As you may know, Global Leadership Foundation collaborates with a worldwide network of Fellows who are as passionate as we are about raising the emotional health levels of people on the planet.
Each of our Fellows makes a positive difference through they work they do. As a group they come with significant expertise in leadership and team development, organisation transformation and culture change, board governance and performance, and executive coaching (to name a few of their collective talents). They are recognised by their clients and peers for the contributions they make to individuals, organisations and communities worldwide.
It is our honour to introduce Raffaella Barbieri and Mele-Ane Havea as the newest members of our Global Fellows community, and to share a little about each of them in this post.
Raffaella Barbieri
Raffaella Barbieri lives in northern Italy, outside Milan in a small town near Monza. She was introduced to Global Leadership Foundation in 2019 through Marina Mele, founder of Global Leadership Foundation Italy, after attending one of Marina’s courses on the Enneagram.
Marina encouraged Raffaella to go to Copenhagen and attend a course being run by Gayle and Malcolm, which she did in early January 2020 – right before the Covid-19 pandemic took over our lives.
Raffaella continued to build her skills and knowledge in the Enneagram and emotional health over the next few years, until eventually we asked her if she would work with Marina to translate the Global Leadership Profile assessment into Italian. That led to her taking on some of the debriefing work for the profile, particularly for participants in Small Giants Academy’s Mastery of Business and Empathy (MBE) program.
Before starting her coaching career, Raffaella was an English teacher who specialised in bilingualism. She has taught (and still teaches) English to children as young as three right through to adults, including senior managers.
Raffaella was involved in establishing a bilingual elementary school early in the early 2000s, when the concept was quite new in Italy, and has since consulted to other schools on bilingualism. Along the way, she came across neuroscience, which both changed her approach to language teaching and expanded her interests into critical thinking and problem solving, which in turn led to coaching.
Mele-Ane Havea
Mele-Ane Havea grew up mostly in Australia as part of large Tongan and Dutch families. She was studying in the UK when she first came across the B Corp concept via one of her classmates, though it wasn’t until after she joined Small Giants after returning home that they asked her if she had heard of the B Corp certification.
That coincidence led to Mele-Ane becoming involved with the group that established the B Lab network in Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand in 2013. She has been co-chair of B Lab AANZ since then.
Global Leadership Foundation became one of the first accredited B Corps in Australia in 2015, and it was through that process we met Mele-Ane. We remained in each other’s orbits as she became co-CEO of Small Giants in 2017, and that connection grew into the ongoing strong bond between our two organisations to this day.
Mele-Ane started working as an independent coach, facilitator and board member in 2022. Her current work includes work with Global Leadership Foundation with our focus on emotional health, and with Small Giants Academy focusing on systems change, including in their Governing for Purpose program, which she helped develop.
Mele-Ane also works with leadership development organisation Mahana Culture, which is committed to ‘cultivating cultures of connection and belonging’. And she co-founded the Pasifika Storytellers Collective, celebrating culture and voices of Pasifika writers in Australia.
Finally, B Lab, with its focus on redefining success in business, which to some extent wraps around all her other work.
Overall, Mele-Ane sees herself drawing on her background, insights and skills in all these areas when she works with other organisations or individuals.
We are exceedingly pleased to have both Mele-Ane and Raffaella join our network of wonderful Fellows from around the world.
Gayle