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| The core team at SWAN come from different backgrounds and have one thing in common, their passion for excellence through development. Together they form a strong association that is highly valued by clients.
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Alexandra Smith |
Alexandra is the
founder of SWAN Consulting and has an extensive track record in
Leadership Development and Coaching, Organisational Development
and Change Management. Alexandra’s approach is client centred
and takes account of the complexity of a business environment.
She focuses on the inter-dependent nature of business
relationships and performance, and encourages individuals and
executive teams to demonstrate the character of true leadership.
Her approach is always pragmatic and stimulating and is
underpinned by a belief that authenticity is the means for
accessing and fostering untapped potential.
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Gilly Rutherford |
Gilly has a strong business background and extensive experience as a coach and facilitator. She takes a systemic approach to client work, focussing on client motivation and creativity. She believes that leadership and learning are inextricably linked.
As a facilitator and coach she helps leaders learn and adapt so that they improve their own performance, the performance of others and, crucially, the performance of the organisation they work for. Gilly also enjoys mentoring managers and leaders as they learn both the science and art of coaching. She supports them in gaining a strong foundation in coaching skills and ethics while simultaneously developing their unique style and strengths. |
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Kate McGuire |
Kate is an
executive coach, group facilitator, and Organisation
Development consultant. She combines her knowledge of
individual development and learning with her experience of
organisations and organisational change. Kate uses
conversation and humour, and an appropriate level of
challenge, to help clients reflect on their experience,
identify learned patterns of behaviour or thinking that are
no longer helpful, and devise new strategies for the future
to improve leadership impact, relationships, and work
performance.
Kate has worked with a range of clients, including BG Group,
Royal College of Nursing, Diageo, Nationwide, and the
National Policing Improvement Agency. She also works with
Yarrow, a small charity which provides housing for people
with disabilities, and private clients on their career
choices.
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Angela Jopling |
Angela brings a
unique blend of experiences to her leadership development
and coaching practice. She has 18 years working with
organisations in change and organisation design and
development roles.– both internal and as an external
consultant. Angela believes that clients hugely benefit from
being authentic in the workplace, so she works with them on
how to bring the whole person to their leadership roles. Her
work as a psychotherapist and counsellor helps in this.
Angela has worked for a wide range of clients and undertakes
not for profit work. Executive coaching clients include
members of the senior management teams in BG group, Centrica
plc, Goldman Sachs and Sony Europe amongst others.
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Jeremy Keeley |
Jeremy has had
significant experience in the facilitation of individual and
team development, particularly in environments of
considerable change. His approach focuses on honouring
people where they are and then helping them to build self
awareness, self confidence, self sustainability and
resilience. He also helps people and teams build powerful
relationships and align their development with significant
enhancements in organisation performance.
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Lorraine Bateman |
Lorraine has senior level experience, in HR, in blue-chip organisations, specialising most extensively in Organisation and Management Development agendas.
Lorraine experiences organisations as clusters of conversations and fundamentally believes that the strength of relationships is a major contributor to business success. How individuals relate with and to, themselves, expectations, situations, colleagues, teams, the goals of the organisation, competitors and suppliers, can block or encourage creative and productive energy and application. Lorraine’s direct and open approach stimulates challenge and learning. |
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Tessa Bradon |
Tessa believes
passionately that leaders provide powerful role models for
their people. They create their organisation’s culture and
inspire their people to achieve, so support and development
for leaders has a hugely beneficial impact on business
performance. She has 15 years experience working as an
Executive coach and particularly uses current and future
events in the individual’s working life as opportunities for
learning and change. She helps leaders to understand
themselves and authentically express their leadership style,
supporting them to transition successfully into new and more
senior roles.
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Julie Bickerton |
Julie has
extensive coaching and consulting experience. and she helps
people to make shifts in thinking, feeling and behaviour to
generate the energy to make and sustain change. Her approach
is grounded in and influenced by her experience of Gestalt
and Transactional Analysis. She brings a
pragmatist/reflector learning style to her work and draws on
a number of tools and methodologies depending on a client’s
circumstances.
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Pattie Horrocks |
Pattie has senior
level HR experience in blue chip companies and major
professional partnerships in both management and consultancy
roles. Her focus is on improving organisational
performance through increased individual contribution. She
loves the `win win' of organisations working more
effectively as a result of individuals increasing their
confidence and skills and bringing more of themselves to
work. She is passionate about enabling others to develop
trust in their authentic way of leading within a shared
corporate vision. Clients consistently report that Pattie's
challenging but supportive approach leads to increased job
satisfaction and performance.
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Jennifer Cramb |
Jennifer brings both a
strategic and practical perspective to her work with
organisations, teams and individuals. Her consulting
experience includes working with senior teams; engagement;
and leadership development.
Jennifer coaches executives and high potential individuals.
She combines constructive challenge with a calm, thoughtful,
and highly supportive presence. Her purpose in her work is
to help her clients to flourish and realise their full
potential. She enables her clients to enhance their own and
their teams’ effectiveness, to generate solutions to
challenges - creating a positive impact on their performance
and their organisations.
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Angie Major |
Angie’s strengths
lie in organising; planning and communication. She
approaches the most basic tasks with a business point of
view and a focus of added value. She has worked in a variety
of industries ranging from construction to healthcare and
brings a depth of business acumen and pragmatism to her work
with SWAN. Angie is well known for her collaboration and
networking skills.
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Amelie Winhard-Stuart |
Germany |
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Consultancy
and Coaching experience
For the last 20 years Amelie has her private practice in UK and
Germany after a career in various management functions in
international corporations. As an Executive Coach Amelie has worked
for many years with senior executives from all over the world. In
addition she designs and delivers tailored behavioural change
support workshops and works on coaching skills training events. Her
experience as an executive and as a coach gave her the opportunity
to witness the power of coaching which allows senior executives to
boost their existing talents, explore and develop their untapped
resources and possibilities, and thus create breakthrough for
themselves and their organisation.
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Ana Oliveira Pinto |
Portugal |
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Consultancy and Coaching experience
Ana has 14 years’ experience of
working with organisations in change and development as an external
consultant. Ana firmly believes that everyone is resourceful and has
the capacity to find their own way of accomplishing their dream and
life’s vision. Each of us can make a difference and positively
influence the various systems to which we belong. As a Coach she
provides her clients with the space to develop themselves to become
the person they want to be, to take responsibly for their life,
which ultimately means an awareness of ones’ limiting beliefs and
paradigms and act upon them. As an organisational development
consultant, her passion is to find new possibilities and
perspectives that can enhance personal fulfilment and outstanding
performance. Ana has worked for a wide range of sectors including
IT, Finance, Pharmaceuticals, FMCG.
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Andrea Klinčoková |
Czech Republic |
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Consultancy and Coaching
experience
Andrea is a Slovak national who has
lived and worked in the Czech Republic for the last 10 years.
Originally from Bratislava, where she built the HR department for
DHL in Slovak Republic, she relocated to Prague where she worked for
several multi-national companies.
She is the current president
of the ICF (International Coach Federation) Prague chapter.
One of Andrea’s biggest challenges is to develop the chapter by
increasing awareness of and demand for coaching in the Czech
Republic. Her ability to absorb ideas in one language and seamlessly
transfer them to Czech or Slovak is a powerful ally in her work with
her clients. Andrea works in association with SWAN Consulting in
support of executive clients and their self development.
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Carmen
Morales |
Madrid, Spain
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Consultancy and Coaching
experience
Carmen is an Executive Coach with
10 years of experience, specialise in Emotional Intelligence and
Leadership Development. Carmen brings significant Corporate Coaching
experience:
Coached Senior Executives - most notably Chairman and CEO’s,
Coaching High Potentials for Leadership Development,
High-Effective Teams Coaching.
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Claudia Crescenzi |
Italy |
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Consultancy and Coaching experience
Claudia has significant experience in change management and is
adept at ensuring any changes are fully understood to ensure full
advantage is taken from these opportunities.
She has a track record to prove her skill and determination in
problem solving, designing operational processes, team development
and employee recognition programmes.
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Georgina
Berrow |
Barcelona, Spain |
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Consultancy and Coaching experience
Georgina specialises in the coaching of individuals and teams
enabling them to achieve both performance and developmental goals.
She also supervises the work of coaches and consultant groups working
in the HR area.
She is committed to:
·A creative approach adapted to the needs of each organisation, team
or individual
·Using best practice in the organisational development and coaching
fields
·Ethical delivery with a focus on achieving results and respect for
each participant.
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Gitte
Hegelund |
Copenhagen, Denmark |
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Consultancy and Coaching experience
“In today’s leadership it’s vitally necessary
to combine the hard-core business skills with an authentic
personality that can create a clear vision and specific goals and
guide and engage people toward this”.
This is what Gitte strives to accomplish both in her own role as a
business manager and when she helps business leaders to get to their
optimum leadership level.
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Gülsün Zeytinoğlu
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Istanbul, Turkey |
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Consultancy and Coaching experience
Prior to creating her own training, consulting and coaching
company, Gulsun worked for IBM for 10 years.
Her work in IBM included training and coaching the new hired
salespeople in EMEA region for more than 4 years.
Gulsun works in association with SWAN Consulting, and coaches
individuals, relationships, and teams. Her fulfilment comes from
contributing and witnessing the growth of her clients' in reaching
their potentials and becoming purposeful leaders.
She believes in the impact of holding the individuals and the
relationships creative, resourceful, and whole. In addition to her
coaching practice, she also develops, designs, and delivers her own
programs focusing on leadership development, relationship
management, and effective communication skills.
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Gyöngyi Kállai |
Budapest, Hungary |
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Consultancy and Coaching experience
"If you do what your heart and mind tells you, you act on
wisdom" is Gyöngyi's personal and professional credo.
Gyöngyi is contributing to leaders' success in transforming their
organisations by harnessing organisational, team and individual
energies and capabilities.
She has 15years+ experience in Leadership Development,
Organisational Design and Development, Coaching, Change Management,
Talent Development, HR Strategy Development and Implementation.
Gyöngyi considers "cultural literacy" as a core competency of
today's leaders and she offers her insights, cultural versatility
and personal experience of living and working abroad for 7 years in
the U.K., the Netherlands and France.
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Lian
van Sinten |
Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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Lian has over 20 years of
business experience as a consultant and as a coach and works in
association with SWAN Consulting. She is an expert in executive
coaching, leader development and the human dynamics of change at
individual, teams and organizational level. She is fascinated by the
challenge of making things happen. The characteristic of her
consultancy is to create change and implementation through problem
solving and learning at the same time and at all levels in the
organisation.
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Maria Katsarou |
Athens, Greece |
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Consultancy and Coaching
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Maria works in association with SWAN Consulting, and brings a
wealth of “hands-on” coaching and corporate experience to her
coaching and development of Leaders. She has worked within the
corporate structure of national and multi–national companies, and
has many years experience of having to negotiate her own path
through personal and organisational challenges. These experiences
enable her to combine her real world experience in coaching and
development in her work with clients. Her philosophy is practical
and pragmatic and she uses her skills to increase people’s
effectiveness and maximise their potential.
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Marie-Caroline Schwering |
Brussels, Belgium |
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Consultancy and Coaching experience
Marie-Caroline coaches
executives and high potentials across a range of industries both
multinational and international. Her focus is on personal and
professional growth. Her approach looks at taking the coaching
client out of his/her comfort zone, usually their intellectual
competence, into the area of emotional intelligence, allowing
him/her to enhance their awareness of self and their impact on
others. Marie-Caroline provides a space for the individual to
experience and learn to deal with their emotions in order to add
this component to their range of competencies.
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Pascale Vénara |
Paris, France |
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Consultancy and Coaching experience
Prior to establishing her coaching business, Pascale spent more
than 12 years as manager in International Companies (Bp,
ExxonMobil) in marketing, sales, brand, communications and PR
functions managing and working with multicultural teams (USA, Africa,
Middle East and Europe). Pascale now coaches managers and leaders to
help them feel confident in their own contributions, work
co-operatively towards shared goals in a cross-cultural
environment.
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Philippe Leonard |
Brussels, Belguim |
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Consultancy and Coaching experience
Philippe offers a combination of
hands on experience in managing and leading people in several
international organizations, along with solid expertise in
leadership development and coaching. Through the years, he has
realized that it is the people that make a company successful. The
biggest challenge managers and leaders face today is to develop
their people skills to address the human side of their businesses.
Philippe believes strongly that leaders lead more through their
behaviours and interaction with others than through their words.
Better knowing themselves and the intentions behind their
behaviours, and aligning them with the vision and the strategy of
the company generates a dynamic for positive change. His domains of
expertise are leadership development, emotional intelligence,
assertiveness, intra and interpersonal relationship, self-awareness
and self-esteem, conflict management and communication. He offers
his services in English and French.
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Réka Gőbel |
Budapest, Hungary |
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Consultancy and Coaching experience
Being a consultant "You are not
enriched by what you take from others, but what you give to others."
This simple message tells what Réka believes as key to success in
her consulting work. She has supported organizations and people to
change, transform and to develop professionally as well as
culturally. She has operational excellence in HR strategy delivery,
has extensive experience in Culture Development, Organization
Development, Talent and Leadership Development, and Coaching
primarily in the fast moving consumer goods sector and in
multicultural NGO environment. Reka works in association with SWAN
Consulting as a coach.
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Smeralda
Ugucciono |
Barcelona, Spain |
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Consultancy and Coaching experience
With many years of international
experience in the area of business and psychology, Smeralda is an
expert in Leadership Development and Communications: She had
acquired a valuable experience in Executive Coaching and Training in
prestigious Business Schools in Spain such as ESADE, Pompeu Fabra
University and EAE and in renown multinationals (Automotive, FMCG,
Technology, Consulting, Retail, Energy) as a consultant.
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Paulo de
Oliveira |
Portugal |
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Consultancy and Coaching experience
With many years of international
experience in the area of business and psychology, Smeralda is an
expert in Leadership Development and Communications: She had
acquired a valuable experience in Executive Coaching and Training in
prestigious Business Schools in Spain such as ESADE, Pompeu Fabra
University and EAE and in renown multinationals (Automotive, FMCG,
Technology, Consulting, Retail, Energy) as a consultant.
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Svetlana
Chumakova |
Moscow, Russia |
Consultancy and Coaching experience
Consultancy and Coaching
experience Svetlana is an Executive Coach and HRD specialist with
over 17 years experience in management and consulting.
Over the last 9 years the focus of her work has been on design and
delivery of Leadership Development, Coaching, Talent Development,
Change Management and Mentoring. She coaches with executives and
managers and teaches coaching classes for managers and leaders.
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Tine Gaihede |
Copenhagen, Denmark |
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Tine works in association with
SWAN and is one of the pioneers of coaching in Scandinavia.
She is an expert in leadership development and attracts top
executives, global leaders and artists as her clients.
What they all have in common is an urge to ask the fundamental
questions: Who am I as a leader? What difference do I want to make?
And How?
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Daphna
Horowitz |
South
Africa |
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Consultancy and Coaching experience
Daphna is passionate about working with people to create their
personal success story. Having experienced a major career change
herself, from Actuary to Executive Coach, Daphna is passionate about
coaching people to living with purpose and fulfilment. Her specialty
is in working with clients to create a life of balance and
fulfilment, taking a holistic approach, while unleashing their full
potential.
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Megan M Thomas |
United States of America |
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Consultancy and Coaching experience
Megan is a seasoned U.S.
business executive and corporate coach based in the Detroit area and
works in association with SWAN Consulting. She combines firsthand
leadership experience with the principles of Co-Active Coaching as a
graduate of the Coaches Training Institute (CTI).
She has coached executives and managers in the Automotive,
Advertising, Banking, Legal, Financial Services, Healthcare, and
Consulting sectors.
Megan focuses on helping her clients to define and operate from a
place of authenticity.
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