The Mannaz facilitators

Mannaz has a broad network of Danish and international, professional business psychologists, consultants, facilitators and coaches (UK: senior facilitators) for open educations and programmes as well as customised solutions. The network has a broad cultural background with many different nationalities and professions. The network is divided into three main subject areas: management development, programme and project management and strategic competency development.

Primarily, we find our international specialists at international conferences, international business schools, in scientific literature or they are recommended to us by others in our current network. Mannaz also works closely together with INSEAD in France, CEIBS, China Europe International Business School in Shanghai, Harvard Business School, the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania.

Practical experience and theoretical depth
It is crucial for the network that it has a combination of practical experience and deep, theoretical insight. People in our network share the same learning principles as our internal consultants and coaches. They are centred in reality and respect each individual while at the same time managing to create learning processes with a high, immediate value.

Several of the facilitators in our network have worked together for many years. This is also important for our many long-standing deliveries. Each facilitator is continuously assessed by participants in connection with specific processes as well as generally by Mannaz.

Our success depends very much on our ability to link the right facilitators, coaches and consultants to the company or to each programme. The need for specialists increases according to market demands for a broad supply of services. We are continuously looking for experienced, professional resource individuals – Danish as well as international – and due to our visibility in the market, we are often contacted by people who wish to be part of our network.

A few numbers on the network:

Total number:

375 closely connected consultants and lecturers and more that 1,000 additional partners in a broader network.

Originating from the following 34 countries:

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Malaysia, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of South Africa, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA

Speaking the following 28 languages:

Afrikaans, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Xhosa.

Multilingual capacity:

Speaking two languages: 149 Speaking three languages: 49 Speaking four languages: 15 Speaking five languages: 2 Speaking six languages: 6

Examples of faculty

Senior facilitator: High Potentials
Holds a MA in Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has been responsible for management development in large industrial groups. For the last 15 years he has worked internationally as an independent business psychologist in the Mannaz network. He has focused development and delivery of a number of High Potentials Programmes that has been highly acclaimed for the reality based action-learning approaches. He is a native of Denmark and is fluent in English, French and Danish.

Facilitator: Leadership development
Originally from Mauritius he lives in UK and holds a BA in arts (organisational psychology and organisational sociology) from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Cranfield School of Management. Furthermore, he is trained and certified as facilitator and executive coach and holds a post graduate diploma in management (human resources). He has since 2002 worked as an independent learning & development specialist with a proven ability to train and develop leaders within diverse business sectors, to effectively manage change and performance.

Facilitator: Corporate communication, leadership development
Born in France he holds master’s degrees in Literature and Philosophy from the Sorbonne University in Paris. He has more than twenty five years experience in the areas of corporate communication, education, human resources management, leadership and executive development. During his career, he has designed and developed some forty different programmes aimed at managers and executives. He has conducted hundreds of executive coaching sessions and seminars with executives in international corporations such as Accenture, Alcatel-Lucent, C&A Europe, General Motors, Le Groupe Expansion, IBM, Mazda Motors, the Michelin Group, Nestlé, Oracle, Readers’ Digest, Suez, TNO, UBS, Unilever, Volvo, Whirlpool-Europe and Yasar Holdings.

Professor: Internationalisation and Corporate Strategy
Holds a Ph.D. from INSEAD, France and he is currently Professor at Stanford University, U.S.A. He has been engaged in executive coaching in major global corporations in the fields of Internationalisation and Corporate Strategy. For the last 8 years he has contributed on the Mannaz top executive Programme VL and on a number of international executive programmes where his lively and direct approach to dialogue based executive learning has been consistently well received. He is born in Sweden and holds American citizenship. He is fluent in English, Spanish and Swedish.

Professor: Work/Life Balance
An entrepreneur and successful businessman himself, this professor exemplifies himself the value of mobilising your inner strength and sources to manage your employees - and yourself. In his books and lectures on leadership he draws on the latest research in the area and combines it in an unusual and innovative way with Eastern thinking and religion. Participants often comment on the existentialist reflections on e.g. stress and work/life balance that his sessions provoke.

Professor: Customer Relations
An Irish marketing professor based in London. She has developed a unique methodology for deepening and broadening customer relationships by identifying value gaps and stimulating breakthrough thinking. Participants value her highly interactive facilitation style and pertinent questions which has often led to innovative solutions and new approaches.

Facilitator: Leadership development/organisational psychology
An industrial & organisational psychologist specialising in leadership development and team facilitation in international organisations, he coaches and trains industrial leaders and their teams in “getting the job done” in complex, international and changing business environments. He received his Masters in Industrial & Organisational Psychology from the University of Amsterdam. He was trained by Fons Trompenaars in cross-cultural communication. Additional qualifications include “family constellations” by Hellinger in Germany, and training in psychopathology, stress and burnout. He masters six working languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Norwegian, and Swedish) and another three for conversation (Finnish, Russian and Spanish).

Professor: Change Leadership
Coming from South America, he shows remarkable energy and enthusiasme in his teaching. Today, he is a professor at a leading business school in Europe with extensive experience in conducting insightful and challenging learning expeditions for executives by the means of a change simulator designed by himself.

Professor: Global Aspects
One of the world's leading authorities on the political and economic history and current trends that create the framework for the global business environment. He councils a number of governments on socio political trends and their impact on local business.

Managing Director: Performance increase and health promotion
Holds a Ph.D. in organisational psychology from the Technical University in Berlin. From 1984-94 he worked as tutor, lecturer and assistant professor at the Technical University in Berlin as well as freelance management consultant. He has worked for a number of international operating customers since 1990 and is the Managing Director and founder of GFGO in Germany, where he has developed its top league expertise in the area of organisational development, focusing on performance increase and health promotion in companies and as such has helped numerous organisations improve corporate performance.

Professor: coaching/capability development
Born in Pori, Finland, she holds a master’s degree in adult education from the University of Helsinki and worked as a lecturer at the university in adult education since 1999. From 1999 to 2003 she worked as a Competence Development Manager (Leadership and Team Development) for Nokia Mobile Phones, Global Operations in Logistics and Sourcing. She is facilitating individuals and organisations to find their own way to achieve wellbeing and outstanding results by designing and implementing learning solutions, coaching (as personal coach or lectures in coaching) as well as facilitation of groups. Her mother tongue is Swedish and she speaks English, Finnish and German.