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Soft Skills Series

A successful career in tech, needs more just technical skills. This event series is designed to expand your skill set further. We'll explore how best to show-up in a virtual world. The benefits of a growth mindset and how to harness creativity and innovation. The power of storytelling and thinking like a leader. Expect to be challenged and taken outside of your comfort zone. Drop in for just one session, or even better join us for the full course! 

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  • Ben Flower Director of Human Skills Skill-Up Technologies
  • Monica Mahi Mathijs COO & Co-Founder Reach Outstanding

Leaning on countless customer management and leadership experiences, his ability to motivate and inspire both individuals and organizations is unsurpassed. Ben spent over 25 years as a manager, director, and consultant in the IT industry. In his IT career Ben has worked at IBM, Word Perfect, Novell, Attachmate, and Microsoft. His experience is grounded from attending Eastern Montana College and Brigham Young University on multiple music performance and education scholarships. Ben was born in Montana but has lived in the Seattle area for the past 23 years. Beyond his passion for IT, his pursuit of music has directed him to another outlet by performing in the Seattle Ensign Symphony and Chorus. He has also recently combined his IT career experience with his passion for music to create powerful and immersive learning events.

Monica has a passion to help organisations to get the best from their employees whether it is through workshops, coaching programs to delivering leadership programs. Monica has over 19 years of corporate experienced gained from the Financial Services industry and Big Four Consulting firms as a Program and Project Manager.

During her career, Monica has gained insight and experience of business transformation and project delivery across a variety of projects and global locations. Over the last few years, Monica has bridged mentoring and coaching within the workplace and at an individual level to partner with others to achieve their goals and careers. She believes in the power of coaching and leverages tools, techniques and methods to move people towards their goals.

Experience at a glance:

Monica has designed, developed and delivered learning programs and workshops across many organisations and industries which range from financial services, payments, law firms and more. Some of the recent programs Monica has run have resulted in a high success rate where 50% of the groups were promoted as a result of the programs and the impacts they made. She has delivered coaching programs where individuals were able to gain success in their careers, aspirations and achieve their goals.

She is a believer in the human potential and that everyone has a purpose which when tapped into and nurtured, people can create and become whatever they desire. Through her coaching programs, people are given the opportunity to explore, practice and apply practical steps right away.

Monica has delivered webinars and talks for various organisations focusing on people power and the human potential.

Monica has an MSc, certified in project management, a CPD certified member and an ITOL member.

Monica is originally from the UK and currently resides in the UAE.

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Soft Skill Series: Building Your Personal Brand
Soft Skills Series: Think and Act Like a Leader
Growth Mindset for Professional Success
Soft Skills Series: Creating Impact and Presence in the Virtual World
Soft Skills Series: Using Storytelling to Deliver Powerful Presentations
Soft Skills Series: Collaboration and Teamwork for Business Success
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