Meet the Team
From London, New York, Singapore,
Dubai, and beyond: a selection of our team
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Israel Oyelumade
FOUNDER
Global HeadTransformation Architect and Executive Coach with expertise in leadership presence and communication. Israel is a certified Narrative Transformation coach, Dramalysis Walkway™ moderator, conflict resolution expert, former Global Dean of Learning for Mckinsey/Aberkyn. and a senior top team leadership consultant. He is an Oratory Dynamics Coach and the Originator of Quantum Language methodology. With over a decade in the field of change, Israel particularly loves using his skills to work with family systems, C-suite executive teams, and racial trauma survivors. He resides in Bath, UK with his wife and three children.
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Wendy Chua
ASSOCIATE EXPERT PARTNER
APAC LeadTrained as a psychologist, Wendy takes a heart-to-heart approach as an Executive Coach and Facilitator. With more than two decades as an educator for transformation, she helps leaders and teams build resilience and maximise performance. Her areas of expertise include women leadership, family business, relationships, and emotional intelligence. She is a published author and sits on multiple boards. Wendy resides in Singapore with her husband and family.
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Ahmed El Aawar
SENIOR AFFILIATE
Executive Coach and Facilitator with twelve years of experience in transformational facilitation, coaching, and conflict resolution. Ahmed’s ability to tailor and apply transformational interventions and cutting-edge learning techniques to each respective client, alongside his conviction in transparency and honesty, makes it so that every client’s challenges are adequately addressed. Throughout the years, Ahmed has developed a certain talent for creating safe environments that aid in procedures related to conflict management and resolution.
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Andrew Chua
SENIOR AFFILIATE
Executive Coach, Facilitator, and Consultant passionate about human flourishing and growth, with expertise in leadership development, top team journeys, cultural transformation, personal and corporate purpose, and system development and change. Over a career of thirty years, Andrew has created and launched a global personal development program and started a social enterprise to enable corporate renewal and culture change. He is particularly passionate about identity and purpose-driven work for groups to increase employee engagement and create meaning.
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Andro Donovan
SENIOR AFFILIATE
Executive Coach, Consultant, and Facilitator. Andro is a globally sought-after facilitator, speaker, best-selling author and high-performance leadership coach. In the past 25 years, she has worked cross-culturally with hundreds of CEOs and entrepreneurs. Andro’s skills of management consulting, facilitation and natural insight bring leadership skills to life with impact, influence, effectiveness and perspective. She creates safe environments where deep personal transformation can happen individually and in collaboration.
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Bassem Terkawi
SENIOR AFFILIATE
Executive Coach, Faciliator, and Advisor with expertise in leadership development and organisational development and change. He has overseen the design, development and delivery of tailor-made transformation and management programs. Bassem is also a faculty member at the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI), the world’s leading coach training school, and is credentialed as a Master Certified Coach. He is also a published author.
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Imogen Butler-Cole
SENIOR AFFILIATE
Executive Coach and Facilitator with expertise in personal impact, presentation skills, and storytelling and creative thinking for innovation. Imogen is particularly passionate about facilitating confidence and presence for women in the workplace. For over 13 years, she has devoted herself to the business of presence and people with energy and sensitivity for clients from all walks of life, from banking, high fashion, civil service, to tech.
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James Porter
SENIOR AFFILIATE
James has a passion for cultural transformation through healthy communication. He has operated in various forms of organisational leadership over the past 25 years, including coaching, consulting and mentoring and in 2018 trained as a certified Life Languages™️ communication coach, bringing clarity, self and ‘other’ awareness and cultural change to organisations, teams and individuals. Ultimately, we all want to be seen, heard and understood. When we live in that space, we give our best, resulting in maximum productivity and relational harmony, whatever our job description because we know we are valued.
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Nicole Tong
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
After institutionally practicing art for two decades and winning multiple national awards, Nicole hit a crisis where she reckoned with what the creative arts truly are: not just a product-driven endeavor, but a people-orientated, embodied, holistic modality for personal and group transformation. Her clients have included global groups and consultancies, where she facilitates creative workshops toward change and cohesion. As the Dramalysis creative director, she spearheads our brand identity, oversees our creative team and products, and consults on our creative methodologies globally. She currently resides in San Francisco, where she is training as a therapist and pursuing a master’s in drama therapy.
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Sabah Hydari
SENIOR AFFILIATE
Executive Coach, Facilitator, and Consultant for family businesses with expertise in areas including leadership and team transformation, change management, conscious leadership, organizational design, and dynamic communications. Sabah holds two Master’s degrees, one in Management Science and another on Consulting and Coaching for Change, where her thesis specialized on how to integrate teams and create team identity. Part of YPO since 2014, Sabah is also a Certified Forum Facilitator.
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Anne Owen
ADVISOR
Occupational Psychologist, Executive Coach, Facilitator, and Consultant for over 25 years, with specialties in leadership development, team coaching, vision alignment, senior team effectiveness, and women’s progress. Most of her work is in leadership development and large-scale change events, running intense, life-changing leadership development programs with high-potential leaders and executives all over the globe, and coaching leaders who are either in transition or risking career derailment.
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Dana Kirchman
ADVISOR
As a business advisor, executive coach, and facilitator, Dana partners with clients to maximise talent and increase team effectiveness by translating leadership values and culture into performance. Her areas of expertise include decision-making, top team alignment, adaptability and resilience, executive presence, and innovation. She is also an instructor of Coaching at Columbia University and a theatre producer on Broadway. She resides in New York with her husband.
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Katja Gebhardt
ADVISOR
Business psychologist, Executive Coach, Consultant, and Facilitator. Katja invites business leaders and leadership teams to embrace their potential and explore their opportunities with courage and optimism. Her aim is to enable them to serve their organisations with clarity and purpose. She enjoys co-creating impactful programs with clients that focus on shifting mindsets, creating new behaviors, and ensuring systemic change, often in the context of organizational transformation and culture change. I am passionate about helping my clients to thrive – personally and professionally.