What our clients say:
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Matthias Schorer, Head of Customer Value & Transformation Advisors, Google
“I still vividly remember the training where I first had the pleasure to see Aluba's skills in action. Going into the training I did not exactly have high hopes, because I've witnessed too many mediocre trainings in my career. But this feeling changed at the moment Aluba entered the room! So much energy, so much down to earth wisdom, paired with a big smile and a wit sense of humour. One could immediately feel Aluba's room filling presence, which made everyone put away their phones and laptops, and instead listen to what Aluba had to say and teach. In hindsight it was one of the best management trainings I have ever had, and I can highly recommend to do sessions with Aluba.”
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Elisabeth Jeremko, Head of Sales, Google Cloud, North America
“Aluba is a powerhouse leadership coach - equal parts heart & mind. I've been fortunate enough to receive Aluba's coaching both as a team member participating in sessions, as well as coordinating with him to run a series for my team. Aluba has an ability to rapidly build rapport with teams, while also digging deeper and creating an environment of authenticity. He can coach on a wide variety of topics, and I've also seen him pivot in real-time to capture the needs of the group (e.g. reframing negative self-chatter). He is also highly professional (a breeze to schedule with, and highly articulate/communicative). It has truly been a gift for Googlers to work with Aluba, because not only does his content help them be more effective, collaborative colleagues, but his workshop content spills over into other areas of life. The content that teams & individuals absorb from Aluba have the potential to better their lives across every category, whether that be work, productivity, relationships, and mindset. This type of knowledge & toolset is invaluable.”
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Nuno Vieira da Silva, Chief Sales Officer, Devoteam G Cloud, Portugal
“Aluba is a great coach, a great leader and an amazing colleague. I had the privilege at Google of attending multiple leadership and training sessions from Aluba, and it was always very rich, inspirational and insightful. As a Country Manager for Google Cloud Portugal, Aluba helped me on my professional, but also personal development. The sessions covered many topics, from sales practices, team management, soft skills and many more, really recommend his sessions. There is only a few people that impact you on different levels, personally and professionally, Aluba is one of those.”
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Simon Macklin, Regional Vice President, Customer Success UK&I, Salesforce
“Aluba delivered a highly memorable custom training course for me at a time when I was struggling to bring 7 different leaders and teams together. I found Aluba’s memorable and people-centred approach to be highly effective in breaking down barriers and getting people to think in a different way about how they show up and interact with each other. The story-telling, totem and physical exercises we did together really had a positive lasting impact on the team dynamic. Thank you!”
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Cathy Conneff, International Skills and Sales Leaders Programs, Salesforce
“I had the pleasure of working with Aluba on our EMEA Regional Kick off where he presented a session on Biohacking. He is hugely insightful and his session was a huge hit with our teams helping them to introduce lifestyle hacks to harness their full potential. He is a dynamic presenter and his sessions are thought-provoking and interactive. A great way to reset and shift your mindset to tackle another year of huge growth! Thanks Aluba!”
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Claire Hallmey, Wellbeing Manager, Oracle
“Aluba ran some brilliant Biohacking sessions at Oracle in January 2017. Our aim was to get people thinking about their own personal health and wellbeing in a different more individual way. Aluba’s sessions helped employees to think about change and provided grounded research along with valuable considerations to aid that process. People were encouraged to listen in whilst on a walk, combining a holistic mind and body session.”
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Rachel Walker, Head of Sales SouthGEO, Google Cloud, North America
I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Aluba at Google. My leadership team and I had the opportunity to leverage his insights and perspectives related to Growth Mindset. It was such a profound engagement that my leaders went on to engage Aluba in multiple follow up sessions. Mindset is so critical to delivering success in a sales organization, as well as in many other areas of our lives. His time with us was critical to setting a solid foundation for our success this year and for years to come. I look forward to the opportunity to engage with Aluba again in the near future and encourage anyone who has the opportunity to work with him to do so at their earliest convenience.
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Jessie Tung, Head of Project, Change & Customer Success EMEA & APAC, CBRE Investment Management
I first met Aluba back in 2017 when I worked at Salesforce. At the time, he was brought in by my management conducting a series of workshops as part of forming a new team. We remained in contact since, and even now I still leverage his expertise to help myself in leadership / team development. Over the years, through the lens of Aluba, I learned more things about myself (that I was not necessarily aware of), how to perform the best as a professional, and how to help others to achieve the same.
Aluba has been a life changing resource and has always inspired me in defining my value, purpose, and leadership style. His out of box thinking also helped me define the person I want to become, and how I can personally contribute to building a better world / team / business that is future proof. I am still on the journey and grateful that I have Aluba being my guide! I would absolutely recommend working with Aluba as he is such a kind, but direct mentor that really helps individuals navigate through challenges and provides unique perspectives to any topics.
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Tom Handley, RVP, Portfolio Lead, Customer Success UKI, Salesforce
Aluba has a special talent when it comes to leadership coaching and business psychology. Having had the pleasure of having Aluba as a colleague for a few years, I jumped at the opportunity to be on the receiving end of his brilliance as a customer. Aluba opened up our eyes to a whole new way of coaching and connecting with our clients and has given us models that, with practice, will advance our capabilities as coaches and drive new and improved outcomes for our clients. Huge thanks!
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Chris Johnston, CEO, Adoreboard, a Gartner Cool Vendor!
I highly recommend Aluba as a highly skilled facilitator and team coach. Aluba introduced the concept of 'systems coaching' at a critical time in the growth of Adoreboard. This essentially helped the team to re-frame and re-imagine Adoreboard by putting the customer at the centre of everything that we do. Aluba created a fun and supportive team environment that enabled us to step outside of what we thought was possible as a team to create a new system of approach. The result: a clear and shared team vision with the underpinning mechanisms for achieving goals and ways to measure. The exercises, knowledge and new skills that Aluba chose to coach us on, lead us to a new point of understanding within our team, what we wanted to achieve together and the values that would propel us. Ultimately, Aluba enabling us to step into the new vision we had collectively created with renewed focus, energy and enthusiasm. Thank you!
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Andrew Wallis OBE, CEO of Multi-Award Winning Charity, Unseen
Aluba worked with my team at Unseen UK delivering a phenomenal two part program - biohacking and making promises within a team. His sensitivity to where the team was at, the situations they faced and how by thinking, living and working holistically one can improve all of life's outcomes was really well received. By putting these two workshops together it meant that everyone found real nuggets of gold that I am beginning to see paying dividends not only for the organisation but also for the individuals as well. So if you are looking for someone at the top of their game and want to stretch and develop either yourself or your teams book Aluba.
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Jeroen Stapper, Professional Photographer
For a few months now, Aluba has been coaching me, to help me investigate the narratives and self-limiting beliefs that are in the way of personal growth. He listens attentively and he has a remarkable gift of reflecting back a coherent overview of what he understands is being said. Aluba truly knows how to hold space, when to respond, humbly yet with conviction. He knows how to ask the right questions and how to offer different perspectives, tools and techniques that allow for a gentle but profound reprogramming of the conditioned mind. I find it an absolute joy to be in session with him and trust him deeply. Besides all his skills he is a compassionate and loving human being on a path of exceptional service.
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Neil Sutton, Design Engineer, Facebook
During the time Aluba has been my coach, I have been very impressed by his guidance. He brings such positive energy to his coaching. He has a wealth of knowledge from which he draws the most practical, real world insights. I always come away from our meetings full of enthusiasm and energy. I have enjoyed positive change and real, lasting benefits from our interactions.
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Simon Collinson, Sales Director, Salesforce
Aluba is a very strong Coach. He brings energy, enthusiasm and a lot of blue sky thinking to the table. Aluba’s many years as a proven sales person and consultant mean that he can relate, and coach around a range of business and personal challenges.
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Kapil R Bhatia, Regional Vice President, Salesforce
I worked with Aluba as a part of Salesforce's internal coaching program. I left every session energised. My monthly meetings with him were great sessions to assess and take stock of everything. Aluba helped me explore self-limiting beliefs. Also as a coach I found him fully attentive and a great listener. Apart from the overall mindset change, the several tips he shared serve me well. Also Aluba walks the talk which is great to know if you are his client. For me the timing of this coaching was perfect and I am glad that I had the opportunity to work with Aluba.
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Rachael Harper, Modern Slavery Helpline Manager, Unseen UK
We welcomed Aluba Fenix to the Modern Slavery Helpline, operated by Unseen UK, in May 2018. We greatly enjoyed Aluba’s session discussing ways to identify and use personal motivations, embrace and manage stress, maximise productivity, and set and achieve personal goals. The informative presentation included scientific research regarding mental focus and biological working rhythms, and Aluba’s approach made the subjects easy to understand through a range of visuals, examples and discussions. The session was a dynamic, interactive time for all. Aluba not only spoke about the importance of physical movement, but led us in fun exercises and discussed the importance of key life factors such as sleep, hobbies and eating well. Our staff came away with a better understanding of what motivates each of us, how to succeed in stressful situations and key messages including how striving towards something is more powerful than wanting to move away from something. One of our Helpline Advisers has now created a beautiful mural, inspired by this session, which hangs in our office for the team to enjoy daily, reminding us of the influential ideas shared, to utilise in our professional and personal lives.
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Samantha Seager, Actor, Voice over Artist, Creator of Acting Bugs
I have worked with Aluba as a coach at various times in the last five years and have achieved some incredible results through him.
Initially, Aluba helped me to get clear on the vision for my storytelling company, Acting Bugs and encouraged and inspired me to take courageous steps and work efficiently at building the company up as a business I loved, one that was profitable, adding value, that I was very proud of and that supported me while I was a stay at home mum.
In more recent years, I have worked with Aluba as a mentor and coach to guide and support me as I transition back into my acting career, which is flourishing. Aluba is so imaginative and astute and he challenges your beliefs about yourself and your situations in ways which help you to solve your own problems and find solutions to any obstacles. He is warm, open hearted, engaging and puts everyone at ease immediately, he is terrific to work with.
I always have at least one 'aha' moment every session where the penny drops about something really useful and important.
I have gained so much from working with Aluba and my career and the way I show up for it has been shaped and developed through working with him. I don't think I would be where I am now without his guidance and mentorship. I can't recommend him highly enough and often do recommend him to my friends and colleagues.
Thank you Aluba for all your help, support and guidance so far.. and I look forward to continuing this work.
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Paul Lamaison, Customer Success Director, The Access Group
“Aluba spent a morning with my direct reports at The Access Group in Loughborough, to run a Designed Alliance session with us. The purpose was to show us how we could be a higher performing team. The team were all fully engaged throughout the session and all commented to me how different it was to other training they have received.
Aluba facilitates the sessions extremely well, and all commented that his clearing the mind meditation opening was very powerful.
The session ended with a team charter that we will review monthly to ensure we extract all the value from all the points raised, and I look forward to my team doing amazing things in the future!
I would highly recommend Aluba to anyone looking to build stronger/closer teams, even if the teams are performing quite different roles, as my team were.
I would definitely engage Aluba again on one of his other courses, and I fully expect him to do more work with The Access Group in the near future.”