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FRANCESCA TALEVI

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Overview

Francesca is an accomplished consultant, facilitator, and Master Executive Coach with wide experience in diversity and inclusion and in supporting organisational and personal development. 

Francesca Talevi

Beginning her career in South Africa, Francesca worked in healthcare, education, and financial services.  She then moved to the UK, working there from 1997 to 2010, contributing as both an internal and external consultant to the success of organisations and their people.  Internal roles in organisations have included senior level appointments as Director of Organisational Development, Director Talent Management and Head of Culture and Engagement.  She has designed and delivered Executive education and leadership programs; culture change initiatives; team development interventions, strategy, and vision workshops; executive coaching and large-scale employee engagements.  

Francesca’s consultancy experience includes a diverse spectrum of industries and international cultures.  Over more than two decades she has worked with companies such as ING Bank, Nestle, Diageo, ICI Paints, Amersham Health, Macquarie, APA Group, ANZ, Clayton Utz, PWC, EY, QBE Australia, Cuscal, NPPA, Auspaynet and Recovre. She has developed a good understanding of the public and not-for-profit sectors, applying her private sector experience in her engagements with organisations such as the North London Collegiate School, Park Royal Partnership, Ealing Council, Hammersmith and Fulham Council, TransGrid, Guide Dogs NSW/ACT, The ABS, ASIC, AMSA, University of Adelaide, NSW Health and Sydney Water. 

 

 




In Australia, she has worked with FBG Group as Principal Consultant and as Managing Consultant for Symmetra, a diversity consultancy.  She has worked as Senior Learning Consultant for Melbourne Business School and is now an associate for them.  She presently works on discreet projects and as an executive coach and independent consultant, partnering with medium sized companies and professional services to deliver organisation development solutions.

Francesca brings a wealth of experience, pragmatism, creativity, empathy and challenge to her consulting and coaching.  She has coached C-Suite executives and senior leaders from a diverse spectrum of industries and international cultures. Executive coaching, at all levels, has always featured significantly in her portfolio. She has a reputation for engaging deeply with her clients to deliver meaningful outcomes, strengthening leadership and building capacity for more robust relationships. She has worked with people going through career transitions, developed leaders in their present roles and supported others in their development journey. 


Qualifications
  • BA in Social Work (Hons): University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
  • Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management: Wits Business School, Johannesburg
  • MSc in Organisational Consulting: Ashridge School of Management, validated by Middlesex University London, UK
  • Certificate in Executive Coaching from I-Coach Academy: Middlesex University London, UK


Affiliations /
Accreditations
  • Accredited Master Executive Coach: Association for Coaching
  • Kantor’s Structural Dynamics (BLI)
  • Myers Briggs Type Indicator
  • Hogan Leadership Suite & 360
  • The Leadership Circle,
  • MTQ (Mental Toughness Questionnaire)
  • MRG 360 feedback
  • DISC


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