ACTIVE BOARDS
The Alpha Group brings together entrepreneurs for peer-to-peer exchange and support in a unique, member-driven experience. They meet once a month in a combined workshop and mastermind process to help them overcome business challenges, gain clarity before making decisions and become accountable on taking strategic actions. The ultimate purpose of The Alpha Group is to double the value of its participants’ businesses and support them in dominating their target market.
The Alpha Group is now present in 25 countries worldwide. Click on each country for more details about the Regional Directors in charge.
Biography of Geoff Richmond
Management Accountant and Marketing Consultant Geoff Richmond Uses his Financial Expertise to Make You More Profit.
Management Accountant is just the start in explaining what Geoff does and how he helps his clients. Not your average “bean counter”, Geoff is an experienced and results driven business veteran, a financial strategist, entrepreneur, business owner, and all round nice guy. Many Adelaide business owners have been long term clients (over 25 years in fact!) and that says a lot for the value he brings to their success.
Business owners come to Geoff looking to improve their business performance and increase their profits. They want to know if what they are doing is working. As client he will help you understand the details of your profit and loss and balance sheet. If he is your Management Accountant, then you are in heaven. Geoff saves his Business Clients many headaches and dollars. He is a big believer in having his clients fees be an investment not a cost.
Respected by Adelaide Accountants as a change maker and leader in the industry over many years, Geoff has just released his book The WOW Factor: How Successful Leaders Manage People & Add Value full of leadership secrets for achieving success in the most important aspects of your life—your business, your career, your family, and yourself.
Borislava Kirkova
THE ALPHA GROUP assists local business owners to double profits within two to three years.
The Alpha Group brings together entrepreneurs for PEER-TO-PEER EXCHANGE and support in a unique, member-driven experience. Business owners and CEOs of small and medium enterprises can be part of an exclusive group of like-minded executives.
The Alpha Group members participate in MONTHLY ADVISORY BOARD MEETINGS. They focus on key elements of business development covering a wide range of topics, and learn best practice from other business leaders during intensive strategic workshops and mastermind sessions. Fellow members and business leaders combine their collective wisdom and experience to brainstorm strategies and solutions, and drive their businesses forward.
Brian Pentrice & Katrin Pentrice
Katrin Prentice
First Bulgarian Accredited Senior Coach by the International Institute of Coaching & Mentoring; Founder and President of Sofia Coaching Community Mentor and Trainer on the Noble Manhattan Coaching Faculty; Managing Director of Noble Manhattan Bulgaria, Greece and Macedonia; over 19 years experience as a coach, mentor and trainer to teams in the NGO sector in 9 countries of Eastern Europe, Her personal and professional life has led through 22 different countries, giving her a wealth of experience working in an international and multicultural environment; specializes in personal counseling, human development, PR, crisis management, and organizational coaching.
Brian Prentice
CEO of Palitri International ltd,t/a Noble Manhattan Coaching Bulgaria, Greece and Macedonia; many years experience in establishing and managing organizations both in the business and the non-profit sectors, conducting projects throughout south-east Europe. He has background in the Military.
ILiyan Kirkov
Iliyan Kirkov is a happy father and a professional IT project manager at Lidl Bulgaria, residing in Sofia. In 1999 he gained a diploma in German and English languages from the Foreign Language High School “Ekzarh Josiff I” in Lovech and then in 2006 a bachelor degree in International Economics at The University of National and World Economy in Sofia. Together with his passion for IT this education gave him a solid base for his future career in the field of business process management.
At the end of 1999 he moved to Sofia after his admission to the university. His professional experience started half year later in 2000 in his first computer company. Three years and two IT companies later he switched the working area with international trade and freight forwarding, which was closer to his field of study (studying). The next two and a half years he joined the airfreight business in a multinational company named “Militzer and Münch” and its small but leading branch in Sofia. He managed to be responsible for several key accounts, while consulting and supporting the CEO in all IT operational and strategic topics. One of them was planning the proper IT infrastructure of a new handling terminal at Sofia airport.
Right after his university graduation in 2006 Iliyan started for the first time his employment for the Schwarz Gruppe – the owner of retailers Lidl and Kaufland. He entered the world of real estates, expansion and acquisitions with the early days of Lidl, exploring the Bulgarian market for its future opening. After a two-year inter-company training in IT project management at the European HQ of Lidl in Neckarsulm, Germany, he returned to Bulgaria at the end of 2009 and supported the very successful opening of the big German retailer on the Bulgarian market at the end of 2010. After implementing a company owned complex ERP system and setting the foundations of a stable internal IT structure, he eventually earned his spot as Manager IT Support department in 2012 at the Bulgarian HQ.
When he is not glued to a computer screen, he spends time with his family at home, walks in the city parks, travels around Bulgaria or listens to music. He is also blogging in his smart-tech website The KnowHow Company (http://knowhow.company) where he shares his passion about smart gadgets and how they could make people’s lives easier. Iliyan often attends soft skills courses or any kind of personal development trainings such as Personal Finance and Investments, NLP Practitioner, Parent Effectiveness Training and Start Business BG as well.
In May 2015 Iliyan Kirkov started his practitioner coach diploma training with Noble Manhattan. In October he joins their other business division called “The Alpha Group” as well, being certain of the added value their business approach and concept will give to the Bulgarian small and medium enterprises. A board of peers for business owners will be their “safe harbor”, where they could discuss issues and strategic challenges in confidentiality and trust.
For any inquiries and further details about the benefits of the Alpha Group board advisory meetings, please contact Iliyan Kirkov at iliyan.kirkov (at) the-alpha-group (dot) biz.
Aloysius Gregory
Aloysius has always been passionate about helping others and making a difference. His strengths lie in Coaching and Mentoring where he has been instrumental in bringing about progress and lasting change in the lives of the people he has worked with.
With an MBA in Marketing from Symbiosis International University in India and 8 years’ experience in industry, Aloysius’ areas of expertise include Marketing Management, Marketing Communications & Operations, Negotiation, Customer Relationship Management and Event Management. He excels in relationship management and works tireless to ensure his clients achieve results that exceed expectation. Adept at working in, and leading, cross-functional, multi-cultural teams, Aloysius is also known for his strong collaborative, interpersonal and leadership skills.
An NLP Master Practitioner, Masterclass Trainer, Master Coach, Master Hypnotherapist and Master Time Line Therapist, Aloysius’ resilient drive and positive attitude have helped him overcome numerous challenges and one of the mottos he lives by is ‘there is no failure, only feedback.’ By collaborating with The Alpha Group, Aloysius brings his passion and dedication to help SMEs double their value in three years and navigate the seemingly insurmountable challenges many may face.
Biography of Pauline Sawaya
Pauline Sawaya is a Senior Executive with over 25 years of experience in local and multinational companies. A highly respected Master Coach, Mentor, leader, consultant, HR and transformational trainer.
Has conducted Capacity Building , Coaching & Mentoring for Senior Executives, managers and employees to help them achieve their ambitions & beyond, develop and grow.Has extensive experience in Human Resources, Strategies, Structural change, team building, Culture transformation, Talent Management, Leadership, Personal Growth, ….. Highly competent in resolving problems, finding solutions and dealing with difficult issues.
Her portfolio of Coaching is extensive from Executive, Career, Performance Coaching, Youth Leadership, Young Women,…. always empowering people to make a Swift Shift to the Top.
Being Passionate, Positive, Perseverant , giving with a laser focus vision to empower the Community and impact lives are some of the qualifications behind Pauline’s success.
Pauline is The Alpha Regional Director, as well as the Managing Director for Noble Manhattan Coach training Levant and the Founder of Swift Shift (a Coaching, Capacity building, Consultancy Boutique since 2011)
Prior to 2017, Pauline held several senior roles in the Corporate world like General Manager for Zawya, Head of HR for Alfa Telecommunications, HR & Admin Head for National Petroleum services and many more.
Pauline Holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA), is the first Accredited Master Coach in the region from The International Authority for Professional Coaching & Mentoring, holds several Coach Certifications, NLP Practitioner, Time Line therapy, is a Mentor Coach, Transformational Trainer, Public Speaker, Firewalker, was featured several times on TV shows as well as elected as the Lebanese HR success story in 2017 by the University of Balamand. Pauline is an active member of many professional organizations and is always on a mission to empower and raise the bar in the world.
Pauline’s Moto is : It is what it is and it is up to you to make the best of what is!
Biography of Karim El Fateh
Karim El Fateh is a hands-on executive leader known for having a strategic and focused approach to business development, with 29+ years of working experience in top multinational technology organizations, Karim is skilled in developing corporate strategies, achieving business results, implementing go to market product strategies, and building long-term customer relationships.
Karim El Fateh is the former General Manager Egypt and Levant for Intel Corporation, Karim joined Intel in 2004 as the Business Development Manager for Egypt, Levant and North Africa, In his role as General Manager for Intel, Karim was responsible for defining and leading the country’s strategy which is linked to the overall Intel corporate strategy, he was directly responsible for managing sales & marketing operations of Intel in Egypt/Levant and accountable for country sales results, marketing budget and operational expenses.
Karim is the co-founder and director of business development at iXDev UK, a software solutions and cloud services company headquartered in England with its’ technical development center located in Egypt. In addition to his current role, Karim is a business consultant for a group of companies in Egypt, Gulf and Canada operating in the field of language and soft skill development. Karim is also a ccertified Dale Carnegie trainer, he trained 100’s of business professionals on effective communication skills, high impact presentations, relationship selling, and world class customer service
Before joining Intel, Karim held key sales management and business development positions in several multinational companies such as NCR/AT&T and Compaq/HP in Egypt and the Middle East region. Karim successfully launched several key programs and initiatives with governments, NGOs, and the IT community to increase technology awareness, implemented new usage models to drive technology adoption in rural areas.
Biography of Marwa Saleh
Marwa Saleh, now the founder of Presence Business Coaching and Consultancy, is an Egyptian passionate marketer who has been working in the field of marketing for 21 years now. Marwa has worked in various multinational advertising agencies like Ogilvy and McCann after which she has decided to move to the client’s side to get and insider’s view on marketing. She has been the CMO lead for Microsoft Egypt, managing the overall marketing communications function for Microsoft. She has moved afterwards to revamp and enhance the brand strategy of L’azurde Group being the Regional Marketing Director. On top of that Marwa is a skilled passionate author, who has launched her first book “Life Outside Your Comfort Zone” on April 2014. This book has been based on several real life stories and is considered a great self help book where Marwa utilizes here skills as a certified senior Dale Carnegie Trainer and Human Development Consultant / Coach. Marwa thrives on developing people and will continue doing that to help as many individuals realize their dreams. Having become a certified NLP Practitioner by INLPTA and IN institutions, as well as a certified coach by ICI (International Coaching Institution) she now believes that nothing is impossible. Marwa is a dynamic person who believes in her own dreams, in people and possibilities and has yet a lot to offer.
Geneviève Fougère
« If you change the way you look at things, things you look at change. »
Dr Wayne Dyer
I am Geneviève Fougère, and I am a Professional Coach.
I have spent more than 20 years alongside CEOs and General Managers, both in Industry and Service, in small or large corporations, where I have been sharing executives’ daily concerns.
I have gone through all the major steps of the life of a company, such as creation or take-over, development, merger, cession…
My life was enriched by different cultural experiences, from England or Denmark to The United States, China or East Africa.
I was trained and certified by the Erickson College International of Vancouver, and I have got a PCC credentialing by the ICF, the International Coach Federation.
I think and act through the lens of the Ericksonian principles, honoring each person in 5 specific ways : the coachee is truly okay as he or she is, and they have all the inner resources required to be a success, every behaviour has a positive intention no matter what it looks like on the surface, the coachee is doing the best he/she can with what is available in the moment and deserves no blame shame or reproach, change is inevitable and happening in each moment.
I have witnessed more than one time Man’s ability to overcome obstacles in order to achieve what’s important or bounce back.
Whatever your professional responsabilities are, you can make an ever better use of all your resources, you can develop positive behaviours in order to reach what you are aiming at, and decide upon the action steps to get you there.
While being fully truthful to your values and your inner motivation.
Optimistic and positive by essence, I today practice a Solution Focused coaching that include tools and techniques from Neuro-Linguistic Program, Appreciative Inquiry or Collective Intelligence, using Erickson language pattern, Whiteboard Coaching and Metaphor Development.
I offer precise methodologies for reviewing and rehearsing future scenarios, that enable innovative approaches needed to get the specific results you have in mind.
I wish you to succeed From The Inside Out, which to me means to perform according to your own unique recipe for success.
I’ll be here to guide you and help you maximise your potential so that you dare live your true professional purpose. That’s what Excellence Coaching is here for.
Claire Trévien
Dhiren Desa
Dhiren Desa has spent 32 years in marketing and strategy both as an entrepreneur and as an executive. In the last ten years, in tune with the times he pivoted his focus to digital strategy. Since 2013 he has coached and advised business owners and CEO’s in India, Dubai, America, Canada, UK and Europe. He now lives in Munich, Germany where he advises several Mittelstand (small/medium family owned businesses).
He has extensive experience in SaaS, Healthcare, Insurance, Financial Products and E-commerce.
He is expert in Business modelling, product ideation and monetisation.
His passion is in helping business owners discover “hidden value” in their business and helping them mine that “value” effectively.
His motto is “from 10% to 10X”
Ksenia Mironova
Ksenia Mironova has a powerful combination of diversified professional activity, solid international educational background, multicultural experiences of living and extensively traveling abroad. That helped her developing a keen sensitivity to people, some good understanding of business world and makes her a maverick counselor for both your business and you as its leader.
She has an extensive experience as a business counselor, tax adviser and business developer, in both private businesses and government institutions, with main focus on business-to-business activity. In tune with the latest developments of business environment Ksenia refined her professional approach adding a human touch to the analysis of the business as a whole. Currently she pivoted her focus on counselling the business executives in the art of management and leadership skills.
Ksenia is a holder of a Master in Business Administration, a Master of Laws in Business and Tax Law, she is a certified Master in Enneagram® and a GOLD Coach®. She is fluent in 4 different European languages.
Her professional experience comprises of industries like oil&gas, metallurgy, private aviation, automotive, financial institutions, construction, tourism, food etc.
Among her passions are the ancient cultures and philosophies, and the derived knowledge of life’s wisdom, spirituality and psychology – this passion made Ksenia radically change her life’s philosophy and her actual motto is “Be grateful for the wisdom you gain – give back by helping those who might benefit from it!”. She remains a permanent student while simultaneously acting like a teacher by counselling, supporting and encouraging those who are in search for a meaningful life, those who are willing to redefine their value system, to rediscover their deepest inner needs and to improve their communication abilities.
Biography of Marite Rio
Marité is a Business Coach, Speaker and Consultant committed to support growing companies to achieve their goals.
Since 1997 she has accompanied and guided organizations in Guatemala, Central America and Mexico, through recruting programs, leaders development and optimizing the execution through training, coaching, team coaching and team-building.
Passionate about creating a better future than yesterday, developing people and businesses is her main focus, so in addition to the certification of Multidimensional Coaching, Team Coaching and Neuromanagement, she joined in 2013 the Growth Insitute as Scaling Up Coach, in 2019 ExO Coach and Regional Director in Alpha Group.
This work has had an impact on approximately 86,500 people by 2019.
Biography of Yvonne D'Netto
Yvonne is currently a Trainer and Management Development Consultant, Executive Coach and Emotional Intelligence Coach with clients in Italy, the USA, Canada, South Africa and London. She completed a 2 year full-time MBA at London Business School before entering the Training and Development profession. She has strong competences in developing companies having also worked as an Investors in People Consultant in the UK before moving to Italy. Before her MBA, she was a BBC trained journalist.
Biography of Pauline Sawaya
Pauline Sawaya is a Senior Executive with over 25 years of experience in local and multinational companies. A highly respected Master Coach, Mentor, leader, consultant, HR and transformational trainer.
Has conducted Capacity Building , Coaching & Mentoring for Senior Executives, managers and employees to help them achieve their ambitions & beyond, develop and grow.Has extensive experience in Human Resources, Strategies, Structural change, team building, Culture transformation, Talent Management, Leadership, Personal Growth, ….. Highly competent in resolving problems, finding solutions and dealing with difficult issues.
Her portfolio of Coaching is extensive from Executive, Career, Performance Coaching, Youth Leadership, Young Women,…. always empowering people to make a Swift Shift to the Top.
Being Passionate, Positive, Perseverant , giving with a laser focus vision to empower the Community and impact lives are some of the qualifications behind Pauline’s success.
Pauline is The Alpha Regional Director, as well as the Managing Director for Noble Manhattan Coach training Levant and the Founder of Swift Shift (a Coaching, Capacity building, Consultancy Boutique since 2011)
Prior to 2017, Pauline held several senior roles in the Corporate world like General Manager for Zawya, Head of HR for Alfa Telecommunications, HR & Admin Head for National Petroleum services and many more.
Pauline Holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA), is the first Accredited Master Coach in the region from The International Authority for Professional Coaching & Mentoring, holds several Coach Certifications, NLP Practitioner, Time Line therapy, is a Mentor Coach, Transformational Trainer, Public Speaker, Firewalker, was featured several times on TV shows as well as elected as the Lebanese HR success story in 2017 by the University of Balamand. Pauline is an active member of many professional organizations and is always on a mission to empower and raise the bar in the world.
Pauline’s Moto is : It is what it is and it is up to you to make the best of what is!
David O. Sijenyi
Business Development Consultant and Coach
David’s personal vision is to be a global coach on abundant living. He is a Certified Professional Coach accredited by the International Coaching Federation. He is passionate about drawing people out of their comfort zones and leading them to personal success that is replicable.
He is driven by the fact that many people are living way below their potential and wondering why life is so unfair. He focuses on bringing to the fore habits and practices that hinder success in individuals and organizations. He introduces processes and behavioural changes that can help implement turn-around strategies for better performance. He speaks across the continent on various topics around shifting mindsets.
He believes that individual transformation is at the core and foundation of societal or corporate change. He has over 15 years’ experience in hands on Coaching, Training, business development, media sales, membership and partnership management, software sales, customer service and training.
He is currently working with Entrepreneurs to develop their businesses to scale up and prepare them for investment conversations across Africa for the world. He is also the former CEO of a money transfer company with operations in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Dubai and the UK. David has had sales experience in growing business revenues, from existing and new customers as well as partnerships. His key strength is in building relationships for mutual benefit.
David has trained with Transformational Business Network(TBN), Coach Development Institute of Africa (CDI-Africa), Talent Gurus, Lantern Training, Kingdom Business Solutions and Dolphins Group. In his different capacities he has trained, the DPO Africa country Managers, DPO Africa Sales Team, M-Pesa Foundation Academy, Cooperative bank, National Bank, OSEIA, DIPEK Business Partners, FM Distributors, East African Packaging Managers, Kenya Power, Royal Floral Holland among others.
David is also a Motivational speaker especially in conversations around mindset shift. He believes that Africa has the solutions the world is looking for today and challenges his audiences on this.
He is a corporate event Moderator and has successfully delivered various events for the last 5 years.
Biography of Dr. Madlena Krusheva
Dr. Madlena Kroucheva, The Alpha Group Regional Manager for Kuwait, Professional Trainer, Counselor, Coach, Therapist and Internal Auditor ISO 9001 To mention but a few.
A versatile, hard-working, smart team-player (also very efficient as a solo player) and solution finder, who is reliable, honest, dedicated, open minded and always willing to learn. Quality and detail oriented, a perfectionist. Creative, yet pragmatic. Approachable and think fast on my feet.’
Biography of Ibrahim Mustafa Mohammad
Regional Director Kuwait of The Alpha Group.
A born leader, solution finder and mentor. Passionate about achieving the highest levels in quality of delivery and service. Long years of entrepreneurial experience in business and industry.
Open minded with endless potential for business growth, empowerment and achievement.
Dedicated hard worker who is an excellent team as well as a solo player.
Biography of Pauline Sawaya
Pauline Sawaya is a Senior Executive with over 25 years of experience in local and multinational companies. A highly respected Master Coach, Mentor, leader, consultant, HR and transformational trainer.
Has conducted Capacity Building , Coaching & Mentoring for Senior Executives, managers and employees to help them achieve their ambitions & beyond, develop and grow.Has extensive experience in Human Resources, Strategies, Structural change, team building, Culture transformation, Talent Management, Leadership, Personal Growth, ….. Highly competent in resolving problems, finding solutions and dealing with difficult issues.
Her portfolio of Coaching is extensive from Executive, Career, Performance Coaching, Youth Leadership, Young Women,…. always empowering people to make a Swift Shift to the Top.
Being Passionate, Positive, Perseverant , giving with a laser focus vision to empower the Community and impact lives are some of the qualifications behind Pauline’s success.
Pauline is The Alpha Regional Director, as well as the Managing Director for Noble Manhattan Coach training Levant and the Founder of Swift Shift (a Coaching, Capacity building, Consultancy Boutique since 2011)
Prior to 2017, Pauline held several senior roles in the Corporate world like General Manager for Zawya, Head of HR for Alfa Telecommunications, HR & Admin Head for National Petroleum services and many more.
Pauline Holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA), is the first Accredited Master Coach in the region from The International Authority for Professional Coaching & Mentoring, holds several Coach Certifications, NLP Practitioner, Time Line therapy, is a Mentor Coach, Transformational Trainer, Public Speaker, Firewalker, was featured several times on TV shows as well as elected as the Lebanese HR success story in 2017 by the University of Balamand. Pauline is an active member of many professional organizations and is always on a mission to empower and raise the bar in the world.
Pauline’s Moto is : It is what it is and it is up to you to make the best of what is!
Biography of Aline S. Nakhoul
Aline is the Regional Director of The Alpha Group – Beirut , Currently heading the Audit Human & Organizational Development department in one of the leading industrial family business in Lebanon.
Aline is a professional executive with over 20 years diversified experience in Hospitality, Management Development, Marketing, Branding, Finance & Internal Quality Management Systems, as well as Business Development.
Aline holds a business management degree and is as well a certified NLP Practitioner
Biography of Cherine Debbas
Chérine Debbas is a family business advisor and an executive coach. Her areas of expertise are in family and corporate governance, family dynamics and executive and team coaching. Chérine also focuses on empowering women in their personal and professional journeys. She brings her skills, experience and passion to support her clients in delivering on their objectives. Chérine also serves her family’s 100-year old business as a board member.
In partnership with Stand For Women, Chérine has developed and delivered the Women in Leadership program at ESA business school in Lebanon and in major corporations.
Chérine worked for six years for Procter & Gamble where she held several positions in marketing and human resources in the Levant region.
Chérine is certified as a Professional Co-active Coach (CPCC), in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSCC), in Team performance Coaching (CTPC) and also as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR). She also holds a Master of Science in Management from HEC France.
Biography of Nadine Zeinoun
After achieving a BS degree in Chemistry and a MS degree in Pharmacology & Therapeutics (AUB), I had the chance to gain extensive managerial experience in the corporate pharmaceutical sector for over 15 years. I am currently an Executive, Emotional Intelligence & Conversational Intelligence Coach, working with corporate managers and executives to help them build their leadership skills. My six years of coaching experience and my previous leadership roles, have helped me better understand the challenges and needs of organizations, in order to serve them more effectively.
I currently hold a CMC (Certified MentorCoach), a CEC (Certified Executive Coach) from Mentorcoach USA, a Certificate in Conversational Intelligence and a PCC (Professional Certified Coach) accreditation from the International Coach Federation. I am also certified on different psychometric tools such as EQi 2.0 & EQ360, one of the leading assessment tools for Emotional Intelligence and TMSDi Team Assessment Tool. All these certifications and credentials from highly esteemed organizations allow me to provide you with many tools to help further develop your communication and leadership skills.
My dream is to contribute to the growth of my country through supporting its Leaders to create a WE-Centric community built on trust. Through different Emotional Intelligence & Conversational Intelligence Tools, I can support you to accelerate: 1) your personal growth as a leader, 2) gaining the trust of your community, and 3) support you to enhance your influence in order to achieve your self-aspirations and country goals.
I am a person who is very passionate and committed to making a difference in people’s lives. I do that with confidentiality, integrity, authenticity, respect, warmth, and compassion. Believe me, I would stop at nothing to help you realize your dreams.
Taofeek Ajao
- Coaching
- Project Management Training
- Reliability Centered Maintenance training
- Risk Management
- Stragetic Business Analysis
- Systems Integration
- Business Development
Dănuț Florescu
In more than 18 years as a bank manager, I proved that I could successfully lead teams of tens or hundreds of people and large projects, which impacted the entire organization. Crisis situation asked for tough decisions and assuming responsibility, I have always done it successfully. One of my greatest satisfactions comes from helping people learn and grow, and develop successful careers as bank or business managers.
Eugenia Caracas
Dynamic Professional equipped with progressive social and educational experience since 2007 and psychologist experience in organization and costumer service environments, completed Master Degree with specialization Psychology of Communication and Human Resources.
CEO for own bussines, leading a Personal Development Centre in the local area that helps kids, teenagers and adults to achieve more in matter of abilities, mindsets and pozitive actions direction.
RD in Republic of Moldova that intends to bring a great value and grow bussineses and quality of life in the own country.
Proficiency in a wide range of instructive area and very organised and hard working. A dynamic, resourceful and ambitious lady with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate concisely at all levels. A self-starting person, and a bold entrepreneur who has lots to offer in terms of enthusiasm with the ability to bring high standards to the workplace. A good problem solver who enjoys helping people as much as possible. Pays great attention to detail and would make a significant contribution to the business. Able to build good relationships with coworkers and peers. Very passionate about personal development and costumer care. Promotes a healthy lifestyle and love to share that with others. Energetic, well-educated and confident ready to take up greater responsibilities and learn more. Extremely reliable and responsible, enjoys working as part of a team and individually.
Sebastian Römischer
TRAINER – COACH – MENTOR, SGD® Darmstadt, Germany certified:
- SELF & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
- SELF, TIME & STRESS MANAGEMENT
- POSITIVE THINKING
- LIFE & BUSINESS COACHING
- MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER
- MENTORING
HYPNOSIS THERAPIST TMI® Darmstadt, Germany certified:
- BUSINESS COACHING
- MENTAL TRAINING & COACHING
- HYPNOSIS THERAPY & COACHING
- MEDICAL HYPNOSIS
- PARAPSYCHOLOGY HYPNOSIS
INSTRUCTOR TMI® Darmstadt, Germany certified:
- MEDITATION & RELAXATION
- SELF HYPNOSIS
- PMR – PROGRESSIVE MUSCLE RELAXATION JAKOBSON
- AT – AUTOGENIC TRAINING SCHULTZ
A couple of years ago, Sebastian experienced burnout and he says that “Even though it was extremely difficult, I didn’t lose my energy and drive. On the contrary, I got even more motivated to crate the space and opportunity of change in the lives of those who were brave enough to say #trasform180”.
Eugenia Caracas
LARISA CEPOI is Ambassador Coaching in the Republic of Moldova, Life & Business Coach accredited international, trained by Noble Manhattan Coaching, the third coaching school in the world. Larisa is a trainer and her passion is empowering individuals to understand their life goals, their wants and limiting beliefs, to move towards inner of grow in all aspects of life and to fulfill life’s purpose and mission.
Larisa is The Alpha Regional Director, as well as the Managing Director for Noble Manhattan Coach training in the Republic of Moldova, highly oriented and competent in solving problems, finding solutions and dealing with difficult issues.
Founder of Inspire Group LTD, entrepreneur and a Member of the Board of Directors Association of Women Entrepreneurs of the Republic of Moldova. Teaching others embeds the learning in ourselves and improves our confidence because we tend to teach what we know and enjoy.
Said Alghamdi
Said Al-Ghamdi is a senior corporate leader and a business coach supporting organizational initiatives for effective communication and higher performance. Previously, Said has worked as a senior manager at a prestigious public sector organization, and as an HR Manager at a leading IT company in Riyadh.
Douglas Kong
My professional goal is to help entrepreneurs and small businesses to function optimally and achieve the goals they have set for themselves. That’s what I do as an Executive and Business Coach especially in the context of The Alpha Group the premier peer-to-peer external Board of Reference and Mastermind groups for small businesses.
I was previously a psychiatrist where, besides prescribing medication, I have consistently helped patients to resolve underlying issues whether they be personality problems, social and communication problems, family or work stress issues using various psychological techniques such as psychoanalytic techniques, cognitive behavioral skills, hypnosis, EMDR and group therapy.
I have also worked with organizations providing stress management workshops, OD intervention, group facilitation and other interventions.
Currently, I am using all these clinical skills, aided by a newly acquired coaching skillset to help CEO’s and Senior Executives to function at a higher level, and resolve conflicts common to organizations, interpersonal relationships and personal inadequacies and shortcomings in The Alpha Group setting, as a Performance and Leadership Coach and GOLD Coach. I am practice oriented and I focus on real people and real problems working out solutions that fits best with the circumstances.
Vernon Swartz
Vern is a professional and highly experienced certified Life, Executive and Business Coach with thousands of coaching hours behind his belt. He has been actively involved in the coaching industry for more than a decade across 3 different continents and was privileged to obtain a variety of qualifications from several reputable and accredited schools in the UK, Canada, the US and South Africa. He specialises predominantly in the Human Capital space, as a coach, consultant, trainer and facilitator but also has extensive experience in Sales & Marketing, Business & Management Consulting and Personal & Human Development.
He is currently in a full time coaching role- coaching roughly around 35 entrepreneurs in South Africa helping them to develop profitable sustainable businesses. Being an ‘inspired entrepreneur’ himself he is truly passionate about entrepreneurship as he believes it represents the very lifeblood of any economy.
Vern sincerely and passionately believes that the Alpha Group’s intervention coupled with the GOLD coaching programme can empower business owners and directors to help transform their businesses and the economy one person and business at a time….
Personally, he regards himself as a simple, natural, down-to-earth guy, very positive, independent & hardworking- just an ordinary bloke with an extra-ordinary Vision and Purpose in life.
Nyiko Shandlale
As a serial entrepreneur who ran his own business for many years, Nyiko is excited about his new role as Regional Director In Johannesburg. He believes that he can relate strongly to the challenges that business owners face and is positive that his background in entrepreneurship coupled with him being a qualified and experienced metallurgist and project manager will stand him in good stead in facilitating Alpha Group Meetings to help SME’s grow faster.
He worked for several blue-chip companies and has the ability to foster strong relationships with people from all walks of life and is well known for being a dynamic speaker, volunteer and spiritual counselor in his community.
Nyiko shares the vision behind The Alpha Group and is excited to be playing a major role in helping Small and Medium-sized Business Owners take their businesses to the next level. His passion and drive is to create positive changes for his community, local and African economy.
Jimena Llopis
Innovative, creative and entrepreneur with a scientific and technological background; Jimena has demonstrated leadership and management skills trough out her professional career. Used to deal with the highest decision level, both at Private and Public sectors, her experience is versatile and international; and has covered sectors such as telecommunications, Energy, Banking, Music and media Technology, and Innovation.
Having excellent experience in team building, and good human perception in general; in 2011 formalizes (as Executive Coach) what she was intuitively achieving at her different environments: bringing the best and empowering talents from individuals and teams.
Her synergies with The Alpha Group include acknowledging the power of bringing together ideas and perspectives from different fields and sectors. She brings to the group her experience and passion to facilitate that the Alpha Group members discover this power.
SPANISH VERSION
Con una sólida formación científica-tecnologica y una amplia experiencia empresarial, Jimena es creativa, innovadora y emprendedora. A lo largo de toda su carrera profesional ha desmostrado cualidades de liderazgo y ha trabajado con los más altos niveles de decisión. Su experiencia es versátil e internacional e inclye diferentes sectores como Telecomunicaciones, Energía, Banca, Tecnoloía Musical e Innovación.
Con una excelente experiencia en potenciación de equipos, y buena percepción humana; decide en 2011 formalizar (certificándose como Coach Ejecutivo) lo que ya venía logrando de forma intuitiva en todos sus entornos: potenciar lo mejor de las personas, los talentos individuales y de los equipos.
Las sinergias con The Alpha Group incluyen la identificación del poder que se genera al conjugar ideas y perspectivas de los diferentes sectores. Ella aporta al grupo su experiencia y pasión para facilitar que los miembros de The Alpha Group descubran este poder.
Irene Compte Lobera
Irene Compte has over 20 years of experience in executive management positions in organizations within the ICT domain. She has worked both in the public and private sectors, always with an international reach to any project she is involved in.
Educated as a Geographer and Urbanist in Spanish and Dutch universities, she has devoted 15 years to the world of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applied to urban and territorial management. As a Director of the GIS & Remote Sensing Center of the University of Girona, she led the foundation of the distance learning program UNIGIS MSc, one of the first remote learning master degrees to be offered worldwide in Spanish, and currently still a reference for GIS professionals worldwide.
For the past six years, Irene was the Deputy Director of Urbiotica, a technological start-up based in Barcelona. Her role as part of the management team included financing, sales and communication. She also contributed actively to all Board meetings of the company since its foundation.
Irene works regularly as an independent expert for the European Commission, mainly in the ICT & Society domains. Her expertise has developed not only as proposals’ evaluator, but also as a reviewer for on-going projects.
She has recently started a new career as independent senior consultant in the field of urban innovation and citizenship. In parallel, she keeps active in the growth assessment activities for start-up companies and SME’s in Spain and Europe.
Milena Nikolaichova
Milena moved back to Madrid in 2016 after spending 16 years living between Spain and Bulgaria. Her background includes both corporate and entrepreneurial world. She has successfully gained experience in MICE Tourism and in different Outsourcing and Customer Service industries. These opportunities gave her the chance to develop positive people skills and understand multinational clientele from different business sectors as well as build a strong business acumen.
She believes in business environment and culture where people are inspired to get up every day and be passionate for what they do. Milena is proficient in the field of emotional intelligence and is interested in making profits with a purpose. Her goal is Everyday Happiness through daily practice in place.
Specialties: team leading, emotional intelligence, communication, building relationships, events organisation and management, customer satisfaction, human resources, people management, staff development, mentoring and training.
Talents: affiliative leader, strong on teamwork, outside the box thinker, professional, quality person, demanding, organised, passionate, flexible, communicative, adoptive, active, motivated, humble, fun to work with, positive thinker, business acumen, common sense and willing to learn.
Biography of Begoña Ubierna
Two areas of expertise:
1. Marketing and Sales in pharmaceutical/healthcare industry
2. Business Consultancy, Training and Coaching
Regarding Marketing and Sales, broad marketing experience in multinational pharmaceutical /healthcare companies. Starting as a Sales representative and Product Manager and lately as a Marketing Director as well as a Business Franchise Manager (sales and marketing teams). Experience in Managing high performance teams and experience in working, nationally and internationally, with multidisciplinary teams (marketing, sales, medical affairs, finance).
Experience in developing and launching prescription and OTC products therefore in product positioning and communication strategy. Strategic view, as a member of Steering Committee, as well as involved in tactical implementation. Experience in teams and product portfolio integration and change management.
On the other hand since 2011, experience in facilitating and implementing projects in different companies focused in results improvement through staff Training, Mentoring and Coaching.
Mike Hoff
Mike began his career in the UK in 1985 where he started to build his leadership and business experience. He worked initially in the hospitality industry moving into retail in the 1990’s. He held several senior management positions both in Europe and the Middle East developing his ability to drive major change, growth and development in organisations. In 2004, Mike moved to the Middle East and was able to utilise this knowledge and expertise as a senior manager working in large local and International organisations. In these organisations he worked at strategy execution and people development in order to optimise growth and profitability.
Over his years as a senior manager, Mike developed a passion for learning and development and has a reputation for developing high performing teams and
managing performance, especially during challenging economic times. This led him to set up his own company, Mike Hoff Consulting based in Dubai.
He has a proven strength in energising teams towards strategic goals and getting them moving in one direction, aligning them to the overall strategy of the
business. Additionally, Mike has been successful through his coaching and mentoring efforts, in developing individuals to their full potential. His energetic style, passion for people development and effectiveness coupled with an in depth understanding of business at both a strategic and operational level creates
a unique blend.
Mike is a Certified International Coach where he works with the variety of tools and methodologies to tailor to the needs of you and your company.
Mike runs his businesses along with his wife, Claire. They both enjoy the outdoors and travel in particular anything that involves Scuba diving where they are both PADI dive professionals at Divemaster and Instructor levels.
Email: mike@mhc.consulting
Krysta Fox
Krysta Fox
Leading with Positivity
A tenacious, positive and inspirational leader, Krysta captained the remarkable transformation of the DMCC free zone.
Krysta is an Australian business leader, transformation expert and leadership trainer, with significant executive level experience. Her expertise as a driver of business results, includes six years as Executive Director of the DMCC free zone leading a team of 160 employees through a major business transformation. She was responsible for a business community of 15,000 companies, comprised 75% SMEs. During the first 18 months in her role at DMCC, the free zone was named Global Free Zone of the Year for SMEs and overall by the Financial Times’ Group, an honour retained throughout her tenure.
Living and working in Dubai for 13 years, Krysta’s style is honest, fun and focused. She cares deeply about people, and creates collaboration, empowerment and support systems in every situation. Seeing the benefits to business growth, Krysta is a prolific connector, creative thinker and practitioner – it inspires her to share her diverse experience to help others.
Alongside her passion for people, is a great affinity for digital transformation. During her tenure at DMCC she led a total digital transformation, creating efficiency, customer focus and connectivity. Her business experience includes strategic leadership, digital transformation, financial management, customer service, sales, operations and business development. She has led commercial negotiations on the international stage and created partnerships and strategic alliances across multiple industries. Krysta is also an experienced presenter and spokesperson.
As a board member of CPA Australia (CPA), Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) and the Fred Hollows Foundation, she has worked alongside fellow board members to create growth. She holds a Masters’ level degree in both Accounting and Business Administration, together with a Bachelor of Economics. In addition, she is a Graduate of the AICD and a Fellow CPA.
Krysta has advised businesses, led teams and driven strategic deals across multiple sectors:
Government/Semi-Government: DMCC, Dubai Holdings, Dubai Trade Centre
Technology: DocuSign, Salesforce, AstroLabs
Oil Industry: BP Australia, Supreme Fuels
Real Estate: Al Futtaim Group, DMCC
Multinational Organisations: Eli Lilly, BP, Intercontinental Hotels Group, PwC
Contact: krystajfox@gmail.com | +971 50 2455265
Biography of Darren Carrington
Darren Carrington is a confident but grounded, versatile facilitator, trainer, executive coach and mentor. He is the consummate professional who is extremely personable and prides himself on his passion, patience and laser focussed approach to his work. His mission in any given assignment is to assist his clients in identifying and capitalising on their key skills and strengths.
Background
Darren has a wealth of expertise spanning more than 20 years and is proud to claim international proficiency across numerous industry sectors including Broadcast Media, Oil & Gas, Banking, Real Estate, Pharmaceutical and Hospitality to name a few. He has worked as a dedicated coach for 11 high potentials at the UAE’s 3rd largest bank on their 6 month Al Masar coaching programme – a fast track career development programme for UAE Nationals, 3 of whom were promoted as a direct result.
Style and Skillset
Darren’s passion for people development and adding value to their personal and professional life fulfils his meaning and purpose which is reflected in his facilitation style. He has the ability to engage his audience and make them understand business concepts in the most simplistic manner. He is a great communicator and an empathetic listener who tunes in to the person he is working with so together they can create a bespoke, realistic action plan to align with the organisation’s objectives.
Portfolio
- 6 month Leadership Development coaching programme to enhance sales performance
- 12 month Mentor the Mentor programme
- Introduce leading with Cultural Intelligence to senior managers within the banking sector
- Liaise with clients to identify their needs and facilitate the programme delivery for defining team dynamics
- Coach high potential employees on a dedicated fast track development programme
- Integral member of the design and development team for a bespoke assessment centre within the pharmaceutical industry for their candidates who were eligible for promotion
- Recruitment consultancy to ensure candidates correct fit for roles
- Mentor for an 18-month leadership initiative with an objective to ensure appropriate talent is available to meet current and future business
requirements.
Professional Qualifications/Accreditations
- Certified CLS Situational Leadership Trainer ®
- Certified Level 1 & 2 CQ Facilitator – Cultural Intelligence Centre®
- Certified Innermetrix Consultant
- DISC Specialist
- NLP Master Practitioner
Location
Based in the United Arab Emirates but is willing to travel to fulfil client needs.
Selected clients:
- Merck Serono
- Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company
- First Gulf Bank
- Novotel
- L’Oreal Middle East
- New Zealand Immigration
- Fujairah Media Group
- Property Finder
- Coca-Cola
- ExxonMobil
- Al Futtaim Automotive
Biography of Bharat Phadke
My passion for subject of growth for individuals and organizations has evolved me into a Self – Growth Strategist and a business advisor. I work with corporates and Individuals to help them achieve their breakthroughs to get to the next level of growth. My Individual and corporate programs are based on Neuro-scientific approach and has the potential to bring permanent profound changes to accelerate the growth.
Biography of Majid Kianpour
Majid is a professional entrepreneur with the passion for management consulting. He spent his 12 first years of his professional career in two international companies TOTAL and Henkel in both HR technical positions as well as leadership of the HR department in the country level. He has always been involved in closing the gap between HQ culture and best practices locally by being in charge of either development or restructuring and transformation projects.
He then started his own firm in IRAN in 2011, which is now the top of mind of clients as well professionals when it comes to Leadership Development and Business Performance.
Since 2017, he also started working on an idea to develop professionals in the country to become freelancer management consultants or join his breakthrough business model in consulting. He currently is busy scaling-up his venture in the country and has an ambitious vision of making his firm a regional one.
Majid is an MBA Graduate from Hult International business school and he is an Industrial Engineer. Majid is Wiley Endorsed Facilitator and he is also holding Global Leadership Certificate from HULT and Ashridge Business School.
He is known for his creative mind, passion for growth and extraordinary team building skill. He is passionate about helping SMEs regionally and also worked with many international to develop their top leadership teams in the country level. His list of clients is inclusive but not limite to Renault, Danone, Unilever, Nestle, Bel, Savola, BAT, JTI, KSB, Festo, Roche.
To know him better you may visit his LinkedIn page at https://www.linkedin.com/in/majid-kianpour/
His executive coaching and problem solving style has been received quite unique by leaders who work with Majid.
Biography of Amanda Perry
Amanda is one of the Middle East’s leading CEOs, with over 20 years’ experience empowering entrepreneurs in building and growing companies to the highest levels of success. A regular columnist, media commentator, International keynote speaker and board advisor to a handful of carefully-selected businesses, Amanda’s background in the field of Wealth Management, gained from the major offshore centres around the world, means she is able to impart invaluable experience and knowledge to clients and audiences alike.
Working around the world in the most highly reputable financial centres, including the UK, the Channel Islands, Belgium, USA, the Cayman Islands, the Bahamas and Dubai, Amanda specialises in building businesses and wealth for her clients, across a broad spectrum of industries, each with different aspirations and goals. Having forged her career in leading financial institutions such as E&Y (Ernst & Young), Fortis, Bank of America and DIFC, Amanda utilised her vast experience to set up Vital Corporate Solutions, nine years ago, which helps entrepreneurs and freelancers register and build their businesses in the UAE, both onshore, offshore and within freezones.
Amanda is also the founder and CEO of Vitality, the region’s first female-focused business accelerator, taking a holistic approach to the empowerment of women, driving success at any stage of the business lifecycle. In 2017, Amanda created the Vitality Business Acceleration Programme and Centre to offer a holistic range of benefits for the smart entrepreneur looking to develop and elevate her business, while juggling the
daily responsibilities of being a woman, mother and wife. Based in Dubai, the centre’s client benefits include crèche facilities, co-working space, active networking, health food cafe and daily wellness and educational classes, designed to offer a supportive, safe and collaborative environment for all women.
As a regular and trusted thought leader and commentator in national and international media outlets such as Inc Arabia, Time Out, Finance Middle East and The National, Amanda’s passion and expertise in helping entrepreneurs succeed is renowned throughout the Middle East. Below is just a small selection of topics that Amanda has spoken and written about:
- Female Leadership
- Diversity In The Boardroom
- Breaking The Glass Ceiling
- Gender Balance In Business
- Entrepreneurial Journey/Business Lifecycle Of Success
- Conducting Business In The UAE/How Not To Conduct Business In The UAE
- Company Formation/Acceleration
- Building A Profitable Business
- How To Secure Investment
- Wealth Management
- Financial Planning To Achieve Business Goals
Recently awarded the title of ‘Most Influential Woman In Wealth Management Planning’ and ‘Best Business Start Up Solutions Company in the UAE’ by the Global SME Awards 2017, Amanda believes there is always a business to be built and money to be made with enthusiasm, determination and a specific solution. Combined with a passionate and personable approach to her consulting work with her female clients and mentors, Amanda ensures support and success in line with their goals and aspirations, through a holistic and collaborative approach.
Biography of Leila Atbi
Leila Atbi, co-author of the International Bestselling book “Magnetic Entrepreneur, a Personality That Attracts”, is a Master NLP Coach, with the Robert Simic Coaching Institute (RSCI), an accredited International Coaching Federation (ICF) program. She holds advanced coach training certificates with RSCI and with Dr. Mohamed El Tayeb Experiential Group Coaching Training Institute. She is a certified Wisdom™ Coach for kids and teens, a certified Thetahealing™ practitioner and a certified RSCI Master Hypnotist. Leila is also an educator and completed 20 years of teaching and leadership experience in education.
Prior to becoming a life coach, Leila graduated from Paris Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi with a Masters in Linguistics and has a B.Sc in Biology from Algiers University of Sciences and Technology.
She speaks fluently French, Arabic and English.
Leila is a happy spouse and mother with life experiences ranging from living and traveling in Africa, Europe, USA, Asia and the Middle East. She contributes actively in helping her community and brings her passion for growth and self-empowerment into her coaching.
Leila is an active NLP Coach for over 5 years. She helps her clients unlock the joy and power within and create a life they love.
She resides in Abu Dhabi, UAE, with her family. Her biggest accomplishment is now her own life, balanced, and overflowing with love, gratitude and the daily joy of life.
Biography of Warsha Joshi
Warsha Joshi is a serial entrepreneur and a family business coach with over 20 years of experience in GCC.
As a Certified Scaling Up Coach and a Certified Trainer in Referral Marketing, she coaches Founders and CEOs of small to mid-sized organisations to successfully scale up their businesses. Driven by relentless passion to help entrepreneurs achieve their professional goals, Warsha is regularly sought to facilitate strategic planning sessions with founders and their leadership teams.
Inspired by the vision of the Government of Dubai, Warsha’s personal goal is to contribute consistently towards the growth of the country’s SME sector.
Together with her experience as a Professional Certified mBit Coach, Master Practitioner of NLP, Time Line TherapyTM and Hypnosis, and a she expertly enables her clients resolve internal conflicts for aligned decision making and action taking.
Starting her entrepreneurial journey in mid-80’s in India, Warsha successfully launched, ran and sold multiple businesses before arriving in Dubai.
Warsha now spearheads Platinum VA, a premier virtual executive assistant service which supports the corporate sector. Today, PVA is the regional powerhouse with dedicated team of professionals with vast industry expertise.
Warsha holds Degrees in Economics and Business Administration. She actively supports a number of local charitable initiatives, including animal rescue organisations. Warsha thrives on constant change and for that reason she is a proud resident of Dubai.
Biography of Evan Le Clus
Evan is a seasoned corporate finance professional with rich experience of over 30 years in a multitude of industries such as hospitality, private equity, theme parks and real estate asset management. He is now an established Executive Coach and Consulting CFO who mentors SME Owners to take their businesses to the next level.
Applying his skills as an mBit Coach, Master Practitioner of NLP, Time Line Therapy TM and Hypnosis, Evan expertly coaches entrepreneurs to resolve internal conflicts, make aligned decisions and take action. Inspired by Dubai’s leadership and the “can-do” attitude, Evan believes anything is possible. He is also passionate to work with the entrepreneurial community in the U.A.E. and contribute towards strengthening the local SME sector. Stronger SME’s means more employment in the economy, after all.
Leveraging the solid IP of The Alpha Group Evan currently runs monthly Peer-to-Peer Mastermind Advisory Boards which include workbook and mastermind sessions and which are underpinned by Peer mentoring and accountability. Evan finds it truly rewarding to help Owner-CEO’s realize it doesn’t have to be “lonely at the top” and that they can positively contribute to their own and fellow Peers’ scaling up challenges. Through his Platinum Alpha Boards Evan has found a powerful way to reach more SME’s to help them double the value of their businesses in 2 to 3 years and to dominate their niche.
Evan holds a degree in Commerce, an advanced certification in Real Estate and Hotel Investment and is CPA (Australia) qualified. He actively supports charities in Dubai, India and Australia and participates in animal rescue work. He loves a round of golf, scuba diving, good books and thought-provoking cinema and the company of good friends.
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Biography of Claire Donnelly
A Business Growth and HR Strategist helping medium size companies to Scale Up using proven systems.
Claire is an MCIPD qualified Human Resource professional, with 25+ years’ experience working within various industries and 10 + years’ experience of HR practices throughout the Middle East. As a HR Generalist she has held a number of senior and Board level HR positions. She is experienced in working at both strategic and tactical levels.
Claire is also a Gazelles Certified International Coach and works as an SME business mentor, helping the founders and CEO build their Company to last and grow in a sustainable way.
Claire’s experience is in setting up a strong Growth Plans and implementing systems in the whole company for the flawless execution of the plan. She helps HR departments to develop and implement strong strategies to attract, develop and retain great people.
Claire began her career in the UK in 1984 where she started to build her Human Resources and business experience. She worked initially in the UK Government moving into retail in 1988. Claire spent 12 years working within Sainsbury Supermarket Limited, holding roles within Payroll, Training & Development and Human Resources. Prior to moving on to her first HR Director role, she helped her Sainsbury store achieve the Investor in People (IiP) recognition. In 2000, Claire moved back into central London, holding the position of HR Director for a small food retail Company, again achieving the IiP recognition for the Company.
In 2004, Claire moved to the Middle East and was able to utilise her knowledge and expertise as a Human Resources generalist within a number of different industries, ranging from Architecture, Fashion retail, Telecommunications and Oil & Gas. She has worked in Kuwait and UAE, and has experience of HR across the MENA and APAC regions.
Over her years as a HR generalist, Claire has developed a passion for building solid HR foundations within Companies, allowing them to grow and expand with ease. She has helped Companies, expand and unfortunately decrease in headcount. Of her many achievements, the customisation and implementation of an SAP HR and payroll system and the launch of H&M Middle East are perhaps her proudest achievements within her Middle East experience.
In 2013, Claire achieved her dream of moving into a Business Consultancy role, working on specific HR related projects for Companies and helping small business grow and expand as they scale. Claire is an Innermetrix Consultant and uses this psychometric tool to help Companies source talents team members to join their team.
She runs her businesses along with her husband Mike and their currently small but highly effective team. They both enjoy the outdoors and travel in particular anything that involves Scuba diving where they are both PADI dive professionals at Divemaster and Instructor levels.
Biography of Margaret Mekaat
Margaret Mekaat is an established Financial Health Coach and over the last 7 years has helped business owners and individuals with debt realignment, financial planning and general financial fitness. Margaret offers sound and practical coaching to individuals and business owners who desire a life without financial chaos, by partnering with them to create financial goals, move through obstacles and hold them accountable.
Margaret also heads the Virtual Legal Assistance Business Unit at Platinum VA where she leads her Team to provide outsourced Admin excellence to multi-national legal firms in the UAE.
Today, along with her Financial Coaching, Margaret enables SME Founders to successfully scaleup their businesses through her Peer to Peer Mastermind Advisory Boards.
Biography of Mike Patterson
Biography of Aloysius Gregory
Aloysius has always been passionate about helping others and making a difference. His strengths lie in Coaching and Mentoring where he has been instrumental in bringing about progress and lasting change in the lives of the people he has worked with.
With an MBA in Marketing from Symbiosis International University in India and 8 years’ experience in industry, Aloysius’ areas of expertise include Marketing Management, Marketing Communications & Operations, Negotiation, Customer Relationship Management and Event Management. He excels in relationship management and works tireless to ensure his clients achieve results that exceed expectation. Adept at working in, and leading, cross-functional, multi-cultural teams, Aloysius is also known for his strong collaborative, interpersonal and leadership skills.
An NLP Master Practitioner, Masterclass Trainer, Master Coach, Master Hypnotherapist and Master Time Line Therapist, Aloysius’ resilient drive and positive attitude have helped him overcome numerous challenges and one of the mottos he lives by is ‘there is no failure, only feedback.’ By collaborating with The Alpha Group, Aloysius brings his passion and dedication to help SMEs double their value in three years and navigate the seemingly insurmountable challenges many may face.
Biography of Suzanne (Zanny) Gandy
Transforming companies from within by choosing courage over comfort.
As a former British Army Captain, Suzanne assists organisations to rethink their approach to strategy, leadership, governance and people.
Unleash the power of teams and you have infinite possibilities for sustainable business growth.
Suzanne is a c-level leader with two decades of highly successful business leadership experience in UK and the Middle East. Her experience of creating high performance in organisations includes over 5 years as the leader of HR in the number one global free zone where she was responsible for digitising the HR function, establishing and implementing leadership academy, and facilitating strategy development.
Prior to this, Suzanne was the leader of the HR function of the main government emergency trauma centre, in Dubai. She has experience of working under intense pressure on operational tours and subsequently successfully applied those valuable people experiences and leadership lessons, to the corporate world.
Suzanne is a master of finely balancing corporate commerciality and strong HR foundation, with an enriching employee experience. She is deeply committed preparing leaders to foster an environment that results in willing, innovative and passionate employees.
Living and working in Dubai for over a decade, her style is focussed yet compassionate, positive and decisive.
Suzanne is a proud graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, with an MA in Strategic Human Resources. This is underpinned by a BSc in Psychology and she attained ‘Member’ of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development. Also, she is a recent recipient of GCC Women in Leadership Award.
She has particular passion and expertise in Employment Regulation, Compensation & Benefits, Grading Structures and Reward. She believes that by clearly formulating and articulating strategy; that organisation to team, team to individual continuous performance management, is a key ingredient for achievement of strategic goals.
She obsessive about utilising technology within businesses and particularly HR, to streamline processes, improve efficiency and increase employee engagement.
Her motto – ‘never give up, there is always a way, as you are stronger than you give yourself credit for’.
Her favourite quote – ‘the greatest motivation is contributing towards success’.
Suzanne is a mum, wife, novice triathlete and former European equestrian champion.
Biography of Labueno Bautista Casas
Lab Casas has been in the industry of entrepreneurship and business management for 15 years as soon as his parents decided to immerse him in their family business. After college, he ventured into different micro-businesses and SMEs and started earning relevant experiences and substantial income. He decided to turn his enterprises into cash by allocating and diversifying them into various investments and equities.
Lab was also involved in different community works, government initiatives and projects, church communities, non-profit groups, and international organizations. This is where Lab nurtured and developed his leadership, communication, teaching, facilitation, and management skills.
For more than 9 years in the GCC (Kuwait, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates), Lab has continuously proven his versatility by being able to work in different industries including oil and gas, healthcare, corporations, and military. He covers various roles in leadership, management, operations, and training.
As a firm believer of “growth”, continues his journey in equipping and upgrading his skills through programs and courses in leadership, management, entrepreneurship, finances, and soft skills. To maximize his growth potential, he continuously receives guidance from his coaches and mentors.
As a certified life coach and keynote speaker, Lab has empowered hundreds of individuals and the numbers are growing. He is currently fulfilling his life mission of creating massive impact among leaders, influencers, entrepreneurs, and business owners using the technology of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and other effective coaching frameworks.
Other Significant Qualifications:
- Certified International Coach
- Diploma in Business Management and Entrepreneurship
- Master Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner
- Wealth Coach and Registered Financial Planner
- Founder of a Non-Profit Organization called Organization of Financial Planners & Wealth Advocates
- Degree holder in Bachelor of Science in Nursing
- NEBOSH International Diploma Holder
- Emergency Medical Technician
Biography of Eric Fox
Eric has over 25 years multi-national senior leadership experience. He brings focus and clarity through a strong communication bias. As a leader he has demonstrated highly successful techniques through example. Dedicated to delivering results, Eric has developed winning growth and transformation strategies throughout his career. He is committed to motivating key players and getting buy-in from all parties, to ensure success.
Following an international career with an oil major, Eric, as Global supply Chain Director fulfilled demanding supply contracts to military in Afghanistan, with outstanding results.
His experience in logistics, transportation, contract negotiation, strategic planning, team and quality management has built outstanding strategic leadership skills that are applicable across the business spectrum.
Biography of Henry Clarke Kisembo
Regional Director Africa – The Alpha Group International at Noble Manhattan Coaching Ltd
What if you could engage the enthusiasm to make change happen and harness it to create the rapid, sustainable development? You can, Henry brings 20 years hands on experience in Private Sector, Agrifinance, Development Finance, Project Design and Management, Market Systems, Financial Inclusion, Rural and Community development, MSMEs, Digital Finance, Agency Banking, Business Strategy, Policy and Regulation, Gender gap analysis and bridging, Value chain development, Fund and Resource Mobilization, Financial and Business Modelling, Institutional development, Investment and Finance, Qualitative and Quantitative Research, Financial Services Development and has Undertaken small, large and complex projects within Sub-Saharan Africa; and worked under European Union, USAID, World Bank Group, African Union, UNCDF, AfDB, DFID, JICA, GIZ Frameworks, NGOs, Governments and Private Sector Cooperation.
Holds two Doctorate degrees in Finance specializing in Development Finance from the Technological University of the Americas in Suriname and Financial Economics from the University of America in California USA, a Masters’ in Public Administration and Management and Bachelors of Social Sciences from Makerere University Kampala in Uganda; An advanced Diploma in Project Planning and Management from the Business Trust, a Certified Finance and Business Mentor at the Cherie Blair Foundation, a Professional Business Management Certification from the Regent University in USA and a National Qualification Framework LEVEL 11 Trainer from PALAMA South Africa and CIDA Canada.
For Details Visit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henry-clarke-kisembo-phd-global-goodwill-ambassador-3b049a2a/
Colin Lindsay
The Alpha Group brings together entrepreneurs for peer-to-peer exchange and support in a unique, member-driven experience. Business owners and CEOs worldwide can be part of an exclusive group of qualified executives to brainstorm strategies, and realize the potential of increasing profit and growth.
Colin experience
Over 10 years corporate experience in multinational companies, with first-hand knowledge of, and experience with, various business challenges, different leadership styles, team development needs, and the challenges to implement organizational change as well as the professional and personal impediments that employees may face at the workplace.
Leveraging corporate and executive coaching experience to challenge and empower leaders and their teams to make sustainable change, internally from within, and in their interaction with others, and in the way they think, make decisions and take action on-the-job, to tunaround results.
Specialties:Corporate coaching, Executive Leadership coaching, Performance Management coaching, Organizational Change Management & Strategy Facilitation coaching, Stress Management / Work Life Balance coaching, Executive coaching, Team coaching, developing and delivering Workshops
Sonia Brown Mbe
Sonia Brown MBE is an award winning business communicator, uber connector, coach, trainer, writer and diversity maverick with over 20 years’ experience in marketing, branding and life skills development. She is a leading authority on many areas of business, leadership, sales and marketing, as well as supporting individuals to achieve success in all areas of their life.
She founded the National Black Women’s Network; Let’s Talk Business Networking Forum and Sistatalk the UK’s leading online forum for women looking to connect with leading companies, decision makers and industry peers. More recently she launched the Inspirational Women’s Super- Summit in London (Thomson Reuters) and the Scottish Parliament.
Sonia has successfully worked with the who’s who in business and is endorsed by government departments and ministers, leading banks and financial institutions including top FTSE companies as well as working with a number of high profile champions including NatWest Business Banking, Lloyds Bank, Jaguar, LandRover, Google, ICEAW, British Bankers Association (BBA), Independent Television Network (ITN), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), American Express to name a few. She designed and implemented the Community Ambassador Programme, a dynamic social action initiative on behalf of the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime
(MOPAC) and the Metropolitan Police Service.
Sonia is a popular speaker and contributes to a number of radio shows,magazines and newspapers on women, diversity, public appointments and enterprise issues. She was the business editor at the Voice Newspaper and the former New Nation Newspaper. Sonia has a MA in Marketing and Communications; BA in Business Communication, as well as holding a number of professional qualifications in marketing, journalism and radio production. She is a certified NLP Practitioner.
With a passion for business and a demand for business mentoring, Sonia created EVOLVE; a six step accelerator membership programme aimed at solo and micro entrepreneurs. The programme looks to increase efficiency and profits by focusing on their internal and external processes. Participants who have completed the programme have been able to maximize their potential, improve performance and develop new revenue streams.
Sonia also works with leaders looking to function at a higher level and larger companies who are facing signature challenges or transformation issues. She will work with business owners and director in the Alpha Group setting coupled with the GOLD coaching programme, where they will see their businesses transformed, profits increased and more importantly making a ‘remarkable’ commercial impact.
Sonia has been named one of the Top 50 diversity figures in public life on the Global List nominated by readers of The Economist and is the International Alliance for Women (TIAW) 2015 World of Difference 100 Award Recipient for the economic empowerment of women and the BBI Honorary Woman Business Leader of the Year (2016).
Gary Coulton
Dr Gary Coulton (CEO Adaptive Intelligence Consulting Limited.
Gary spent 30 years as a university academic, teacher, business owner, innovator, executive coach, consultant, sports coach, scientific researcher and family man to help people and organisations achieve outcomes beyond anyone’s expectations. Gary brings scientific rigor with a human touch to focus on his client’s need for productive change.
For many years Gary worked at the interface between academic research and business often working as a consultant to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. As a university Dean of Enterprise he led on the spinning out of research-based companies, IP exploitation, and seed capital investment. He developed a strong reputation for innovation and transformational change.
Gary is an expert senior-level group facilitator and innovative executive coach, supporting both the personal and the business agendas of his clients.
He is the creator of the Adaptive Intelligence Concept that underpins our ability to create and exploit change.
Gary also leads the Adaptive Intelligence Group (AdaptiveIG) a collaboration of eight businesses offering a new unique integrated system of validated and benchmarked tools for analysing and stimulating inclusive high performance and diverse cultures driving real-world results.
Alan Higham
Alan is from the Merseyside/South Lancashire area, and has vast and varied experience in business and business development.
Following nineteen years in many roles in the global corporate world with IBM, Alan left that world in 2003 to take a position with a ‘green field’ I.T. company. Having taken them as far as he could, he left in December 2005 and took a years sabbatical – a very valuable period in his career.
Having become more involved with global business referral and network organisation BNI during the ‘green field’ years, both as a Member and latterly as part of a Director Team, Alan subsequently worked with BNI as an Executive Director (Franchisee) for over six years.
A period working in Franchise and Energy Consultancy followed, and Alan still has interests in these on a very part time basis, as well as running business networking events and supporting his wife with her cleaning franchise.
Much of his experience is in ‘people business’, and with a great ability to build relationships at all levels, in addition to running and facilitating many Business Development and Training Workshops with both BNI and in the latter stages of his IBM career, Alan is well poised to add massive value to the businesses of The Alpha Group Clients locally, nationally, and worldwide, with many strong relationships globally.
Biography of Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan is a specialist in marketing and implementing sales and business growth strategies and separately has a passion for personal performance working with business owners and executives in developing their Leadership style and create and motivate high performance teams
With over 35 years’ wide-ranging business experience working in the corporate environment for 25 years in a senior role for “Blue-Chip Retailers “such as Clarks Shoes International, Mulberry and HMV Waterstones.
Jim developed an enviable expertise in Buying, Supply chain, Retail Operations, Marketing, Leadership Development and Won multiple National Awards for Performance, Profit Improvement and business turnarounds.
For the past 10 years Jim has also worked with clients with SME companies across a range of Family businesses in a variety of industries helping them achieve outstanding results and transformations.
Biography of Agnesia Agrella
Agnesia is a Business Architect and Systems Designer, who is passionate about customer service and providing value to customers. She has lead various large change programmes in manufacturing and finance industry and has experience in all areas of the business and project life cycle. With her extensive knowledge and understanding of the interdependencies between business processes, and data she adds value by documenting business processes in various modelling tools to bring all stakeholders to common understanding of current business processes and challenges. Her strengths are facilitating and leading diverse teams to link to their business vision using technology and finding solutions that best suit business needs and requirements. Her openness to share her knowledge creates collaborative teams that focus on finding great solutions for any business problem. She constantly expands her knowledge in her field to understand how new technology can benefit the business area she works with.
Agnesia believes that each business is a system as complex as that within the human body. When a body’s systems work well, it is healthy and when a business’s systems work well, it makes lots of money.
Combining the power of the human body with clear business focus allows the staff of that business to achieve extra ordinary results. Agnesia can lead your team to achieve extra ordinary results.
Peter Messervy, BA, BSc. Business Architect
Peter Messervy is an energetic writer, instructional designer, facilitator, and business leadership coach. For over 25 years, Peter has practiced and taught business development, project management and system development, with a solid history of successful engagements that meet or exceed client requirements. A continuing cycle of practice, research and teaching keep all subjects fresh and up to date.
Peter has created and delivered training courses and workshops for many of the Fortune 500 corporations as well as three universities. He has worked with a variety of projects and industries around the world including N.A.T.O. (defense), health care, banking, insurance, and manufacturing. He also has a solid grounding and experience in software development.
Much of Peter’s experience comes from building several of his own businesses and learning from his mistakes as well as his successes. As the CEO of Opus Magnum Inc. He currently practices in Canada, USA, and UK.
Peter is something of a thought leader and visionary in business development and has contributed to the strategic planning for a number of organizations large and small. He has a knack for identifying efficiencies and opportunities for improvement. His facilitation skills have won accolades from around the world.
Martin Kingman (FCILEx)
I originally started my professional career as a dispute resolution and insolvency lawyer, and I still maintain my practicing certificate. I worked in large regional law firms for 11 years before going into industry within the construction sector where I turned around a struggling company into a very profitable entity.
Using Michael Gerber’s E-myth methodology I together with the CEO started to implement systems to replace the internal structures within the business, I still consult for this business today. From this I started freelance consultancy providing specialist business advice to SME’s in a wide range of business sectors from racetrack experience days, fast food and people development and executive coaching. I am very commercial and entrepreneurial and in 2014 I set up a debt recovery business to offer services to clients who needed recoveries.
I specialise in international recoveries all around the world. Outside of my commercial business interests I undertake a lot of voluntary work. I am the chairman of the Kent Savers Credit Union and am authorised by the FCA/PRA in relation to this positions. Credit Unions are an ethical local alternatives to bank. I have been involved in Credit Unions in Kent since 2011. I am also a trustee and Secretary of Kent Search and Rescue.
We work in conjunction with Kent Police in finding missing vulnerable people. I am a Qualified Search Planner and Manager which means I have overall responsibility for the whole search operations for the week I am on call. I am also a qualified drone pilot and have undertaken my CAA Permission for Commercial Operations. All of the counties search and rescue teams come together under Lowland Rescue the national body.
I am Air Services Director for Lowland Rescue – which means I have overall responsibility for all element of drones, UAVs and Helicopters (including NPAS, Air Ambulance and Coastguard helicopters) within all of the 35 counties. I also hold a IOSH certificate in Health and Safety.
John Jeckmans
“Easier transformational change by creating space to manoeuvre!”
“John has over 35 years of hands-on practical international experience in B2B industrial surroundings, in many different industrial sectors, ranging from corporates to SME’s, especially in experienced in large project management; marketing & sales; (new) business development; product development; continuous improvement projects; change management involving culture re-adjustments; start-ups (both regular and technology); revitalisation of companies in trouble. John started his first “own” company in 2004, and has since been involved in many different other ventures.
John has been on the board of a venture capital company for 9 years, worked as an Executive Coach for nearly 6 years, and has held several (non-) executive director roles over the years.
John’s basic education is ship’s engineer, which gives him the technical background to understand almost anything from mechanics, processes, electric/electronics. He receives his technology MBA at Twente School of Management, a university level MBA in Netherlands.
John, nowadays, has a simple goal in life. Assisting organisations and people to improve on their current state of affairs by walking alongside for the time needed. Sometimes small steps are required, sometimes more drastic changes. But always based on sustainable growth.
Specialties: Business Development, Marketing & Sales, Project Management, (technology) start-ups, cultural change projects, personal life coaching, leadership development, from idea to product, training communication & conflict handling, team development, organisational coaching, strategy development, strategy deployment, exits, networking, organisational development, performance improvement, growth financing.”
Rohit Nanda
Rohit has a passion for working with business owners and coming up with realistic solutions to their business challenges.
In 2019, he established The Business Troubleshooter and they have now partnered with The Alpha Group to work with both business owners and/ or managing directors of SME firms to help them double or triple the value of their business over 3 years.
Prior to this, he has over 20 years experience in the Financial Markets sector having worked at GE Capital, Nomura, and UBS. He has a broad range of business expertise, notably e-commerce, websites, electronic platforms, technology and being involved in establishing a fintech firm. Rohit has a detailed understanding of business and entrepreneurship and has successfully implemented and improved a number of key business processes.
Rohit holds an MBA from Cass Business School, is PRINCE 2 qualified, and studied Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine. In addition, he has recently been a visiting lecturer at Riga Graduate School of Law.
Over the past few years, he has been recognised as one of the Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech and has most recently been selected as one of the Top 5 in Fintech in 2017.
Biography of Jon Kandiah
I have 25+ years’ experience successfully transforming some of the smallest and largest companies in the UK. I was on the leadership teams that;
- Launched and grew Virgin Clothing.
- Launched Virgin Mobile and scaled it to a flotation valued at £850m.
- Merged Orange and T-Mobile to form Everything Everywhere and then rebranded it EE, launching 4G, first to market in the UK.
That includes businesses with no revenue to those with $7bn and scaling Virgin Mobile from concept to flotation valued at £850m.
I am a fully trained and accredited coach, have been nominated for the 2019 London Business Awards by our very satisfied clients and are consistently rated at 8/10 and above by 85%+ of our clients.
Our promise to our Alpha Group Board members and Gold Coaching clients is simple. They will double the value of their business over 2-3 years by working with us.
We keep this promise by working together as a cohesive band of business owners, collaborating to grow each other’s businesses. We have a highly disciplined and structured approach that generates ideas and actions that you implement in your business every month.
One of the most powerful forces for good in our society is a growing business. A growing business employs more people and buys products and services. The business and its employees pay tax which contributes to the provision of crucial medical, education and social services as well as developing infrastructure. The owners of growing businesses are also amongst the most generous contributors to charities.
A growing business is a significant force for good in our society.
Biography of Andrew J Bowen
Highly Experienced, Senior, International banking Executive now pursuing a career focussed on non-executive director (NED) roles.
Over 25 years experience leading teams in International banks, most recently as GM ANZ Germany, prior to that Head of Markets Europe at ANZ Banking Group.
Regulatory experience includes Bafin approved Geschaeftsleiter/FCA approved SMR and ACPR approved Exec director of ANZ Paris.
Biography of Palvinder Kudhail
Biography of Paul Vousden
Paul is a seasoned business executive who runs Corporate Counsel, a growth consultancy for SMEs. Originally from a PR and marketing background he has created, built and sold two successful businesses. He has also worked extensively as a senior interim manager in both private and public sectors and been involved with business turnarounds. After working for leading London advertising agencies on major consumer brands Paul widened his skills set to include sales promotion and PR and went on to set up his own highly successful London PR consultancy. He ran this company for 10 years before exiting via a management buyout. He then went on to operate as a senior interim executive working for a wide range of private sector organisations as well as central government and NHS assignments. His depth and breadth of experience led him to provide support for SMEs that are looking for growth.
Paul was attracted to The Alpha Group as he is passionate about helping SMEs succeed and he saw the huge potential of the Alpha approach to achieve significant results.
Paul lives in north Kent and his client base is in both central London and Kent.
Biography of Deb Sen ,M.Eng, MBA
After working in BT for 7 years, Deb left in 1992, and has set up and grown 8 businesses. The largest of these was a marketing agency with a turnover of £1.5million, and with 25 staff.
Deb has used his MBA and sales & marketing skills in practical ways, to help over 200 businesses exceed their growth targets, to increase the business value, whether for an exit or otherwise.
Deb was a national spokesperson on Public Sector Procurement for 8 years for the Federation of Small Businesses, during which time he considerably simplified the tendering process, and during this time delivered training courses on expert bid writing to over 2,000 SMEs.
Some of Deb’s achievements:
- Developed a structured programme to systematically find new business opportunities for high growth SMEs. The programme is typically over 12 months and is called Business Builder™
- Set up an international network of associate offices providing market entry into selected countries eg. China, India, Turkey, Japan, Australia and USA.
- Ran own outbound call centre for four years – delivered over 60 successful business development campaigns: mainly data cleansing and lead generation.
- Expert bid writer, and setting up systems and processes to help clients to collaborate and win larger contracts
- Helped clients win £10 million of new business through tendering for public sector contracts
- Generated over £2 million sales pipelines for clients in past 12 months alone.
- Helped over 40 GrowthAccelerator™ coaching clients, on a government funded business support programme to double their sales.
Sample clients:
- Air Lanka
- Air Mauritius
- BT
- Business Links (various)
- Cable & Wireless
- Drain Doctor (franchisees)
- GE Lighting
- GLE OneLondon
- Kent County Council
- Lambeth Council
- Safeclean (franchisees)
- South London Business
- University of Greenwich
Deb is delighted to join The Alpha Group (TAG) and provide his expertise at TAG Mastermind Boards.
He has an M.Eng (mechanical engineering) from Imperial College, London and an MBA from London Business School.
Biography of Galia Yakimova
I am a Global Woman, working towards your Personal & Business Grough & Well –Being. I am RD at The Alpha Group, London, Entrepreneur & Founder of Health Aroma Ltd, Live Coach & Privilege Partner at Vertera.org
Biography of Alison Jarvis
Alison has more than 25 years ‘ commercial experience, working both as a cross-sector senior professional as well as a real estate development lawyer. She has been able to develop a rich and broad knowledge and competence base derived from working in Europe and South East Asia, which markets she has specialist expertise.
She has extensive practical experience leading projects in marketing communications, research, stakeholder management, PR and business development, backed up by her postgraduate studies in public affairs. Having worked in international organisations, with well-known entrepreneurs and multi-nationals, and also having been a trustee on the board of a charity, she is well positioned to offer deep insights and creative solutions to complex problems. This gives her a unique perspective.
Alison also holds an MBA in leadership and sustainability that reflects her passion for creating impact, ethical organisational cultures where people can thrive, profits can soar and the planet can flourish.
She is a firm believer in collaboration and long-term strategic thinking and the creative power of business to transform communities. It is therefore no surprise that she loves The Alpha Group’s product and global reach and is keen to share its value with SMEs everywhere.
When she is not working, Alison loves spending time with her family and her friends. She is a health and fitness enthusiast, a creative, traveller, adventurer and a life-long learner.
Biography of Simon Abbott
As a qualified coach and a Master Practitioner of NLP, Simon empowers business owners, managers and teams to transform themselves and acquire the strategies and skills to enable transformation in both themselves and their organisations.
In a previous life, Simon ran an out-of-hours web design company focused on start-up businesses and found out he spent more time mentoring his client’s and helping to develop businesses than he did on developing their websites. Transferring these skills, Simon became a volunteer business mentor for Business Wales and was successful in growing a portfolio of businesses through mentoring.
Simon has designed several personal and business coaching programmes and is currently authoring his first book “The 7-Day Business Detox”, a seven-step system to eliminating waste and freeing up resources in any business.
With an entrepreneurial flair and a passion for helping businesses, Simon has embraced the values and mission of The Alpha Group and is now applying his experience in growing businesses and Alpha Groups in the Chester area.
Biography of Brian Mitchell
Biography of Sajid Baloch
Graduated from University of Manchester in Economics and after 4 years of working in Accounting and Finance, obtained an MBA from Durham University Business School.
Founding Director of Sophrosyne Consulting, a Career Coaching and Mentoring organisation established to support individuals in a range of sectors, in achieving their career goals and aspirations.
25 years’ Executive Search, Search & Selection and Agency Recruitment experience. One of 4 Directors who launched Zenith Resourcing Ltd., now an established recruitment organisation specialising in Public sector and in particular Healthcare recruitment. Managed Executive Search and Selection campaigns in a variety of fields including Accounting & Finance, Sales and Marketing, Management Consultancy, HR and Banking & Finance.
As Director for Western Europe, launched the Executive MBA Programme for Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh in Manchester engaging with Multinational and National organisations in recruiting a cohort of high calibre managers to obtain the Executive MBA.
Lectured and tutored full-time MBA, full-time M.Sc., part-time and B.Sc. classes at Salford Business School, University of Salford in Corporate Strategy.
Sajid worked with The Open University’s Corporate Clients to explore employee training & development needs, to identify how the organisation’s training / learning requirements could be mapped to OU capabilities through accredited and non-accredited courses.
Worked as Marketing and PR Manager for Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust, established by Pakistan’s famous Cricketer, Imran Khan to build the first ever specialist Cancer Hospital in Pakistan.
Biography of Mark Horner
Mark Horner, BA(Hons), BA(Hons), RIBA
Mark owns a successful architectural practice and has experience of working on large construction projects at home and abroad, including Gatwick Business Park, Stockley Park, Aztec West and Genshagen, Berlin. He has a long involvement in academic publishing and information architecture and has worked extensively with the North American Art Libraries Society across America and Canada, including Pittsburgh, New York, Los Angeles, St Louis, Banff, Toronto, Baltimore and Denver.
More recently, Mark has been a hall-of-fame Director with Business Networking International, topping the world-wide leader board in BNI University as well as working in Scotland, Ireland, Los Angeles, New York, Bangkok, Puerto Banus and Kuala Lumpur.
He is a creative problem solver with an interest in architecture and philosophy, and is a keen chess player.
Biography of Bayo Igoh
Having worked for many years in a leadership position within the public, private and voluntary sectors, I became fascinated by the methodology behind professional achievement along with business success – and how certain people would thrive where others didn’t. Combining this passion and practical experience with my academic background, I developed my own Business Coaching & Mentoring business. I focus on helping people attain their professional and business goals through a carefully structured, two-way dialogue, which encourages self-awareness and self-empowerment—enabling people to uncover their own solutions to whatever obstacles are holding them back.
Biography of TONY VERNON
Don Scott
Diverse background leading business initiatives for start-up, fast-growth, and turnaround companies. A proven ability to integrate marketing, sales, operations, and new business development functions to create best-in-class approaches that win market share, drive improved performance, and generate sales-winning results in our highly competitive business environment. Fluent knowledge of market segmentation strategies and financial management.
Specialties include strategic planning and Implementation, marketing research, CRM platforms and systems, product development, complex contract negotiations, team leadership, as well as hiring, retention and personnel growth.
Biography of Becky J. Hess
Becky has a diverse background leading business initiatives for start-up, small and medium-sized companies. A proven ability to integrate and fine-tune the people elements of running a business, drive improved performance, and generate winning results in a highly competitive business environment.
Becky is an enthusiastic, articulate, decisive, and inspirational people development specialist with extensive experience and credibility within a variety of industry sectors. One aspect of Becky’s valuable experience includes 19 years of leadership and people development within organizations.
Becky’s specialties include leadership, strategic planning and implementation, complex contract negotiations, team development, as well as hiring, retention and personal growth. Becky works with leadership teams to develop strategic plans to maximize and humanize the people components of the business.
Biography of Bob Elster
Bob Elster has been empowering business owners for more than 10 years. Bob got his start focusing on personal development but his entrepreneurial spirit took over, bringing him all over the nation to learn from some of the best business minds, preparing him to become a powerful business coach and consultant. Bob is extremely focused on making sure that every conversation ends with very practical application. Additionally, he is passionate about helping business owners grow their business in such a way that it supports building their best life possible. In his mind, there is no point growing a business that takes you away from the people and things you love.
Those that work with Bob often talk about his genuine concern for his clients and his authentic approach. Bob approaches each business with a new set of eyes focusing on the building blocks of business. Bob has the unique ability to walk into a business and quickly gain a clear picture of the real obstacles in the business. From there he loves working with the business owner to put together a powerful plan and then come alongside the business owner during the implementation phase. Bob is hungry for results and is always giving his best in every situation.
Certifications:
- Certified Professional Coach
- Certified LifeSuccess Consultant
- Certified Thinking Into Results Facilitator
- Previous Professional Member of the National Speakers Association
Biography of Jennifer Helene Popken
Biography of OLFAT BEAINI
Olfat is a Certified NLP Practitioner Coach, also certified with Insights Discovery Profiling Accreditation.
She is a strong believer in connecting before communicating so the message can be successfully and effectively delivered.
She is an accomplished Recruitment and Talent Acquisition Professional with 9 years of global experience in international markets.
She acts as Corporate Advisor and encourages her people take the next career move with confidence.
Olfat has an entrepreneurial mindset and her passion is to help small companies and other entrepreneurs think strategically, set directions and take actions so they can grow their businesses in real time.
People.Career.Business. She takes them at heart.
Biography of Dina Moench
Dina is Cherry Hill NJ attorney who enjoys helping make the world a better place targeting business owners who want to grow and double the size of their business.
Biography of Brian Maphosa
Brian Maphosa is a Business Coach, Consultant, Entrepreneur and an accomplished HR practitioner with over 30 years in the field. He runs his own consultancy firm, Human Performance Solutions and has investments in the telecommunications industry. Brian previously headed the HR portfolio at CABS, the country’s leading mortgage finance house as well as having been HR Director at Innscor Africa.
Brian is a Past President of the Institute of People Management of Zimbabwe (IPMZ) and an International Faculty Member of the Haggai Institute where he trained leaders from Asia, Middle East, South America and Africa at their headquarters in Singapore and Hawaii.
His other interests include being a board member on the boards of Celebration Ministries International, Aquiva Wireless, and AT Telecoms. He sits on the IPMZ’s Excellence Awards Adjudication Committee. He was President of the Zimbabwe Junior Golf Association (2014-16), during which time he led the team to participate in the Toyota World Cup Junior Golf Championship in Japan two years in a row and Zimbabwe being the 2nd ranked junior golf team in Africa. When he left golf administration, Brian was holding the position of Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Golf Association.
Brian is married to Lwazi and they have two children and a grand-child Ayden.