Analia Mendez is the founder of Signature Careers—a career and professional development company helping mid-career clients transition into new careers and improving business cultures through a strengths-based approach. Analia and her team have collectively over 40 years of career and workforce development experience and have helped thousands to date.
In her book, The Visibility Factor, she shares stories, actionable advice, and an easy-to-follow process for readers to create authentic visibility for themselves. Publishers Weekly calls The Visibility Factor: "A clear-eyed persuasive, and encouraging guide to standing out for the better as a leader within a company." The book is helping her create a visibility movement […]
What is leadership coaching? Business leaders of all levels may benefit from leadership coaching, a powerful management training tool that helps them use their leadership abilities to their fullest potential. It helps you become more conscious by allowing you to practice and get clear feedback (Herminia et al.). You will improve your natural leadership skills […]
Because he has received guidance in his leadership development from many coaches and mentors over the years, I am passionate about “paying it forward” as a coach to others. “As a youth, I felt a call to build bridges between people across our differences and to cultivate a culture of serving the common good,” says […]
Tell us about your books Unleash Your Power and The Intentional Leader and the topics it explores? For years, I travelled the world working with teams, in every industry at every level, which were struggling to overcome challenges. Whether it was low morale, high turnover, silos, destructive culture norms, not producing targets, the themes were […]
Tell us a little bit about the correlation between life and business coaching for executives? The distinction between business coaching and life coaching is initially a mere description of which area of life prompted consulting a coach. But in the end, it is always about the same individual and his/her personality, abilities, patterns and characteristics […]
We caught up with Gordon to hear all about the importance of having an exit plan that will protect your assets. How vital having an exit strategy is? Here's an example - I work with a lot of Private Equity investors who look at 100 investments to then make one. However, they always come up […]
Despina Sfakinos is a Coaching Psychologist with a passion for helping people excel both personally and professionally. She has a PhD in Coaching Psychology and to date has coached over 1,000 people across a range of public and private sectors. She’s also created, developed and delivered introductory through to advanced coach training to a wide variety of audiences within the university and private sectors. Apart from practising in her home country Australia, Despina has also worked in Europe, London and Tokyo.
Ruth Kudzi, Founder of Optimus Coach Academy, explains how business leaders can create a high-performance team. What are high performing teams? These are characterised by a group of highly skilled and motivated people working towards a common goal. They are aligned with the larger vision and share the same values. They work effectively with clear […]
On February 24th, I faced one of the biggest leadership challenges of my career. While we had feared the inevitability of Putin dispatching Russian forces into Ukraine, it was impossible to fully anticipate the impact of this war and the resulting misdirected global attention. From challenges come lessons As the CEO of Stoli Group, an […]
Shapps will warn P&O CEO Peter Hebblethwaite that new legislation will require all ferry companies operating from ports to pay their staff at least the minimum wage. Speaking to the Financial Times, an aide said that Shapps “will tell Hebblethwaite that if he doesn’t perform a U-turn, we will force him to do it anyway”. […]
Yet, according to the Conference Board’s C-Suite Outlook 2022, less than 40% of CEOs believe they are well prepared to meet challenges posed by a major crisis related to inflation, cybersecurity, supply chain disruptions or climate change. In this environment, how can CEOs rise to the challenges of the “next normal,” as well as take […]
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