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Cristina Escallón
Cristina Escallón is an expert in personal and group transformation, leadership development and culture change, working with CEOs, companies, top teams, business schools, social entrepreneurs, and families around the world. She helps create safe spaces where people can understand themselves and others deeply, by engaging the brain, the heart and the gut; have ‘the real’ conversations; explore how to lead a more meaningful life; and operate as more impactful teams. Ultimately, she wants to help increase consciousness at the individual, organisational and societal levels. She regularly teaches and gives talks on leadership and neuroscience.
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£6000 - £10000
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£6000 - £8000
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Cristina is a Senior Affiliate with Aberkyn/McKinsey, Eden McCallum, Affiliate Faculty at London Business School, Guest Lecturer and Programme Director at Oxford University Said Business School. She has been a lecturer at INSEAD; speaker with Raise the Bar and the How to Academy; senior advisor to Ashoka, the largest global network of social entrepreneurs. She has run a leadership centre at INSEAD; the ‘Women Leading Change’ programme in the University of Dar es Salaam, in Tanzania; and open personal transformation courses in the UK.
A native of Colombia and engineer by background, she started her career with Procter & Gamble in marketing.
After completing her MBA at INSEAD in 1995, she moved to New York and later London, where she joined Accenture as a strategy consultant. After several years, she became Human Capital Strategy Director, working with the CEO and the Executive team.
Cristina’s purpose is to create more conscious leaders, people, organisations and systems.
She set up her own business in 2005 and has worked extensively across various industries and cultures; with corporations, governments, educational institutions and social ventures; from the largest organisations in the world, to family businesses and start-ups; ‘stable’ teams, new teams, turnaround, and merger scenarios; and across Europe, Asia, America, and Africa.
Her work focuses on transformation, at a personal, team and systems level, largely through senior team sessions, organisation-wide programmes, lectures and 1-1 work with key leaders. She gives regular talks, integrating the practical, as well as the academic aspects of leadership and neuroscience into her work. Programmes are often face to face, but she delivers regularly online – this allows for more scalable solutions, with a much lower carbon footprint.
The work is done ‘from the inside out’, i.e. with meaningful personal reflections before tackling group dynamics. Topics include behaviours, mindsets, values, purpose, transformation, relationships, trust, courageous conversations, leadership, culture, cultural differences, neuroscience, team effectiveness, resilience, stress, sleep and mindfulness, amongst others. She regularly develops new content based on client needs and emerging research.
In addition to her corporate work, she works with social enterprises regularly and sits on several boards. She co-developed a ‘Trauma Informed Facilitation’ course and regularly runs sessions to process big events, like the pandemic, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, in real time.
Some of Cristina’s Leadership Talk Topics can include:
- Resilience
- Creating Mental Space
- Neuroscience For Life & Leadership
- Neuroscience of Transformation
- The Science of Emotions
- Shifting Mindsets
- Personal Purpose
- Courageous Conversations
- Cultural Intelligence
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