Blogs
Cyber Transformation: From Strategy to Operations
How confident are you that your organization is fully equipped to avert, counter and respond to a cyber crisis? According to a survey by the Boston Consulting Group, the financial sector is 300x more likely than any other industry to get attached. Human...
Preparing future leaders to navigate cyber crisis simulations through EQ!
I was privileged to design and facilitate an EQ (Emotional Intelligence) Crisis Simulation Workshop for the German Marshall Fund's Leadership Lab with rising leaders from Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine. The workshop included two half-days interactive crisis...
Personal Leadership in the Face of Disruption
“The Philosophy of Personal Leadership: a set of beliefs, values, and principles that strongly influences how we interpret reality and guide our understanding of influencing humans. It’s our philosophy, our understanding, and interpretation of leadership, that affects...
Digital Disruption: Emotional Intelligence in the age of Virtual Realities
The impact of the Corona Virus and its global effect on people's lives, on organizational structures, and international dynamics is mind-boggling. It is all what is on people’s mind, well most of you perhaps. But not all is doom and gloom as with these inevitable...
Ambitious Entrepreneurs, Goal Setting and Emotional Intelligence!
Maximizing your EQ through visualisation is what we did at the book club talk on Emotional Intelligence 2.0 organised by EBBC Entrepreneurial Business Book Club Brussels. According to science, people with high levels of well-being perform better, are more productive...
Team Building through Crisis Simulations for the European Commission
I designed and facilitated a team building workshop for the European Commission with our partner Michel van Cauter from Pop Up Yoga Concepts. Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Stress Management and Goal Setting for Thriving Teams were all on the agenda! We began with an...
Building an Inclusive and Resilient Workforce in an age of Disruption
Building a resilient workforce in the age of disruption. Discussions with former NATO Transformation Commander Denis Mercier on people and innovation. General Mercier shared his key insights on the importance of building trust in a world where there are many unknowns...
The Workplace Burnout Prevention Scorecard
Transforming Taboos into Well-Being for the Workplace From terrorism to cyberattacks to climate change, we live in an increasingly complex world plagued by a host of destabilizing challenges and crises. At the same time, rapid digital transformation is redefining the...
Why diversity in the STEM workforce will save the world from becoming cripple
The human nervous system consists of two main parts, the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS). The CNS consists of the brain and the spinal cord, while the PNS is comprised of many nerves of enclosed bundles of the long fibers or axons....
NATO supports groundbreaking cyber exercise at GLOBSEC 2019 Forum
The importance of Emotional Intelligence during Cyber Crisis Scenario is recognized by many, including the world's largest crisis management organization in the world! As Co-Chair of the Transatlantic Steering Committee and as CEO of Nadja EL Fertasi EQ Coaching &...
