Executive Coaching
Over 2500 hours of executive coaching, including executive integration, 360 Feedback and multi-assessment feedback as well as team coaching.

She practices ‘intentional inclusion’; employs an integrated ‘head, heart and gut’ approach to achieve holistic & cultural alignment; build resilience and develop authentic leaders. Some engagements:

• Executive Transition and Presence: SVP – Gold Mining (across 3 continents) – Built leadership presence and grew ‘Statesmanship’ – communicate with impact and build strategic networks thus growing the ability to influence, inspire and delegate effectively; build trust and followership and ‘manage’ relationships with C-suite.
• Authentic Leadership: Head-Insurance Services – Medical Insurance Association – Enabled leadership capacity and competence through recognition of innate strengths. Be more assertive and creative; develop emotional courage to have difficult conversations and develop listening skills to be more collaborative.
• “New” Leadership: Country Head – Mobile Security – challenged by the ‘new culture’ and co-existing ex-head. Strengthened his relationships in a matrix, multi-location organization and align with the new culture. Develop communication skills, ability to resolve conflicts and influence outcomes.

Facilitation & Teambuilding

ELECTRONIC ARTS

Challenge: “address our current barriers and ensure we are building an accepting, diverse and inclusive community inside our company, our games and beyond, we need to focus on a strategic, cultural intervention that will allow our senior leaders to make future decisions with an inclusive lens”

Coached the participants within the facilitated workshop to:

• Redesign or dismantle identified barriers that limit the ability of everyone to thrive
• Sustain change by building meaningful personal/organizational action plans and tracking progress against them

BRISTOL MYERS SQUIB

Challenge: Due to the Pandemic (COVID 19) the 6 member leadership team in Puerto Rico, was working remotely. This brought about a feeling of overwhelm as professional and personal boundaries blurred. Cohesion, collaboration and trust needed to be built to manage operations effectively, meet targets and build clarity, resilience and flexibility to deal with the ongoing uncertainty.

• Designed a development program to balance renewal and performance and strengthen emotional social resilience
• Inner Play: Build self-awareness; understand and regulate our inner state; develop personal strategies to nurture ourselves and lean into our uniqueness (Leadership Circle Profile Self-Assessment)
• Outer Game: Continue to be curious about each other, strengthen listening skills; build multiple perspectives; be realistic about our expectations; adjust schedules to maintain focus and energy while getting the right things done and collaborate effectively – learn from each other

Individual 1:1 sessions and Group Coaching sessions to build collaboration and communicate effectively

Challenge: Women and under-represented ethnic leaders did not have voice and agency and did not feel included leading to disengagement.

Identified the self-limiting beliefs; the leadership competency gaps and the systemic bias inherent in the system to design customized development programs for individuals and the group:

• Advance the leadership development of this cohort
• Continue Elevating BMS’ strong culture of diversity and inclusion
• Provide participants important exposure to senior BMS leaders
• Accelerate innovation throughout the US Commercial Leadership

UNILEVER

Challenge: What standards of leadership – characteristics – are needed to be effective in this complex world? Moved them from command and control, fixed mindset, focus on outer game and perfection to behaviors that serve them.

Defined, designed and facilitated a sustained development effort.

• Deep appreciation of how the inner game enables the outer game
• Working through empowerment, networks and collaboration to unlock value
• Leadership style driven by purpose and service
• Leading with agility, creating the context for experimentation
• Continuing to learn and hone personal mastery in leading