Nicole S.

Nicole is an internationally experienced Corporate Trainer for Management and Leadership Development (Executive Educator); Certified Executive Coach through Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching (California, USA); Accredited Neuro Linguistic Programming Practitioner (Dubai, UAE); Registered assessor for ILM (Institute of Leadership and Management through City & Guilds (United Kingdom). Her degree in Communication Science incorporated various elements of organisational and social psychology, as well as International Communication and Inter-cultural Organisational Communication Science, among others. Nicole specialises in various fields such as: Advanced Communication, Executive Leadership Development, Organisational Psychology and Behaviour; Employee Motivation and Engagement, Mentoring and Coaching. Women Empowerment in the workplace; Train-the-Trainer, Advanced Emotional Intelligence, Executive Presence and Visibility, Advanced Presentation Skills, Confidence and Communication Development, She began her training career in 1997 counselling and up-skilling American youth in Leadership at the YMCA Camp Thunderbird in Lake Wylie, South Carolina, USA. She also headed up the Acting and Drama Programme focusing on confidence and public performance development. Thereafter, she went on to become a Business Development Manager for Clube Praia Da Oura Algarve, Portugal. She continued gaining international experience when she relocated to Dubai, UAE in 2009, immediately building knowledge and a better understanding of Middle Eastern markets and culture. Nicole relocated to Muscat, The Sultanate of Oman in 2011 and has since played an instrumental role in training Omani nationals and expatriates alike towards the sustainable development of the private sector and closing Omanisation gaps within all levels of management and leadership development. In 2013, after seeing Nicole present ‘’Value of spotting Leadership in Children and applying Emotional Intelligence to enhance child development,’’ for the Ministry of Higher Education, Oman, Dr.Steven Edwards invited her to conduct a live (virtual) workshop for 40 School principals in Washington D.C, USA, 2014 on ‘Emotional Intelligence for school leaders and Principles’ Nicole coached and trained senior management from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the workshops were conducted in Dubai, UAE (2013_2014) on behalf of Zenith Professional Training, United Kingdom. On behalf of the Women's Workforce Network Intisar Al-Kindy: Gender Balance Officer and Exploration Director, Petroleum Development Oman, entrusted Nicole to host and facilitate advanced high-energy workshops, to a hand selected group of: Executive Women ‘on the rise’. Nicole was awarded a contract on behalf of Kaplan Genesis (United Kingdom) to train and coach The Ministry of Health, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, October, 2017. Subject: Train-The-Trainer and Engagement and Mentoring, Jeddah and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, on behalf of Boost UAE, Nicole conducted a 3 day: Emirati Women Empowerment workshop to senior executives at ADNOC LNG (Abu Dhabi National Oil Company), United Arab Emirates (2018). In April 2018, Nicole was selected as one of 10 International Speakers to host a TED TALK for TEDX Muscat Live on: The importance of contributing to a greener society. As a result, Nicole has gained international acclaim as well as local respect from the expatriate and local communities in Oman.