Simona Haivas

Simona Haivas is a tenacious, purpose-led talent and leadership development expert at CAIA. She has a 'get stuck in' mentality and a strong track record of delivering impactful solutions in a variety of contexts. She has been coaching leaders and high potential individuals for more than ten years, specialising in helping leaders who are experiencing transitions and growth in fast-paced roles and environments.

As a coach, Simona has a fluid and non-judgemental style underpinned by a genuine curiosity in understanding her clients' perspective and the contexts within which they operate. She leverages a blend of techniques (profiling, NLP, systemic coaching, neuroscience) to unpack the psychological make-up and get through emotional levels quickly by brining awareness of the deep-seated patterns and processes. She is empathetic and positive whilst encouraging the individual to take ownership of what they need to change in order to achieve the desired goals, supporting them through the emotional journey that comes with this. Clients appreciate Simona's balance of challenge and support to create 'aha' moments and to (gently) push them out of their comfort zone.

Focusing on building their own resources, Simona enables clients to expand their horizon on how they can reach their goals and build on the coaching work after the coaching journey ends. Drawing on her PhD research on human motivation, Simona is passionate about enabling individuals to find their internal motivation and the energy points to sustain behavioural change.

She brings experience in: executing end-to-end Talent Strategy, consulting with business leaders to align their people and culture agenda to business goals, leadership development & coaching: defining and implementing leadership capability frameworks and potential frameworks; defining and executing leadership development programmes.