Alan’s fields of expertise are leadership coaching and training and personal development. He works internationaly. For almost 13 years, Alan was the owner and General Manager of construction company with 130 employees. He was socially active as president of Small and medium sized entrepreneurs association in Croatia for 5 years. He is a certified wing-wave, psych-k and HNLP coach. Alan is a coach supervisor and team coach. He is a AoEC faculty for the Practitioner diploma in executive coaching.

Zia has over fourteen years of commercial experience in sales, marketing and general management in the consumer food manufacturing industry and consultancy services in East Africa.

He joined Career Connections in 2002 to start up the Company's executive recruitment services, which he continues to oversee. He is a member of the REC Institute of Recruitment Professionals.

Prior to becoming a coach, Zia trained in the design of assessment and development centers providing accredited training and delivery of various assessment systems to multinational clients in the Region. He is a co-faculty on the AoEC Certificate and Practitioner Diploma programmes.

Daniela Perkovic has passionately worked as trainer and Coach for the last 14 years and as an internal training manager in several well known Croatian Organisations (Atlantic Trade, Konzum, Agrokor and M San Grupa), where she was responsible for establishing training teams, design and delivery of the training.

Nowadays Daniela is Co-founder and Partner of Sentia INT for Personal and Organisational Development, where she works as Trainer and Executive and Life Coach. Her fields of expertise are Personal Development within organisations, management, leadership, communication and relationships. She is taking a role as a Senior Assistant in the School of Personal and Organisational Development (based on Cybernetics and Gestalt, with a very holistic approach), which is organised by Sentia INT, where she completed a 2 year course in 2004. Her educational background is economics with a Bachelor Degree from Faculty of Economics in Pula, Croatia. Daniela is a NLP practitioner. She has attended numerous training courses and programmes for management and communication skills. Daniela is a certified trainer from WIFI Institute for economic development in Wien, Austria.

Madeleine is a graduate of York and Edinburgh Universities, and her background has been in the use of psychometrics and assessment and development centres for large organizations in East Africa, so as to select and develop senior talent. Her assessment qualifications were gained with specialist firms in both the UK and USA, and the organizations she has worked with over the last 13 years are mostly regional headquarters of global multinationals. She completed her Practitioner Diploma with the AoEC and is a co-faculty member for Certificate and Practitioner Diploma levels.

Spanish by birth, settled in Belgium, married to a Chinese national and working with European and International organisations at management level for the last ten years, Jon Echanove has developed an outstanding record in building multicultural teams and implementing international cooperation and negotiation.

As an expert in interpersonal communication and relationships, Jon is currently a member of ECCO, the Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group at the at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), conducting research on leadership and human experience in complex, uncertain environments.

Jon specialises in relational coaching in multicultural environments, supported by an ICF/EMCC accredited Advanced Practitioner Diploma from the Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC).

Cristian Tudoran graduated the MBA Canadian Programme in Romania, marketing concentration, and Investment Analysis ran by Booz, Allen & Hamillton, Inc. and he was participant in curses specialized in organizational development with companies from Japan, Holland, United States, France and United Kingdom.

He has an expertise of more than 14 years in organizational development, delivering more than 400 public presentations as tutor, trainer, and facilitator for corporations, associations and non-profit organizations, in Romania and abroad. Since 2005, as coach, he worked with entrepreneurs and organizational top managers (general directors, executives, financial directors, and HR managers).

Now, he is the President of Business & Executive Coaching Association for Sustainable Development in Romania (A.C.E.A.). A.C.E.A. is the Romanian partner of Academy of Executive Coaching.

Stephen has a multi-cultural and multi-functional background. He is British, living in Poland with a 30-year career spanning P&G, Reckitt Benckiser, Coca-Cola Bottlers and PZ Cussons; on-the-ground in UK, Greece, Morocco, Tunisia, Yemen, Russia and Poland; with assignments in Sales, Marketing and Country/ Regional General Management.

He is an Accredited Professional Executive Coach; a qualified Coach Supervisor and has a Master Practitioner Diploma in Executive Coaching, consistent with the ICF Master Credentialed Coach (MCC) level of practice.

In addition to his own coaching practice, he is a member of the teaching faculty with the Academy of Executive Coaching and is now running coach training programmes and in-house coaching, in China.

Ted is Director of, and Principal Coach with, Executive 21, an Edinburgh based executive coaching practice. After more than 20 years in management, including many senior and international roles, he embarked on his coaching career in 2002. As a starting point, he completed the AOEC’s Advanced Practitioner Diploma and specialises in Leadership and Role Transition. He now has a reputation for enabling managers to become leaders, for good leaders to become significantly better and for newly appointed executives to hit the ground running! Ted is, also a Team Coach, Coach Supervisor and is currently researching the “value” of executive coaching

Gamze Acar Bayraktaroglu is an international coach certified at ACC level by International Coaching Federation. She is the co-author of the book titled as “Yonetimde Kocluk Yaklasimi” [Coaching Approach in Management] published by Sistem Yayinevi in January 2010. She is the co-founder of Institute of Executive Coaching and Mentoring and the founder of Motiva International Training and Coaching Services. Gamze is the Secretary General of The European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) of Turkey, is a member of International Coaches Federation (ICF). She has two coaching trainings approved by ICF. She is still delivering executive coaching and training in her own company. Gamze started her career with 13 years as an investment banker.

Dr. Riza Kadilar is a PhD in Media Economics. After a BSc degree at METU in Industrial Engineering, he has obtained his MSc degree at Stanford University, and completed his MBA at HEC, Paris. He has also attended an executive management course in strategic bank management at INSEAD.

His past professional carrier includes senior level bank management experience in UK, the Netherlands, and Turkey, for various international and Turkish banks. His banking focus has been mainly in energy, infrastructure, transport, commodities and structured trade finance, and in the recently developing field of carbon markets and carbon finance.

Dr. Kadilar is the co-founder of Institute of Executive Coaching and Mentoring (IoECM), and honorary chairman of eXec–Turkey, a think thank aiming to enhance the leadership and governance practice in the Turkish business environment. Besides his position as a visiting professor in leading Turkish universities lecturing on various courses in finance, brand management and international relations, Dr. Kadilar has delivered numerous motivational speeches during the last ten years in more than twenty countries on various topics, including “Effective Networking”, “NGO and Business Leadership”, “Personal Branding”, and “Corporate Governance”. He chairs and regularly speaks at international conferences mainly on energy, structured trade and investment finance. He is also an editorial board member of “GTR: Global Trade Review”, a London based leading trade finance magazine.

Dr. Kadilar is a scientific committee member of Institut du Bosphore (TUSIAD), chairman of English Speaking Union Turkey, president of European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) Turkey, co-chairman of HEC Alumni Turkey, board member of GYIAD and DEIK, a senator of JCI, and an alumni and certified executive coach by AoEC.