Prepping for the Real World

🟣 A self-development guidebook about bravely taking the lead role in designing your extraordinary world.  A powerful tool for young readers who are enduring periods of self-doubt, stagnation or rejection.

Author of Prepping for the Real World : Student and Graduate Success Secrets 

Young, Brilliant & Ready Ltd

Director and Founder

Royal Holloway, University of London

Senior Visiting Lecturer

TED Conferences

🟣 You Have Everything It Takes To Be Your Best | Cel Amade | TEDxSIMSREE (August 2021)

🟣 How To Deal With Rejection And Get What You Want | Cel Amade | TEDxSurreyUniversity (May 2022)

TEDx Speaker

University of Warwick

Warwick Enterprise

TSAKA Limited

Fairplay Consulting

Management Consultant

41% of graduates don’t feel confident entering the workplace, speaking to seniors and are anxious around their ability to achieve their aspirations. I am passionate about changing this because I believe everyone should feel confident, inspired, and empowered to innovate and reach their full potential.

In the past 24 months, I’ve delivered keynotes and presentations in 7 countries. I’ve also published a best-selling book, rocked the TEDx stage (twice!) and grown my YouTube channel to over 14,000 subscribers. All of which I use to empower young people with the personal development tools they need to step into the world of work or business with confidence.
 
As a result of working with me students, graduates & young professionals:
✅ Feel more driven to take proactive steps towards their academic, career & business goals
✅ Have improved self-esteem to show up authentically & feel less isolated
✅ Develop more self-awareness to disempower limiting beliefs and doubts
✅ Create wellbeing habits for personal fulfilment and happiness
✅ Overcome their public speaking fears and use their voice to communicate with impact
✅ Feel more confident in their ability to create their future, regardless of their background, race and gender

I provide Confidence, Mindset & DEI :
🟣 Keynote Presentations
🟣 Group Workshops
🟣 Group Trainings

What My Clients Say:
🗣“The students visibly blossomed in Cel’s presence as she gently yet firmly encouraged them to ‘recognise their inner champions’ and offered them practical advice on ‘realising their potential and manifesting their goals”
 
🗣“Cel delivered the workshops with excellence. She also gave us what we didn’t even know we needed – a safe space to have uplifting and courageous conversations on diversity, equity and inclusion”
 
Bespoke packages are available on request, so please do send me a connection request and a DM.

And in case you’re curious, when I’m not empowering our future leaders, I can be found in the gym or walking in the park to compensate for my love of peri-peri chicken, and I’m often travelling or volunteering as the youngest Advisory Board member of the School of Business and Management at Royal Holloway University.
 
If you're not ready to work with me yet, don't worry! You can grab some of my tips & free resources:
🔗Free stuff: https://celamade.com/designing-your-own-world-guide/

And remember, if you ever wonder, am I welcome here? The answer is YES🙂

Cel Amade

Ziano Mindspa

Global Speaker, Author and Coach

With almost three decades of corporate Human Resources experience, I work with mid-senior level professional women feel stuck and unfulfilled, wanting to do something more meaningful. I help them see more their potential, power and possibilities, reignite a lost spark and develop a renewed purpose so they can create a life that is rewarding and authentic.

I am passionate about inspiring women to live full and authentic lives, to redefine themselves beyond their job title, relationships or circumstances, to rediscover their forgotten dreams and redesign their life so they can live without regrets. I love to see the smiles on their faces when I share something inspiring, something which gives them hope and the strength to carry on through the storms of their life’s journey. I love to encourage them to take control of the pen that is used to write the story of their life. 

Reconnect with your inner self, expand your vision and create the life you desire. You Are Enough.  

Do you want to design the next chapter of your life and move from ‘𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁?’ 𝘁𝗼 ‘𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗠𝗲!’. I can help you! Join my masterclass where I share my 5 keys to connecting with your limitless potential:
Clarity (self-discovery)
Courage (self-belief)
Commitment (self-love)
Conviction (self-fulfillment)
Celebrate (gratitude)

To learn more, please visit https://ziano.co.uk/

Founder

Author – Your Life Is Calling

Shell

▪️Developing a Reward strategy for Shell’s New Energies global acquisitions (circa 13, ranging from start-ups, Digital, Venture Capital, to IT and traditional Oil & Gas) and implementing appropriate Reward programmes for these small and medium sized businesses, including LTIPs, STIPs, salary structures etc.
▪️ Establishing post-acquisition governance guidelines and frameworks, such as Remuneration Committees.  
▪️ Working closely with senior leaders in New Energies businesses to develop Reward initiatives for new and unique situations to Shell’s traditional business.
▪️ Working closely with the VP, Reward, to manage the Compensation and Benefits of management level employees of New Energies subsidiaries post acquisition.

Reward Consultant

EBRD

▪️ Responsible for providing input to the development and communication of the Bank’s reward strategy.
▪️ Writing Compensation and Benefits proposal papers to share information and obtain approval from the Board and its sub-committees.
▪️ Developing and implementing a vacancy-led approach to the senior management promotions process.
▪️ Leading the provision of Reward consulting advice and guidance to HR and business leaders.

(Interim) Principal, Reward

Willis Towers Watson

▪️ Following the merger of Willis and Towers Watson in 2016, I lead the implementation of a harmonised and integrated, competitive Compensation framework, impacting circa 20,000 colleagues in a global matrix structure across 5 business lines in 75 countries in 5 continents.
▪️ Lead the annual compensation review process for the Investment, Risk and Reinsurance business globally.
▪️ Support the implementation of a new global career framework across the same global footprint.

(Interim) Compensation Integration Lead

Visa

▪️ Pre and post-acquisition activities including job architecture and Reward integration, and Benefits harmonisation following the acquisition of Visa Europe by Visa Inc. in June 2016.
▪️ Manage and develop the full Reward strategy across 21 established and emerging European countries; competitive compensation programmes, market focused and performance related base pay systems, short and long-term incentive schemes and job evaluation framework.
▪️ Responsible for writing RemCo papers and reporting comprehensively on all aspects of executive compensation and Reward change programmes.
▪️ Manage executive remuneration programmes including base pay and short and long-term incentives for new hires, promotions and internal moves. Manage the executive annual review process.
▪️ Integration and harmonisation of existing compensation programmes, job architecture and supporting processes due to a merger.    
▪️ Lead the review of the Visa Europe career framework job architecture to make it agile and reflective of a commercial organisation structure. Implement a governance protocol around job creation and levelling.  
▪️ Develop a robust performance management framework which drives greater differentiation and linkage to compensation decisions and key corporate strategies.

Senior Reward Manager - Compensation

▪️Lead the regional annual compensation activities for example, performance management, job evaluation, promotions, salary and bonus reviews.
▪️ Review and develop effective and consistent compensation structures in line with global initiatives​.​
▪️ Localise and implement global Reward policies and initiatives across 22 countries in Europe and the Middle East.
▪️ Manage the European Global Mobility programme.

Lead, Rewards - Europe & Middle East

Travelport

▪️Lead and deliver the UK Pensions Auto Enrolment project.
▪️Manage the annual performance management, salary and bonus review processes for 3500 employees in over 20 countries.
▪️Manage the global International Assignee programme.
▪️Assess compensation and benefits trends in emerging markets (MEA, APAC and LATAM) to ensure Travelport preserves and enhances its competitive position.
▪️ Manage global vendors, brokers and consultants to ensure delivery of service to cost.  
▪️ Job evaluation and salary benchmarking using Towers Watson, Radford and IPAS surveys.
▪️Support, coach and guide HR teams in over 20 countries on Compensation philosophy and best practice.

Senior Compensation and Benefits Manager

AstraZeneca

▪️Own, manage and deliver the 2011 Reward pay round (Salary, Bonus and LTI) for 1200 employees.
▪️Support the delivery of the Global Commercial Organisation, Senior Leaders 2011 Reward pay round for 500 employees in over 13 countries.

Reward Partner

▪️Support the development and implementation of a major, global HR transformation programme by providing subject matter expertise on the end to end Performance, Reward and Talent management processes.
▪️ Develop and implement a global job catalogue with career levels, role profiles, competencies and capabilities used for recruitment, development, talent and performance management, workforce planning and reward management.  
▪️Own relationship with countries in portfolio (approx.35) with job evaluation and mapping of employees (approx. 25,000) to roles in the new global job catalogue.
▪️Deliver presentations to global and country teams on new processes.

Global Reward Project Manager

▪️ Deliver the end to end Performance and Reward agenda for AZ UK Marketing Company.
▪️ Project manage the design, development and sign off of the annual salary review and bonus pay round.
▪️ Own and manage Performance and Reward programmes and communications.
▪️ Governance of Reward policy and practice.
▪️ Provide consultative and specialist Reward advice as a subject matter expert to HR colleagues.

HSBC

▪️Support the Global Transactional Banking and Global Banking businesses to include:
▪️Management of the compensation approval process,
▪️Advice the business on compensation market trends and data analysis,
▪️Provide quality salary benchmarking analysis and interpretation using internal comparatives and external market surveys.
▪️Advice and guide HR colleagues on Reward related policies and processes such as new hires, promotions, transfers, secondments, non standard and off cycle reward issues.
▪️Assist in the management of the McLagan and Towers Perrin annual survey programmes.

Global Reward Management (Interim Role)

Xerox

▪️Owned and managed a European wide project, following a major organisational restructure. Activities involved:
- Creating role profiles for the top 200 newly created roles across Xerox Europe (8 countries),
- Developing a competency framework for evaluating performance management and identifying developmental opportunities,
- Job analysis, including evaluating, grading and matching of new roles,
- Creating job descriptions and developing role profiles for each of these roles.
▪️ Conducted a review of the organisation’s executive compensation structure, including expatriates and international assignments, to ensure that reward strategy remains competitive and up to date.

European Reward Project (Interim Role)

Do you have a longing to experience more of the potential, purpose and possibilities of your life? 
Do you ever wonder, 'Is this it?', 'There has got to be more!', 'Now what?', or, 'What am I meant to do with my life?’

This is exactly how I felt!

For almost three decades I worked in the corporate world. I had great jobs and a good life on paper, working with amazing people in enriching environments but somewhere in that dream, I lost myself. I knew that there was more for me. I hadn’t explored my dreams or discovered the possibilities of who and what I could be. But I didn’t have the courage to disrupt the status quo, to believe in myself, so I stayed stuck, feeling empty, exhausted and unfulfilled.

Then one day, in a meeting, I heard a quiet voice in my head say, 'Not today'. It hit me that no-one was coming to rescue me. It was my responsibility to take control of the direction of my life. That day I answered the call and began my journey of rediscovering who I am,  reigniting my lost spark, regaining my power and reshaping my future. Today I am an author and global speaker (I have shared the stage with the legend, Les Brown). I am also the Founder of Ziano Mindspa, inspiring and empowering mid-senior level professional women who feel unfulfilled, wanting to do something more meaningful. I help them see more their potential, power and possibilities, reignite a lost spark and develop a renewed purpose so they can create a life that is rewarding and authentic.   

Sometimes we put our dreams on hold, waiting for the perfect time. Sometimes we disqualify ourselves from living our best life, discounting our gifts, talents and abilities. So we think small, we act small, we play it safe. Or worse, we don’t even play at all.

What have you put on hold? Are you playing it safe? Are you waiting for the perfect time?

The yearnings you feel are coming from your heart, calling you from your future, alerting you to the promise of the possibilities of your life. It's time to unleash the person that is lying waiting, buried deep within you. Your Life Is Calling.  

I can help you, like I helped myself, using my 4C framework from Self-awareness to Self-fulfilment:
Clarity 
Courage 
Commitment
Conviction

Are you ready? Are you willing?

𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀: Public Speaking, Keynote, Panelist, Conferences, Seminars and Summits  

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗠𝗲:
I'm open to Keynote/Public Speaking Engagements. I can be reached via:

𝗘𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹: ziano@ziano.co.uk

𝗦𝗠: IG - @ziano_mindspa; FB - @zianospeaks; CH - @zianomindspa

𝗪𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲: http://www.ziano.co.uk

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