4th International Executive Coaching Symposium

Sherif Bakir is the CEO at Vodafone Roaming services S.a.r.l and Director of Roaming Vodafone Group, as well as the Chairman of the supervisory board at Vodafone Shared Services. He has over 20 years telecoms experience, with Vodafone Egypt (Cairo) and Vodafone Group (London then Luxembourg). His has a very broad professional specter,  varying from marketing, business development, commercial operations, sales & retail, shared services and roaming. He has worked and lived in Cairo, Calgary, Houston, London and Luxembourg. Sherif graduated from Vodafone’s global “Inspire” program in 2015 and from IESE’s Advanced Management Program in 2013. He is an accomplished senior leader with a natural entrepreneurial flair, he propels major players forward, transforming distribution channels, business operations, developing new products and services. He enjoys challenges of creation and transformation nature, and is passionate about unleashing the “power of people” to professionally grow, and deliver sustainable, and outstanding business results. He is married and has a 14-year old daughter, named Thea.

Daniele, CEO of eFM, is a Management Engineer with a great drive to innovate and improve people’s lives in the workplace, by blending together HR and Technology and creating connections among people, spaces and activities.
Thanks to his mindset of integrating spaces, technology and people, Daniele has contributed to the workplace paradigm shift, aiming to improve employees’ well-being. He tested these new models in eFM first and later implementing them in the workplaces of big multinational corporations.

Smart Working, Flexible Workplace, Humanist skills are Daniele’s strengths. His approach fully reflects eFM motto – ‘We Sustain Engaging Places for a Better Life’.

Graduated in Engineering Management from Tor Vergata University of Rome, Daniele joined eFM as a management consultant; in a few years he became eFM Sales and Marketing Manager and later General Manager.

He has received the “Excellent Manager of the Year” award by Manageritalia and Confcommercio, two of the leading Italian Business Associations

Mariam Kakkar is the Chief of Talent Development at the United Nations Development Programme.  She has spent the last three year transforming the unit’s vision and business model  with a focus on linking organizational learning with innovation and knowledge creation, enabling a culture of continuous learning,  increasing UNDP’s learning maturity framework and adapting state of the art learning technologies. She leads a team of 12 individuals based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her team has won 6 industry awards for innovation in organizational development.

She  spent the last 16+ years working in the UN system in various management roles at UNDP, UNICEF and UNFPA in the areas of organizational development, integrated talent management, high potential development, career development, executive talent management, knowledge management, innovation ecosystems,  employee engagement and leadership development.

Before joining the UN, Mariam worked at the Center for Learning and Performance @Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec and the Ministry of Education of Quebec. Mariam holds a doctorate in Educational Technology from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Mr. Javier Pujol graduated in Law from for the University of Navarra and completed the Advanced Management Program at IESE. He then joined the American Chain & Cable Company (ACCO), after which he continued to develop professionally at FICOSA INTERNATIONAL, S.A., an International Leading Component and Systems supplier in the Automotive Industry, located in more than 18 countries on three continents. He is currently CEO and a member of the Board of Directors of Ficosa International. He is also Chairman of Idneo Technologies and a Member of the Executive Committee of PANASONIC AIS Automotive Business Division.

Anneloes Raes is Associate Professor in the Department of Managing People in Organizations at IESE. She holds a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Maastricht University and a M.A. in Psychology at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Prior to joining IESE, Prof. Raes worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, and she held visiting scholarships at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and Harvard University.

Prof. Raes’ research expertise includes the fields of top management teams, teamwork, self-management, and leadership. Her work has been published in academic journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Relations, and Small Group Research, and was awarded with various grants and awards. It has also been featured in press outlets, including the Financial Times, Expansion, Folha de S.Paulo, and La Vanguardia.

At IESE, Prof. Raes teaches classes on Leadership, Human Resources Management, Self Management, and Teamwork, at the MBA and executive levels. She is also member of the supervisory board of Rijk Zwaan.

Alberto Ribera joined IESE in 2003 after a 15-year international career with the World Health Organisation, the European Commission and other multilateral organisations, in charge of projects in Africa, Southeast Asia and especially in the Middle East. From 1999 to 2003, he was General Director of the Euro Arab Management School.

At IESE he is the academic director of the IESE Coaching Unit and teaches the MBA course “Personality and Leadership”, which received the IESE Award for Excellence. He also teaches the Global Executive MBA course “Managing Oneself”; and executive courses on self-leadership, relationships management and executive coaching. He is the author or co-author of 9 books and more than 30 case-studies.

He has been invited as visiting professor or guest speaker at universities and business schools of more than 20 different countries and at international conferences like the World Economic Forum. He has taught courses for Enel, Compagnia di San Paolo, Banco di Napoli, Telecom Italia, Saint Gobain, The Arab Contractors, Egypt Telecom, BBVA, Banco de España, Enrst&Young, Hewlett Packard, PricewaterhouseCoopers and other firms.

He is a board member of the Istituto per la Cooperazione Universitaria (Rome), Harambee Foundation (Nairobi) and other not-for-profit institutions.

Estíbalitz is the Executive Director of the IESE Coaching Unit that provides executive and leadership coaching to executives and managers from all over the world participating in IESE educational programs in Barcelona, Madrid, New York, Munich and Sao Paolo.

She has a PhD from IESE Business School in Mentoring and Coaching. She had previously earned a degree in Spanish language and literature from the University of Navarra. She is an ICF-certified coach. Estíbalitz initiated her professional career 20 years ago. Most of her professional career developed in multinational environments: she worked 10 years as Human Resources Generalist for Agilent Technologies Spain, where she dealt with organizational development, training and coaching for people managers of more than 20 different nationalities. During this period she collaborated in the creation of the Commercial and Finance Shared Services Center for Europe, Middle East and South America. Later, she worked as trainer, associate researcher and consultant for the hospitality industry.

Since 2008 she is professor of People Management at the School of International Trade from Pompeu Fabra University. Currently she combines the teaching at the university –in the Master of international Businesses- with her work at IESE.

Her areas of interest are in the field of executive coaching in Business Schools. She is the author of the book “La práctica del mentoring en la empresa” (EUNSA, 2003), and “Executive Coaching” (IESE Publishing, 2015).