My journey has always been motivated by wanting to make a difference and creating a positive impact. Early on I got involved in projects around the world where I was naturally drawn to the planning and implementation phases because I would be in my element and deeply committed to the projects working to finding creative solutions, communicating and building relationships, resolving conflicts and addressing challenges. With time I have come to understand the importance of the human aspect in the progress and success of each project and in change in general. I started to focus on the behaviours, mindsets and habits of the people and communities I work with and mentor them in understanding and navigating their own stories and transformation. Since then I have become very passionate about promoting and creating self-efficacy, ownership and sustainability through mindful communication, mediation and leadership trainings, mindful communication, mediation and leadership trainings.
Strengths
PROBLEM SOLVING
- Analyzing and interpreting situations, problems and people.
- Assessing the facts, feelings and goals of all parties.
- Thinking creatively and strategically about solutions.
- Looking at the bigger picture and thinking outside the box.
- Anticipating and dealing with challenging situations.
- Working pro-actively and raising resource and solution awareness.
- Managing emotions and expectations and overcoming resistance.
- Having great project and change management skills.
Mindful COMMUNICATION
- Understanding emotions and how they impact thought, behaviour and actions.
- Evaluating a situation and understanding a problem through active listening.
- Asking open-end questions.
- Building rapport and nurturing relationships with empathy and mindfulness.
- Utilising mediation for conflict resolution.
- Promoting positive and solution focused communication.
- Intercultural communication – appreciating and mediating between different beliefs, behaviours and rules.
- Understanding how to address them in projects.
Growth Mindset
- Turning challenges into opportunities.
- Valueing the process over results.
- Encouraging failure to learn and grow.
- Promoting refelction and constructive critism.
- Facilitating goal setting to push ourselves to the next level.
- Creating roadmaps for development.
- Being persistant and adaptable to change.
- Having a positive attitude.
Inclusive LEADERSHIP
- Creating a sense of belonging and building a level of self-awareness.
- Developing psychological safety and trust through giving advice, feedback and direction.
- Being committed to diversity and inclusion and appreciating uniqueness and social connectedness.
- Cultivating collaboration and reinforcing accountability.
- Understanding new and different perspectives.
- Mentoring leaders and project partners by supporting through complex transformation processes.
- Raising self-awareness, guiding in resolving problems and developing self-efficacy.
- Community and capacity building – promoting and enforcing trust, ownership, transparency, accountability and resiliency.
Values
PURPOSE
CONNECTION
GROWTH
SUSTAINABILITY
POSITIVITY