Radiance Leadership inc was founded in 2018 with a single mission: to build your team's fitness to navigate the complexity of tomorrow with intentionality, agility, compassion and collaboration. We approach each of our clients with fresh eyes to develop customized, unique engagements. We are an eclectic band of talented and committed coaches, consultants and above all leaders. Our backgrounds and life experiences are broad with rich flavours of business, science, technology, sport and plenty of international cultural exposure. We take great pride in creating impact and forging authentic alliances and bonds with our clients. In short, our Co-Founders and Associates are adept at listening and enabling clients to see, shift and understand their world through different lenses.
Jim is passionate about leadership, strategy and culture change. He is energetic, empathic and loves partnering with managers, leaders and senior executives to tackle their organizational challenges. His clients describe him as an entrepreneurial leader, skilled listener, coach, mentor and team enabler.
Jim’s core belief is that to be successful and sustainable, businesses, organizations and individual leaders must understand and strategically align their “Values, Why and Legacy”. Adept and skilled as a facilitator, consultant and coach, Jim’s current research inquiry is focused on the creation of “Leadership Legacies”. A client centric inquiry, which explores the opportunity and responsibility leaders and organizations have to create an authentic, resilient and sustainable “Legacy”.
Jim started and built his career with Nokia over a 17 year period which mirrored Nokia’s rise from an unknown, Finnish holding company to a global power house brand. During this period, Jim successfully held a number of senior leadership line and staff roles in Europe and the US. Examples include President of Nokia Display Products, Vice President Strategy for the Americas and Head of Human Resources for Europe.
Subsequently, Jim worked as a private consultant and was appointed to a number of Non-executive Director roles including a private equity fund, a significantly complex family business as well a number of start-ups and not-for-profit organizations. During this period Jim’s interest in family business and family business models grew. To compliment his consulting and Board advisory practice Jim completed the Institute of Corporate Directors SME Board effectiveness program as well as the ICD Directors Education Programme.
A bilingual, Swiss and Canadian citizen, Jim enjoys working in international, complex environments, which demand thoughtful, proactive, collaborative leadership. An avid runner, family man and nomad, he travels extensively between North America and Europe.
Anna is a Mechanical Engineer turned Certified Coach and Change Agent. Her experience in a high paced, high stakes business, delivering radiation imaging solutions for off-shore oil and gas, sparked Anna’s curiosity and appreciation of people. Behind every engineered product, process, system and protocol lies a rich mixture of human relationships. Anna’s strength is rooted in her understanding and appreciation of the relational, human side of complex systems and processes.
Anna believes in deepening individual and collective awareness and, in particular, assisting in understanding and appreciating how daily interactions and behaviours impact the leadership stories an organization is striving to create. She is an energetic facilitator, outside of the box strategist, and a compassionate coach. Her current organizational inquiry is on Ubuntu Leadership - "I am, because we are" especially in relation to developing an organization of high performing teams.
She is skilled at connecting and relating with stakeholders of all levels, while understanding and appreciating the dynamics on the shop floor, cycles of R&D and the pressures of delivery and safety. With depth and levity she meets each client where they are in their game of ‘performance’ and enables them to move forward. Anna holds a MSc and PhD (ABD) in Mechanical Engineering. She is a Swedish and Canadian citizen and comfortable in both languages. She has successfully developed and deployed, patented software applications and competed on an international level in both speed skating and mountain biking.Her random, fun passions include encouraging adventure and challenge in others by being a Professional Mountain Bike Instructor and a Functional Strength and Conditioning Coach.
Radiance Leadership is global and in todays increasingly virtual world we literally have the world at our fingertips. We have thus partnered with a variety of talented individuals who research and consultants in the areas of but not limited to: