We are very pleased to introduce five members of the Global Leadership Foundation family who we have invited to become either Global Fellows or Community Fellows.
Our new Global Fellows
Since 2003 we have been in the company of an amazing group of people who continue to raise the emotional health levels of the planet – these are our Global Fellows and there are now over 30 of us across the globe. This month, we are honoured that Chiara Pasquali in Italy, Janelle Joseph in the USA and Melinda Maddock in Tasmania have accepted invitations to become Global Fellows. We are so pleased to have them with us.
Chiara Pasquali
Chiara was introduced to us by another Global Fellow, Marina Mele, Marina having been a teacher of Chiara’s during her Masters degree in Business Coaching in Milan. Chiara very quickly understood the concept of emotional health and has continued to work with us in understanding the application of the Enneagram with emotional health, while also becoming certified to use the Global Leadership Profile.
Chiara started her career as a political scientist specialising in social cooperation. After studying her first degree, she worked in international cooperation on social projects, including working with disadvantaged and imprisoned children in the Philippines and Brazil. Since 2015, she has worked as a full-time business coach and trainer, engaged by middle and large companies across Italy.
Chiara is also the co-founder of Global Leadership Foundation Italy, joining Marina Mele (Founder) in this exciting venture.
Janel Joseph
Janel has provided executive coaching and organisational development solutions for over 30 years across a variety of industries with differing size and scope (start-ups through Fortune 100). Since her first introduction to the concept of emotional health, while seeing a presentation from Gayle, she has become an enthusiastic advocate of raising emotional health levels across the world.
She has continued to work with Global Leadership Foundation to further understand the application of the Enneagram with emotional health and her work has evolved to include Quantum Think®, neuroscience and resilience practices, and emotional health coaching to create expansive, sustainable changes. Janel is also certified to use the Global Leadership Profile.
Janel works with leaders to define success, amplify individual and team strengths, and incorporate behaviour changes needed to attain the targeted goals. Her straightforward, values-based approach to collaborating and finding solutions is visionary, thoughtful and helpful. Janel brings clarity to people to live their highest purpose.
Melinda Maddock
Melinda was already passionate about the Enneagram and had been using it in her work for a number of years before she was introduced to Malcolm in their shared home state of Tasmania. They have remained in touch ever since and over time Melinda has become more involved with the work of Global Leadership Foundation, both in understanding the application of the Enneagram with emotional health and becoming certified to use the Global Leadership Profile.
Melinda is a political strategist, coach and facilitator of workshops and professional learning. She helps people use their power to create change at work and in communities. She draws on her broad range of leadership experience as a political advisor and senior government executive where she shaped campaigns, law reform, public policy and organisational culture.
She is also the author of How to Train Your Political Animal: A power handbook for changing yourself and your world.
Our new Community Fellows
Our Community Fellows represent our many colleagues and clients who truly lead by example in strengthening their own emotional health and supporting others in their workplaces and those around them to do the same. Each of them has taken the key frameworks that underpin what we do and translated them into tangible and practical applications in their workplaces and in the community. Our newest Community Fellows are Pete Cleary and Alex Mills.
Pete Cleary
Gayle met Pete Cleary, a ranger at the Philip Island Nature Park, in 2014 after speaking at a forum at the Nature Park on Emotional Health and leadership. Pete immediately ‘got the message’ and could see its enormous potential for rangers. Since then, Pete has become an enthusiastic advocate for emotional health and the Global Leadership Foundation. He has consistently used emotional health in his own work, and has taken every opportunity to spread the word amongst the ranger community.
Through his ARCV (Association of Rangers and Conservationists Victoria) and IRF (International Rangers Federation) connections, Pete and Gayle were invited to speak jointly at the World Ranger Congress in Nepal in 2019. They facilitated a pilot workshop, ‘Becoming an Emotionally Healthy Ranger’, in Victoria this year.
During 2022, all of this (thanks to a suggestion from Pete) was taken a step further, with the production of a customised edition of our Emotional Health and Leadership booklet for rangers – filled with real-life examples of what rangers across the globe are doing to strengthen their emotional health.
Alex Mills
Alex was participant in the second Opening Doors Social Inclusion Community Leadership Program in 2010, taking part despite the fact that he did not see himself as leadership material. Gayle was a facilitator of that program, as she and other Global Fellows have been since its inception. The very next year, Alex was encouraged to take on the coordination of that program, which he continued to do for the next decade.
From that very first exposure to concepts like the above-and-below the line and emotional health, Alex has led by example through the inclusive environment he creates and application of the principles of self-realisation, collaboration and stewardship in his work and life. He continues to apply this knowledge in his own consulting and team building work, and we know he is admired and respected by those who work with him. We are honoured to be part of his ‘team’ when it comes to working in the social inclusion space.
Over 250 people have benefited from the Opening Doors program to date, most of whom, like Alex, didn’t recognise their leadership potential before taking part. The success of the program is a credit to Alex’s dedication. After a hiatus in the last two years, the program is set to recommence in 2023.
