ELENI SCONDRA ELLIOT

Managing Director, Certified Master Coach

Eleni is a certified Master Coach by the School of Humanistic Coaching, UK,  Espace Therapeutique Villa d’ Orleans,  France, and The Coaching Academy, UK.

Eleni has recently launched HECATA Advisory Ltd., a major contributor to a company’s success by ensuring that executives receive High Executive Coaching for leadership, goal achievement, and talent advancement.  HECATA is offering its services to companies across Europe and the Middle East.

Eleni has a diversified knowledge of corporate, organizational, and management issues, due to her past involvement with large multinationals. This is paramount when facilitating top executives in improving their interpersonal influence, creativity, and personal strengths and in particular for reinforcing their executive teams’ communication, alignment, and effectiveness.

In the past 10 years, that Eleni has practiced, she coached over 50 executives of different industries, backgrounds, and cultures across Europe. She is known for her insightful recognition of the real issues that need to be addressed in each case.

Eleni has a broad spectrum of positions in international corporations, including over 15 years in IBM Europe, where her main role was Marketing Director EMEA. She also held strategic positions in other companies and institutions: Accenture France, Cable & Wireless UK, and UNESCO…

In her early career in Greece, Eleni was campaign manager for the former Mayor of Athens and later Minister of the Environment. Furthermore, she has written and directed TV programs for the Greek national television.

Eleni holds a Diploma from South Thames College, and a Certificate by INSEAD.

In her free time, she is an active member, and was a founding and a board member of the NGO KEMEL (Centre of Greek Volunteer top Managers www.kemel.gr) and has been mentoring and coaching young entrepreneurs, students, and business start-ups.

She is presently offering her coaching services to Orange Grove, an initiative of the Dutch Embassy for young entrepreneurs, and to InnovAthens an initiative of the Mayor of Athens for innovation and technology.

Now Eleni has complete over a 1000 hours of Life Coaching!

JOHN KOTIS

Senior Partner, Master Coach and Senior Interim Manager

John is a certified Master Coach by the Centre for Advanced Coaching US. (www.advancedcoaching.com)

John has more than 15 years of experience in Executive Coaching, having successfully coached more than 60 executives face-to-face or in team sessions, across a large number of industries ranging from high-tech, green energy to transport services.

John motivates executives to modify and improve their leadership style and expand their influence competencies.

He combines his passion for coaching with an advanced commercial and business understanding, that he acquired during his past work experience, which he applies at his Interim Management assignments. He is characterized by his supportive style as well as his friendly and cooperative manners.  Before joining HECATA, John worked for 30 years for the Anglo Dutch multinational Unilever, for the last 12 years he was the CEO of Algida Greece.

He holds an MBA from Erasmus Rotterdam and a BSc from the Universities of Athens and Nuremberg.

In his free time, he is an active member and board member of the NGO KEMEL (Centre of Greek Volunteer top Managers www.kemel.gr) and has mentored and coached young entrepreneurs, students, and business start-ups.