AMANDLA CONSULTING

Amandla Consulting is a leadership development and coaching company with a global international clientele.

We provide leadership development to board level executives both individually and in teams using a variety of interventions.

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Graham Ward, founder of Amandla AB and a Programme Director at INSEAD Business School’s Global Leadership Centre, specialises in coaching executives at board level and managing change programmes in London’s financial centre. He spent the bulk of his 22 year career in finance working for Goldman Sachs, the world’s premier investment bank, where for seven years he co-headed the European Equity business. Prior to this he worked in commodities as a pit trader and on the floor of the London Stock Exchange. He is currently a board member of Hampstead Capital Global Hedge Fund, listed on the Irish Stock Exchange.

In 2000, Graham spearheaded an initiative to introduce a Leadership Development office at Goldman. This effort culminated in the remit covering three continents and deepened to include coaching, diversity, mentoring, recruitment and succession planning to senior management level.

Graham received his MSc and Diploma from HEC/INSEAD(2002) in Consulting and Coaching for Change which focuses on individual psychodynamics and organisational psychology. In 1994 he received a Diploma of Investment Management from London Business School.

Graham was a speaker at the 2007 EMCC annual conference on the subject of Group Leadership Coaching and in 2001 on the subject of Mentoring for Change. He is an affiliate member of the APA (American Psychological Association), a member of the ISPSO (International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations) and a member of the newly created ICCO (International Clinical Coaching Organisation)

Graham has undertaken individual training at the Tavistock Centre in London from a specialist in Group Dynamics. He is a Programme Director of the INSEAD Global Leadership Centre and regularly coaches on a number of executive programmes there including the Management Acceleration Programme (MAP), Advanced Management Programme (AMP), and Executive MBA (EMBA). He is the permanent programme director for the International Executive Programme (IEP) but has worked on many company specific programmes including Microsoft, Pfizer, Daimler Chrysler, TNK/BP, HSBC, Ernst and Young and SAP. He has also worked as visiting faculty at ESMT (European School of Management and Technology) in Berlin and Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden. Privately he has worked with McKinsey, Axa, HSBC, Tesco, AstraZeneca, Deutsche Bank, E.On, Mars and BP among others. He is retained by Citigroup as one of their European leadership coaches.

A doctoral student of leadership in Amsterdam, Holland he is co- author of the book Coach and Couch, The Psychology of Making Better Leaders published in 2007. He authored the academic paper Towards Executive Change, published by Oxford Brookes University in 2008 and The Use of Transitional Space published in the International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching.

Graham lives on the Stockholm Archipelago with his wife and four children.

Graham Ward.

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Graham Ward co-authored Coach and Couch, 2007.

Amandla Consulting exists primarily because of the vision of a few people. Those people know who they are. They had the inspiring capacity to influence the way I apporached life and conducted business. Without being aware of it, they were my coaches.

Coaching is a transformational process which takes time and care. It can arise in a number of ways. Sometimes the catalyst of change can be shocking. At other times a seemingly offhand but well-timed question will do it. The key ingredient is a willing listener with emotional intelligence who cares about people and their growth. And of course, a willing counterpart.

After 15 years at the world's premier investment bank, I realised that all I cared about was the people. I wanted to build a client business, based on all I had learned, primarily putting the customer first. Moreover, I wanted the business to grow purely through recommendations of excellent service. Essentially to echo the past.

At Amandla we offer bespoke services by listening carefully to the challenges our clients face. We never tell our clients what to do. Our mission when called upon is to facilitate change. We work from the premise that the client probably knows the solution to the challenge: it only needs to be unearthed. We are simply instrumental in asking the right questions. Our affiliates are the best in their field, accredited and with complementary skills.

Above all Amandla, (the Xhosa word for power and popularised by Nelson Mandela, arguably the 20th century's greatest leader) exists to empower people to enact their dreams. We encourage our clients to view challenges holistically, to face realities and to challenge boundaries, because at the boundary life flourishes.

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