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NATHALIE DASSAS
Founding Partner, Executive Coach & Consultant
Nathalie’s career has focused on financial communications, public relations, brand strategy and marketing. She started her career in investment banking at UBS and Merrill Lynch before specialising in financial communications at Hill & Knowlton and Citigate Dewe Rogerson and Fin International in London. Nathalie has worked with management committees and leaders in organisations such as Calyon, Amundi, and General Electric, to help them design and implement corporate brand and communications programmes. In 2003, she relocated to Paris to provide on-the-ground support for French clients, in particular, coaching senior executives in cultural and communications challenges.
Nathalie trained as an Executive Coach at Chester University in the UK and joined TPA in early 2011, heading the TPA Paris office before co-founding Aesara Partners in 2016, a specialist executive and consultancy firm. Nathalie has built a strong reputation in one-to-one and team coaching working with leaders and leadership teams to design winning strategies, define ways of working, and deliver sustainable growth. Nathalie is passionate about identifying and unlocking potential to ensure that her clients achieve everything of which they are capable.
Nathalie’s main area of industry focus is in FMCGs, Luxury Goods, Banking, Financial & Professional Services. Over the past 5 years she has accumulated over 4000 hours. Nathalie has coached Managing Directors, Executive Committees and many Excos (including C Suite). The vast majority of her coaching work has been in financial services and FMCGs (Danone, Suntory, Symrise, Yves Saint Laurent, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, RBS, HSBC, BNP Paribas, Oddo-BHF, Freshfields).
Nathalie’s main coaching themes are vision, business strategy design and performance, high performing leadership teams, behavioural change, cascade and communication to engage the whole organisation, relationships with the board, relationships within the executive team, people leadership, lead with coaching, transition coaching and leadership programmes.
She holds a Masters in Banking and Finance from the University of Pantheon-Assas. She is currently receiving group supervision from Helga St Blaize, UKCP accredited Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. Nathalie is accredited by the ICF and EMCC.
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