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She is effective in working deeply with clients, offering them space and structure to achieve their goals and unleash their potential as well as managing change effectively, so that both individual and organisation benefit from directly building roadmaps to excellence. Her clients include CEOs, Directors, management teams and customer service and sales employees in Italy, Europe, Asia and North America. She works fluently in English and Italian.
Flaminia comes from a diverse early background in as PR, sales, employee in an insurance company, actress, teacher and event organiser. Since she started working in the organizational development sector she has been developing significant skills as presenter and change facilitator and trainer, as well as directing her attention and focus to coaching and mentoring. Throughout the last 30 years she has been intensely committed to her personal and professional development specializing in the different tools and techniques of modern psychology and neuroscience applied to personal and professional development. She has intensive experience in NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and counselling, holding trainer qualifications in both disciplines and in mBraining.
Since 1999 she has solely worked as business and executive coach and facilitator in the corporate sector, funding the first coaching company in Italy – U2COACH – and working with individuals and teams to help express their full potential and put vision into action. She is a skilled facilitator, recognised for her ability to maintain empathy and inspire people in their development process, building their confidence and influencing skills. Flaminia runs the coveted ICF ACTP professional coach training certification courses and assessments.
Flaminia Fazi
Director of Coaching
Lynsey Weir
Executive Coach and Learning & Development Consultant
Recognised as having excellent interpersonal skills and operating successfully with Directors, Senior Managers and Sales professionals she specialises in Coaching, Training, Business Consultancy, Management and Sales Development.
Starting her career in Sales as an Account Manager, she then brought that experience to Sales Training. Following 11 successful years in Learning and Management Development as a Consultant and Training Manager Lynsey has been specialising in coach coaching & development in 2012.
Lynsey takes her own continuous professional development seriously by continuing to research, study and evaluate current thinking so that this can be shared with clients and she has completed post-graduate research into ‘Imposter Syndrome’.
Utilising all of her expertise, knowledge and development skills she has achieved great success for her clients by raising the confidence and competence of teams and individuals. The results are reflected in increased motivation, revenue and bottom line profitability.
Lynsey is passionate about helping clients perform to their optimum level and realising their full potential. She is committed to helping organisations achieve their goals through Coaching or Development consultancy.
Lynsey is valued for her innovative and pragmatic approach as well as her positive attitude and insight. She has the ability to analyse issues and work with leaders to interpret, align and inspire people to achieve results.
She lives with her husband and two children near Glasgow and enjoys travel and fitness. She runs coaching and mentoring courses in the UK, Germany, India and Kenya. Lynsey also runs pro bono development sessions for the British Red Cross.
Throughout his career, he has worked at all levels of the supply chain from direct sales, all the way up to procurement and data management. This gives him a unique skill set and a very practical perspective in the supply chain processes and management.
Denis has a variety of professional qualifications which include Practitioner and Master Practitioner in NLP, Diploma in Executive & Life Coaching, Special award (Master Degree level) in Emotional Intelligence, FETAC Train the Trainer Certification and Extended DISC & iWAM Trainer & Test Assessor. He is an mBIT certified coach and has a Masters degree in Coaching and NLP.
Denis is a firm believer in professional development. He is very interested in Non-verbal Communication and has delivered unique programmes in communication-based around the area of NVC. He is driven to developing ways to link hard business processes with the cognitive skills required to run them.
He also believes in the academic needs of the Coaching and NLP fields and is a vocal advocate for the formal training and accreditation of professional coaches.
Denis Coleman
Partner, TPS programmes in Ireland
Dr Hani Bahwireth
Partner; Middle East programmes, Arab Coaching and Training
His background in counselling and leadership works hand in hand with his NLP and coaching skills and this generates exceptional feedback from his clients. Hani’s own Arabic background ensures a full understanding of cultural issues, allowing his learning to empower clients in an appropriate way.
As a result of his passion for the field, Dr Hani Ba Hwireth, completed his PhD at University of Bristol, UK, by undertaking an explorative research study into Solution Focused Leadership. He completed his Postgraduate Diploma in Research and Masters degree in Counselling from the University of Bristol, as well.
He has chosen to partner with The Performance Solution so that we can contribute to the coaching practices, education and literature in the Middle East by building on the insights and exploration from differing cultures.
ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), a full member of Association for Coaching, and Certified by OPP to administer and feedback a variety of psychometrics such as Strong Interest and Abilities Assessment in addition to Extended DISC and iWAM. He is working for a Saudi Holding Company as a Human Performance Consultant & Coach. The website www.arabcoaching.com is the first Arabic website to spread coaching in the middle east and our training programme is the first coach-training programme in Arabic.
Grace Minton
Partner, TPS programmes in Perth, Australia
Grace offers a strong combination of capabilities in workplace research, analysis, and design of organisational development solutions. Grace is qualified in the delivery of various psychometrics, is an NLP Trainer, a certified coach and qualified as a Coach Supervisor on the first ever Coach Supervision Diploma to be run in Perth. Her current research is focused on the role of emotion in Coaching.
As a consultant, Grace brings insight into the value of the alignment of individual and organisational needs, as well as the power of leadership and good management systems for enabling organisational outcomes.
As a coach, Grace brings a focus on clear outcomes and an ability to facilitate a person in their choice to be more flexible in patterns of behaviour and emotion.
Outside of work, Grace enjoys the creative arts and is a Board member of the Community Arts Association of WA.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Extensive experience in training of coaches
- Extensive experience in training of leaders
- Working with visions, strategic processing and organisational development
- Facilitating groups becoming real teams
- Processing personal development
- Extensive experience in coaching, being a MCC with ICF since 2005
- Extensive managerial experience
- Extensive administrative experience
- International experience in recruiting
Hanna Sedal
Partner; Norway, Accredited Coach Programmes
Tazmin Alibhai
Partner; Kenya, Accredited Coach Programmes
Recognised as having excellent interpersonal skills and a warm personality, she has the ability to build great rapport with her clients. She is an experienced coach, trainer and facilitator and well conversant with adult learning methodologies. She specialises in Leadership and executive team development where she has recently successfully managed executive team 360 degree feedback projects combined with individual and team coaching, and facilitating unique leadership and team building programmes using psychometrics and experiential learning techniques. She has on many occasions taken her client leadership teams on outward bound experiential learning retreats which have proven to be transformational.
With her background in the corporate world and combined with her qualifications in coaching, NLP and psychology, she is able to bring about unique insights for her clients who through self-discovery are able to see themselves from different lenses to become the best they can be.
She has consulted for industries as diverse as Energy, Banking, Insurance, Information Technology, Airlines, Health Care and FMCG.
The context can include personal and professional life with topics chosen by the coachee. Heba’s ability to listen enables individuals to take time out of their busy schedules to reflect and to achieve a higher quality of decision making with a strong ecological check.
Having started her career in the arena of Communications and Psychology, Heba has become a professional coach with a strategic, commercial background. Having committed to developing her skills and gaining accreditation with the International Coaching Federation she has joined The Performance Solution to lead coaching programmes in Kuwait. These will include short courses for HR specialists, line managers and interested professionals as well as the ICF Accredited Coach Training Programme for which The Performance Solution has gained a global reputation.
ICF ACTP programmes, as well as certificated short courses run regularly throughout the year in English and in Arabic, and interested parties should contact the Harmony International Coaching Offices for more information.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- DBA, Strategic Management
- MBA, Strategic Management
- Bachelor (Major: Mass Communication, Minor : Psychology)
KEY ATTRIBUTES
- Member of Technical Office (Consultant) in Assistant Undersecretary office at State Audit Bureau of Kuwait.
- Business owner of Harmony International Coaching firm (HIC)
- Executive Manager -Strategic Brand Company.
- Founder and Chief of AlFalah Coaching Club (the first social and nonprofit club specialist for coaching in Kuwait).
COACHING CERTIFICATES
- ICF Associate Credentialled Coach
- Life Coaching Skills and Practice (QSF), Person-BTEC level 3 Certificate.
- Certified Life Coaching Tools Trainer-Approved centre by ILM.
- Coaching Skills course (Concepts, skills & Features-By Canada Global Center),(20 Hours).
- CTI’s Fundamentals of Co-Active Coaching, (18.75 Hours). ICF Accredited Coach Training Program (ACTP)
- Professional Coaching Practitioner, by TPS. (25 Hours of ICF Approved Coach Specific Training Hours(ACSTH).
- CTI’s Coach Training Program, (104 Hours ICF (ACTP)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATES
- IInstructor of Hypnotherapy, Certified by American Board or Hypnotherapy (ABH).
- INLP Master Practitioner, Certified by American Board of NLP (ABNLP).
- IMaster Practitioner Time Line Therapy(TLT), Certified by Time Line Therapy Association.
- ICertified Human Resources Expert, Certified by Training and & career Development centre of Canadian International College.
- ICharted Certified Consultant, Certified by Chartered Association of Business Administrators.
- ICertified Professional Trainor by (IAO) & (IATC)
Dr Heba Alghareeb
Partner; Gulf States and Kuwait, Accredited Coach Programmes
