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- Personal growth
- Leading others
- Human development
- Leadership best practices
- Engaging leaders at all levels
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Unstuck: Dismantle What’s Holding You Back
Even the most capable leaders sometimes get stuck on driving change—even when they really want to make it happen. Join Paula Fagundes-Ventura, Global Head of Coaching at Goldman Sachs, and Dr. Nathan Hiller, Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Leadership at FIU, for a discussion on the coaching tools and approaches that can help leaders get unstuck themselves, while also driving the growth of others around them.
Presenters
- Paula Fagundes-Ventura
Paula Fagundes-Ventura is a Managing Director and Global Head of Succession Planning and Leadership Advisory at Goldman Sachs, where she also serves as an executive coach to senior executives.
Paula joined Goldman Sachs in 2006 in the Investment Banking Division in Brazil. She also worked in the Consumer Retail Investment Banking Division in New York and held several learning roles within Human Capital Management. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Paula worked at Itau and Rio Bravo Project Finance, two financial services firms in Brazil.
Paula holds a Master’s degree in Social-Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration (with honors) from Fundação Getulio Vargas in Brazil. She is a PCC ICF-certified coach, having trained at the Hudson Institute of Coaching and the NeuroLeadership Institute, and is certified to administer a range of psychometric tools.
- Dr. Nathan Hiller
Nathan J. Hiller, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Center for Leadership and Professor in the Department of Global Leadership and Management in the College of Business, where he holds the Ingersoll-Rand Professorship. He is passionate about connecting the science of leadership and the practice of helping leaders and organizations amplify leadership capacity.
As an academic, Dr. Hiller's focus is on investigating how senior organizational leaders and leadership teams can operate more effectively, as well as research designed to improve how we study leadership. His works have been cited over 6,000 times and his research has appeared in most of the top competitive journals in the field, including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, and The Leadership Quarterly.
Dr. Hiller is currently co-President of the Network of Leadership Scholars of the Academy of Management and is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies. He has held editorial board positions at the Journal of Applied Psychology and The Leadership Quarterly. He is the recipient of 10 teaching awards and has received several international research awards.
In his role at the Center for Leadership at FIU, Dr. Hiller oversees all executive leadership development programs comprising close to 8000 person-hours of programming per year. As a leadership development practitioner, he has led projects, held grants, and coached and consulted with senior executive teams and leaders from dozens of organizations including Boston Scientific, Hewlett Packard (HP), the US Secret Service, Bacardi USA, and clients across industries ranging from power generation to finance and family office work, and from cruise services to education.
Dr. Hiller has held visiting faculty appointments at Cornell, University of Washington (Seattle), University of British Columbia, and taught a graduate leadership course at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in Rio de Janeiro. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Calgary and both his M.S. and Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University.
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