The team consists of experienced consultants, coaches, facilitators and recruiters, who have been senior leaders within their own professions. The right team member is assigned to work with you, based on best fit in terms of experience, skill set and style.
ELENI DEMOSTHENOUS
Eleni has more than 15 years international experience in the USA, Europe and in the Middle East focusing on Executive Coaching and Development, Talent Management, Organizational Development and Executive Board Advisory.
Eleni is a self-started entrepreneur delivering niche services. She started The Advance Institute in 2011, offering Talent Management solutions and supporting organizations making data driven human capital decisions providing cutting edge tools in Psychometric Assessments. She also started To Reflect in 2016 as an Executive Coaching and Development practice with self-design methodologies supporting her clients thrive. Eleni maintains a wide network of work associates and has signed strategic partnerships with international organizations: ICAP Group People Solutions, Greece, with Coaching and Mentoring International (CMI), UK and a Partnership with the Global Team Coaching Institute. All of her offerings are now under her own website at www.elenidemosthenous.com
Eleni has been the President and founding member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council in Cyprus (EMCC) from 2012-2019 and has been an active member of the Cyprus Human Resource Management Association since 2012..
Eleni values solutions that fit the unique characteristics of the organizational culture and promotes initiatives that ensure value for all stakeholders involved. She believes in the enjoyment of work and celebration of accomplishments as key ingredients for creativity and growth and is passionate for innovation and diversity in the workplace.
Nicky Davies
Nicky has delivered leadership coaching and training events across four continents. She has worked with more than 15,000 managers and leaders to date, helping them fulfill their leadership and management potential.
Originally from Wales UK, Nicky started out in hotel management, then went on to retrain in psychology and therapies, working in various health organisations, then as a consultant in Organisation Development. Since October 2009 Nicky has led an Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) Approved Centre delivering ILM Qualifications in Leadership and Management, Coaching and Mentoring.
She draws on all these experiences to create and deliver leadership development programmes which inspire and make a difference to people’s lives. HR partners in client organisations enjoy Nicky’s creative, flexible, responsive approach. They find Nicky engaging, knowledgeable and “quick to understand our business and our people”.
Nicky is an ICF Accredited Coach with an ILM Qualification in Executive Coaching and Leadership Mentoring. She is a Performance and Behaviour Specialist, having qualifications and a professional background in Psychology, NLP, Strategic Interventions and a wide range of Therapies.
Her qualifications include:
- RMT Strategic Intervention Coach Mastery
- ILM Level 7 Diploma Executive Coaching and Leadership Mentoring
- MSc Management Development and Social Responsibility
- Level 4 Certificate Leading the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice
- NLP Practitioner and EDUCO© Mind Master
- Post Graduate Diploma in Personal, Social and Health Education
- Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling
- BA Psychology
- BSc (Hons) Hotel & Catering Management
John Bentley
John provides consulting and leadership development programmes for executive clients and work units. He has extensive experience as a director and consultant in executive coaching, organisational development, quality process improvement, management and professional development that spans over 30 years across a wide range of industries through Asia, the Middle East and Europe working for multi-national companies including IBM, Hitachi and Hewlett Packard.
John’s main areas of focus include management development, sales skills, team goal alignment and performance enhancement, facilitating cross-functional and divisional collaboration so that work units operate effectively together to achieve the overall objectives. He specialises in using Brain-based Coaching and Emotional Intelligence to foster a context of trust, in order to:
- Inspire deep motivation
- Achieve smooth execution of plans and strategies
- Create effective teamwork
- Facilitate positive change
John believes that emotions drive people and people drive performance.
Emotional Intelligence, therefore, forms the foundation of his coaching and workshop programmes. He is a certified Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence and Vital Signs Assessor and uses the Six Seconds assessment tools and models to assess and develop competencies and measure progress.
Glen Tan
Glen’s Unique Proposition: converting VISION into REALITY alongside TALENT Development in Complex & Multi-Cultural environments. He is also a Managing Partner of Merx, with offices in Singapore & the UAE.
His services are best suited for organizations with an international portfolio, in turnaround or transformation situations.
Proven by results achieved in roles with direct P & L accountability. These roles ranged from Sales & Business Development of a Startup, to the General Manager of a manufacturing plant based in China, to the Chief Operating Officer of a 14-market Middle East North Africa & Pakistan region based in the United Arab Emirates.
Other roles included: Quality & LEAN Six Sigma, Business Transformation and Corporate Financial Audit.
Glen has worked across a wide-range of sectors, including: manufacturing services to market research & consulting with global organisations, including Flex, GE & Nielsen and working in Consumer, Technology, Automotive & Governmental sectors, in diverse locations including USA, China, Middle East, South East Asia & the Indian sub-continent.
He operated across diverse & challenging environments such as the rural & volatile islands of Indonesia & the Philippines, remote areas in Pakistan beyond Islamabad, Karachi & Lahore, through to the copper mines in the Australian desert.
Glen believes in walking the talk: from Vision & Mission setting, to Customer Insight & detailed Execution, working alongside multi-cultural teams, drilling into the specifics to ensure contextual understanding, followed by practical execution.
Whilst executing & delivering, he systematically develops talent & leverages their skill sets. Many high potentials have been given stretch roles and empowered to make things happen & subsequently rewarded.
He is a Volunteer Mentor to an ex-drug offender & others requiring financial sustainability and a Sunday School teacher.
It’s all about Making Things Happen!
Catherine Benteley
Catherine is a Business Communications Specialist and is passionate about the setting of high standards of professional communication in all areas of business. She coaches individuals and teams to improve their confidence and skill levels in presentations, public speaking, strategic meeting management and all aspects of business writing.
Prior to her time in the Middle East, Catherine spent 15 years in the UK Financial Services industry working in senior marketing and general business management roles for a number of blue-chip organisations, including Royal and Sun Alliance, MBNA and Royal Bank of Scotland.
She has been based in the Middle East since 2004 and has applied her commercial experience to facilitating diverse, multi-cultural teams across geographical locations in Asia and the Middle East in the setting and achievement of first-class communication standards.
Catherine loves working both with individuals and groups to develop confidence in communication, which she believes allows latent talent and potential to shine through. The feedback from her clients is that she is a passionate, energetic coach and facilitator who maintains interest and engagement and inspires continuous improvement.
Her qualifications include:
- MA Honours English Language
- Diploma in Marketing
- ACII
- TESOL
Her personal mantra is “Success lies simply in being the best that you can be”
Jackie Grier
Jackie is an impactful applied Emotional Intelligence master facilitator and executive coach.
Her passion lies in working with leaders, individuals and teams to develop open and collaborative relationships that improve performance, increase productivity and build resilience and wellbeing.
Blending leadership development with approaches from psychology and neuroscience to improve business results and positively impact wellbeing.
Working across both public and private global organisations, she has over 15 years experience of leading, designing and facilitating senior and executive leadership programmes which are transformational in their nature that result in mindset change and the development of a positive, productive leadership climate.
Jackie’s style is a blend of empathy and gravitas that by using shrewd observation, warmth and pragmatism engages, includes and facilitates change both personally and professionally for clients and organisations. She has a strong but natural and effective communication style that is extremely engaging, infectious and inclusive.
Jackie chooses to include physical fitness as a key part of her lifestyle, having taken part in UK Ninja Warrior and Tough Mudders and believes in the power of physical and emotional fitness to enable us to be resilient in the workplace.
Her qualifications include:
- Advanced Emotional Intelligence practitioner JCA EIP, JCA Team EIP, Leadership and Growth Climate 360
- Licensed Human Element Practitioner (advanced applied EI facilitation) & Human Element (advanced EI personal development)
- Accredited in Firo Element B, Personality profile
- Diploma in Performance and Executive coaching
- Licensed Lifo Master Trainer
- Registered General Nurse and Registered Health Visitor
Paul W White
Paul has more than 25 years’ intercultural business experience in organisational leadership, talent development, financial management, HR systems, project management and sales in professional services, consultancy and Multinational environments in the Middle East and Australasia.
A seasoned Executive Coach & Mentor, Paul works with teams and individuals to find their fit, maintain healthily rhythms of productivity & performance while building on the foundations of a successful leader. He is quick to develop rapport, trust and enable learning having spent in excess of 2000 hours in one-to-one engagement with executives.
Paul’s client appreciate his open style encouraging new angles of view and an appropriate level of challenge, viewing both the bigger picture while not losing sight on a daily realities. He promotes self awareness, inter-cultural insight and enables his clients to work actively and simultaneously on their development areas and increase the productivity of their teams in the face of adverse circumstances .
His coaching specialties have grown out of two decades in the Middle East focusing on leadership, inter-cultural intelligence, creative conflict and career transition.
His qualifications include:
- Professional Certified Coach (International Coach Federation)
- Chartered Accountant (Australia New Zealand)
- Advanced Corporate Coaching Certification (CoachU USA)
- Certificate of Professional Coaching (NorthPoint UAE) – Facilitator & Graduate
- Certificate of Intercultural Coaching (intercultural.coach) – Facilitator & Graduate
- International Leadership Coaching Academy Graduate
- Certified DiSC (Wiley) Behavioural Consultant
- Global Inter-Cultural Intelligence Practitioner (Certification in Progress)
- Bachelor & Diploma Business (Accountancy & Communications Management` NZ)