Umbrex is pleased to welcome Gonzalo Roque with GRR Strategy. Gonzalo spent 6 years at Bain and Company in both the general consulting practice as well as Bain’s Private Equity Group. He is now an independent strategy and operations consultant, helping clients with growth strategy, performance improvement, and due diligence engagements. He has significant experience […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Stephane Bernard Leyo with Sustainability Building Legacy. With 25 years of leadership in energy, infrastructure, consulting, and green technology, I have held key roles at SOURCE Global, REC Group, General Electric, Schlumberger, BCG, and Royal Dutch Shell. Recognized for executing with excellence, I’ve led diverse teams to drive growth and […]
Valérie Scheer shares a detailed case study on guiding the delivery of a culture-change project. Bring values and culture to life through change management: Learning journeys with a focus on project delivery and capability building. The Project Our client, a public sector entity in the Middle East, had codified its new values and target culture. […]
Peter Klugsberger shares an informative article with actionable insights taken from the deployment of a strategy that became the ‘best practice implementation case’ across their client’s global operations. Do you want change plan adherence OR tangible impact? You can’t have both so make a choice…” This was a career-defining decision that I presented to my […]
James Agres shares a concise post on getting clients. One of the first things consultants ask me when I say that I run my own practice is: How do you get clients? Of course, there is no substitute for leveraging your own network. But I also tell them that the size of one’s network should […]
Suhail Acharya shares the benefits of meditation and the importance of making the journey from head to heart. This reel with my niece captures my journey from Head 🧠to Heart ❤️ Having grown up worshiping the intellect, the journey into the Heart was tough. But overintellectualizing everything made me dull, boring and full of worries […]
Gina Abudi shares a useful article on how to actively engage leaders in change and inspire motivation. We want and need leaders to be actively engaged in every change initiative being undertaken in the organization. Getting leaders engaged in change can be challenging at any time; and those challenges can increase when they seem disinterested […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Valerie Scheer with Amplify Talent. Valérie is a consultant specialized in organizational transformation and talent development. She works with public and private sector clients across Europe and the Middle East to design, implement and facilitate learning and development (L&D) programs. As a highly-rated facilitator for leading firms, including McKinsey and Harvard […]
Zahra Abdullah explains the benefits of empathy in leadership and how to develop a sense of it. Some leaders tell me they were surprised when they scored lower in empathy. It comes as a shock, and they struggle to understand why. They often say, “I am flexible; I ask my employees about their lives and […]
In this podcast, Mark Kroening shares his views on the interwoven network of relationship between all things alive, the human made world and how it relates to the natural world. A recent discussion bringing in the emergent work of living systems principles, and a pathway to a sustainable/thriving/healthy/joyful/living world. Gratitude to Michal Korzonek and Enspiral. […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Greta Gerazimaite with Quasar. Greta is a results-driven strategist with a track record working with VC and PE funds, big corporations and startups in the US, Europe, and the Middle East. Greta’s career journey began in Big Pharma at GSK, where she gained global recognition for her contributions to digitization […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Callum Parker. A summary of Callum’s experience follows. “My career has seen me hone my skills in strategy, marketing, sales and business development. I am extremely quick to learn new processes and tools as a result, and quick to get up to speed in any business environment. Most recently, I […]