Praesta Insights
Executive Directions started its operations in April 2004. Its mission has always been to "Develop Senior Executive Careers". Originally this was achieved through a combination of executive search and executive coaching together, however in 2008 the focus shifted to senior executive coaching and consulting services. This was an important shift in becoming more client focused, as our clients are senior executives who are wanting to get more out of their careers. We execute our coaching and consulting work through the Praesta brand. We started our relationship with Praesta in 2009 and continue to deepen this association. Praesta is one of the world's pre-eminent senior executive and team coaching practices with over 40 coaches across 15 countries. We operate out of both Sydney and Singapore and our clients are based all across the Asia Pacific region.
Mark S Powell
Mark founded XD to help senior executives and their teams to rise to the challenge and become the best they can be. He combines experience as a corporate leader and business entrepreneur with a keen interest in human psychology, creative thinking, and group behaviour, to deliver breakthrough coaching and facilitation.
Change & Agility
Leadership Snacks
Team & Interdependency
Praesta offers an unrivalled coaching proposition, working with senior leaders and their teams, including CEOs, Directors, management team members and other key executive talent. Our clients range across several hundred organisations in the private and public sectors. All of our team have had senior level careers before becoming coaches. Thorough training, continual professional development and regular supervision are integral to how we work. As well as one to one coaching, we coach teams and conduct team and board effectiveness reviews. We are also leaders in coaching and mentoring on diversity.
Six Minutes or Six Breaths
"Turtling Up' – Dealing Mindfully with Information Overload
Email 1: mark.powell@praesta.com
Email 2: mark.powell@xdirections.com
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