Consultancy and Coaching experience
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.
Recent and current assignment include:
Senior Management Development Programmes
for multi-national Global telecoms company
Setting up Human Resources Systems for a large Shipping Organisation
Design and facilitation of a workshop for the senior Sales Trainers on
increasing awareness and effectiveness in providing feedback and improving Sales
Teams’ performance
Design, develop and run a self awareness, increase effectiveness programme
including one to one coaching for the Managing Director and entire management
team of World Leading retail organisation.
Coaching and developing managers as part of a succession planning
programme.
Line management experience
She has wide industry knowledge and has worked in
senior roles with large multi-nationals like SCA Hygiene, Johnson & Johnson,
Henkel-Ecolab (Athens and Düsseldorf), where she was responsible for providing
the strategic direction, development, support, coordination and control of all
HR activities. Her last role was HR Director of Diageo Greece and Turkey. She
has led initiatives that included setting up a Human Resources Department,
embedding HR process and systems, introducing and being a catalyst for
organisational change, as well as leading multi-cultural leadership programmes
in Greece, Germany, South Africa, Eastern Europe and Turkey.
Background
Maria grew up in Lagos Nigeria and is now Athens
based where she is a co-founder of Our World Group. She has a Bachelor’s Degree
in Management and Organisational Behaviour and a Master’s Degree in Human
Resources Management and she is currently pursuing a Master’s programme in
Psychology. Maria is MBTI, FIRO trained, and has also been a tutor in Management
courses at The American College of Greece and teaches at other Academic
Institutions. She is multi-lingual, fluent in English, French, German and Greek
and brings her international hands-on experience to the Coaching and Development
environment. |
