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He has developed and delivered Change Management Programmes that involve individual coaching to C-Suite Leaders, assessment of employees engagement, individual and team coaching, facilitation of experiential workshops on themes like Innovation, Communication, Trust, Feedback, Teamwork, Positive Leadership.

He is ICF PCC accredited and he works in English and Italian, in person and virtually.

He is licensed practitioner for 2 assessment tools (Motivational Maps, The International Profiler) and he has extensive experience in debriefing surveys and assessment tools.

He has extensive experience in consulting and management of Innovation and Total Quality Management Programmes and Teams, on a full-time and temporary basis.

In his 15 years corporate career with Unilever and Fiorucci as Innovation and R&D Senior Manager, he was responsible for Innovation and Quality Assurance Departments and Programmes: as part of his role he regularly facilitated innovation and creativity workshops and delivered training programmes on Innovation and Project Management.

Nicola is married, with 2 children: he loves sport (basketball, cycling, skiing, dogs walking); he enjoys cooking and traveling the world.

She has significant experience of debriefing a wide range of employee,  360° surveys and feedback tools to help her clients to increase self-awareness, learn new skills and reach their personal, team and business goals.

She has coached people from all organizational levels including senior leaders, key talents and front-line staff. Her clients include international world-class companies across most industry sectors.

Helen is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation, a graduate of the International Coaching Academy  and certified in Coaching for Performance (John Whitmore), Coaching across Cultures (Phillipe Rosinski) and the coaching tools: The International Profiler, Motivational Maps, IPI team tool, and International Trust in Teams Indicator. Helen has a BSc. & PhD in Science.

Previously Helen worked for over ten years in a range of business roles for Unilever. These included Section Head and International Project Team Leader, where she led multi-functional international teams to develop and launch new products for global markets. 

Her coaching style is described as inclusive, supportive, challenging and innovative. She builds on her clients’ knowledge and experience and uses role-play, feedback, exercises and tools to create new thinking and clarity. 

She has lived and worked in the UK, Ireland, The Netherlands and is now based in Rome, Italy.

Helen’s working languages are English and Italian.

After more than 25 years as a top executive in multinational corporations, Michel started to create his path has consultant, facilitator, and coach, integrating his prior professional experience along with his human qualities where the belief in the potential of each person comes at the first place.

Michel regularly works on international projects where his skills as a coach, facilitator, trainer, consultant, and speaker are at the most practice. Since 2013 he works for the Consumer Experience Movement, a global Ford Movement based on the Appreciative Inquiry approach, as Coach for Spanish and French markets and as Market Field Mentor for 11 Coaches over France, Belgium, Switzerland, Turkey, and Spain. 

Organisations Michel worked for currently/recently include: Shire, Takeda, AstraZeneca, Siemens, Ford Motor Company, Sonaesierra, among others. 

Michel is recognized for his coaching competencies, including the ability to quickly establish rapport, a capacity for creating environments where people feel safe. He is fully centred on his clients, partnering with them along the journey. He stands out for his ability to give feedback, useful, constructive, and provocative transformational insights.

Michel holds the following certification: Professional Certified Coach  (PCC from ICF) + The Leadership Circle + International Systemic Team Coaching + Integrative Enneagram + Mentor Coach + LEGO SERIOUS PLAY (LSP) Method + Diploma in Executive Coaching. 

In addition to his native French and Spanish, Michel is fluent in English and has professional working proficiency in Portuguese.

Michel is the father of five children from 34 to 14. Based in Barcelona, Spain, he is a very open-minded person with a positive attitude towards life. He is passionate about all activities that bring balance to life, such as sports, meditation, healthy food habits, and body consciousness.

Michel holds a private air pilot license since he was 17.

She brings with her more thatn twenty years experience of working at Director Level within the Charitable and not for profit sector working with well known brands like Cancer Research UK (3500 staff and turnover £400m) as Executive Director of Organisational Development. She has run her own business since 2002. She is a Non Executive  Board member for Alliance Homes Group.

Jenny works internationally and in the UK with companies  including Ford Motor Company, National Portrait Gallery, Gateway Housing Group,Advertising Standards Agency , Royal Mail, Smurfit Kappa.    

As an ICF and Association for Coaching registered  coach she has coached teams and individuals at all levels in organisations .Jenny is  a warm, open and engaging coach with strong rapport and influencing skills, which enable her to build effective and impactful, long-term relationships. She has a coaching style that is based on the fundamental belief that we all have the resources to achieve whatever we desire – at times, however, we do not access them.  Coaching with Jenny helps people gain clarity on what they want,  what outcomes are required and how to progress.

Jenny  is a Fellow of the Institute of Personal Development (CFIPD), has an MA in Human Resource Development.

Trained psychometric tester at level B, using tools including MBTI, OPQ, and ESCI. ITS International NLP Coach programme and has qualified as a Master Practitioner in NLP.

Sonia lead the expansion across EMEA of Ford’s Consumer Experience Movement, an initiative designed to improve long term results and profitability of dealers by creating engaged customers through engaged employees. She recruited and trained the team who delivered the programme and sold it into National Sales Companies and the dealers themselves, developing a relationship of trust with all stakeholders.

She brings a deep understanding of the business, the customer and employee journeys and of the skills needed to build engaging relationship with our teams and customers.

Today, Sonia’s interests lie in the development of leadership capabilities and behaviours particularly with a view to enabling leaders to create cultures of engagement within their businesses that will result in engaged customers. As an executive coach she works mainly at Board and Executive Director level. She gives her clients the confidence to lead and manage others more effectively. And through her passion for people development, her great intuition and ability to create trust and rapport with people at all levels, she’s inspired individuals and teams to great achievements.

Sonia’s style has been described as ‘challenging and focused’ while also ‘warm, empathetic and fun’. She has multi-cultural coaching and training experience and speaks French and Spanish.

Sonia has an MBA from Ashridge Business School, Marketing and Direct Marketing Diplomas, is a qualified coach and Master Practitioner of NLP and a qualified trainer. She works with a number of assessments including Myers Briggs, True Colors, Strenghtscope, Motivational Maps and is a member of the International Coaching Federation and the Association for Coaching.

 

Organisations Maria worked for recently, globally and in Portugal: Ford Motor Company, Red Hat, GSK, Shire Pharmaceutical, Delphi, Deloitte, McKinsey, BNP Paribas, Natixis, HSBC, Shell, Galp, Total, EDP, SonaeMC, and Sonaesierra, among others. 

As an ICF PCC certified coach Maria has coached teams and individuals from C-suite levels and other organizational positions. Well known for her strong coaching presence, Maria partners with clients along their coaching journey, supporting them to identify and clearly articulate the results they wish to obtain. Maria’s feedback brings powerful, constructive and provocative insights which lead to transformational results.

Maria holds certifications in TLC, The Leadership Circle Profile, Systemic Team Coach, Mentor Coach, MBTI Step I & II, and TILT365.

Maria works virtually and in presence in Portuguese, English and Spanish.

She lives both in Lisbon, Portugal and Barcelona, Spain, and she’s passionate about all the activities that connect people.

 

She facilitates and enable changes in people, in teams and in organizations; working with them in finding new ways of doing, being and acting. She started as an HR consultancy in the former Arthur Andersen, in  Human Capital – Business Consulting and, nowadays, works as a freelance for both international and national organizations such as Ford Motor Company, Enel, PPD, FCC, movistar, Sodexo, Almirall, Daikin…among others.

Arantxa has designed and delivered actions to develop interpersonal skills, leadership training, initiatives to raise awareness of change and its requirements, to improve customer and employee experience and engagement, talent management and coaching. In addition, she enables organizations to produce sustainable culture shifts that lead to desired business results, through easy to use tools and coaching.

As a coach, Arantxa assists and supports people and teams to be aware of the abilities, competencies and resources they have to take action to achieve their goals. She provokes action by unlocking potential.

She is mother of three international kids, who will be actors of tomorrow’s world and for whom she is also trying to make it a better place to live in. Arantxa delivers workshops to change school environments and organizational spaces towards more collaborative, participative and integrative ones.  She love sports and nature, travelling and discovering new cultures, and learning.

Arantxa holds certifications in Motivational Maps, MBTIStep I, Walking the Talk methodology (make culture do-able), Roles of Belbin. She is also a Lego® Serious Play ® certified trainer and a Scrum Master.                                She has a BSc in Law and a BSc in Economics.