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I combine customized leadership programmes and executive coaching to create tailored learning engagements for leaders and their teams.

I am a trusted partner to senior executives, who are leading teams in dynamic industries and across diverse cultures.

I support them to build awareness, define objectives and move purposefully towards these.

Clients appreciate my ability to compassionately and constructively challenge them, support them in 360-perspective taking, and to listen beyond the words – and I do this with empathy, honesty, and a sense of possibility.

For my clients, coaching is their time for themselves – a time for reflection and enquiry – where they gain the awareness and assuredness to define goals and actions, and move ahead with clarity, confidence and commitment.

I coach leadership teams in their pursuit of greater value creation and success.

The process of team coaching is based on the principles of executive coaching, with the additional complexity of diverse interpersonal dynamics, conflicting priorities and potential communication gaps.

Teams that are ready to engage in the coaching process appreciate the opportunity to work through individual and joint opportunities and challenges in a respectful, purpose-driven environment – and emerge with greater alignment, intra-and inter team awareness and an enhanced ability to create further value.

I design customized leadership programmes to meet specific organizational objectives, all of which focus on the process and the people aspects of leadership.

My programmes are based on scientific research, and structured around experiential learning to anchor insights and enable change.

I’ve worked with diverse leaders from all continents and flex my style to ensure full participation, engagement and skill application.

Signature courses include:

Leading Well
The Coaching Leader
Leading Change

Take your leadership pulse and plot your leadership growth.

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Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
Crafting Stellar Teams
Stakeholder Mastery
Creating the Future

Enabling and empowering growth.

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Foundations of a Coaching Style
Building Trust with Coaching Conversations
Empowering Teams with a Coaching Mindset
Sustaining a Coaching Culture

Creating the conditions for successful change.

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Leading Yourself During Change
Leading Teams During Transitions
Creating Culture Change

LEADING WITH IMPACT

How impactfully are you leading yourself and your team?

In this programme you take your leadership pulse, its impact, and you craft your future direction and goals.

You explore key leadership questions, drawing on brain science and emotional intelligence research.

What is your driving sense of purpose? What is your unique combination of attributes and talents that define you as a leader? And what plan do you have for your future goals and growth?

What degree of trust have you established with your team and stakeholders? And how do you leverage this trust in times of crisis and opportunity?

Leading with Impact is not just about your current performance and span of influence. It’s about the decisions you make that impact strategy, performance, other people’s wellbeing and the sustainability of your business.

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To lead others, first lead yourself.

Objectives: Appreciate your competences and capabilities and use these to more effectively lead yourself and others. Understand what triggers you to be less than optimal. Set yourself up with a strategic plan to achieve your longer-term ambitions.

The Foundations of Self-Leadership: Explore your leadership talents, core values and your driving purpose.
360 Feedback: Analyze feedback on your leadership from all stakeholder perspectives.
Leadership Style: Understand your preferred leadership behaviours, based on your brain profile assessment.
Goal Setting: Evaluate your present performance against your future aspirations and formulate a strategy to achieve your goals.

Create a team that delivers value beyond its individual components.

Objective: Set up your team for high performance, working with your team to reinforce trust, ownership, teamwork, execution and change readiness.

Assessment of Team Dynamics and Performance: Structure the team for optimal performance and to effectively harness diverse team member styles and strengths.
Roles and Accountabilities: Leverage functional, technical and behavioural skills to operate effectively within the organizational and market ecosystem.
Team Assessment: Take a team 360 or conduct a team assessment to surface strengths and opportunities for further growth.
Team Culture: Explore the desired team culture and define the team norms required to achieve it.

No leader or team is an island, so how do you create relationships across diverse stakeholder groups that last and generate mutual value?

Objective: Create stronger connections with stakeholders both inside and outside your organization to improve trust, better understand expectations and drive enhanced decision-making.

Stakeholder Landscape Analysis: Map diverse stakeholder talents, needs, ambitions and levels of influence to engage in a more collaborative and productive manner.
Strategic Stakeholder Collaboration: Align stakeholder objectives to team and organizational goals, to surface and resolve potential conflicts, and build trust and cohesion.
Embed Review Mechanisms: Establish review mechanisms and feedback channels, defining contact points and clear accountabilities.
Accelerate Execution: Recognize and adapt to changes in stakeholder dynamics, innovate collaboratively and proactively manage risk.

Leading with a long-term perspective, in terms of the wellbeing of people, the planet and the bottom line is now a business non-negotiable.

The focus here is on people and the planet.

Objective: Take critical steps to future-proof your leadership and your organization’s long-term success. Define a strategy based on a triple bottom line perspective, focused on, people, the planet, and profit.

THE COACHING LEADER

In global, dynamic, knowledge-driven organizations, a coaching leadership style empowers team members to take ownership of their work, whilst supporting them to surface critical considerations.

In fast-moving situations and changing environments, a coaching approach supports adaptability, promoting an environment of continuous learning and innovation.

It’s a proven route to building greater trust and enabling higher caliber decision-making.

And when you adopt a coaching style with a colleague, they feel more valued, motivated and satisfied – which frequently translates into greater retention.

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Understand the core principles, benefits, and techniques of a coaching leadership style.

Objective: Practice a coaching mindset and demonstrate coaching principles.

Appreciate the difference between traditional leadership styles and a coaching leadership style.
Explore the benefits of coaching for individual and team performance.
Practice core coaching skills: Active listening, powerful questioning, and providing feedback.
Demonstrate effective empathy as a coaching leader.

Objective: Apply tools and strategies to build trust through effective coaching conversations..

Creating trust and psychological safety in coaching relationships.
Techniques for creating an open, honest, and non-judgmental environment.
The role of consistency, integrity, and transparency in building trust.
How to handle sensitive topics and difficult conversations with tact.

When knowledge is dispersed, leaders need to rely on the knowledge-holders to act with autonomy and accountability – a coaching mindset supports teams to develop those muscles and apply them with confidence.

Objective: Cultivate a coaching mindset to empower and engage teams in achieving goals.

Shifting from a directive to a coaching approach in team leadership.
Encouraging self-reflection and self-awareness in team members.
Using coaching techniques to develop problem-solving and decision-making skills in teams.
Aligning individual goals with team and organizational objectives.

A pan-organizational ability to adopt a coaching leadership style can positively impact culture and performance – given that a coaching approach engenders long-lasting, positive change.

Objective: Creating processes and approaches to embed a coaching culture within the team.

Define a coaching culture and its key elements.
Design strategies for integrating coaching practices into daily leadership routines.
Foster collaboration and peer-to-peer coaching within teams.
Explore methods for measuring the impact of coaching and continuous improvement.

LEADING CHANGE

Given that 70% of change initiatives fail, or fail to meet key objectives (McKinsey), navigating constant change is a crucial leadership skill.

Organizations that lead change well are typically more resilient, innovate and remain more competitive, and are more effective in empowering their people.

By learning to lead change, leaders better manage the complexity of change and also foster a supportive, innovative and robust environment, in which people continue to thrive.

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Identifying established and relevant frameworks supports leaders to manage change effectively.

Objective: Gain understanding and confidence in applying established frameworks of change leadership.

Overview of Kotter’s 8-Step Process, ADKAR Model, Lewin’s Change Management Model.
Assessing the scope, scale, and impact of change.
Adopting right framework for different change initiatives.
Techniques for planning, executing, and sustaining change initiatives.

Which factors typically determine the success of a change initiative – rational or emotional?

Objective: Balance the rational case for change with emotional intelligence to gain and maintain buy-in.

Crafting a compelling case for change with rational and emotional data.
Recognizing the range of emotions that change can trigger: From fear to excitement.
Building empathy and emotional intelligence as part of change leadership.
Communicating change with clarity, consistency, and compassion.

How do leaders succeed in directing energy and focus to engage, maintain and embed change?

Objective: Equip leaders with skills to support, engage, and guide individuals and teams through the change process.

Strategies for involving team members in the change process to increase buy-in.
Leading through uncertainty and maintaining motivation during transitions.
Managing conflict and addressing different reactions to change.
Supporting resilience, adaptability, and growth in team members.

Achieving long term culture change requires .

Objective: Develop techniques to drive and sustain culture change in alignment with organizational goals.

Understand the impact of culture in enabling or hindering change.
Identify how to assess and align values, norms and behaviors.
Build alignment between leadership actions and cultural change goals.
Reinforce new cultural norms with processes and people practices.

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Clients I’ve Worked With

What My Clients Say About Me

‘’Andrea brings positive power of acknowledgement, not just from herself, but also self-acknowledgement. She is strategic and supportive. Strategic dialogues help me to sort out my priority and action items. Challenge me on the things where I limit myself to move forward. Always acknowledge my effort and believe that I can find a solution to my issues. Have a clear plan on my career in a long turn.’’
CHRO
Singapore
“The thing that has helped me most in our time together is the ability to better control the internal chatter, to turn its volume down or mute it all together. I focus on the exercise on the inner strengths and that has been a game changer – for me and for my kids. For the first time, I feel that I am truly ready to focus on the action steps needed to create a successful and profitable business because I am able to see my strengths. That is huge and I feel is the reason things haven’t worked before. I have been able to get to this point thanks to our coaching sessions. Sincere thanks for the time and energy you have put into our sessions.”
Entrepreneur
US
‘’Andrea was calm and relaxed. That just encouraged me to relax and not take the stress of situations so seriously. Letting go of stress energy then opens up creativity. Andrea creates a relaxed and focused space to think and explore expanded options.’’
Entrepreneur
Japan
“You helped me in discovering myself and setting up key tasks to achieve my life’s goals. I am indebted to you for unleashing the untapped potential I had.”
Senior Sales Leader
US Automotive Manufacturer