Navid Nazemian: Peak Performance

    Navid Nazemian

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    • Travels from: Dubai, UAE
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    My keynote speeches are flexible in design and can be delivered over a range from 30-120 minutes. I also run half day masterclasses on the topics of HR transformation and leadership transitions.

    Topics are: Strategic Human Resources Management; Human Resources (HR) Transformation for Impact, Mastering Leadership Transitions; High Performing Teams During Turbulent Times; Always coupled with a book signing event.

    Navid Nazemian is an Executive Coach with 26 years of professional work experience in some of the world’s most admired companies.

    e has a professional background in commercial roles before moving to leadership roles in HR in order to elevate the practice of people, leadership, and culture.

    Navid works as an active thinking partner to his clients and is hands on with delivery, always linking business strategy to people.

    Using strategies designed to overcome obstacles quickly, he has helped numerous leaders over the years to successfully eliminate unproductive thinking and solve their toughest, most complex challenges.

    In return, they have supported their organizations to build world-class cultures primed to create new markets, accelerate performance, increase productivity, and develop game-changing value propositions.

    Having been a local, regional and global member of senior leadership teams in both emerging and developed markets of large publicly listed organizations in 5 countries across 6 sectors himself, Navid Nazemian has first-hand experience of what it is like to work with the dynamic complexities and pressures faced by senior leaders.

    His clients therefore, experience the added benefits of partnering with a highly experienced coach who is walking-the-talk successfully. Navid coaches in English, German, and Farsi.

    Next to holding a master’s degree in International Management/Foreign Trade from Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany, Navid has been trained as a Principled Negotiator at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, USA.

    Having successfully completed his 3-year coach education across 3 continents in Africa, America& Europe, he is also a trained Coaching Circles™ Facilitator and has completed the Academy of Executive Coaching’s (AoEC) Systemic Team Coaching Certificate.

    Navid has recently served two full terms as a member of the Nominating Committee (NomCo) of the ICF Professional Coaches Board of Directors, and is a registered ICF Mentor Coach.

    In 2022, Navid Nazemian has been recognised as HR’s Most Influential Practitioner by the HR Magazine, Coach of the Year by the CEO Today Magazine, and received the Outstanding Leadership Award from Education 2.0.

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