“One's only failure is failing to live up to one's possibilities.”
- Abraham Maslow
Since 2006, I have been partnering with leaders in support of organisational design, succession planning and search, team effectiveness, and business change.
More recently, my work has included transforming the business environment to support creative, innovative and inclusive cultures aligned to a complex, high-impact sustainable development agenda.
Born and raised in America, I have lived most of my working life in Europe and I have been a business executive for more than 30 years.
A dual US and UK national, I received my MBA from Columbia Business School and my BA from Tufts University. More recently, I studied with Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership where I've since been appointed as a Mentor for the Institute’s Accelerator & Sustainability Hub.
Contact meI spent the first 15 years of my career in corporate contexts, bridging strategy, sales and marketing, and finance in companies including IHG, Sysco Foods, Burger King, American Express, MasterCard and AXA.
This was followed by several years with two start-ups in the media tech and travel and leisure sectors, after which I decided to leverage these experiences into management consultancy.
I'm accredited as a Professional Certified Coach and Advanced Team Coach by the International Coaching Federation and qualified to use assessment and psychometric tools including Leadership Circle Profile, The 6 Team Conditions, GC Index, Enneagram, Hogan and Predictive Index.
Nina Glass | LinkedInMy Clients work with me because I connect with them as a confidante and peer, create a safe space for discussion without judgment -- but provocative -- and help them to see the possibility.
With a strong interest in helping individuals, established and developing leaders and organisations to create value, achieve their potential, find purpose and thrive, it was a natural progression for me to move into leadership advisory and coaching.
“It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing, you bring everything to the realm of possibility.”
- Albert Einstein
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Our organisational change programme with Nina was an extensive one, covering a range of business issues and cultural dynamics to address. Nina's ability to and commitment toward supporting us was second to none. She is thorough and never loses sight of the goals at hand, although always with a human touch.
Chief Executive Officer,
Consumer Products & Services Company
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I've noticed since undertaking the coaching programme with Nina that I've become more confident in my decisions and in the potential opportunities that lay ahead. My team also sees this in me. I'm celebrating being on the road to the next phase of my professional life and the endless possibilities that come with it.
Director,
Technology Solutions Business
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The advisory work has been sensitive and challenging in equal measure. Nina has terrific insight and empathy, listening carefully and allowing the space to learn.
Partner,
Management Consulting Company
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Nina is both trustworthy and authentic. I felt encouraged and supported; without judgment. She helped me challenge my current mindset. The leadership programme accelerated my personal growth, developed my creativity, and provoked a change in my life.
Customer Sales and Services Director,
Financial Services Company
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Nina is sharp and perceptive. The market insights, diagnostic performed, effective discussions across the business and positive level of challenge she has given to me and my team has been invaluable. It has set us up for a different structure and be ready to deliver on the company's stretching agenda.
Chief Sustainability Officer,
Consumer Products Company
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Nina's style is solution-focused. She is great at challenging her clients, while being empathic and funny. Everything flows easily. She shows up authentically. Nina is there for her clients.
Human Resources Director,
Import/Export Company
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Nina's ability to get to grips with the team dynamics and organisational culture were clear from the onset and really supported the programme, as we addressed how we could be more powerful, individually and as a Senior Leadership Team, in the face of difficult headwinds. She created an atmosphere of trust while we ensured focus and ambition.
Human Resources Director,
Travel & Leisure Company
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There were things that I knew I needed to be able to do and thought I was not yet capable of doing them. Nina’s coaching helped me see that, in fact, I was.
Founder,
Media & Entertainment Company
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We wanted to work with Nina because we saw in her an ability to coach and mentor leaders and help our succession build, as a well-informed partner who sought to understand our business and culture. We made a wise choice. Nina doesn't rest on laurels and has stayed close through our transformation agenda, preparing us for growth and sale.
Chief Executive Officer,
P/E-Backed Consumer Company
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Coaching has given me the confidence and conviction to look into myself; very often the answers are within.
Chief Executive Officer,
B2B Services Company
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The leadership advisory programme Nina supported us through has effectively changed the entire senior leadership team's outlook on the business, each other and our future. Nina does her homework and is prepared but also comfortable with 'moving parts.' She gives space and allows a team to find its way, to advance the agenda.
Chief Executive Officer,
Fin Tech Company
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The executive coaching process with Nina provided deep introspection and searching thought. Following every session, I emerged feeling invigorated and energised to face into situations. Overall, I have been surprised at the magnitude of inner strength and peace this process has helped me build.
Strategy & Business Development Director,
Consumer Products Company
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It is fair to say that Nina's team coaching was instrumental our business, which was itself at a crossroads as were those of us around the leadership table. We had issues to sort, were we to successfully emerge from being underperforming. Nina helped us to have difficult conversations, create learning and positively move onto new beginnings.
Co-Founder,
Business Services Company
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When we decided to work with Nina, we were at a point where we knew we needed to change our approach and shift our culture. We had a strong history of R&D but had lost its innovative edge and needed to better. Nina got under the skin of things, as support and as foil to the leadership team, and helped us to find, for ourselves, a new path forward.
Managing Director,
Industrial Company
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Nina’s mix of empathetic yet perceptive and straight-talking coaching really helped provide me with greater focus and clarity as well as rekindling my self-confidence at a critical point in my career. I can’t recommend Nina highly enough.
Global Head of Sustainability,
Consumer Products Company