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ISEC is an associate member of the Silk Road Partnership.The
Silk Road Partnership provides a range of talent, leadership and career
development services that are grounded in over 100 years of combined experience
in Asia and Europe, working with clients whose roles have included main board
directors as well as younger emerging talent. Our primary focus is on
providing:
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Business Coaching & Mentoring
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Career Transitioning
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Talent and Leadership Consulting
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Talent and Leadership Workshops
Silk Board was originally
founded by Nigel Cumberland and Philip Meadows.
About our
Associate Partners :
Philip
Meadows
Philip
has been working in the coaching arena for over twenty years and his career
includes leadership roles in the non-search practices of leading UK firms Baines
Gwinner and Whitehead Mann. His sector experience is very broad, but he has a
high level of expertise working in financial and professional services. A richly
varied set of life experiences includes leadership positions in the military,
political, educational and charitable spheres. He was also fortunate
to have been trained by one of the pre-eminent Inner Game coaches.
Philip enjoys
writing and his pieces on topics ranging from leadership, succession, mentoring,
non-executive directorships & portfolio life, the economy & corporate
purpose, and careers, have been published in business, financial and HR
media. He was educated at the University of Reading where he gained a
BA(Hons) in History and studied French at Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3. He is
a Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society and a member of the Next Generation
Non-Executive Network in the UK, having been involved since its
foundation.
Nigel Cumberland
Nigel is the
founder of two organisations in the talent management and coaching and
leadership development space – The Silk Road Partnership and the STG group.
Through the STG Group he also
provides talent management and leadership training and consulting services to
various multinational clients throughout Asia and the Gulf
regions.
Nigel also sits on
the board of directors of various companies and not-for-profit organisations in
locations as far afield as Dubai, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and
Indonesia.
Previously Nigel
founded and ran an awarding-winning Greater China executive search firm called
St. George’s. Prior to this he had been a regional Finance Director with Coats
plc (then a UK FTSE100 company).
Nigel is a certified assessor in various psychometric instruments which
he uses in his various engagements. He has also held senior executive
positions, located all over the world, with various other multinationals
including Dalgety plc, Macquarie Bank and Adecco SA.
Nigel has a masters degree in Arts from the
Cambridge University (Hons) and a business diploma from Strathcyde University
(UK). He is a member of the
International Association of Coaching (USA) and a Member of the Asia Pacific Alliance of Coaches
(Singapore).He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and
Management (UK) and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of
Management Accountants (UK).
Cristina Grace Cristina has worked with business leaders to achieve business and professional goals through a combination of strategic advice and supportive challenge for over 15 years. She has spend the majority of her career either working in or advising financial or professional service companies. The first 11 years of her career were spent working as an investment banker and then as a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in London working with asset management,retail and investment banking clients internationally. Her last corporate role was as the group director of private equity firm 3i's Business Leaders Network globally. As a partner at Whitehead Mann, a global executive search and leadership advisory firm, she worked with boards and executive teams across all sectors to enhance performance and deliver change. She is currently coaching senior executives in two of the major banks headquartered in the UK.
Cristina has a B.A (Hons) from the University of North Carolina and a MBA from Insead. She is also a certified NLP Practitioner and a qualified psychometric assessor( MBTI, Hogan Development Survey and Personality Inventory, OPQ,MQ) and a coaching certificate from Institute for Human Development.
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