Corporate Coaching & Recruitment Awards 2022

In a notoriously competitive industry, Go Nomading stands apart thanks to its commitment to its principles. By taking nomadic cultures and blending it with contemporary leadership, they have managed to create an leadership and coaching approach to growth that has supported many people over the past few years. The Nomadic Mindset is all about movement in multiple geographies – mental, physical, spiritual, emotional and social. You can read about it in the leadership book, The Nomadic Mindset: Never Settle…for Too Long. It’s the perfect antifragile solution to the uncertain and volatile unique problems we face today.

The team promises to teach customers the 5Es (Exploring, Expanding, Emerging, Experiencing, and Evolving) by revealing the power of the Nomadic Mindset and sharing it with leaders and organisations around the world. The flexibility of this way of thinking has brought incredible success, preparing business leaders so that they might be open to change and opportunity as it arises. Needless to say, it has brought a great deal of positive attention to what the team has done.

Since opening their doors, the team have tried to expand the breadth of their ideas, and are currently developing mental wellness practices under our self-care Resilience banner – on the Nomadic Pause – the ability to go slow to speed. Where people take on structured pauses in their lives, often to develop themselves or their organisations, Go Nomading is determined to assist wherever possible.

The COVID-19 pandemic affected all that the team did, with events cancelled and the shift to digital uniquely challenging. With a hybrid world now upon us, it’s clear that the Nomadic Mindset is certain to play a vital role in every industry moving forward. Not only throughout 2023, but beyond, it is important to adopt a nomadic approach to life, being as adaptable, agile and flexible as possible. The team have streamlined numerous processes in accounting, virtual teams and are also developing an online platform for courses.

The development of new ideas is always a long process for the Go Nomading team, in order to ensure that the final product not only has mass-market appeal, but is entirely fit for purpose. The development process is one which is always considered carefully, because a lack of forethought can have a major impact later on.

Looking ahead, the future of the Nomadic Mindset will see a view on Holistic Well-being. This integrates with nature, sustainability, exercise, taking structured and strategic pauses, developing the inner world of individuals, spirituality and an arm that is in the quantum energy world – heart based products, processes and destiny. The changes we have seen in our lives over the last few years have created people and organisations which need to live simpler lives. As things get too expensive and complex, frustrations will arise. The work of Go Nomading, therefore, is to help people think very vastly or wide so they can expand their perspectives, potentials, opportunity, possibilities and hence self-leadership, and leadership in general. Evolution is the key and this is nomadic thinking at its core.

The 1st Nomadic Pause Retreat launches Feb 27-March 3, 2023 in Hoi An Vietnam, with new dates and a corporate retreat coming up.

Company: Go Nomading Pte Ltd
Name: Kevin Cottam
Email: info@kevincottam.com
Web Address: www.thenomadicmindset.com
Pause Retreat: www.thenomadicmindset.com/pause-retreat/

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‘The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.’
Pierre de Coubertin

When I was very young, I was told to dream big and you will reach them. Were you also told this?

Every two years, the history of my Olympic dream comes back to me. As the Tokyo 2020 Olympics ramps up this week, I will watch on with glee, living through these great athletes – The Dream.

As a kid, I would spend my time laying in bed looking at the ceiling envisioning my big dream.  To be an Olympic medallist. It looked so beautiful and perfect in my mind as I saw myself standing on the podium receiving my medal and watching my flag ascend the flagpole.

My partner and I became National Junior Ice Dance Champions in Canada. We trained long and hard, got better and better and we achieved a lot in a short period of time. The stars aligned in our favour, politics was on our side and the dream looked so real. Then the tides turned. My partner and I broke up, my father retired and suddenly died, money was short and I was forced to quit and move on. My dream ended…so I thought…

As time went on, I became a dancer then an elite figure skating choreographer. As the universe would have it, it blessed me with an opportunity. I began to choreograph for a famous Canadian World Medallist, Brian Pockar. During one of our working sessions, we began speaking about the upcoming Olympics in his hometown, Calgary Alberta.

I said to him, why don’t we partner up and submit a proposal to create the Closing Ceremonies for the ‘88 Olympics? He jumped at the idea. As he was the famous one, he did all the political operating. Guess what? We won the bid. Was my dream coming true to be an Olympian after all, albeit in a different way? Brian became the figurehead, and I was the choreographer and director of the Ceremonies.

After months of rehearsing and challenges, the day arrived, February 28, 1988. My nerves and anticipation mounted. I remembered, there is only one shot, this is your big dream coming true.

I watch from the sound booth high above the massive artificial ice rink in McMahon Stadium. The music begins, the skaters flow into the stadium ice rink. They perform magnificently with national pride for 2 hours in sub-zero weather under a clear starry sky and mega lights. 60K live spectators waving candles with an estimated 2Billion TV audience. The biggest show on earth. Wow! My complete mind body and soul leaps joyously. Then after the uproar of kd Lang singing Turn Me Round, it ends with roaring applause I have never heard before. To this day I remain stunned. Was I finally living my dream…but in a different way?

Dreams do come true. As a young boy, I could never have envisioned this. I now realize the universe had its own version of my big dream. am deeply grateful.

1. Never underestimate the power of dreams and the universe collaborating for your best interest
2. Hold loosely to your dreams, set the intention/dream; Let go; Believe
3. Go Nomading and allow the opportunities to appear as seeds, follow with curiosity, the path is never straight

Kevin Cottam, Canadian, Global Nomad who helps dynamic leaders and organisations uncover their winning edge. He is a Professional Speaker, Executive Coach, Author and the originator of the Nomadic Mindset Podcast. A former elite choreographer to World and Olympic Figure Skating Champions and director of multi-million dollar productions including the 1988 Olympic Closing Ceremonies. Kevin believes we have become too narrow in our thinking and behaviours and we need to expand our innate global thinking to create a new now and future that brings humanity, economic practices.

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“The white noise of an industrial and commercial society drowns out our ability to think.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

REDUCE the NOISE

Have you ever been plagued with too much noise in your head or heart? I suspect you have, otherwise you just might not be human and rather an alien.

Today we are plagued by so much internal and external noise in our lives and we have a hard time to make sense of situations, relationships, work, decision-making…you name it. Covid has not helped the noise and has rather amplified it because of so many uncertainties, disinformation, unknowns, discomfort. The cacophony of noise can be deafening.

Noise can be explained as positive and negative. The default system of humans is normally the negative first. Noise creeps in and can escalate without you knowing it. You become numb to it as it is everywhere and everyone is experiencing it.

What is the noise I am speaking about? It can be anything.

Positive noise

comes in the form of birds singing, gentle wind, rain falling, sweet words of praise and support, a smile, a loving message, observing a child joyfully play, walking your dog and many things like this that move you inwards and fill your heart.

Negative noise

can appear, in the form of major distractions that are pulling you away from your core. Here we have plenty of examples, news, social media, smartphones, TV, sensationalism, negative news, non-stop voices in your mind, gossip, too much talking, sound of cars, traffic, city noise and much more. I think you get the picture.

How can one get a hold of it?

Recently, I been working with many coaching clients who are losing their leadership grip regards remote working and too much time on zoom. The typical symptoms they and their teams exhibit are worn out, less motivated, lack energy, yearn for social contact and the list goes on. The mental anguish was showing up in disengagement; lower productivity; resistance to multiple factors; bosses not trusting you while remote working; and reluctance to attend more meetings. Plus, communication instead of getting better is getting worse. I suggested to one client maybe exploring an Emerge Retreat while still working, could help her and her team members.

Emerge Retreat

An Emerge Retreat is a retreat focusing on reducing the internal and external noise, so that you can hear the voice of creativity, thoughts or ideas that are wanting to emerge from within you. When you reduce the noise from the external and all the devices you use, you can start to hear the stillness and quiet inside of you. There are less distractions. You slow down and listen more; become more calm; get curious and take on the role of an observer looking inwards rather than outwards. You are less pulled outwards. However, the ongoing caveat is, this takes conscious intentional practice to gain deeper awareness.

Simple Noise Reduction

What she did was not overly original or new, however, it again reminds us of the resilience, resources and knowledge that lives within everyone of you. She…

1. Stopped listening to the news on her phone, apps, computer and TV
2. Limited her social media presence to once per day for only 5-10 minutes
3. Began journaling her random thoughts
4. Took walks in nature with her phone and only checking it to discover the number of steps she was taking that positively encouraged her
5. Restructured how meetings would be done and reduced the amount.
6. Started reading self-development books
7. Spend some time meditating.

She found that after a couple of weeks, she started to be more consciously aware of almost everything around her externally and internally. She could hear more positive voices inside of her; found she was calmer and able to handle her leadership better; see the seeds of opportunity more clearly; experienced new and creative positive aspects about herself and her work. Listening, sensing and seeing a bigger more expansive perspective was the biggest difference. Ultimately, after a month her energy flourished, she became more creative, resourceful and her productivity was better.

REDUCE the NOISE

Now she is more alert to the NOISE when it starts to build up and has interventions to help reduce it. Again, allow the voices that want to emerge to emerge so that you can evolve. Give yourself a chance REDUCE the NOISE so you can live your best

If you relate to this idea and want to know more about the Emerge Retreat, do not hesitate to connect with me at connect@thenomadicmindset.com

Kevin Cottam, Canadian, Global Nomad who helps dynamic leaders and organisations uncover their winning edge. He is a Professional Speaker, Executive Coach, Author and the originator of the Nomadic Mindset Podcast. A former elite choreographer to World and Olympic Figure Skating Champions and director of multi-million dollar productions including the 1988 Olympic Closing Ceremonies. Kevin believes we have become too narrow in our thinking and behaviours and we need to expand our innate global thinking to create a new now and future that brings humanity, economic practices.

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Tagline: Leverage the Wisdom Of Crowds

Points to Learn

1. Seek Clarity – Focus on what is most important
2. Understand the VUCA world: (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous)
3. Go back to Fundamentals and look at your Values
4. Staying on the move and discover something new
5. Bridges Model (William Bridges) that speaks about change over a period of time. (Letting go, Neutral/Transition, Embracing the New)
6. We need to let go of all the certainties and the predictability
7. Realize how little we are and there is a bigger picture out there
8. We are reluctant to change – reasons: loss of control, what we have worked hard for, resistance
9. Change is normal; Analysis; then Change in the Right way
10. Try to Manage the Risk; Control what you can
11. Open your ears and consult/listen with others, work in a more agile way, little to ‘crazy’ ideas
12. Leverage the Wisdom of Crowds – prototype every 3 months – agile
13. Take more risks, small risks and do many – experiment – feedback – move
14. Certain areas we need to Leap – which industries will be able to do so
15. Organisations are still very conservative in their thinking patterns and constrained by the old ways we have done business
16. Leading in difficult times takes a very different mindset and skill needed from leaders
17. Empathy, Relationships, Listeners, Open, Agile
18. Take care of yourself first so that you can take care of others

Duration: 37:11

Mark Brown, PCC

Leadership Facilitator and Executive Coach

An American based in Europe since 1994, Mark Brown has worked in leadership and executive education across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas for 25 years. He is a director of a Portuguese firm offering trilingual leadership development and executive coaching to leaders at multinationals and governmental entities worldwide.

Mark published his first book in 2016, “The Empathic Enterprise: Winning by Staying Human in A Digital Age.” After launching his successful e-course ‘The Influence Toolbox’ in 2018, he continues to focus on agile leadership: developing leaders who are adaptable, market-sensitive, and prepared to lead their organisations to innovative, collaborative solutions.

Contact Mark at: www.time4clarity.com

Landing page for my e-course: https://clarity-academy.thinkific.com/courses/the-influence-toolbox

Link to my book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Empathic-Enterprise-Winning-Staying-Digital-ebook/dp/B01GS8LVCS/

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Tagline: The navigators of the future is the millennials and Z’s.

Points to Learn

1. What is Gen Blending?
2. What are the definition values, behaviours, attitudes of the different generations
3. Shifting the paradigm of organisations by re: blending
4. Cross pollinating mentoring is a success for organisations
5. You need community inside and outside your business to move forward
6. Gen Z’s do not relate to ‘work’ or ‘employee’ – they love – co-creation / Millennials love collaboration
7. Gen Z’s move past collaboration and live in Creation
8. Look at the language – new align, new invent and forget the ‘re’
9. Use the word ‘preneur’ – intrapreneur, solo-preneurs
10. The human being is more than a resource – what is the role of humans?
11. The pyramid of organisations need to flatten
12. In Gen Blending we annihilate business models and birth new ones
13. The roles remain but the structure around them needs to change.
14. Millennials think in circles and Z’s in spirals – there is not beginning and no end
15. Observe 6 intelligences: emotional, logical, creative, sensory, agility, love
16. How do to create the New New? You cannot do it without the millennials and Z’s
17. Command and control in organisations is not going to work now and the future.
18. Bring in the ‘squad’ of youngsters with the C-suite – this starts the blending

Duration: 45.14

Alison Godenir

Gen Blender, Behaviour Alchemist South Africa

Alison Godenir is the initiator of Gen Blending. Her intent is to put humanity back into business. She ardently believes an organisation is only as good as its people, therefore building and sustaining relationships forms the basis of her revolutionary interventions, which in turn improve moral, employee engagement, performance, productivity and profitability. She is a non-traditionalist who goes out on a limb to seek creative solutions from new perspectives. She is an ambassador for change, bringing new models of thought, behaviour and integrity to the world.

As a Generation Specialist she serves as a catalyst synergising generational differences to create intergenerational unity.

Contact Alison at:
godenir@worldonline.co.za
www.alisongodenir.co.za

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Tagline: ‘Embrace Change’

Points to Learn

1. Do what you love to do
2. Follow the correct answer…
3. Embrace your own uniqueness
4. Reimagine, Redefine, Reinvent
5. Tech allows us to see how the consumer journey call look like
6. Do not oppress the kindle inside of you as it might not be socially acceptable
7. We need to come from the mindset of a nomad
8. Consistency of mindset gives stability and comfort
9. Crave adventure, wanderlust
   When you can’t move, you find out how you can move
10. Trust is built by acts of good
11. Nomadic mindset more relevant today than before
12. Do not hold onto old mindsets
13. Humanity is vital today
14. Embrace the nomad inside of you – don’t resist it
15. Failure is liberating, it is based on Trust
16. I care as the CEO
17. Trust that each of us holds to the high standard

Duration: 35:44

Junxian Lee

CEO of

Junxian is the Co-founder and CEO of Moovaz, a machine-intelligence-driven platform built for the 1.8 billion globally mobile professionals. He has experience launching startups in e-commerce, fintech and cyber-security industries and also has prior experience in investments with a large tech corporate fund.

During his free time, Junxian enjoys hiding behind the coffee counter as a barista at Reedz Café, a chain of cafes serving the tertiary education and business park communities, which he co-owns.

Contact Junxian at:
junxian.lee@moovaz.com
www.moovaz.com

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Tagline: ‘Go Where No One Else Has Been Before.’

Points to Learn

1. What is a human powered explorer?
2. What is can do for your spiritual and emotional energy
3. How important is in critical decision thinking organisations today
4. What is the definition of the explorers mindset?
5. Explorers are those that want to do things and find things differently
6. BUG = Bold Unique Goal
7. Critical needs in organisations are disruption, creativity, innovation
8. The Difference between exploring and exploiting – fascinating
9. Organisations who are only exploiting, may mean they are coming to the end of their lives
10. The challenge of organisations is to implement the explorer in an organisation
11. Explorer’s mindset is not a ticket to success
12. Ideation = divergent thinking to convergent thinking.
13. Do one thing = increase the team cognitive diversity

Duration: 33:30

Grant ‘Axe’ Rawlinson

Grant ‘Axe’ Rawlinson is a teach decision-making coach and human powered explorer.

Axe helps teams working in complex environments transform their decision-making culture so they can work more effectively together when the consequences of failure are high.

By adopting the “Explorer’s Mindset” Axe teaches teams how to make the critical decisions so they can become ‘number one’ by being unique, rather than playing in the same field as everyone else.

Axe’s unique solutions have been developed through years of hard earned experience operating in high-pressure, complex environments all over the world, walking across countries, cycling across continents, rowing treacherous seas and climbing the world’s highest mountains.

Axe’s unique solutions have been developed through years of hard earned experience operating in high-pressure, complex environments all over the world, walking across countries, cycling across continents, rowing treacherous seas and climbing the world’s highest mountains.

Contact Grant at: www.powerful-humans.com

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Tagline: Being a digital nomad builds confidence

Points to Learn

1. The life of a digital nomad
2. What are the challenges/limitations of being a digital nomad?
3. How do you get clients on the road? Referrals, Outreach, Slideshare
4. Keep your connections and keep growing them
5. Education doesn’t prepare you for this – it comes from the mindset.
6. Being a digital nomad builds confidence

And more …

Duration: 31:20

Leighton Prabhu

Leighton is a Digital marketing expert with the analytical rigour of a CPA (certified professional accountant).

His focus today is on e-commerce marketing for SMEs, and particularly on finding new clients. He says, his main role within our firm is business development. Leighton gets involved with service delivery but primarily during the onboarding phase. Thereafter, he monitors service delivery to the extent that he knows the general strategy and results. He participates in client conference calls about once a month, and his clients look to him for insights that he glean from working across a broad spectrum of clients/projects.

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Tagline: Biggest Gift of Life is to Feel the Beat of your Heart

Points to Learn

1. What is the meaning of gratefulness
2. Gratefulness comes from the deep values we have and perspective of the world
3. Step back and look at the bigger picture
4. Be grateful always at any time for anything
5. Take time away from Social Media
6. Do not take anything for granted
7. Things will go down before they go up – be optimistic
8. Mindfulness needs to be practiced
9. Take a good deep breath and connect to the life within you
10. Say thank you as much as possible
11. Being present plays a massive role in gratitude
12. Create triggers to remind you to say thank you
13. Puts your hands on your heart and feel the beat and your breath

Duration: 31.20

Bavani Periasamy

Gratitude Advocate, Coach and Speaker

Bavani is passionate about bringing gratitude to life and creating the awareness to live with appreciation in a world now that is fast paced and very involved with technology and digital gadgets.

She is on a journey to remind people about the basic human connection and to invoke the sense of mindfulness of everyday actions that is often left unnoticed. Besides speaking and coaching, working with children and youth to always believe in their dreams and goals by being grateful for what they already have.

Contact Bavani at:
bavaniperiasamy@gmail.com

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Tagline: Every leader stumbles. The great ones learn how to recover.

Points to Learn

1. What is humanizing leadership?
2. Leaders are not superhumans they human
3. What is the lens that you look through with regards to leadership?
4. How do I connect with my audience or client?
5. When leaders look at themselves as humans they see through a different lens
6. You are not alone in your challenges – accepting, acknowledge and reaching out
7. Transformative Leadership workshop program to build awareness of their challenges and how they deal with them.
8. How can you find a solution for a block? What are the triggers?
9. Why always work towards a goal? Is this the way forward in coaching?
10. Select one area you would like to explore more – instead a specific goal
11. Every leader stumbles the great ones learn how to recover

Duration: 31:00

Ritu Mehrish

Ritu is an global speaker, executive coach and author with 20 years of corporate experience working in companies such as P&G, GE Capital and GE spin-off Genpact. In her most recent role, Ritu ran a multimillion-dollar P&L with 1000 people across eight countries and 5 continents. Throughout her extensive career, Ritu has had the opportunity to work, coach and converse with leaders across the globe from diverse industries. Her business and leadership experience has enabled her to bring in a pragmatic approach to leadership development. Her client list – Google, PayPal, Swiss Re, JP Morgan, IKEA, Deloitte, Applied Materials, Intel, Knight Frank, Johnson & Johnson, Wharton Executive Education highlights the level of expertise she brings to the leadership topic;

Her book ‘Leaders Block’ – (yes, like writer’s block) is very relevant to the leaders today. As per her research and interviews with more than 200 leaders across the globe – it’s the single most reason for unproductivity and blip in leadership and interestingly it’s not talked about, in fact it didn’t even have a name until now.

By talking about leader’s block, she enable leaders to recognize it, acknowledge it, overcome it and build leadership-staying power.

Contact Ritu at:
www.ritumehrish.com

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