Junior Chamber International Malta is organising a two-hour training-workshop entitled Influencing Essentials on Thursday, 5 May starting at 6.30pm. It will be delivered by executive coach Amanda Holmes and is open to the public.

In this interactive workshop, strategies to build personal presence and influence will be discussed. Areas to be covered include what is entailed in having a personal brand, the impressions an individual has to create in a professional setting and how effective one is at doing this.

The workshop will touch upon the essential ingredients needed to influence others and what strategies can be used.

Formerly a director at Unilever, Ms Holmes has worked in a range of marketing and sales roles, from operational assignments to leading global strategy. Her commitment to developing herself and those around her led to a role in the Unilever Marketing Academy, with responsibility for communications strategy and capability development for Unilever marketers across the world.

Ms Holmes brings to her work as an executive coach her passion for engendering learning in a commercial setting, drawing upon a variety of coaching methodologies depending upon the individual’s objectives within the organisational context.

Although her passport is British, since leaving school Ms Holmes has lived in seven countries, and has worked with people from many more, enjoying and endlessly benefiting from the perspectives and experiences presented by such diversity.

She has a Post Graduate Diploma in Executive Coaching from Henley Business School and is a certified NLP practitioner. She has a BSc in Management Sciences from Warwick University and is currently completing an MSc in Executive Coaching and Behaviour Change at Henley.

Registration for the workshop can be done by sending an email to [email protected] or by ringing 7909 1984. More information on JCI Malta can be found on www.jci.org.mt