“This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
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Alongside leadership coaching & consulting - some recent projects have included:
Leading the Agrifood Systems Change Consortium’s in-person gathering on Deep Regeneration in both Italy and Germany.
Mentoring for facilitators and teams in the design, development and delivery of transformational retreats, gatherings, processes and programmes.
Online convening of some Better Way Foundation’s ecosystem for various gatherings.
Germany: Hosted a Responsible Leaders Network Drivers Meeting in Berlin.
Austria: Hosted the first lab at the European Forum Alpbach in 2021 for 30+ Climate Leaders. Since then led additional Climate Opportunity Leaders Labs, Beyond Siloes, Leadership Circles, Bold Approaches to Systemic Funding and many more between 2021 and 2024
Germany: Guided the RESPOND Responsible Leaders’ Retreat at BOLD Campus in Frankfurt for Climate Tech leaders.
Singapore: Co-led a Systems Change Design Studio immersion on the Future of Education and Teaching for Raffles Institution.
Spain: Guided Sagana’s L&D Journey online and team retreats in Mallorca
Iceland: Hosted an immersive journey for a 60+ young people on Inner Work for Outer Impact with Leaders Quest and Sarsen | Light.
Berlin: Held a Strategic Planning workshop with BMW Foundation’s Collective Intelligence team
UK: Led Generation Pledge’s first in person Global Gathering in the UK
Italy / Austria: Hosted Ashoka’s Global Gathering and European Forums in Rome and Vienna
UK + Global: Worked across generations with family businesses, inheritors and their leadership and impact journeys
Netherlands: Facilitating BARA’s (Business Alliance for Regenerative Agriculture) launch.
Online: Co-developed Radicle’s Provocations & Systems map with Dark Matter Labs for RewirEd
US: Co-designed, launched and facilitated Summit Junto for its inaugural year.
Some projects before 2020:
2008 - 2013:
CEO & Course Director for Lucca SA: Including Foundations of Transformational Leadership, Living Leadership, Leadership in Action, Catalyst, Catalyst 2.0, Dance4Life Mentor Training, Coaches Training etc
Lucca Leadership Course Director, Heads of Ops / Senior Coach: In Macedonia, Italy, The Netherlands, UK, Ireland
2012-2016:
Director | Lead Facilitator for Power of Youth with Global Summits in Purpose-driven entrepreneurship in Scotland, England, Cape Town, Beijing, and Bangalore.
2012 - 2017:
Lead Facilitator for over 6 Erasmus+ programmes at the Asha Centre: Including Leadership Foundations, Peace Education, Social Entrepreneurship and Thessaloniki.
2011 - 2020:
Co-hosted 3 Skoll Skollar’s annual community summits in Oxford 2013-2015. Designed a Youth Leadership programme for ISSOS in 2015. Led Ashoka’s American Express Leadership Bootcamp in Berlin in 2017. Part of the team that launched the Co-creation Loft in Berlin in 2017. Partnered with Create Meaning to launch / guide a number of projects 2016-2019. Leadership Training for the Lila Poonawalla Foundation in Pune in 2011. Led the Joy Experiment in 2011. Co-hosted Conspire 2017. Hosted off-site for Ascendeur in 2019.
2005 - 2007:
Founder | Director of Serotonin Productions: Including Director & Producing Eurafrica; creating Like Honey, Like Fire and co-producing Cape Town Rocks; event organisation for the Cape Leopard Trust; creator of Casting 101.
With participants, teams, colleagues and clients from all over the world, I’ve had the great joy of guiding experiences in:
Singapore | Iceland | Spain | South Africa | Scotland | Germany | Austria | The Netherlands | Italy | Sweden | Ireland | America | India | China | Greece | Macedonia | England… and of course - Zoom.
Below is a collection of some of the projects I’ve had the incredible opportunity to work with over the last 18 years.
Power of Youth Global Summit South Africa
"I have worked with Ilana for 13 years and can truly say that she is one of a kind. Ilana’s expertise is so deep that it appears effortless, magical."
- Pip Wheaton, Director ASHOKA - UK
American Express Ashoka Leadership Bootcamp
"Ilana has an all-star line-up of business people around the world who will point to the impact she has made on their lives and their businesses but the most impressive results of her work won’t be seen for years as the Ilana effect continues to ripple round the world."
- Neil McInnes, CEO Umega Lettings - Scotland
Co-creation Loft launch in Berlin
“I have met no-one since who can as effectively unlock the potential within a group of people, no matter how diverse or potentially challenging. Her mix of deep intuition and experience mixed with her boundless creativity and energy create the perfect conditions for transformational experiences to happen in her company. Ilana is…quite simply the best facilitator I have ever worked with.”
- Adam Purvis, Co-founder Power of Youth and FutureX
Power of Youth Global Summit in Banglore
“The way Ilana facilitated these days has been absolutely fascinating and incredibly inspiring. It's a true gift to bring 20 persons from completely different backgrounds, with unique missions and experiences, together and still manage to create a connection that I don't think many of us have experienced in so short time.”
- American Express Emerging Innovators Bootcamp, Berlin
Peace Education training at the Asha Centre
"Ilana is unique in the field of leadership development. Her playful manner and shy smile belie her ability to captivate her audience completely creating a space where trust is absolute and strong and rewarding bonds are forged. Using a variety of deceptively simple games and discussions participants explore how to grow as a leader, inspire their team and drive their businesses forward. I have no idea how Ilana does it but it works – every time."
- Evelyn McDonald, CEO ScotEdge - Scotland
Skoll Summit in Oxford
"Ilana is a magician. You know when you’re in a crowd of people and you witness something absolutely amazing that nobody else sees – like a unicorn – but nobody else saw it so they don’t believe you? That’s how I feel that the world is going to feel like after my experience.
Thanks for letting me see a unicorn."
- Isabel Malone, IkamvaYouth - South Africa
"I am bedazzled by her approach. She is able to engage with all of us, reaching into the depth of our core."
- Khanita Khan, TSiBA University - South Africa
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Snapshots from around the world
A compilation of facilitaton footage
