About us
The facilitator for the Oasis project is Ann Houston Kelley of Nomadic Executive Development, a firm specializing in executive coaching and international team facilitation. Our focus is on coaching industrial leaders and their management teams in "getting the job done" in an increasingly complex, diverse and changing business environment. More often than not, we help clients deal with the ‘larger issues' beyond the day to day work, such as finding meaning in their careers and combining work responsibilities with private life.
Nomadic Executive Development has a 12 year history in the field, working with men and women from across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America. Offering a unique program for female executives has been a dream project for Ann for many years.
Ann Houston Kelley
Ann Houston Kelley is American and Dutch based in The Netherlands. In her 20+ years in Europe, she has developed a successful leadership development firm specializing in the following areas:
delivering quality executive coachingbuilding high performance global teams
advising clients on value-added approaches to organizational leadership development
enabling organizations to use diversity and cross-cultural competence ‘to get the job done’
making expatriation work for the benefit of the organization and the individuals involved
promoting professional and personal sustainability for executive women (www.oasisnomadiclife.com)
She works primarily across Europe and the Middle East and her clients come from the consultancy, financial services, ICT, NGO, petrochemical, pharma and retail sectors.
She is trained as an economist and family systems psychotherapist and is a senior associate of the Insead Global Leadership Center and the Center for Creative Leadership. She is a member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research and the American Psychological Association. She is the author of the chapter “Coaching Executives across Cultures” in Coach and Couch The Psychology of Making Better Leaders (edited by Manfred Kets-deVries, Insead Press, Palgrave McMillan 2007).
What clients say about us
- The workshop provided by Nomadic Executive Development inspired my self confidence (participant at Shell Learning Centre)
- During a very challenging time in my career, the program motivated me to stay true to my personal vision and keep learning (University Director Istanbul)
- The workshop was very positive and it helped me a lot (EADS Leadership Programme)
- Very supportive and adaptive to a questioning audience (Philips Corporate HR)
- Better than expected! (EADS executive coaching client)
- I believe that the success of the group coaching session was a result of Ann's excellent facilitation and her ability to ask the appropriate question and her insightful construction. (Insead Johnson & Johnson group coaching client).
- Ann drives the process in a perfect way. (Insead International Executive Programme group coaching client).
- Ann finds the things that really ring true. I was really surprised. It was really valuable. Thanks. (CCL Syngenta coaching client)
