Who you would be working with
Anna Aslanova
My work is building better managers inside organizations, and it has been my work for seventeen years. For a long time I did it from the inside, as the person accountable for it within a company, which means the experience of defending a development budget, and of being asked six months later what actually changed, is familiar to me from that side. The same work now runs with organizations across Europe, the USA and Africa.
Where I come from
For several years I led people development across a group of six banks: eight thousand employees, seven countries, and leadership programs that remain part of their annual academies today.
That background tends to be noticeable in a first conversation. Having sat on the client side of the table, I know the difference between a program people enjoy and a program worth commissioning again the following year.
What I hold to be true about this work
Awareness is not the objective. The question is never whether a session was found interesting, but what participants do differently in the week that follows. And the work is built with leaders rather than delivered to them: nobody changes how they lead because a slide instructed them to.
The practical part
I feel like a winner every day whatever I do, thanks to you. I am changing step by step, and I am confident that I can fulfill my dream, vision, and goals.
Bakolisoa Razatovoarimanana, Payment Manager, Access Bank Madagascar
Questions people ask
Do you work alone?
Yes, and by design. The person who writes the program is the person who runs it. Where an assignment spans several countries I bring in partners I have worked with before, and their names are stated openly.
What size of organization do you usually work with?
Anything from a team of ten to a group of several hundred managers. The instruments change with the scale; the approach does not.
How is pricing structured?
Programs are quoted once the group and the format are known. Coaching is arranged in packages of sessions, and the open programs are quoted per person on request.
Half an hour, nothing to prepare
The quickest way to establish whether I can be useful is a conversation about what is actually happening in your team at the moment.