Heidi has a M.Sc. (Econ.). She has worked most of her career in traditional and digital advertising agencies. Heidi has several national and international awards in innovative advertising, branding, design and digital service design. She started her career working as a Human Resource Manager and continued from there to key account management, strategic advertising and branding.

The last three years Heidi has served as a CEO for a digital advertising agency. During Heidi’s time as a CEO the company went through a transformation with results in financial performance, employee satisfaction, conquering new offerings, turning customers into accounts and winning both national and international awards for the first time in years.

In 1997-1998 Heidi travelled with Up With People around the world with 170 youth from 24 different countries. The group managed and performed a 2-hour musical, did community service and lived in host families in each of the 90 places the group visited. This experience did not only result in contacts all over the world, but also in becoming highly flexible and adaptive to new situations and cultures.

Heidi is a regular speaker at Business Forums interested in her personal entrepreneurship and transforming ability.

Jane Allen is an experienced consultant, facilitator and coach working in public and private sectors, based in the UK. She provides advice and support to consultants and coaches working in the field of organisational and leadership development. Her ambition is to encourage the best of individuals and organisations in pursuit of their highest ideals and achievements.

Jane is an experienced national and international consultant and leadership coach working in public and private sectors. She coaches senior managers and Chief Executives in Social Care, Local Government, the Probation Service, Higher Education, senior leaders within BT, Imperial Tobacco and Eli Lilley and provides advice and support to consultants working in the field of organisational and leadership development. She has extensive experience of running action learning sets at a strategic level.

Jane has published widely on leadership, coaching and mentoring; and has recently graduated from the ALIA (Authentic Leadership in Action) international masterclass in the practices of mindfulness and authentic leadership. Her ambition is to encourage the best of individuals and organisations in pursuit of their highest ideals and achievements. She believes that good performance and quality go hand.

Bill is Leadership Professor Emeritus at Boston College. He has consulted worldwide and served at numerous boards. Bill’s leadership article “Seven Transformations of Leadership” was selected as the “10 best ever” by Harvard Business Review. He is also the father of the Global Leadership Profile (GLP).

Having received both his BA in Politics and Economics and his PhD in Individual and Organisational Behavior from Yale, Bill served as Founder and Director of both the War on Poverty Yale Upward Bound Programme and the Theatre of Inquiry. He also taught leadership at Southern Methodist University, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and then, from 1978-2008 at the Carroll Graduate School of Management at Boston College, where he also served as Graduate Dean (the BC MBA programme’s ranking rising from below the top 100 to #25 during his tenure) and later served as Director of the Organisational Transformation Doctoral Programme.

In addition to consulting companies, not-for-profits, and governmental agencies, Torbert has served on numerous Boards, notably at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care when it was rated the #1 HMO nationally in the US; and, for twenty years, at Trillium Asset Management, the original and largest independent Socially Responsible Investing firm, founded by Bill’s friend Joan Bavaria, a rare CEO who was at once visionary, strategic, executive, and also truly collaborative.

Lisa is an experienced leadership psychologist, coach and mentor to senior executives, with a penchant for organisations and people exploring their place in this bigger system. Until early 2020, as Executive Director of a New Zealand national charity, she led the organisation towards a fresh vision, at a time when major transition was invited. 

Lisa loves to get her feet dirty for a meaningful cause –  roles where she can really get to know people and organisations at depth and help to make the differences worth making.  She can speak the language of diverse sectors and she offers this broad experience in the form of deeply curious inquiry and guidance that opens up new thinking and seeing, new angles and new possibilities.

She was an inaugural director of various leadership programmes at the New Zealand Leadership Institute. She is the Director of Mindful Adventures Ltd. She is a mindfulness practitioner and teacher, an alumni of the deep learning retreat based 2 year Master Class of ALIA (Authentic Leadership in Action), an endurance athlete, a lover of play, and is always up for the impossible challenge.

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Johan has a diverse background ranging from academia to military and security work. In the early years working on the frontline as a protection officer, security operator and consultant as well as rehabilitation of young offenders. Eventually swinging in an academic direction, lecturing and researching cognitive science and organisational psychology, while still keeping a foot in the high stakes’ world training various operators in stress management, threat and tactical security behavior, as well as high risk conflict management. He has been leading an academic leadership program for senior noncom officers and air force pilots. 

Johan has been exploring the space between science, spirituality and human development in various ways, mixing formal education, consultation and executive coaching with retreats deep inside the wildest places on the planet. Johan’s primary interest is the interplay between human consciousness, biological systems and physics. Johan lives in Denmark and enjoys his free time reading extensively, sea kayaking, running, self-defense and when there is time, exploring the wild. 

Alevtina is a leadership development coach and consultant, working with for profit and non-profit leaders to embrace transformational change and inspiring vision; think strategically, systemically and contextually; and build relationships, collaborating across diversity while engaging in mutual decision-making in organisations they lead and in the lives they live.

Alevtina held management and senior leadership positions for nearly two decades in the mining and commodities trading industries. She has held roles leading Financial and Commercial teams ranging from 2 to 70 people spanning cultures, backgrounds and locations across the globe. She has led and participated in multiple change and transformational initiatives such as post-merge integration and systems and organisational redesign. She is a global nomad who worked and lived on three continents and in five countries, currently calls The Netherlands her home.

Alevtina is the passionate supporter of lifelong learning, who holds MBA (Honours) Finance and Strategy, BA (Honours) Philosophy and Psychological Studies, and accreditations CPCC, by the Coaches Training Institute and ACC, by International Coach Federation. She is authorised practitioner of Leadership Development Profile. Global Leadership Profile, and complete suit of The Leadership Circle products.

Annette Hennessy is an experienced CEO and leader. She has an extensive track record of collaborative, creative leadership in the criminal justice system and beyond, based on vision and compassion. She is committed to changing mindsets and perceptions about leadership as is demonstrated by her work with aspiring female leaders, and in supporting those outside of mainstream communities to discover their potential as leaders. Her achievements include developing a transformational approach as CEO to leading significant organisational change in Cumbria and Merseyside, leading the organisations successfully during a time of significant political scrutiny. Merseyside Probation Trust also won a national award for UK Excellence from the British Quality Foundation a first for anyone in the public sector. In 2014 she was awarded an OBE for services to public protection and reducing reoffending.

Since leaving full time work in 2015 she has started a new phase of her career continuing her commitment to transformational learning and leadership. For example she is a member of the Board for Blackburne House a pioneering centre for education and social enterprise in Liverpool, she is a Trustee of Coaching Inside and Out a creative organisation using life coaching to support individuals in prison and the community, and is an Associate of Amara Collaboration. This work includes the Amara Gardeners a group of individuals whose vision is to discover and increase the connections between aware leaders in the world. She is a qualified social worker, Probation Officer, and ILM 7 coach and has her own coaching practice. She is a walker and gardener and lives in the Lake District, Cumbria.

Ute is an insurance and brokerage executive based in Switzerland.
She has more than 25 years of corporate experience with relevant industry certifications and accreditations. Since 2009 she is as area manager responsible for the Management of Enterprise Risk Management and Insurance related issues of a global corporate in the Automotive Sector. She is a graduate of the Consulting and Coaching for Change programme of the University of Oxford (UK) and HEC (Paris, France).

Since 2005 Ute is an independent consultant, where she combines analytical skills and her experience with the human element in situations of risk with her passion for social dynamics. Her corporate background stimulated her curiosity and continued research about the dynamics of interactions in long term change processes. As a coach she uses her expertise and high quality standards to facilitate people’s development by building on their capabilities and insights, so they are well equipped to operate in turbulent conditions and to reinforce continuous change.

Ute lives in Lugano, Switzerland and is bilingual in German and English. She is an avid traveler, story teller, and a member of The International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations as well as the Change Leaders – a global community of practice.

Parsooa is an entrepreneur with valuable experience working with multinational organizations and also founding three startups. His background (in various roles such as IT, Manufacturing, Marketing and Sales) helps him to understand different organizational levels and jobs that contributes to his perspective and value as a coach.  

He has been a volunteer for a well-known NGO for more than 23 years and he was an inspirational speaker in more than 100 charity events and auctions. As a ’people leader’, he takes care to understand people and then is effective in providing and fostering an environment that allows individuals to flourish – appreciating and encouraging other’s strengths.  

He strongly believes that each of us can lead effectively if we take the time to get to know and understand people in all their complexity. 

Parsooa has been organizing workshops and events since 2003 and working with teams building their collaboration and teamwork has been his primary goal. 

Catherine is a writer, speaker and coach/mentor focussed on developing the practice of senior leaders. She is a mature and unconventional leader with a reputation for authenticity, passion and extraordinary resilience. As a CEO she steered large-scale mergers and transitions in both public and private sectors. She promotes the potential for growth in all individuals, communities and organisations, and fosters the responsibility of those with influence, to nurture that potential.

Integral to her leadership style are her qualities and commitment to integrity, humour, generosity and openness to inquiry, with an established reputation for using her passion, personal experience and story telling to inspire others. 

Widowed suddenly in 2016 Catherine began a personal and professional transformation, and now focusses her attention on her writing, and supporting others in developing the practice of senior leadership. Catherine writes and speaks about her bereavement and personal resilience and change, believing that sharing her experiences can support others in transformation.

Catherine is an Associate with Amara Collaboration, a Non-Executive Director with a local Health Service Trust, and is currently working on two children’s books.

Kaija has for the past two years ran a company specialized in leadership coaching, named KoiKoi Oy. As a coach and mentor she has trained hundreds of companies and facilitated teams and individuals in transformations and different kinds of change and crisis situations. She is an authorized Global Leadership Profile (GLP) coach and a certified Business Coach (BCI) for individuals, teams and groups.

Her background is in organizational communications and 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur. She has grown her own firm from one-woman startup to a business employing 40 people that is one of the biggest and most international PR Consultancies in Finland, named Cocomms Oy Ltd.

During her career she has worked with global and domestic organizations and customers in the technology, finance, pharmaceutical, consumer and public sectors. Kaija holds a Masters Degree from Social Sciences, Helsinki University majoring in Organizational Communications with Minors being Political History and Social Psychology.

More information: koikoi.fi

Dana is a seasoned executive coach and leadership consultant working globally in the frothy spaces between strategy and execution. Dana assists clients in navigating their biggest real world challenges while moving through personal and professional transformation in a unique and personalized way, integrating action and learning simultaneously.

More information: danacarman.com