. LANGUAGES • English During her corporate career, Leanne held a variety of jobs including banking and consultancy for Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank, Senior Media Planner for Mc. Cann Erickson and Faulds Advertising, and qualitative researcher for The Planning Partnership. In the voluntary sector, Leanne worked in L&D and Talent Development for various charities and consulted for a range of organizations such as London Voluntary Services Council, Hope Worldwide, Greenpeace and The Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust. Leanne is also an accredited Coaching Supervisor and is the Asia Pacific Director of one of the leading coaching supervision training organizations, the Coaching Supervision Academy. She works with them to set standards and good practice in coaching and facilitation across Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. EXPERTISE • Executive Coaching • Leadership Leanne holds a Masters in Education and has Postgraduate Degrees in Community Education, Counselling • • Development Team Building & Coaching Facilitation & Training Coaching Supervision & Mentoring Psychometric assessments Approaches and Psychosynthesis Counselling. Accredited as an Executive Coach by the Association for Coaching UK, she is certified in Organisation and Relationship Systems Coaching, Leadership Embodiment Coaching and has a Diploma in Coaching Supervision. She is accredited in Hogan and LSI psychometric assessments. Her approach is eclectic and integrative, due to her 30 years of studying and working in human development. She uses both leading edge methodologies as well as sound research based traditional approaches on how individuals, teams, organisations and industries develop and change. She is both pragmatic and intuitive in her approach, recognising the opportunities and challenges of working in times of exponential change and she focuses on getting to the bottom line – she attributes this to her antipodean roots. Leanne is originally from New Zealand, has lived and worked in NZ, Australia, Germany, England, Scotland currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 99
José Martí holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from ITAM. He has been a senior executive in the areas of human resources and organizational development. He worked 24 years for General Electric, starting as a human resources trainee and holding several positions within the HR division. He lived eight years in the United States and became an HR vice president for General Electric Latin America. As such, he had the opportunity to interact with legendary Jack Welch. LANGUAGES • Spanish • English • German EXPERTISE • Leadership • Organizational Afterward, he served as head of HR for Bank of America Mexico and ended his corporate career as HR CEO at Citibank Latin America. Today, he is a lecturer and consultant in leadership and culture transformation. Over 10, 000 people from Citibank and other companies in Latin America and the United States have acclaimed his lectures on leadership. José is currently an Axialent strategic partner and an advisor to several companies. He is married and has five children. He loves mountain biking and Bikram Yoga. development • Culture change © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 100
Marcelo Masini Melo Marcelo is a consultant with a background in the business world. He has held various management positions during his 26 year career, with a focus on leadership and business development, strategy and innovation, and trade and sales. For two decades of his career, Marcelo worked in the infrastructure and technology of telecommunication companies, where he learned invaluable strategies of successful businesses in a competitive market. LANGUAGES • English • Portuguese EXPERTISE • Business development • Human dimension integration in business • Strategic thinking • Leadership skills • Creative innovation © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Marcelo has been involved in startup organizations and was recently the director of Amana Key, a center that specializes in management excellence and organizational reinvention of large companies. Marcelo aims to employ strategies and innovation in even the smallest areas of life and is always seeking further development for himself and for his clients. Having graduated from the Federal University of Uberlândiaan in Brazil in electrical engineering, Marcelo continued his studies with a postgraduate degree in international business relationships (University of Central Florida) and an international executive M. B. A. (APG Amana Key). He is based in São Paulo, Brazil, is married, and has two children. | 101
Cristiane Maziero Cristiane is a consultant with 18 years experience in Corporate Education, graduated coach of the Sociedade Latino Americana de Coach e Lambent of Brazil. She holds an MBA in Strategic Management of People from FIA USP, specializing in Groups by the Sociedade Brasileira de Dinâmica dos Grupos, as well as a post graduate degree in Human Resources management, post graduate in Psychology Integrative Approach; and a degree in Social Work. She is co author of books Gestão do Tempo e Produtividade and Master Coaching published by Ser Mais editorial. LANGUAGES • English • Portuguese EXPERTISE • Strategic management of human resources • Groups • Integrative psychology Cristiane is a guest professor on Coaching and Succession planning at the MBA of FIA USP, focused on meaningful conversations methodology World Café; as well as specialized on Cooperative Games and Circle Dances, a speaker and consultant. She served as a consultant for companies like Gerdau, RBS, Light Rio de Janeiro, Johnson and Johnson, Firmenich, in organizational culture projects, leadership training and implementation of new management models. Cristiane is strongly client oriented and has a creative and innovative approach in terms of analysis and problem solving. She is also versatile and independent and has a powerful sense of improvisation and persuasion. She enjoys knowledge sharing and has experience in training staff and developing people. In her spare time, she volunteers at Casa Transitória de Jundiaí. She is a social entrepreneur and supporter of animal rights movements. Cristiane also visited India as a pilgrim. She is married and lives in Vinhedo São Paulo. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 102
Brian Mcilroy Brian has over 20 years experience helping senior teams and organizations improve their performance through Top Team Development, Culture Change, Leadership Development and Coaching. He has worked with a wide range of clients and industries including pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, internet, technology and financial services in North America, Europe and Asia. These have included Novartis, Unilever, Shell, Bosch Siemens, Astra Zeneca, Microsoft, ‘ 3’, Google, HSBC, AXA among other clients. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Top Team Facilitation • Design of international leadership programs • Design of culture transformation. • Executive Coaching © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. One of his main specialties over the last few years has been working with Senior Executive teams to enhance their capabilities and performance. Originally from Northern Ireland where he went to university, Brian moved to London where he worked in a number of major corporations and businesses, supporting and leading organization change. He spent time in Seattle and New York, leading organization and culture transformation to help Getty Images grow to become the world largest international provider of online imagery and services. In 2007, Brian moved into international consulting in order to work with a broader range of organizations and industries around the world and to pursue an ambition to help businesses improve their performance by more consciously integrating the technical and human dimensions of their organizations. Brian has a passion for mountains and has trekked and climbed across Europe, Asia and South America. He also runs marathons and coaches others to run. | 103
Juan David Mejía Juan David is an entrepreneur, consultant, researcher, facilitator and personal coach, who has worked with numerous management teams in organizations of the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Central America. Before joining Axialent, he founded a hydrocarbon combustion optimization company and a training company in theory and practice of financial intelligence. Besides successfully developing marketing networks in Colombia, USA, Chile, and Mexico, he has lectured in over 50 cities in Latin America and his programs and seminars were widely sold in audio format. LANGUAGES • English • Spanish EXPERTISE • Values-based • • leadership development High-performance team building Systems theory applied to business Strategic planning Personal highperformance techniques © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. As coach and facilitator he has specialized in applying the principles of Conscious Business, conversational skills, mental model work, neuro linguistic programming, negotiation strategies and conflict resolution, to help clients develop high performing teams aligned with the organizational strategy. Juan David holds a master in Computer Science and a bachelor degree in System Engineering. He published several papers in journals specializing in automated manufacturing control. He certified as Master of the Avatar course. In his free time he enjoys playing soccer and tennis. He also practices yoga and meditation, and he loves movies. | 104
Joaquin Mendez Joaquin is a leadership development professional with diverse experiences in over 60 countries in the area of training and leadership development, corporate sales, business management, diversity and global programs. With nearly 20 years of experience, Joaquin has worked with organizations and people from all walks of life. For over 15 years while working with Fortune 500 corporations in sales and training divisions, he has helped develop new markets in Latin America, North America, Asia and Australia. He has delivered Leadership and Consciousness development courses to educational institutions, government offices, non profits and private organizations. LANGUAGES • English • Spanish EXPERTISE • Leadership and Consciousness development • Cultural Diversity He has also collaborated as a Specialty Staff member of several international organizations in fostering the spirit of cooperation among nations in the world and promoting diversity. Joaquin is the founder of Life Leadership International, a training firm dedicated to developing the potential of people. He integrates his corporate expertise with his consciousness development background and cross cultural skills to create experiential programs that spark self discovery & awareness, mindset shifting, and skills to unleash authentic leadership. Joaquin holds a Masters in International Management from St Thomas University. He is a Professional Co Active Coach from The Coaches Training Institute in San Francisco and an Avatar Master from Stars Edge International. He has been featured on Univision television with his program “Liderazgo de Vida” (Leadership in Life). He has also been a guest on radio programs and has had articles featured in several magazines. When he’s not delivering workshops, you can find him spending time with his wife and children and playing sports. An athlete throughout his life, he has represented his country, state, and diverse institutions, playing and coaching competitive sports for the last 30 years. Joaquin’s purpose is to inspire, and empower people to all of their possibilities; at work, at play and in life. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 105
Michele Mesnik Michele has over 15 years of experience in the fields of finance, e Commerce and marketing in multinational companies such as United Airlines and Citibank. She had a successful corporate life both in Brazil and the US, and is considered an expert on Coaching, Leadership development, Cross cultural management and Strategic Planning. Throughout her career, Michele has experienced Citibank’s and Travelers’ merger, Banco Nacional’s liquidation and United Airlines’ bankruptcy. These events made her better understand how companies could fail and succeed and the impact of corporate culture on employees’ morale and on a company’s financial performance. LANGUAGES • English • Portuguese EXPERTISE • Executive coaching • Facilitation • Leadership development • Team building • Cross-cultural management © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Upon returning to Brazil in 2008, Michele expanded her career by becoming an Executive Coach. She has a passion for helping people develop their full potential, making conscious choices, while seeking a better balance between personal and professional life. Michele provides executive coaching, career coaching and job interview preparation. She has a special interest in coaching women, especially mothers, helping them to live more fully and with greater satisfaction. Since 2010 she is also a Marketing Professor Executive MBA at the Brazilian Business School and was ranked by students as one of the top professors at the MBA program. Michele has a Bachelor degree in Business Administration from the Pontificia Universidade Catolica in Rio de Janeiro. She also holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University) with specialization in Marketing, Finance and Entrepreneurship. Michele is a Certified Coach through ICI Integrated Coaching Institute course credentialed by the ICF. Michele is currently based in São Paulo with her husband their 2 sons. In her spare time, she enjoys playing tennis, traveling, dancing and reading. | 106
Joshua Middleman LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Business Development • Strategy • Fundraising • Social Entrepreneurship/ Intrapreneurship • Innovation Partnerships © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Josh is a proven business development and social change strategist, with a focus on strategic communications, multi stakeholder partnerships, and social entrepreneurship. Currently Josh is a member of Axialent’s Faculty Network. In addition, he is the Director of Partnerships for Ashoka’s Changemakers, a global non for profit committed to the power of personal and collective agency to create change in the world. In this capacity Josh leads the effort to build strategic partnerships with corporations, foundations and other non profit organizations interested in funding transformative social innovation. Prior to joining Axialent and Ashoka, Josh worked as a political fundraiser and campaign consultant in support of progressive candidates, consulted for the UNDP and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana working to enhance the prospects of a community owned eco tourism venture. He has worked with organizations such as Intel, SAP, Accenture, The City of New York, the Rockefeller Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Glaxo. Smith. Kline, and the G 20. Josh holds a Bachelors degree from Ithaca College and a Masters in Political Science from the American University in Cairo. He has an intermediate level knowledge of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and a basic knowledge of Ghanaian dialect (Twi). He has many interests including history, politics, music, movies and sports and is both an avid reader and scribbler. Josh is married and lives in Chicago, Illinois. | 107
Carlos Agustín Moreno For over 25 years Carlos held the positions of Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at diverse family enterprises, having the opportunity to meet all sort of challenges and specific issues related to family businesses. He currently serves on the Board Of Directors of some family own companies. During 2009 and 2010 Carlos was President of AEI CONTRACT, an innovative group of economic interest consisting of twenty companies. They jointly participated in projects related to construction, interior design and decoration. LANGUAGES • Spanish • English EXPERTISE • Negotiation • Business Development • Strategy • Marketing & Communication • Family Business Management © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Along with other Asturian entrepreneurs, he prompted the creation of the Asturian Association of Family Enterprise, and he was a member of the first board of directors for a period of 4 years. Carlos has studied engineering and has a degree in Systems Management. He has also studied sociology at the UNED and holds an MBA from IEDE. He also participated of the Leadership and Management of International Trade course dictated by EUROFORUM El Escorial. Carlos lives in Asturias. He is married and has 2 children. In his spare time he enjoys his family, friends, traveling and playing sports, especially tennis. | 108
José Antonio Moure Ferreiro Color photo LANGUAGES • Spanish • Galician EXPERTISE • Management Skills • Leadership • Motivation and Coaching • Conflict Management and Negotiation José Antonio is a facilitator and trainer in Management Skills, Leadership, Conflict Management and Negotiation, Motivation and Coaching, fields in which he has developed innovative and engaging training methodologies and outdoor trainings. His consulting experience is complemented with his business activity as an entrepreneur and lecturer. He has developed trainings for corporate executives of large Spanish and Latin American companies such as: REPSOL, ONCE, Grupo Banco Popular, Caixa Galicia, Santander, Caja Madrid, BBVA, Cajastur, Lilly, Du. Pont, Coca cola, Thyssen, Campofrío, Asturiana de Zinc, BP, Pfizer, Red Cross, Pelayo, Saica, Acesa R Cable, DHL, Banespa, Santander Serfin, Seguros Monterrey. He is co founder of the Escuela de Sucesores, an initiative to educate and raise awareness of future managers of family businesses going through the difficult challenge of succession. The main objective is to give them the tools to deal with it successfully. In his career he has held various management positions and was senior management in various companies. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of several corporations. José Antonio holds a degree in Geography and History from the University of Oviedo and has studied Philosophy and Theology. He is Guest Professor at various Universities and Business Schools. Within this field, he is involved in the development and management of on how to apply various social sciences’ research projects to the field of business innovation. He also stands out for his role as communicator and collaborator in various publications related to the world of HR. In his free time, José Antonio enjoys being with his friends (he loves to cook for them), reading, sport (coach of a football team) and music. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 109
Nathalie Moyens Nathalie is a coach and consultant with two decades of experience doing marketing, sales, and major account management in global organizations and multicultural settings. In her career, she has been involved in corporate reorganizations and mergers as well as change and performance initiatives. Most of her work has been in the IT sectors with Financial Services clients. LANGUAGES • Dutch • English • French EXPERTISE • Sales-oriented coaching • Change and performance management • Communication and interpersonal skills • Mergers and reorganization For the past three years, Nathalie has been a freelance consultant and coach aiming to improve her clients’ operations and processes, sales and relationship building, team motivation, and recruitment efforts. Her projects have included facilitating mergers, assessing sales and leadership skills and providing advice on personal development plans, also hosting workshops, among others. She helps companies to building a more effective business culture working on mindsets with the guiding principle “Performance and Alignment go hand in hand”. Previously, as a Major Account Manager at Gartner for six years, Nathalie took on both sales and coordination roles. In addition to being responsible for the sales of research and strategic consulting services, she acted as a supervisor of the sales representatives in a major cross border European Financial Services team. The first decade of Nathalie’s career was uniquely marked by her companies’ growth, mergers, and restructuring. Having started in the early 1990 s as a Marketing and Direction Assistant at Marben, Nathalie was promoted to Sales Executive when the company merged with Atos (now called Atos Origin). Nathalie went on to become the Senior Executive at the startup OTS, and when OTS merged, she continued working for the company (called Aubay) as a Senior Account Manager. In these roles, she did management and human resources work as well as client portfolio development. She has a degree in German Philology from the Université de Liège. She has also completed a number of training courses, including the NLP Master Practitioner course at the Institut Ressources in Belgium and a Coaching Course at the Institut Repères in Paris. She currently resides in Brussels, Belgium. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 110
Steve Munro Steve has worked as a trainer, facilitator and consultant with organizations, teams, individuals and groups for over 20 years, helping them develop their capability and personal competencies to deliver business results. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Leadership and management • Team excellence coaching and mentoring • Capability and competency development • Workshop and training design Steve’s background as a Senior Learning & Development consultant working for a range of blue chip organizations has given him a strong commercial understanding, combined with a wealth of strategic and operational experience of organizational change and management development. Steve has worked in Scandinavia, Western Europe, and the US. His work has included National Training and Business Award nominated projects. Steve is the current founder and Director of Atkinson Munro Learning Consultants where he focuses on helping leaders and managers develop themselves and their teams and create energized and engaged workforces. Before turning to the consulting industry Steve worked at both ICI and Astra. Zeneca PLC in a variety of internal consultancy & L&D roles. At Astra. Zeneca, he helped the HR function develop new partnering capability, supported three major functional change programs, led an internal consulting team, developed a highly regarded leadership development event and managed the implementation of a skills training program for 6000 people to support a culture change in the R&D function. Recent consulting assignments include facilitation on a Global Graduate scheme for a Global bank and Developing a variety of Leadership programmes for a range of blue chip organisations. Steve also gained a certificates in Organizational Development to compliment his other qualifications in MBTI, LSI , NLP, Performance Consulting and Change Management. He is the proud father of two grown up boys and soon to be Grandfather. He likes to keep fit with frequent trips to the gym. He loves walking in the hills with his wife and watching Manchester City FC. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 111
Kerrie Murray-Leowy Consultant With a background as an organisational psychologist and 20 years consulting experience facilitating individual, group and organisational transformation, Kerrie knows the intrinsic connection between individual capability, beliefs, values and mindsets and organisational performance. She is committed to enabling organisations to realise their strategic objectives through their people. Prior to her consulting role Kerrie has held leadership roles in private, public and not for profit organisations. She has experience working at all levels within an organisation from Executive Leadership teams to front line managers and across diverse industry sectors. Kerrie is well recognised internationally for her contribution to the field of Collaborative Engagement and Conflict Resolution. LANGUAGES • English Her work is supported by a whole system perspective where all the elements are interdependent and mutually reinforcing. Clear connections are made between mental complexity, behaviour and the organisational system context. EXPERTISE • Leadership Informed by the latest research in neuroscience, Kerrie’s work enables leaders to update their internal operating system and increase their mental agility. By adding new insights, skills and capabilities individuals widen their repertoire of responses essential for responding to increasing complexity. Development • Executive Coaching • Team Alignment • Conflict Resolution Her high performing team alignment sessions provide a context where purpose becomes the compass to bring into being what matters most. ‘Courageous Conversations’ become enablers for increased trust, engagement, vision and focused achievement. Kerrie’s coaching sessions explore the “inner game” of leadership that drives the behaviour of exceptional performance. In partnering with her clients they develop a deep sense of purpose and personal accountability to use their influence. Kerrie enables challenges to be seen from new perspectives creating awareness of unseen and unknown aspects that are important to overall functioning and successful outcomes. Kerrie lives in Sydney. A violinist, she rejuvenates with music and having time with her family. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 112
Tara Nolan Tara has done consulting work in England, the U. S. , the Cayman Islands, and across Europe in the financial, pharmaceutical and manufacturing sectors, among others. Her clients have included Deutsche Bank, Lloyds Bank, Standard Life, Pioneer Asset Management, Morgan Stanley, PWC, and Pfizer. Starting her career as a foreign exchange trader for Morgan Stanley in London, Tara later became an Executive Search Consultant for the global company Whitehead. Mann and also worked for Pricewaterhouse. Coopers. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Executive coaching • Leadership development • Group facilitation • Team and group coaching • Corporate cultural workshops She later decided to commence a learning journey to understand employee engagement issues, from the perspective of a leader and coach. She studied ontological coaching at The Newfield Network in Colorado and applies this approach to all of her coaching engagements. After these experiences, Tara established her own executive coaching business. As a consultant, Tara has worked on a variety of projects. At the government agency Enterprise Ireland, she provided coaching and 360 degree feedback for newly appointed sales managers who formerly held technical roles. Also, as a consultant for the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, she developed and delivered an 18 month leadership development program with a heavy emphasis on executive coaching. In addition to her M. B. A. and Master’s from Trinity College Dublin, Tara has studied professional and personal mastery at Newfield Ltd, a coach training group recognized by the International Coaching Federation. She has a diploma with the Institute for Generative Leadership where she completed the first year of “CEO, ” coaching excellence in organizations. Tara is an advocate and practitioner in Ashtanga yoga and meditation. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 113
Olivier Onghena-’t Hooft Olivier has a broad international and multi cultural experience in several roles (CEO, managing partner, entrepreneur, adviser, board member), in different industries (automotive, aviation, finance, luxury goods, media, pharmaceuticals, steel, telecom), for different types and personalities of leaders and in different countries and regions (he traveled, researched, worked and lived in more than 70 countries). As a result of a life changing accident, he realized that true fulfillment comes from pursuing what is most important in life and wherewith one can self actualize and contribute, in one or another way, to help Man(kind), Society and the World progress. LANGUAGES • Dutch • French • English • Spanish • German EXPERTISE • Organizational • • • excellence & Culture transformation Purpose & value based vision & strategy building Noble purpose leadership Team engineering Executive coaching & mentoring High potential development © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Olivier’s main expertise and passion is advising organization leaders, entrepreneurs and business owners how to achieve organizational excellence, outstanding board & executive team performance and authentic charismatic leadership. Olivier helps these leaders to make the link between strategy, leadership and culture on the one hand higher purpose (‘why do you do what you do? ’) on the other hand. His high impact work with corporate clients such as Arcelor. Mittal, BSH Home Appliances, Brussels Airlines/Lufthansa, GSK, ING, Maersk, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Shell, Straumann, as well as with family offices and government(leader)s has included organizational culture transformation, management board optimization, inspirational leadership development, executive mentoring and high potential development. He feels comfortable working on the individual, the team as well as the organizational level, and uses as his foundations the wisdom from systemic dynamics, integral philosophy, conscious capitalism, shared value and the Buddhist four bodies principles. Olivier holds a Master in international economic relations, postgraduate degrees in international law, commerce and politics from the Free University Brussels, and a degree in services marketing. He participated in many (self ) leadership & spiritual development seminars and initiatives around the globe. Olivier lectures at the Free University of Brussels, writes business columns on inspiration, leadership, entrepreneurship, success and purpose, is vice chairman of LEAD IN and founder of Wisdom Encounters. He is board member and cultural philanthropist for a diversity of organizations and initiatives. He travels extensively but lives in Brussels with his Italian partner. | 114
Christian Hvidbo has developed his professional career through more than 25 years in the areas of oil and gas, manufacturing, and fast moving consumer goods (FMCG). He has held senior positions as global head of learning, group employee engagement manager, Western Europe OE — L&D and talent manager, and global change — cultural manager. Christian’s focus is on helping organizations drive up their performance through leadership development and behavior coaching. LANGUAGES • English • Spanish • Portuguese With a distinct passion for building strong leadership and culturally resilient teams, he is known for facilitating from the heart, being challenging while empathetic, and sharing professional and personal experiences, which results in a strong and unique ability to inspire, influence and motivate people cross culturally. EXPERTISE • Culture and behavior He is recognized for client rapport and interpersonal skills that lead to robust business partnering and trust based relationships, thus helping people thrive and perform. change • Leadership development • Senior leadership team building • Strategic alignment and engagement Born in Argentina and brought up in Brazil, he has lived in London and is currently living in Amsterdam. Along the years, he obtained extensive travel experience, managing transnationally and leading projects throughout Europe, U. S. , Asia and Latin America. Christian quickly adapts to diverse locations, cultures and work environments. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. He is married and has two teenage children. He is an avid marathon runner; and in his free time, he also practices yoga and is engaged in charitable work. | 115
Elena Ortega Color photo LANGUAGES • Spanish EXPERTISE • Leadership development • Executive Coaching • Conflict management • Communication © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Elena has 13 years of experience in consulting and over eight years in Leadership development. She provides leadership skills, coaching, communication, conflict management and negotiation training to executives and middle management of large companies. For years she has been working as an external coach for different companies and has also been a pioneer in playing the role of an organization's internal coach. She developed her career in prestigious firms such as Pricewaterhouse. Coopers, and makeateam and Nycomed Pharma. She is well aware of the training and talent development needs and trends of the pharmaceutical industry. For several years she has designed and implemented scientific training solutions and skills for a commercial laboratory network. Elena has a degree in law from the University of Valencia and a Master in Legal Business, from the Instituto de Empresa (Madrid). She has completed the Executive Program in Human Resource Studies at the Center Garrigues (Madrid). In addition, she is certified as a Professional Coach by the European School of Coaching and certified as an Associate Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation. She also teaches at several business schools in Spain. She has led and launched a major skills development project for more than 1, 000 students at a University in Madrid. She is fond of analog and digital photography, enjoys making photographic getaways to portray the world through her lens. | 116
Raúl Pacheco SENIOR PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT, AXIALENT CHILE Raúl has more than 25 years of experience in managing various business projects. He has an extensive managerial and business consulting experience for various clients in a wide range of industries. He currently works as a Coach Consultant dedicated to creating communication programs and comprehensive experiential learning, and as an Executive and Organizational Coach. LANGUAGES • Spanish • English EXPERTISE • Organizational Learning. • Leadership and Organizational Development. • Consultant in Communication and Corporate Affairs. • Ontological Coach. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. He is an architect, graduated from the Javeriana University of Colombia, and an expert Ontological Coach certified by The Newfield Network. He is the Founding President of the ICF International Coach Federation, Chapter Chile, and also owner of BE Consultores Ltda. Former CEO of Wunderman Y & R Inc. Chile, he also works as an assistant Coach of the Center for Creative Leadership CCL and as an Associate Coach for The Oxford Group Coaching. Raúl is the Director of Management Skills at the MBA of Industrial Engineering, University of Chile. Consultant and individual and group facilitator of programs in Leadership, Team and Effective Communication programs for various clients in Latin America: in Chile, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico and El Salvador, among which are: Anglo American Chile, Banco de Credito del Peru, CEPAL UN SURA Group, Novartis Chile, Tecnofarma, CMR Falabella, Veolia Group, Movistar, among others. Raúl has a focus on Integral Coaching and Consulting, based on his extensive experience with organizations, which enables him to explore the unique challenges of the business, along with the development of leadership skills, teamwork and effective communication. As Executive Coach he establishes a relationship of trust and collaboration focused on the objectives and challenges of the executives, using assessment tools and self observation that may enhance skills and competencies, together with the detailed monitoring of goals and personal professional and organizational goals. | 117
Gregorio (Goyo) Panadero SENIOR MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS ADVISOR 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border Goyo has extensive professional experience in large multinationals. In the last 12 years he has led the Communications and Corporate Reputation Departments under the terms of five presidents in Deloitte, Ferrovial and BBVA, all of them Global Fortune 500 companies. Currently he is Senior Marketing & Communications Advisor at Axialent and continues to be linked to BBVA as Communication Advisor to the CEO and other members of the Management Committee. Goyo is about to conclude his process of international coaching certification, according to CTI´s Co Active Coach Training Program. LANGUAGES • Spanish • Italian • English • French EXPERTISE • Strategic • • • Communications Storytelling Executive Coaching PR / Media relations CSR programs Entrepreneurship © 2014 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. In January 2013, and after 25 years in large companies, Goyo Panadero has focused his professional career on the research of leadership in senior managers, transmedia storytelling and in the world of philanthropy. Together with Ana Folgueira, has created Impossible Tellers, a small advisory and consultancy firm specialized in projects of communications and brand strategy, transmedia storytelling and change management for executive directors. After several years carrying out various social projects in different CSR departments he managed in large multinationals, in October 2011 he founded “Dreamtellers Foundation”. Gregorio has a journalist degree with a diploma in Political Science (UNED) and an MBA (Iade UAM) and an Executive MBA of Insead. He has been profesor and speaker in business schools such as Esade, Iese and “Ïnstituto de Empresa”. Goyo is the president of “Dreamtellers Foundation” and supports other NGO organizations such as AMREF (africans flying doctors). In his free time, his true passion is rescue diving , besides going to the movies, theatre and reading. He is married and has two daughters, aged 13 and 11. | 118
Humberto Parro Humberto is a project consultant in leadership development, culture and talent management. He performed in areas of Organizational Development and Corporate Education at Ultragaz and Volkswagen Bank. Before becoming partner at Blend and consultant at Axialent, he worked as a consultant in the practice of Leadership & Talent in Hay Group Brazil, and later in Towers Watson, two of the most recognized international consulting human resources firms in the world. On both occasions, he implemented solutions for customers in different segments, having acted in projects in Brazil and in the USA. LANGUAGES • Portuguese • English • Spanish EXPERTISE • Leadership Development • Organizational learning • Team Development • Emotional intelligence © 2014 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. His experience includes designing and implementing competency management models, assessment and leadership development, coaching and talent management programs. Some of his recent clients include: Allergan, Banco VWW, Bayer, Cocamar, DPA, Endesa, Embraer, Itau Unibanco, Light, Locate, Monsanto, Renner, Renova Energia, Santo Antonio Energia, Serasa Experian, Stelo, Unimed, V & M, among others. He is graduated in Psychology from PUC SP (Brazil), with emphasis in Organizational Psychology and Behavioral Analysis. He holds an MBA in Business Administration awarded by the Foundation Getulio Vargas EAESP and methodology Coach NL 1 – Neuro. Leadership Institute. | 119
Lynn Pearce PHOTO Lynn has over 25 years experience in management consulting primarily in the area of culture change and leadership development undertaking projects for a variety of organisations. She knows that it takes commitment and focus to achieve lasting behaviour change and the benefits that come from building a culture for success Her expertise lies in assisting organisations to develop in their people the mindsets, skills, and behaviours necessary for them to achieve their strategic goals. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Culture Change • Leadership Development • Culture diagnostic and design • Facilitation Originally from the UK, Lynn emigrated to Australia in the late 70’s and worked on projects throughout Australia, New Zealand, UK and Asia. The various assignments that Lynn has undertaken have exposed her to a broad range of business sectors, including finance & insurance; IT; engineering; health and pharmaceuticals; utilities and mining. She primarily focuses on organisational development including diagnostic research, culture development programmes, curriculum design, project management and facilitation. She has been involved in large organisational culture change projects working with people such as Professor Roger Collins of the Australian Graduate School of Management; and Rick Ross, co author with Peter Senge of “The Fifth Discipline Handbook”. Her approach is to help organisations identify areas of focus for change and concentrate on doing a few things well, rather than trying to do too much. In her life away from work Lynn loves travelling to all parts of the globe both and exploring ‘off the beaten track’ and has done things such as trekking in Nepal, camel riding in Rajasthan; visiting a wildlife sanctuary in Rawanda to see the mountain gorillas, and paddling her surf ski with dolphins off the coast of Sydney. She also has recently taken up dragon boat racing and is hoping to become adept enough to be invited to join a racing team soon. © 2014 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 120
Rolando Pelliccia Consultant with 30 years of experience in organizational learning and personal development as levers for Business conscious companies. Develops and conducts management programs of People and Teams, Effectiveness in Teamwork, commercial and management Negotiating, Assessment and Executive Coaching and clarification strategic of processes. His most recent works include organizations such as Am. Bev, Arteris, Alcatel Lucent, Bano GMF, Caterpillar, Carrefour, CSN, GE, Arcelor Mittal Group, Ecorodovias Group, LATAM Airlines, Nestle, Sanofi, The Body Shop and TV Globo both in Brazil and in Latin America. LANGUAGES • Portuguese • English • Spanish EXPERTISE • Organizational learning and Personal development • Effectiveness in Teamwork Commercial and Management negotiating © 2014 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. He has held management functions in the area of Citibank Education for Latin America and was Director of Trigono Consultants and Partner Director of Hay Group. Has published several articles in newspapers and magazines. Rolando has a Degree in Public Relations by the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE), Buenos Aires. Specialization in Internal Comunications and Company Image in Latin American Confederation of Public Relations (CIRP), Barcelona and Marketing services for the higher School of Advertising and Marketing (ESPM), Sao Paulo. | 121
Lawrence Philbrook 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border Lawrance began working in community development and participatory leadership in the US, then in India and Africa. He has great passion for process design, long term organizational change and expanding the facilitation learning community. He has designed and facilitated participatory processes in varied cultural settings with government, business and community based projects in over 25 nations, with a focus for the last twenty years on Greater China. His clients include companies such as TUV Rheinland , United Nations, Philip Morris International, Abbott Laboratory , Zurich Insurance and ING Life Insurance. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Organizational Change • Leadership Development • Executive Coaching/Mentoring • Program Design © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Previously, Larry was Program Design Director at the Institute of Cultural Affairs of Malaysia and Program Facilitation Director at the Institute of Cultural Affairs in the Philippines. He is a certified To. P Facilitator and Assessor, he is also certified in Lominger 360 and Hogan 360. Born and brought up in the USA, Larry attended the University of Illinois in Sociology. In his free time he enjoys immersing in local cultures and exploring changes in people’s development. | 122
Diego Pisano Diego has 22 years of experience working in multinational companies in industries including technology, telecommunications, automotive, laboratory diagnostics and perfumes. His background in leadership positions is varied, spanning Human Resources, finance, IT, operations and the legal department. LANGUAGES • Portuguese • Spanish • French • English EXPERTISE • Individual and group coaching • Human Resources consulting • Training During his career in the corporate world, Diego’s main specialty was in Human Resources, which he did for more than a decade. As the HR Manager at companies including Verifone, Radio Frequency Systems, Siemens VDO Automotive, and Faurecia Sistemas de Escapamento, he has been responsible for staffing, compensation and benefits, union relations, training and development, and performance evaluation, among other matters. Prior to these roles, Diego worked for the French multinational company Sanofi for nine years, first serving as Administrative Manager at Sanofi Beauté do Brasil and later as Financial Controller of Sanofi Diagnostics Pasteur. He changed his career focus to coaching and training in order to pursue his passion for discovering people’s potential. In addition to doing coaching work for the Brazilian consulting firm Foccs, he opened his own firm Reflexis, which is dedicated to executive coaching and training for retail management. Diego holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Cândido Mendes and has completed a specialization course in Human Resources at the Getlio Vargas Foundation, both in Brazil. Apart from receiving Coach and Senior Coach training from the Integrated Coaching Institute, he has also done training courses in topics including Situational Leadership (Brimberg), Time Management (Franklin Covey), and Conflict Management (J. C. Vezuella), among others. Born in Buenos Aires, Diego grew up in Rio de Janeiro. As an adult, he has lived in Paris and Sao Paulo and has traveled extensively throughout Latin America, the U. S. , and France. He enjoys cross cultural settings. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 123
Adriana Prieto 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border LANGUAGES • English • Spanish EXPERTISE • Organizational strategic planning • Developing high performance teams • Life purpose • Conscious leadership • Aplication, Ontological and Spiritual Coaching • Mindfulness © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Adriana is a seasoned professional specializing in business transformation processes designed to provide support to organizations and their human resource as well as tools to achieve organizational objectives. Her areas of expertise include Strategic Planning, Developing High Performance Teams and Human and Organizational Development, focused on Senior Management Coaching, Life Purpose Coaching and Spiritual Coaching. She has 22 years of experience in companies from the financial sector, logistics and consulting in corporate areas, commercial and administrative support. Through the integrated development of the teams that she led, Adriana found her interest in coaching and set about finding other vertical education, approaching areas such as Coach training, transpersonal psychology, emotional intelligence and NLP. This allowed her to transcend both the lives of people and organizations. She has worked in Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Guatemala. Her professional career has mainly been focused on measurable outcomes competences, development of effective and balanced teams, critical indicators of success, strategy and customer orientation. Adriana is an Industrial Engineer from Universidad Javeriana, specialized in Banking in Madrid, Spain. She was trained as an Ontological Coach by Newfield in Colombia and then got certified in Ontological Personal and Organizational Coaching from Cocrear in Argentina. She also trained with Tim Kelley in Life Purpose Coaching and has systemic training in Spiritual Coaching and Family and Organizations Constellations. She studied various topics and processes leading to the observation and intervention of human beings from an integrated holistic dimension. She has two children and lives in Bogota, Colombia. In her spare time she enjoys spinning, travelling and enology. As a personal and permanent practice, she is passionate about yoga. | 124
Svetlana Rafalska Following scientific and theatrical studies in Prague (Czech Republic), Svetlana moved to Belgium and worked in the pharmaceutical field where she occupied commercial, marketing and management positions. Svetlana has been a full time coach and trainer for the last 13 years, she is also active in the coaching field itself. In 2006 she was elected to the Board of Administrators of the Belgian chapter of the International Coaching Federation. LANGUAGES • French • Czech • Slovak • Russian • English EXPERTISE • Leadership and management • Executive and business coaching • Career guidance • Stress and work/life balance • Professional growth • Communication and conflict resolution • Transformational leadership © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Passionate about lifelong learning in general and particularly about conscious growth, leadership MASTERY and personal development, Svetlana has a relaxed, empathic and direct coaching style. Svetlana’s long standing commitment to transformation is in the heart of her approach: She is passionate about helping the best companies thrive in a rapidly changing world and working with leaders and leadership teams to achieve outstanding unenforceable business results. She provides integrated coaching and consulting services that help leaders, their key executives and cross functional teams with realization of breakthrough projects and game changing transformational initiatives to go from vision to results in record time. Sustainable and integral organizational transformation is multidimensional and starts with a commitment to a possibility, to a vision of an unpredictable future and with the conscious personal transformation of the leader(s) his/their way of being. In parallel, the collective / cultural Organizations do not transform, people do. Coaching is the way of relating people to values and values to people, to ignite the greatness in people, teams and organization to fulfill their purpose and vision. Svetlana delivers conferences and keynote speeches on different topics, mostly Leadership and Personal mastery, she was a guest speaker at the International Coaching Conference, in Prague (2007). Svetlana has 2 children and lives between Brussels, Paris and Prague. | 125
Rajeev Raju Rajeev’s diverse 20 year career experiences include roles in Management Consulting, Corporate Banking, Investment Banking, Private Equity and Strategic Advisory. Geographically, Rajeev’s exposure spans the Asia Pacific markets including India, Singapore, Australia, The Philippines and Malaysia. His sector experience covers energy, telecom, media, real estate, healthcare, breweries, automobiles, financial services, information technology and manufacturing. LANGUAGES • English • Hindi • Tamil EXPERTISE • Executive coaching • Leadership • • development Team effectiveness Conflict management Cross cultural collaboration Change management Rajeev’s foray into Executive Coaching, Training and Consulting is a further extension of his experience and capabilities in leading and mentoring high performance teams in dynamic organizations and under complex situations. To enhance the value of his coaching assignments, he brings together his rich experience in working across countries, cultures, organizations and his strength in leading people to the fore. As an ICF Certified Coach and Facilitator, Rajeev has been involved in engagements encompassing vision setting, strategy facilitation, emotional intelligence, collaborating across cultures, personal branding, trusted advisor, conflict management and leadership development. His clientele has been mainly CXOs and high performers in global organizations. As a thought leader, Rajeev has researched and written on the topic of Tolerance Quotient™ a cluster of leadership variables that are distinct from traditional EQ and IQ constructs. In most of his past roles, Rajeev has specialized in setting up new businesses or targeting new markets and running them successfully while simultaneously hiring and leading highly energized teams. He also mentored colleagues across the Asia Pacific region in his last role with Deutsche Bank. In the past, he has worked with global giants such as Ernst & Young (Bangalore), Scotiabank (Bangalore & Singapore), DBS Bank (Mumbai), GE Capital (Mumbai) and Deutsche Bank (Mumbai). Rajeev is also a qualified Chartered Accountant and Cost & Works Accountant. Rajeev is very passionate about yoga, photography, travelling and, in his free time, catches up with a lot of reading and keeping his old networks alive. Rajeev and Manisha have a young daughter and son and live in Mumbai (India). © 2013 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 126
Julian Read Julian is a skilled Executive and Organizational Development Coach, Trainer and Facilitator with extensive expertise in the assessment and development of individuals, teams and organizations. Color photo LANGUAGES • English • French EXPERTISE • Leadership Development • Executive Coaching and Mentoring • Team Performance and Development He started out as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG and following corporate finance roles he worked over 10 years in strategic development as Retail Division Corporate Development Director and as Director of Strategy and Development in the Compass Group PLC a FTSE top 50 company. As a consultant he draws from his 20 years+ commercial experience. Julian has worked at a senior level across all continents and numerous countries helping business leaders develop their businesses in both local and international environments. He has always been fascinated by the cross cultural differences and making the connections to build working and trusted relationships despite these differences. He has also lived and worked in both Denmark and France for a total of 8 years. He has designed and delivered leadership development programs in FTSE 100 banks as well as senior team facilitation in international and multicultural environments, whilst specializing in senior level executive coaching. Most of his learning and personal skills development have been around transformation and influencing multi stakeholder relationships to make those a natural part of all executive development in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous business environments. Julian has a BSc (Hons) Accounting and Financial analysis (Warwick University, UK). He developed his Leadership, Coaching and Facilitation at INSEAD and Shirlaws Business Coaching. He is a Professional Certified Coach (International Coaching Federation) & NLP Master Practitioner. Julian is accredited in Group Mastery (Grinder, USA), Time to Think: Thinking Partnership (Nancy Kline), Team Management Profiling (TMSDI), Conscious Business (Axialent), Cultural Transformational Tools (Barratt Values Centre), Theory U & Leading from an Emerging Future (MIT, Boston), Ray Leone Sales & Miller Heiman Strategic Selling, Psyche K (Changing beliefs). Julian is married and is currently living in London. © 2013 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 127
Fernando Ribeiro Fernando built his career in strategic management consulting and in the banking industry. He has over 12 years of experience working at major companies such as ING Bank, Société Générale, BNP Paribas and Roland Berger. Throughout his career, besides the role of consultant and banker, he has always supported the recruiting and coaching processes. This led him to move into the field of coaching and professional development. LANGUAGES • English • Portuguese EXPERTISE • Strategy • Corporate finance • Coaching and positive psychology In the consulting business, he developed a multitude of projects, including market sizing and entry strategy, segmentation of retailers to correctly address product offering, change management and corporate integration, process and organizational realignment for strategy deployment. In the financial industry, Fernando led and originated deals in project finance, shipping finance, and trade finance. He was involved in important transactions such as the Line 4 of Sao Paulo Subway and the buyout of a minority shareholder of a Brazilian company in the mining sector. Fernando holds a bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from State University of Campinas and an MBA degree with focus on finance from INSPER (former IBMEC). He was awarded a CAPES DAAD scholarship in 2001 granted to the top 100 engineering students in Brazil. In 2003, he was ranked amongst the Top 50 students of the world (among undergrads and MBAs) to solve a real business case for a major Roland Berger client, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Fernando was a Guest Speaker at ESPM, Brazil 2009 2010 on the topic Subprime Crisis, where he currently teaches International Finance and Financial Market Dynamics for Administration and International Relations. He is also an MBTI® practitioner accredited by CAPT in USA and an Integral Master Coach by Integral Coaching Canada. Fernando is currently undertaking a BA in Psychology from Penn State University where he is part of the Dean's List with a GPA (grade point average) of 3. 98/4. 00. He forecasts graduation in 2014. Fernando lives in São Paulo with his wife, daughter and son. He is passionate about tennis and enjoys playing soccer and squash; motorbikes (touring and off road); and reading books of diverse topics. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 128
Horacio Rieznik LANGUAGES • English • Spanish EXPERTISE • Organizational learning processes • Six Sigma • Effective negotiation © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. A consultant, professor and author, Horacio is an expert in organizational change and culture change management with a background in corporate leadership roles. In his capacity as Training Manager at Organización Techint for six years, Horacio managed the training of hundreds of leaders and professionals, within the context of complex change processes, mergers and acquisitions. More recently, he was Corporate Manager of the Human Resources department of Grupo Clarín, leading the Learning and Change Process and the executive compensation practices. As part of an integral change management strategy, Horacio promoted the application of the Six Sigma Process Improvement philosophy and methodology at Grupo Clarín. Earlier, he had specialized in Six Sigma, having received a “Black Belt” in it from the Technological Institute of Buenos Aires. Horacio is co author of “Transformando, ” a book on change experiences in corporations in Argentina. He has also regularly contributed organizational learning content to Materia. Biz. com, a management and academic Web site. A professor of a number of postgraduate programs at different Argentine universities, Horacio is currently Head of Cultural Change and Organizational Learning, which is part of the Master’s in Organizational Coaching program at the University of Salvador in Buenos Aires. Horacio holds a degree in industrial engineering from the University of Buenos Aires and is a senior coach certified by the Technological Institute of Buenos Aires. In his free time, he composes music and writes and performs in theater comedies. | 129
Marc Roudebush Marc has 20 years’ experience applying Organizational Learning and Leadership skills in the workplace, as a coach and senior executive. In addition to 10 years of operational management in director and senior management roles, Marc brings 8 years of full time experience as an executive coach, trainer, and consultant to mid and senior level leaders in companies like Google, Shell, Bacardi, Citi and Cisco. His expertise includes executive coaching, team development, culture change, leading client service teams, and leading train the coach and train the trainer programs. LANGUAGES • English • French EXPERTISE • Leadership Development • Team Development • Culture Development • Design and delivery of Train-the-Coach and Train-the-Trainer Programs As the Managing Director for North American Programs at Explorica (a leading educational travel company), Marc drove a 400% increase in sales revenue, and led the overhaul of the company’s global brand expression and online customer experience. As a Director at Sapient Corporation, Marc led multidisciplinary teams in designing and delivering large scale, web based technology solutions to clients in the public and private sectors. Marc holds a social science Ph. D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and is a certified Search Inside Yourself (SIY) instructor. (SIY is a Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence program for leaders, initially developed at Google). In addition to his “black belt” training in Axialent’s own coaching methodology (which he now trains others in), Marc is certified in NLP based coaching and is a graduate of intensive coaching programs at Newfield Network and the Action Design Institute. In addition, Marc continues to train formally with Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, of Harvard University, in their breakthrough “Immunity to Change” methodology. (Lisa Lahey is a member of Axialent’ advisory board). Marc has practiced martial arts and meditation since 1989. He lives in Boston, MA with his wife and three children. © 2014 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 130
Stéphanie Ruder Schoof Stéphanie is an international team and leadership development coach and trainer. She has more than 15 years experience of helping executives and managers develop their leadership, interpersonal communication, assertiveness and emotional intelligence skills. She has done this through individual and team coaching and training. She has developed, designed and facilitated seminars in dozens of multinational corporations in the finance, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and public sectors. She is a specialist in experiential team building, organizational culture change and leading in challenging situations. LANGUAGES • English • French EXPERTISE • Executive Coach and Leadership Development • Self-Leadership and personal sustainability • Communication effectiveness in difficult situations • Assertiveness and leadership training © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. She has a solid reputation and is critically acclaimed for helping the individual align and leverage their unique strengths and values with high performance. Her effectiveness in working with organizations is in large part due to her extensive business and HR management experience in several US and European companies. She has held positions in finance, general management and marketing. Based in Switzerland, she has worked throughout Europe. Stéphanie has also lived and worked in Dubai and the US. Her wide range of international experience contributed to her success in projects including the creation of organization wide performance and appraisal systems, and assessing and implementing company wide training. Stéphanie holds a Master in Economic and Business Management (HEC Lausanne, 1987). She has specialized training as a counselor, coach and trainer in the field of interpersonal communication, personal development, motivation, and career management. She is certified in various psychometric assessment instruments and advanced training in coaching. She lives with her partner in a small village near the Lake of Geneva. Her interests lie in personal development, natural horsemanship (she owns her own horse), nature, hiking, and reading. Her motto is: “Attempt to give men and women awareness of the greatness they ignore in themselves” (André Malraux). | 131
Valerie Ryder Color photo Valerie is an ICF certified executive coach and trainer specialized in career progression, women’s leadership development, effective communication, and managerial competencies in international environments. Her approach has been characterized as business based, empathic and action oriented, conveying a genuine commitment to helping others succeed. Valerie’s corporate experience includes 15 years as an executive director in international finance, human resources and administration for several leading multinationals. LANGUAGES • Italian • English • French EXPERTISE • Leadership Development • Effective Communication • Executive Coaching © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. She is certified on a number of individual and team assessments, including Do. Lquest Executive and Team Integration. An active contributor to the international professional women’s community, Valerie is co founder of the Métamorphose initiative, whose mission is to empower women in Africa through training and coaching. She is former President and long term member of the Professional Women’s Association of Milan, where she designed and implemented the association’s commended Mentoring Program. She is a member of the International Coach Federation and its Italian chapter, for which she also served on the board of directors. Valerie obtained her BS in Business Administration from Northeastern University in Boston (USA) and is a graduate of Corporate Coach University International. | 132
Caio Cesar Santos Caio has 20 years of experience developing leadership programs in service companies: e learning, corporate universities, quality and business management systems, IT services, internet and educational franchise network. 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border LANGUAGES • English • Portuguese • Spanish EXPERTISE • Leadership Development • Organizational Learning • Team Development • Emotional Intelligence © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. He was Director of a corporate university and an e learning franchise network and has broad experience in Sales, Marketing, HR, F&A, and IT Operations. He managed corporate educational projects for important clients in Latin America. He was responsible for designing and coordinating the creation and deployment of virtual training centers and corporate universities. He also delivered leadership development and professional skills workshops to senior and middle managers as part of corporate educational endomarketing process. Those projects contemplated an audience of more than 100, 000 employees. Caio holds a B. S. in Business Administration from PUC RJ and an MBA on IT Business Management at Universidade Candido Mendes, both in Rio de Janeiro. He was also a trainer on Leadership Development and Consciousness Awakening courses (Belief Management, Attention Management and Self Leadership) at Star´s Edge International (USA), with more than 2, 000 hours delivering workshops in Brazil and USA to more than 5, 000 people. Caio´s purpose in life is to help people and organizations develop conscious awareness, being responsible for their choices and integrating passion, purpose and profits. He lives in Rio de Janeiro and likes long walks in the beach, riding his bike through the city and socializing with family and friends. | 133
Ignacio Sanz Espinosa PMO LEADER & PROJECT MANAGEMENT, AXIALENT CHILE Ignacio holds a Business Administration degree and specializes in project management in Europe and South America. Ignacio is currently responsible for the planning, implementing and coordinating of Leadership Development and Organizational Culture projects for Axialent in Chile, reporting to the business leader of the region. Responsible for ensuring the correct execution and delivery of services to clients by tracking, reporting and managing contingency as activities are conducted. LANGUAGES • Spanish • English EXPERTISE • Leadership and Organizational Development. • Economic and business orientation. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. His Business Administration degree was granted by the University of Granada. He also holds a Master’s degree in Equity Research, Financial Investment and Business Valuation from the University of Seville (2012) and an Official Master’s degree in Economics and Business Organization from the University of Granada (2013) where he is currently undertaking a Ph. D in Economics. Before joining Axialent, he served as a consultant for APLITEC MANAGEMENT SL, as a commercial delegate for NATURAL PLEASURES SL and an economic administrator in ZAIDÍN VERGELES school. | 134
Noriko Sato With almost 25 years of experience as a consultant, human resources manager and international business liaison, Noriko has worked extensively throughout Europe, North America and Asia. Within the financial sector, Noriko has worked for investment banks in Tokyo, such as Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley. In addition, she served as the Deputy Head of Human Resources at HSBC Japan for a decade, focusing her work on learning and development, organizational development, and recruitment. In this role, she worked closely with CEO to increase staff morale and headed a staff survey. She also played a part in the culture integration of HSBC’s mergers and acquisition endeavors during her time at the company. LANGUAGES • English • Japanese • Spanish EXPERTISE • Leadership • • • development Performance management Career development Diversity awareness Facilitation Coaching Since 2001, Noriko has focused her work on human resources and management consulting, as well as coaching. She has trained more than 1, 000 executives and managers and facilitated courses on topics such as workplace diversity, career management and corporate coaching. Noriko spent her early career coordinating bilateral U. S. Japanese cultural exchange programs at the non profit organization International Education Center (IEC). She was the first woman to receive the IEC Graduate Study Scholarship to study overseas. Upon graduation, she managed the School of International Studies and coordinated numerous business programs, including one for Harvard Business School’s Asian Business Club. In addition to her B. A. in Spanish and Latin American Studies from the Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Noriko holds a Master’s in education with an emphasis on multiculturalism from the University of Washington. She was certified as a Professional Co Active Coach by the Coach Training Institute. Noriko is Japanese but lived in the U. S. for eight years. She now resides in Okayama, Japan with her two children. Passionate about volleyball, she played on and coached the International Volleyball Team in Yakima, WA for three years. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 135
Rolf Schimrock A consultant with a focus on transformation, Rolf has lived in many different parts of the world working for consulting firms like Braxton Associates in London and Arthur Andersen Management Consulting in Frankfurt. For ten years, Rolf was a Principal in the General Practice at a global management consulting firm in New York, A. T. Kearney Inc. There he led efforts to achieve several $100 million in cost reductions for Fortune 500 companies through Strategic Sourcing programs in Europe, South America, and the U. S. These programs were transformational in nature, involving not just a financial impact but also organizational and cultural change components. LANGUAGES • Portuguese • English • Spanish • French • German EXPERTISE • Strategic souring • • and transformation programs Successful strategies and proven techniques Change management Organizational design Emotional intelligence © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Rolf’s next big career step was to co found the small consulting firm Sustainomics Group, where he also served as a Partner four years. The firm’s focus was helping companies turn their financial situations around by restructuring their supply chain, using innovative sourcing strategies and leveraging the Chinese supply market. Other career achievements of Rolf´s include developing a methodology linking shareholder value to individual performance measurement and conducting training courses for U. S. consultants on the A. T. Kearney shareholder valuation tool. In the last five years, Rolf’s career has centered on human potential development as he has been doing coaching and teaching for companies in Europe and Latin America. After pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in international management, Rolf received a postgraduate degree in accounting and finance from the London School of Economics and an M. B. A. from Wharton Business School. Rolf lives in São Paulo, is married and has two children. He enjoys yoga as well as playing tennis and kite surfing. He recently achieved his personal goal of running the New York City marathon in less than four hours. | 136
Dave Schoof As an international executive coach and leadership consultant, Dave Schoof helps executives and leaders communicate more effectively, build trust, deal with cynicism and resistance, navigate transitions and improve personal effectiveness. Dave has worked with leaders in international business, government and non profit. Dave currently has his own coaching and leadership consultancy with offices based in Lausanne Switzerland the Boston area in the US. Previously, he worked with the global consultancies Axialent and Booz Allen Hamilton. Prior to life as a consultant, he had a 19 year career in the US government specializing in national security issues. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Leadership Development • Personal Effectiveness • Executive Coaching • Team and Organizational Development © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. In coaching leaders and teams at Fortune 500 multinational firms, Dave has experience in working with leadership issues in consulting services, telecom, pharmaceuticals, financial services, government agencies, NGOs and nonprofits. His clients include BCG, Novartis, The World Health Organization, The UN, Nestlé, ACC of New Zealand, AXA, UBS, Associated Press, NASA, Unilever, Google, Mandiri Bank of Indonesia, Booz Allen, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Astra Zeneca. Dave is certified at the mastery level with the International Coach Federation. He has been on the faculty at two renowned international coaching schools and has served on the board for certifying professional coaches. A long time meditator, Dave has taught meditation classes and led retreats. He enjoys finding practical ways to operationalize the wisdom from various traditions into his work with leaders. Dave is married and lives in a small village near Lausanne where he enjoys hiking and photography. He is re living the challenges of learning by being a beginner in horseback riding and the French language. | 137
Stefan Sedlacek Stefan has gained much of his professional experience in the energy and IT industries managing projects, implementing new business segments, and leading midrange companies. He has also worked in telecommunications and financial services. He served as the Manager of Regional Services for Digital Equipment Corporation, where he worked for 14 years, until he moved up into the position of Director of Consulting at Oracle. Later, he served for nine years as the CEO of the German company Enseco, a leading service supplier to the energy industry. At Enseco, Stefan developed new services for the metering process in the energy industry and helped the company grow by propelling several mergers. LANGUAGES • English • German EXPERTISE • Merger facilitation • Change management and strategy improvement • Culture development • Conflict resolution and mediation With the objective of contributing to a balance between economic excellence and meaningful human development, he left the operational role in 2003 to become an executive coach and leadership trainer. Since then, Stefan became a member of the coaching pools of several well known German based companies and has worked as a business mediator. Some of Stefan’s clients have been Siemens AG, Deutsche Telekom AG, Wacker Chemie AG, and Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte Gmb. H, among other mid size companies and non profits, as well as individuals. Stefan graduated with a degree in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe and furthered his education in the International Advanced Management Program (IMD Lausanne). He has taken classes on business coaching, business mediation, management constellations, and logo therapy. In addition, Stefan is a co author of two German books about coaching and authentic leadership. Stefan is an honorary board member of a Christian welfare company. He values authenticity, spirituality, esteem, and effectiveness. He has been practicing contemplation for more than 15 years. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 138
Katharina Sell Katharina is a passionate transformation and leadership expert with broad industry experience and seventeen years of expertise in designing, leading and implementing global change projects and leadership development programs. Katharina has worked for ten years in Siemens, in Human Resources area. And in 2008 she became a freelance consultant, joining Axialent at 2016. Languages • German • English • French Solid stakeholder management and relationships of integrity, responsibility and trust are at the core of her consulting work. As a leadership expert, Katharina focuses on strengthening an empowering leadership culture that is well aligned with strategy, structures and processes and thus has the power to unleash innovative energy throughout the organization. Develops and coaches leaders at all levels, Katharina ignites intrinsic forces such as purpose, passion and conscious leadership, which serve as an effective compass in the complexity and volatility of today's business surroundings. EXPERTISE • Coaching and mentoring • Leadership development • Cultural change © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 139
Carolina Serrano Carolina developed her professional career through more than 15 years in senior leadership positions in the fields of finance and management consulting. From 2008 to 2011 she was Axialent’s Chief Financial Officer and head of the Corporate and Client Support Center that provided centralized services to Europe, Asia and Americas. In this role, she implemented a new shared services center model that improved the quality and efficiency of the support provided. This transformation initiative also involved developing a strong management team and helping spread many of improvements to other areas in the organization. LANGUAGES • English • Spanish EXPERTISE • Business and strategy planning • Process management • Project management • Team development Carolina started her career at Citigroup, where she spent 17 years working for its Argentina and Chile affiliates. She has held a number of roles in financial and commercial areas, such as Chief Financial Officer and Retail Banking Head. During that time, she faced a wide range of challenges, including implementing management information systems, redesigning core internal processes and launching new commercial products. Before coming to Axialent, Carolina was an independent consultant leading business plans development, project definition and scheduling, business modeling, financial planning and funding strategies for international clients. With a degree in accounting from the Catholic University of Argentina (UCA) and a postgraduate degree in Retail Business (IAE), Carolina has also completed several local and international development programs at Citigroup. Carolina is married and has two daughters. She enjoys running and playing tennis with her family and friends. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 140
Adilson Sestenari Adilson holds 20 years of experience in developing and creating business opportunities in the area of Technology and Information Security. Throughout this period, he developed negotiation skills advising clients of different sizes and industries, focusing strongly on the highest degree of satisfaction of each stakeholder. As coordinator and project manager, he was responsible for managing teams in Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Brazil for EDS (now HP), interacting with different competencies, cultures and goals for adoption and implementation of new technologies. LANGUAGES • English • Portuguese • Spanish EXPERTISE • Human development • Customer service • Business management • Strategic planning He designed and developed the “Renovation" project with the fundamental purpose of identifying, restructuring and take improvement actions to establish a level of excellence in all areas, meeting new demands of business and projects of an image solutions company. The experience in corporate environments and their challenges have sharpened his desire to delve into human behavior to identify the relationship between the different individuals’ and organizations’ purposes. Adilson holds a Master & Wizard Avatar ® license by Star's Edge® International and he has more than 800 hours facilitating self development and expansion of consciousness training, in Brazil and the United States. He studied Business Administration with emphasis in International Business at Methodist University and graduated in Marketing and Sales Management from the University Anhembi Morumbi. He attended several courses in management and negotiation methodologies Siebel ®, CCS ®. He was also a Lecturer in the ACUPUNCTURE WORKSHOP III UMC 2011, for 90 students of Post Graduate Acupuncture. Sports practitioner and enthusiast, Adilson enjoys mountain biking, running and basketball. He is also fond of vegetarianism, yoga and meditation. He lives in São Paulo. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 141
Nithya Shanti ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER Nithya is an internationally respected spiritual teacher, seminar leader, writer and educator, committed to sharing practical wisdom teachings for happiness and enlightenment with people in a joyful and transformational way. Blending a deep study of ancient scriptures, along with a broad survey of contemporary discoveries, Nithya Shanti specializes in facilitating profound shifts in awareness for people to release limitations and awaken latent potentials for a fulfilling life. An interest in inner growth and spirituality from an early age inspired him to study with many wise teachers and awakened masters. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Meditation • Teaching • Spirituality • Spreading Happiness Not satisfied with intellectual understanding alone, he began a daily practice of meditation at the age of sixteen and attended many meditation retreats. Nithya Shanti completed an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur and then worked in the corporate sector. Despite having a promising career, he was drawn to pursue his spiritual quest further. In 2002, he ordained as a Buddhist Monk. After six years of living in forest meditation monasteries in Thailand, Sri Lanka and also various parts of India and the US, he was guided to live, learn and serve in broader ways than the traditional role of a monk permitted. With the blessings of his teachers he stepped out of the robes in early 2008 and now shares joyful teachings in happiness joyshops, youth programs, corporate trainings and meditation retreats around the world. He has been invited to share his insights around the world by leading universities, corporate and non governmental organizations, he has coached CEOs, senior government officials and school teachers, and taught these principles at international conferences as well as in prisons. His work is orchestrated by the Nithya Shanti Foundation, a non profit organization, with the purpose of re awakening a heart and earth conscious culture based on wisdom and joy. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 142
Shauna Shapiro ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER Shapiro received her BA from Duke University, graduating Summa Cum Laude. She received her MA in Clinical Psychology (1998), and her Ph. D. in Clinical Psychology (2001) from the University of Arizona. She conducted her post doctoral fellowship at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System (2002 2003). In addition to her formal education, she has received extensive professional training in mindfulness based cognitive therapy (2002) and mindfulness based stress reduction (1997, 1999, 2000), and studied mindfulness meditation in monasteries in Nepal and Thailand. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Mindfulness Shapiro is a tenured professor at Santa Clara University’s graduate department of Counseling Psychology (2003 present), and is the recipient of the American Council of Learned Societies teaching award, acknowledging her outstanding contributions to graduate education. Shapiro has also held faculty positions at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (2008–present) and the Program of Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Medical Center (2000 2004). Shapiro’s research and clinical work focuses on the application of mindfulness to developing greater health and well being. Her work has addressed the effects of mindfulness on the individual, as well as its implications at a global level. Shapiro’s extensive clinical research has investigated the effects of mindfulness training across a wide array of populations, examining the impact of mindfulness in medicine, psychology, education, business and law. Dr. Shapiro lectures and leads mindfulness training programs internationally and has been invited to present for the King of Thailand, the Danish Government Centre for Development of Human Resources, Andrew Weil’s Integrative Medicine program, and the World Council for Psychotherapy, Beijing, China. She has published over 100 articles and book chapters and is co author of the critically acclaimed text, The Art and Science of Mindfulness and the forthcoming text, Mindful Discipline: A loving approach to raising an emotionally intelligent child. Dr. Shapiro’s work has been featured in the Wired Magazine, USA Today, Oxygen, The Yoga Journal, and the American Psychologist. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 143
Rajendra S. Sisodia ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER Color photo LANGUAGES • English • Hindi EXPERTISE • Conscious • • • capitalism Leadership and change management Stakeholder relationship management Strategy formulation Strategic marketing Marketing productivity Author of Firms of Endearment: How World Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose, co founder and Chairman of the Conscious Capitalism Institute, Dr. Rajendra S. Sisodia has taught in numerous executive programs worldwide. He currently serves as a member of Axialent’s Academic Board. In 2003, he was named to the "Guru Gallery" by the Chartered Institute of Marketing and was described as one of "50 Leading Marketing Thinkers". Four years later he received the “Excellence in Scholarship” award and in 2008 the “Innovation in Teaching” award from Bentley University. He was also named one of ten "Outstanding Trailblazers of 2010" by Good Business International, and one of the "Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior" by Trust Across America for 2010 and 2011. As a leading figure in the Conscious Capitalism movement, Raj is an expert on corporate strategy and leadership, globalization, stakeholder management, marketing strategy, marketing ethics, relationship marketing and marketing productivity. He has led programs in North and South America, Europe, and Asia and is also a frequent and well admired keynote speaker. Raj held over 300 presentations on Conscious Capitalism at leading universities, corporations and other organizations around the world. He is professor of marketing and founding director of the Center for Marketing Technology at Bentley University. Raj has an MBA in marketing from the Bajaj Institute of Management Studies in Bombay. He also holds a Ph. D. in marketing and business policy from Columbia University. He has published seven books and over 100 articles in prestigious business journals. His book Firms of Endearment: How World Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose was named as one of the best business books of 2007, and has been translated into seven languages. In 2012, he published the book Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business (co author with John Mackey, founder & CEO of Whole Foods Market). He lives in Lexington, MA. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling, sports and music. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 144
Vito Sgobba CONSCIOUS LEADER REGIONAL EXPERT In his work, Vito focuses on learning, change, and organizational effectiveness. He gained much of his business knowledge working hands on for more than a decade as a Manager at Banco Río, Argentina, where he was responsible for the quality and productivity area, commercial operations, and e banking. Vito holds a B. S. in public accounting from the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires and an M. B. A. from the Instituto de Altos Estudios Empresariales (IAE). He graduated as an Organizational Coach in Leading Learning Communities (LLC) in Argentina. He also studied Language Ontology at the Newfield Network in Chile, where he became an Ontological Coach for personal and organizational change. LANGUAGES • Spanish EXPERTISE • Learning and effectiveness • Organizational change • Leadership development and improvement • Executive coaching • Cultural alignment • Team development © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Vito’s passion for teaching led him to become assistant professor of organizational structures at the Economic Science Faculty at the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires. Vito works there as an instructor for the Leadership and Organizational Coaching Graduate Course and the Life, Freedom and Consciousness Program. In addition, he develops leadership programs for the University of Salvador. Vito is currently involved in consulting, coaching, and learning programs with companies such as Citibank, Microsoft, Standard Bank, and Caja Laboral in Argentina, Chile, and Spain. A keynote speaker in various conferences organized by the Chilean institution Icare, he was distinguished as having the best evaluation in the 2005 Human Resources Convention. An extremely active person, Vito balances his interest in reading and cinema with aerobics practice. Vito is married, has two sons and enjoys spending time with his family. | 145
Karl Sniady Karl is an executive coach and senior business consultant who brings over 30 years of executive business leadership as the former President of a multinational training company. He has also served as CFO with multinational, mid sized and startup companies in a variety of industries including retail, wholesale distribution, professional services, technology, banking, health care and education. With this depth of high level executive business experience, Karl is able to relate to the responsibilities and issues that weigh on managers, directors and executives as they move higher in their organizations and deal with increasingly complex issues. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Coaching and mentoring • Leadership development • Organizational effectiveness © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. As an executive coach he leverages this experience by using feedback from assessments, in order to provide his clients with a better understanding of their strengths and opportunities. This provides a structure for them to then develop strategies that lead them to become more effective leaders and realize greater success in their businesses. Karl is married to Gwendolyn for over 35 years and has two wonderful, adult children living in Los Angeles. In his free time, Karl enjoys travelling, hiking and playing tennis and golf. | 146
Alejandra Solano 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border Alejandra is a seasoned professional specializing in counseling of Strategic Talent, Organizational Change and coaching processes, through 19 years of experience developing strategies and implementing solutions in Mexico and the United States in various industries. Some of her clients include: Johnson & Johnson, Philip Morris, Grupo Modelo, Nextel, Banamex, PEMEX, MCI, Astra. Zeneca, Grupo Lala, Pinsa, PEMEX, Altos Hornos de Mexico. Her professional career primarily includes consulting experience in Human Capital. She led for several years the consulting practice of Change Management for Deloitte Mexico, which she continues to support as strategic advisor. Today Alejandra is National Director of Strategic Talent for Deloitte Mexico. LANGUAGES • English • Spanish EXPERTISE • Organizational change • Leadership development • Culture • Executive coaching Alexandra has an MBA from London Business School (ranked # 1 by the Financial Times) and a Bachelor in Business Administration from ITESM CEM, graduated with honors. She has several qualifications in organizational development such as Coaching Certification by Newfield Network USA, Advanced Coaching Certification by Newfield Network Chile, Coaching Certification Excellence in Organization / Organizational Execution, by the Institute of Generative Leadership. She is global faculty for the internal development programs for top talent at Deloitte. Alejandra regularly offers coaching to top executives in Mexico. Additionally, she is Advisor of the D 1 Program / Continuidad y Actualización of IPADE, professor at ITAM and visiting professor at EGADE. She was Advisor to the Board of Young Entrepreneurs in Mexico, and is Co President of the Alumni Association of Newfield Network Mexico and Co President of the Polish Association of Mexico. Alejandra enjoys studying, reading contemporary fiction and children's books, photography and collecting handicrafts from around the world. She lives in Mexico City with her husband young daughter. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 147
Patrizia Sorgiovanni As a professional facilitator and management consultant, Patrizia’s clients have included multinational companies such as Mars, Nestle Water, Euro RSCG, Royal Mail, Coca Cola, Disney, Household Design, Britvic, De Agostini, and Warner Bros, among others. With a background in marketing and PR, Patrizia keeps her specialty in communication fresh by working as a freelance writer, and she frequently collaborates on public relations campaigns at Wild. Kat PR. LANGUAGES • English • Italian EXPERTISE • Leadership development facilitation • Business consulting • Organisational processes • Internal communication Patrizia’s experience in the corporate world has drawn on both her skills in communication and those of a consultant. As the Internal Communications Manager for Europe at Yahoo! Europe, she coordinated executive level events, did speech writing and other brand tailored internal communications, and moderated focus groups to identify issues in employee engagement. She also developed and delivered an internal communications programme to 1, 500 employees across Europe. As an Internal Communications Facilitator at the multinational publisher De Agostini in Milan, Patrizia was responsible for promoting regular internal communication and information sharing, and she designed and international facilitated business meetings on topics such as strategic direction and new product development. She also facilitated “creativity workshops” for the company across Europe and Japan. Patrizia’s career emphasizes creative capabilities. Having completed the Leadership Development path at the Creative Problem Solving Institute in New York, Patrizia helped found the European Creativity Conference (CREA), where she teaches Introduction to Creative Thinking Skills. Holding a Bachelor’s of Commerce from the University of Alberta with a focus on international business, Patrizia has also completed the courses NLP Results Certification Training and Spiral Dynamics. In addition to her fluent languages, Patrizia speaks some French and Spanish. Her passion for cultural diversity has led her to live and work in Canada, Ecuador, Italy and the UK. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 148
José Suárez Arias-Cachero MANAGING PARTNER José Suárez is Managing Partner for Spain & Latin America North. With almost thirty years of experience in general management and administration, José has worked in both the private and public sectors. During the majority of his career, he worked in the corporate world and, as a consultant, he concentrates on strategy, management and business development. LANGUAGES • English • Spanish • Portuguese • Asturian EXPERTISE • Consulting for upper managment and admisitration • Business development • Organizational change management • Strategy and implementation Until the beginning of 2011, José was City Councilor of Oviedo, the Principality of Asturias, Spain. Apart from being in charge of the Departments of Culture, Sports, and Youth, he was also the President of the Festival Society of Oviedo, which organizes different events in the city. Additionally, he was Vice President of the Asturian Fine Arts Museum and of the Campoamor Theater Foundation. Today, he still serves as member of the General Board of Caj. Astur/Liber. Bank, Asturias’ leading bank. Until his induction as City Councilor, José was General Director of International Business Development at the Inmark Group and a member of the company’s Advisory Board, leading projects in both Europe and Latin America. Before that, he was Corporate General Director of Makeateam, a Spanish consulting firm dedicated to executive training that was acquired by Inmark Group in 2005. Previously, José served as Director at Ernst & Young across Spain and Latin America. In this role, he oversaw the areas of strategic consulting, human resources and change management in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. José holds a degree in geography and history from the University of Oviedo and an M. B. A. from the IEDE, Institute for Executive Development. In addition, he has taken courses on topics such as management, marketing, service strategy, competitive leadership, and strategy and implementation at the London School of Economics, the Disney Institute and the University of California Berkeley, among other institutions. Besides his other activities, José has contributed to the media since 1993. He also received the Great Cross of Humanitarian Merit in Barcelona in 2010. Residing in Asturias, Spain, José has also lived in Colombia, Mexico and Brazil. He is married, has two children, and enjoys reading and going on walks. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 149
Scott Stachran Scott is a dynamic Executive Leadership and Personal Development Coach. As founder of Intrinsic Path, he provides coaching to high level (executive) leaders, business groups and private clients. Scott brings decades of leadership, team building and upper level management development to his practice. He holds a paramount belief that there are leaders in all of us. Scott’s dynamic work with high level executives continually inspires his clients to create positive change by including powerful, conscious communication and team building strategies into their business model. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Executive and Leadership Coach • Private and Group Coach • Individuals with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) Coach • Workshop presenter, Educational Leadership and Parent Engagement © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Scott was involved in the first of its kind National Pilot Pre Release Re Entry Program launched in San Francisco, CA. The program involves creating intense workshops for prison inmates whose scheduled release date is within 30 90 days. The workshops are performed inside the jail system and are designed to reduce recidivism. Not one to believe in labels, Scott feels a life without limits is within everyone’s reach, regardless of the circumstances in which they may find themselves. Scott’s passionate commitment to the idea that anything is possible starts by shattering the limiting beliefs WE place upon ourselves. Sott has a degree in Psychology from the College of Marin and a specialization in Autism Spectrum Disorder from UC Davis (MIND Institute), and has been Co leader in Core Curriculum at The Coaches Training Institute. Scott’s clients include C Suite executives who want to be impactful leaders as well as desire more out of life personally. . In addition, Scott has coached co executive producers for television, young adults with Asperger’s Syndrome, healthcare specialists, computer programmers and parent groups. His unwavering belief for all those he serves is that they possess a natural ability to drive a stake in the ground, commit to what they want and unapologetically make it happen. | 150
Jean-Stéphane Szijarto As an independent coach and consultant, Jean Stéphane has worked for various companies, organizing and managing technical resources and staff worldwide, providing career and personal assessment courses for Ph. D. students, carrying out team building initiatives, and developing and delivering project management courses. Jean Stéphane gained international experience as a Delegate and a Relief Coordinator for the International Committee of the Red Cross. Afterward, he worked as a Project Leader and Systems Engineer at IBM for six years, which provided him with exposure to the technology and consulting industries. LANGUAGES • French • English • German • Italian EXPERTISE • Outplacement • • processes Management coaching Culture development Team building Project management In 1995, Jean Stéphane founded and became CEO of JS Technologies SA, a Lotus Notes/Internet centered services company that had clients including Banque Pictet & Cie, Crédit Agricole Indosuez, Banque Paribas, Groupe Mutuel, the Vendôme group, Mc. Donald's Switzerland, TCS, and other large businesses. The company attracted Systor’s interest in and was subsequently acquired by the firm in 2000. Since then, Jean Stéphane has endeavored in independent consulting and recruiting, dedicating much of his time to freelance consulting for companies like DBM, Stucki Leadership Teambuilding SA. In his independent work, he assists high level leaders facing development and business challenges. He also regularly delivers Prince 2 TM Project Management courses and has taught Leadership And Advanced Communication to EMBA classes at Business School Lausanne. Jean Stéphane holds an MSc in electrical engineering as well as an M. B. A. from HEC Lausanne. He is also an NLP practitioner and is a certified Prince 2 trainer. He enjoys working with startups and acting as a coach and juror in the Mc. Kinsey “Venture” business plans contest in Switzerland. In his free time, he enjoys woodworking, playing the violin, sailing, reading, and spending time with his family and friends. He has three children. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 151
Alper Tengüz A facilitator and coach for high level executives, Alper is experienced in the areas of personal leadership development and intercultural management. As a consultant, he has designed and executed top team development and large scale organization development programs and has also advised company presidents and business unit and country heads on topics such as competency modeling, organizational redesign, and succession planning. He operates out of Germany and works throughout Europe and in the Middle East and Asia. LANGUAGES • English • German • Turkish EXPERTISE • Leadership Development • Performance transformation • Executive Coaching © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Earlier in his career, Alper was an Engagement Manager with Mc. Kinsey & Company, and as a core member of the Mc. Kinsey Center for Asian Leadership, he headed several of the firm’s key engagements with global, multi billion dollar companies, often over an extended period of time and internationally. In this capacity, he led leadership development, change management, coaching and performance transformation programs. Alper has served private and public sector clients (such as the government of Albania and multinational organizations) in industries including pharmaceutical, construction, healthcare, and manufacturing. Through these professional experiences in diverse cultural settings, Alper has developed his leadership skills and cultural awareness. Apart from his three main languages, he can converse in French and Spanish. Alper holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan. In Germany, he completed a Master’s degree in adult education at the Technical University Kaiserslautern and earned a Ph. D. in economics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt. He now serves as a faculty member at the Goethe Business School of Frankfurt University, where he is also doing a post doctoral thesis on the future practices of designing next generation leadership development programs. | 152
Tess Tholstrup Tess is a passionate, experienced and effective Organisational Psychologist who specializes in working with individuals, leadership teams and entire organizations in creating organizations that leaders are proud to lead today and feel confident that their leadership style and good business nous will create a legacy for future leaders and employees. LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Culture analysis, design, and improvement • Change through coaching • Success-focused facilitation • Performance improvement © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tess has spent some 1, 500 hours of her career, coaching people from a wide variety of industry sectors, levels within organizations and countries. Tess specialized in creating conversations were leaders learn how to communicate more effectively, build trust, deal with cynicism and resistance, learn how to self reflect, hold people accountable and become more aware of how to collaborate and build relationships across organizations. Besides her coaching hours, she also has 1, 000 hours of debriefing 360 tools like The Leadership Circle (TLC) and the Life Style Inventories (LSI), she has facilitated and co designed over 100 leadership workshops (multiple repeat training and one off issues training for intact teams), designed and facilitated internal train the trainer processes for coaching and teaching, conducted 100’s of interviews then collated findings to produce insightful leadership reports and created culture reports and designed plans to alter cultures. During the course of her professional career, Tess has worked within a broad range of industries, working with companies that include Shell, AXA (Global), IAG, AMP, Novartis. Astra Zenica, Coco Cola, Colgate Palmolive, Alcatel Lucent, Telstra, Voda Phone, NHP, Pasminco, Microsoft Australia, Bank Mandirri, Sonocco, Acquire Technologies, Channel 9 (Mi 9) as well as numerous mid sized privately owned companies. Tess cut her consulting teeth in a company called Corporate Vision. BRW awarded this company in the top 100 of fastest growing Australian companies five years in a row. At the time the link between leadership behavior, culture, strategy and business results was a relatively new idea. Tess worked on many large accounts in this business including Westpac, Wyeth Australia, Coco Cola and Astra Zenica. Tess then worked with a global consulting firm where she further developed her coaching and facilitating skills – around the globe. Tess now works with Walking the Talk designing training programs, coaching and facilitating. | 153
Sander Tideman Sander is an expert in leadership development and sustainable strategy, who has worked in and with leading organizations across three continents. Sander began his career as a lawyer with Baker & Mc. Kenzie in Amsterdam and Taiwan. He later joined ABN AMRO Bank to develop and manage their offices in China. As the bank’s Chief Representative for China, he advised foreign companies on doing business in China and arranged large project financings, establishing ABN AMRO as a strong financial institution in China, with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. Later, Sander became the Vice President of ABN AMRO in Amsterdam’s Structured Trade Finance, followed by International Management at Triodos Bank. LANGUAGES • English • Dutch • German • Chinese EXPERTISE • Leadership development • Sustainable strategy • Culture change In 2002 Sander left banking to establish an advisory firm in strategy and leadership for sustainable development. Sander trained in top executive coaching, emotional intelligence, organizational psychology, systems thinking and sustainability. He partnered with Teleos Leadership Institute in Pennsylvania and co founded the Global Leaders Academy in the UK. His clients and projects include the United Nations Development Program, The World Bank, the governments of Mongolia and Bhutan, HSBC, Unilever, Unicredit Bank, Deloitte, Nike and ING Bank. Sander serves on the faculty of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. He holds a degree in international economic law from the University of Utrecht and Asian Affairs from SOAS and London School of Economics. He has co authored several articles and books, including Doing Business in China, Compassion or Competition, and Mind over Matter; Towards a New Paradigm for Leadership in Business and Economics. Sander lives with his wife and three children in the Netherlands. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 154
Sharon Ting Color photo LANGUAGES • English EXPERTISE • Executive coaching • Leadership development • Emotional competencies • Cross-culture business With a background in leadership development and executive coaching in cross cultural settings, Sharon works globally as a thought partner with senior leaders on topics of talent, leadership development, succession planning and leaders as culture creators. She coaches them on their own leadership capabilities and helps them to attain their aspired level of leadership. She approaches this work with two mindsets. The first is as a leader based on her own experience as executive vice president of a public benefit corporation that managed the design, construction and financing of healthcare facilities. The second is as a professional executive coach based on 15 years of practice including 10 years as the Coaching Practice Leader at the Center for Creative Leadership where she led the worldwide Awareness Program for Executive Excellence (APEX®). This was CCL’s premier executive development and coaching process for senior leaders. She has personally coached top executives in Fortune 100 companies in an array of industries, including financial services, auto, utilities and energy, consulting, consumer products industries, and government. An expert in leadership development, Sharon has designed, delivered, and managed custom classroom and individualized leadership development programs and processes. She also has extensive international and cross cultural experience, having delivered services in North America, Europe, Asia, South America, and the Caribbean. Sharon has also published. She co authored an article, "The Young and the Clueless, " for Harvard Business Review and a chapter on coaching in the Center’s Handbook on Leadership Development. She is executive editor and author of The CCL Handbook of Coaching: A Guide for the Leader Coach. Sharon earned a B. A. from the State University of New York at Albany and an M. B. A from Wake Forest University. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees for the Rochester Institute of Technology. In addition to her passion for client service, she has a passion for her family, friends, travel, cultural differences, exotic cuisines, and art. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 155
Mark Tovell Mark has spent the past seven years working with executives and leaders across Asia with a particular focus on leading culture change, improving team performance, and empower leaders to move to their next level of effectiveness and well being. He takes an integral approach that helps leaders grow their business from a sense of higher purpose and values that aligns people, organization, and the business, creating meaning, engagement, and effectiveness. Mark has lead and worked in both Western and Eastern cultures and has experience guiding leaders to embrace diversity and effectively face the cultural challenges that arise in the global context. LANGUAGES • English • Indonesian Mark has done a variety of consulting work for clients in different sectors, including banking, pharmaceutical, technology, manufacturing, and tourism. Some of the clients he has worked with include Sunlife Financial, Mandiri Bank, Microsoft, BSH, and Novartis. EXPERTISE • Leadership Mark has a deep passion to see organizations and people within organizations healthy, purposeful, and effective. He brings this passion to his consulting, and also to other areas of his life. Effectiveness • Organizational Leadership • Executive Coaching • Culture Change He holds a Master’s in Leadership from Trinity Western University in Langley, Canada, and is an accredited coach with the International Coach Federation. He is also a certified Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coach and a licensed associate with CRG (Consulting Resource Group). Mark’s interests include team sports, reading, and enjoying a great cup of coffee with friends. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 156
Wilson Trevisan Wilson is a consultant with decades of experience working with entrepreneurs, coaching executives and doing leadership development projects and a background in the areas of group dynamics, innovation, and change processes. Wilson started his career in the corporate world first as a business and systems analyst at an airline and later as a sales and marketing manager at IT companies. In the 1980 s, he founded and was CEO of an audiovisual equipment company, which became an industry leader in the Brazilian market. LANGUAGES • English • Portuguese EXPERTISE • Business, career and performance coaching • Entrepreneurship: development and business strategy • Leadership and team development • Group dynamics © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. In 2002, Wilson started another business called Entrepreneur Club, which focused on learning and development for small and medium sized startups and entrepreneurs. The company specialized in one to one and group coaching, lectures and workshops and also facilitated the exchange of knowledge and the sharing of experiences among entrepreneurs. In the last decade of his career Wilson has focused on the challenges that executives, leaders and entrepreneurs face in the areas of human resources and business strategy. Through this and his prior work, Wilson has developed his specialty in entrepreneurship and business startups. Wilson has a degree in business administration and system analysis and is completing a Master’s degree in innovation research (PUC SP). He received certification as a coach by the Integrated Coaching Institute and Ecosocial Institute and as a group dynamics specialist by SBDG. He lives in São Paulo and loves go to the beach on the weekends to run, kitesurf, wakeboard, and meet with friends. He is married and has a daughter. | 157
Eric Tseng LANGUAGES • English • Chinese EXPERTISE • Strategic meeting facilitation. • Organization Change Consultant Leadership • Professional skill Development © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Eric has worked for IBM for more than 23 years, holding a management position for 13 years. He has strong leadership and communication skills that help him succeed in matrix designed organizations. He received 2011 IBM GCG Manager Eminence Award. He has overseen six different departments with sound performance. His management experience is a valuable asset for him when teaching and facilitating. Eric is passionate for employee development, training and facilitation. He is IAF (International Associate of Facilitation) and CPF (Certified Professional Facilitator). He designed and facilitated workshops for IBM employees across the Asian region and for more than 30 IBM clients and 10 universities. Eric started his facilitation journey in 2006. He completed ICA (Institute of Cultural Affairs) facilitator certification courses to develop his facilitation core competency. He facilitates strategic planning sessions and functional meetings for different business units and clients with very high impact results. He is a certified NLP practitioner. Eric delivered workshops across Greater China, Hong Kong and Thailand. Some of the most relevant themes of his workshops include: situational leadership, train the trainers, meeting and facilitation skills, and problem management skills. PHILIPS, TSMC, Fox. Conn, Drager Safety, UMC, are some of the biggest corporate clients he supported. He also designed and delivered new training programs at IBM. Eric has two daughters. He enjoys yoga and reading in his free time. He loves to travel and to offer support as volunteer for non profit organizations. | 158
Jorge Valdano ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border LANGUAGES • Spanish EXPERTISE • Sports • Teams • Leadership values Jorge Valdano combines businesses and sports in the same theoretical dimension, a strategy he successfully applied for over a decade at Real Madrid C. F. (Spanish soccer team). Jorge Valdano was a former football/soccer player of Newell's Old Boys, Alavés, Zaragoza and Real Madrid, where he won two League Titles and two UEFA trophies. With the argentine football team he played 22 matches (9 in the world cup) and scored 7 goals, becoming world champion in Mexico ‘ 86. After retiring as a football player he became coach of Tenerife, Real Madrid and Valencia. He was named Sports Director of Real Madrid between 1997 and 2005, where he established a new and successful organizational and sports management system. In 2009 he was named General Director of the Club, a role he occupied until 2011. One of his functions was the creation and the leadership of the Real Madrid University in close collaboration with the European University of Madrid, part of the Laureate education system. Valdano is frequently quoted in articles such as El País newspaper, Marca Magazine, SER radio and appears on television shows such as Azteca, RCN or channel 6. He is the author of several books, including: “Sueños de fútbol” (Football dreams), "Cuentos de fútbol" (Football stories), "Cuadernos de fútbol" (Football notebooks) and "Apuntes de fútbol" (Football notes). His latest publication is "Los 11 poderes del líder" (11 powers of a leader) where he combines his experience as a business leader and athlete with universal values. © 2013 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 159
Jacqueline Valenzuela ASSOCIATE PARTNER Jacqueline has more than 30 years of experience in Company management, Manager consulting and personal undertakings. Her main executive experiences have been as Consultant for the OAS (Organization of American States) in Dominican Republic; General Manager in Viña Manquehue; Administration and Finance Manager in Computerland; General Manager in Quintec Educación; and Operations and HHRR Manager in AMECORP S. A. She has founded consulting companies in the human resources and executive search area, where she has represented international companies. As a Company Consultant, she has focused on strategic planning, change management, human resources, executive search and executive and team coaching. She has designed and carried out projects in these areas in the private and public area in organizations with more than a thousand employees. LANGUAGES • English • Spanish EXPERTISE • Strategy and • • • planning Change Management Leader Training Coaching and Mentoring Human Resources Philosophy about the sense of lives © 2013 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Jacqueline is a Commercial Engineer graduated from the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, with post graduate degrees in Project Assessment and Biology of Knowledge and Human Communication in the Universidad de Chile with Mr. Humberto Maturana, a widely known biologist. She graduated from Transformational Learning Ph. D at the Universidad Bolivariana. Jacqueline is one of the first coaches in Chile. She trained as Onthological Coach, first with Mr. Fernando Flores and then with Mr. Julio Olalla, by the end of the 80 s. She also has formation in Transpersonal Psychology with Mr. Daniel Taroppio and courses with Ken Wilber in USA. She has recently trained as a Company Director in Universidad Adolfo Ibañez. She has been profesor at the MBA of Industrial Engineering at the Universidad de Chile, and Academic Director of the Directive Skills Program of the MBA. She has also been Director of the Coaching and Management Degree at Universidad Finis Terrae. She has been lecturer in different talks, workshops and conferences in companies in the private and public areas. She is currently member of the Board of Directors in the Portas Foundation, an organization that helps vulnerable Young people to undertake tertiary studies. Jacqueline is enthusiastic and she is always in good spirits and good sense of humor. She has 5 children and 4 grandsons. She likes Reading, specially science fiction, although she is also very fond of Murakami. She writes poems, paints and likes gardening very much. She is a very dedicated sportswoman, playing raquetball for more than 20 years. | 160
Lars van Tuin 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border LANGUAGES • Dutch • English EXPERTISE • Executive Coaching • Leadership development • Workshop design and facilitation • Psychology of motivation Lars works with leaders and executives in one on one settings and with leadership teams to improve leadership effectiveness and to build work cultures where excellence in performance meets personal growth and the development needs of people. He was one of the first Dutch coaches to receive international accreditation (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF). Building bridges between people and business divisions, overcoming cultural barriers, welding places of trust and aligning business goals with personal goals and values, distinguish Lars as a coach. Lars brings a rich background of experience and expert knowledge in the field of business management, leadership and entrepreneurial spirit. His last in house position was manager of business development with a listed (NYSE, AEX) telecommunications firm. His responsibilities were business development, international internet provider growth strategy, and mergers and acquisitions in internet and media. A deep seated curiosity after people and a wish to contribute to thriving workspaces where people find meaning and can develop brought Lars to coaching and leadership development. He followed coaching courses and pursued certification with Newfield Network, ICF, CCL and others. His main clients have been large, mainly international corporations in finance (banking & insurance), automotive, oil & gas, retail and health. Lars graduated cum laude in Political Science. He followed post doctoral business courses at IMD in Switzerland at Ashridge College in the UK. Currently Lars performs academic research on the relationship between leadership and the psychology of motivation at the University of Utrecht. Lars is married to Laura and lives in Fryslân, in the Netherlands, where he enjoys competition sailing in Skûtsjes, gardening, classical guitar, traveling and cooking. They have two daughters. © 2013 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 161
Pablo C. Vega 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border Pablo has over 19 years of international experience helping organizations and individuals identify and close gaps in performance and results. He has managed to accompany leaders find their way, increase their energy and achieve significant and lasting changes in their lives. Pablo has lectured and trained executives in the U. S. , Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Spain. Banco Santander, Citibank, Publiespaña, Iberia, Monsanto, GE, Johnson & Johnson, Manpower, Assurant, Heineken Brewery Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma, and Reckitt Benckiser are among the companies he has served. LANGUAGES • English • Spanish EXPERTISE • Executive Coaching and Mentoring • Transformation & Change Management • Energy Management • Business & HR Leadership © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Previously, Pablo worked in Gillette as Business Partner for Mexico and Central America, in Masterfoods as Director of Human Resources, and Johnson & Johnson as Director of Change Management, Communication and Training for Latin America. He has a Executive Masters in Human Resources Leadership from Rutgers University, New Jersey and a BA in Business Administration from the Tec de Monterrey. Pablo is founder and CEO of Strategic Transformation SC , International Business Coach certified by the Academia Interamericana de Coaching, Performance Coach, Keynote Speaker and Mental Toughness Coach of the Human Performance Institute. Pablo is happily married to Gabriela and together they lovingly raise in values their children Camila, Ivana and Matías. He is also an enthusiast runner who enjoys high performance sports, playing the guitar and reading. | 162
Renata Veloso Antunes 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border LANGUAGES • English • Portuguese • Spanish EXPERTISE • Business strategy • Teamwork • Multicultural integration Renata developed her professional experience as an entrepreneur and consultant in business through more than 13 years in areas such as knowledge brokerage, operations, project coordination, conflict management, contract administration, teamwork training, organizational coaching and business strategy. In 2009, Renata founded Integral Comm, a consulting firm devoted to organizational coaching, which aims to develop systems thinking through dialogue and confrontation of mental model. She worked with executives of large companies such as Siemens do Brasil. Prior to becoming an independent consultant, she worked many years in Uruguay as knowledge Broker serving firms such as the construction company Cowan, and Andraus Group in Brazil, Somacis S. p. A in Italy, and Brener Group in Mexico. She specialized in negotiation, conflict resolution and contract administration in commercial transactions between two or more countries. Renata obtained her bachelor degree in Social Communications from the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has doctoral studies in Argumentation and Rhetoric applied to communication strategies from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, and is currently attending the Master in Organizational Coaching from the University of Salvador in Argentina. She is also co founder of La Casa del Camino, a non governmental organization for homeless children and adolescents in Montevideo, Uruguay. In her free time she loves drawing, writing, reading, listening to music, running and spending time outdoors, especially with her son João Manuel. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 163
Raphael Louis Vitón INNOVATION LEADERSHIP PROFESSIONAL & BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION LEAD 1. 66 x 1. 32 grey border A hands-on interventionist and global innovation practitioner (former expat, corporate strategist and President/Partner of two creative strategy firms advising 25% of F 100), Raphael is abusiness transformation specialist focused on VUCA environments, helping leaders implement generative (drama free) corporate lifestyle habits while building durable innovation assets, innovation processes and skills based tool boxes that create more agile/adaptive/engaged businesses. He successfully pilots organizations and project teams through strategic transitions and enables increased performance under increased stress by de risking, de mystifying and re humanizing innovation efforts. LANGUAGES • English • Spanish Raphael frequently serves as the program lead for a portfolio of strategic initiatives while incorporating emerging best practices around the essentials of customer experience, culture of innovation, and innovation leadership fundamentals that have the power to address the (often unaddressed) complex polemic between the core business and “what’s next. EXPERTISE • Innovation By actively furthering his own training alongside the senior leadership teams of multibillion dollar companies, he very effectively equips/mentors/models growing as an innovation leader while working on improving the company’s growth outcomes. Leadership • Innovation Mgt. Systems, Processes, Tools & Governance • New Paradigms in Business • Complex Adaptive Systems • Deepening enterprise-wide levels of customer understanding © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. As the former president/owner of an internationally recognized innovation specialty consulting firm and nearly 20 years of process re engineering, work flow, org design, branding, design thinking and strategy consulting…his clients have included companies such as ACT, Allstate, American National, Assurity, Blue Cross Blue Shield, CNA, CNH, ESPN, GE Healthcare, HCSC, Highmark, Kellogg’s, Kraft, LIMRA, Nationwide, Prudential, Southwest Airlines, Swiss Re, TIG Insurance, Transamerica, VF Corp. , Wal-Mart, Wrangler. Raphael co authored the book Free the Idea Monkey…to focus on what matters most! In 2014, the book was introduced to the Ph. D. /D. B. A. Program in Values-Driven Leadership and Organizational Change for senior executives at the Center for Values Driven Leadership at Benedictine University. He was a Bloomberg Business. Week columnist for many years and has created/taught programs in innovation leadership, integral leadership and new paradigms in business for executives worldwide. He has also served as a board member for Conscious Capitalism, Inc. and has an MBA from Loyola University of Chicago. | 164
Mc. Rae Williams is a member of the faculty network at Axialent, an internationally recognized consultancy with best practices in innovation, leadership development, and in creating innovation readiness in the workforce through broad culture of innovation work. Mc. Rae guides senior leaders within large organizations through the tools, processes, and cultural changes in their journey into future readiness. LANGUAGES • English He focuses on Design Thinking, Creative Problem Solving and Lean Innovation, deepening enterprise wide levels of customer understanding, developing generative corporate lifestyle habits that create more agile/adaptive environments and building innovation “muscle” throughout all levels of the organization. Over the past 15 years, Mc. Rae has held leadership positions at Maddock Douglas, an internationally recognized innovation specialty consulting firm for 25 percent of the Fortune 100 and Markitecture, a global consultancy specializing in consumer insights and new product development. EXPERTISE • Innovation consulting His innovation experience crosses multiple industries and includes clients such as General • Innovation culture design Electric, Walmart, Nationwide, Bank of America, Allstate, ESPN, Philips, SC Johnson, Blue • Senior leadership Cross Blue Shield, and Mc. Donald’s. coaching • Culture change © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Mc. Rae is a happy husband a father of a handsome son and beautiful twin daughters. | 165
Bill Withers ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER Bill Withers is the founder of ac. Quire Technology Solutions (ac. Quire) and ADAPT by Design (ADAPT). He was trained as a software engineer with a bias to solving engineering and scientific problems. The ac. Quire project was founded in 1996 and Withers handed over the role of Managing Director (Chairman) in 2014. ac. Quire develops and supports Geoscientific Information Management Technology. LANGUAGES • English ADAPT was founded in 2012 and has been formed from the process of building ac. Quire, and Withers is the Entrepreneurial Leader of ADAPT. EXPERTISE • Entrepreneurship • Conscious Capitalism • Environment • Sustainability • Values and business success ADAPT was established to provide capability support to Entrepreneurs(and Company Leade rs)and is focused on organizational resilience sothat long term strategies can be delivered to benefit all stakeholders. ADAPT and ac. Quire are owned by the employees of ADAPT and ac. Quire via a holding company called Metech Holdings. Withers is also the Chairman of this company. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Bill is on the board of Conscious Capitalism Australia. | 166
Kelly Wendorf is an entrepreneur, life coach, motivational speaker and a uniquely skilled systems change and leadership mentor. Her early experiences were vitally shaped by the natural and ancient world around her where she learned a way of listening to forces within people, nature and moments. This unconventional education grants her a gift of perception that liberates untapped potential and hidden gifts within individuals and organizations, helping them to solve problems differently through a wisdom informed and wholeness approach. LANGUAGES • english EXPERTISE • Facilitation • Coaching • Consulting • Organizational culture change • Education • Equine assisted facilitation © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Throughout her life she has lived and worked around the world, studying with many spiritual and Indigenous leaders in India, Africa, Indonesia and Australia. Such immersion in multi cultural perspectives has honed a passion for creating a new narrative in the human condition, empowering organizations and their leaders to wield meaningful change in their communities and in the world through servant leadership and innovative business development. Co Founder and CEO of The Manituu Group, a self managed innovative leadership coaching collaborative, she specializes in the liberation of robust leadership capacities in those who are most qualified—ie, the empathetic, the conscientious, the accountable, the generous, and the kind. In her spare time Kelly loves hiking, riding and backpacking. | 167
Peter Wyss With more than 18 years of experience in the field, Peter is a trusted coach and trainer who helps companies to be more efficient and successful, and individuals to be more satisfied and engaged. He focuses on the areas of leadership, transformation of corporate culture, sales and negotiation, conflict resolution, change management and team building processes. LANGUAGES • English • French • Italian • German EXPERTISE • Team building • Leadership training • Transformation of Corporate culture • Communication skills • Change facilitation • Sales and negotiation strategies © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. In 2007, Peter began an independent practice, after working for 10 years with the training company PSSR. His clients include or have included UBS, Hewlett Packard, Swiss Railways, AXA, BCG, among many others. To Peter, the Japanese martial art Aikido serves as a medium to concentrate on the tangible principles of learning and sharing, and he incorporates this path (DO) of harmony (AI) and energy (KI) in his work. Peter holds a degree from the University of Zurich in French and German language and literature. Before that, he studied managerial economics at the University of St. Gallen and French language and literature at the University of Paris. Among many other courses completed, Peter got a solid education at the PSSR Corporate University, where he was instructed in training, coaching, and team building strategies. He is a certified LSI and OCI consultant (by Human Synergistics). He runs workshops in German, English, French and Italian. Peter lives in Zürich, Switzerland. He has three children. | 168
Silke Zanker Silke is a dynamic coach, facilitator and learning & development expert who helps her clients to increase personal and organizational effectiveness, wellbeing and success through increased self awareness, mindfulness, balanced relationships and purpose. Foto Color LANGUAGES • English • German • French EXPERTISE • Leadership Development • Executive Coaching • Mindfulness for High Performance • Personal Branding and Speaker Coaching © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 20 years as a woman in business and in key leadership roles have taught her the demands of our complex world. She draws from her experience in leadership roles in marketing and business development (Daimler AG and athletic footwear industry), running her own companies and being an associate professor at Swiss and American business schools. She has worked with executives and their teams in organizations ranking from Nestlé, Bosch Siemens Home Appliances, Porsche, BSI Bank, Otto Group, The Lucerne Festival to pharmaceutical companies and startups in renewable energies and sports. Silke holds a Postgrad Diploma in Leading Innovation and Change, a BA in Business Administration, multiple coaching certifications and is trained in meditation, yoga and mind body disciplines. She advises various profit for purpose organizations and has been the co curator and speaker coach of TEDx Lausanne, a non profit providing a platform to thought leaders and their ideas worth spreading to positively impact the world. Orginally from Germany, Silke lived in the US and has now settled in Switzerland. | 169
Bernhard Zimmermann LANGUAGES • English • German EXPERTISE • Leadership • Cross cultural work • Virtual teams • Emotional intelligence Bernhard has more than 16 years of professional experience in one of the world’s leading fast moving consumer goods corporation. Having worked in different countries across Europe, he has management and leadership experience in the consumer goods and chemical industry, working with multinational/multi ethnic teams, and most of his current clients are in the pharmaceutical, aerospace, fast moving consumer goods and oil industries. After 16 year with of corporate life he decided to become an independent coach in early 2005. In 2008 he joined Axialent as a freelancer for coaching, facilitation and training. In these years he has been serving clients in different countries across Europe, delivering leadership programmes in English and German. Over the years he was also heavily involved in designing and customising programs for Axialent’s clients. In the globalisation of businesses he recognised great opportunities to support leaders through programs which are based on blended learning and deliver key elements live through virtual platforms, such as Web. Ex training centre or Adobe connect. Bernhard has worked as a coach and facilitator for multinational organizations such as Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Liebherr Aerospace, Airbus, Sanofi, Merz Pharma and Fresenius Kabi among others. The main focus of his work is individual and group coaching either in person or through virtual platforms. He is very committed to high standards of coaching, thus he holds of the PCC credential (professional certified coach ) of the International Coach Federation (ICF). In his passion for professionalism in coaching he supported the ICF over many years through voluntary work. Between October 2010 and October 2014 he was the president of ICF Germany. Outside work he spends time supporting the local community through voluntary work as well as working for the integration of refugees in Germany. © 2017 Axialent, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | 170
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