Graduate School for Professionals

AVENTIS CAREER COACHING

What is career coaching?

Career coaching helps individuals discover what they really want to do with their lives and then develop a strategy to achieve it. Work is an integral part of our lives, it takes up a major part of our lives.

A career coach will help Managers, Professionals, Executives manage a career that is congruent with their personal goals, ambitions, values and family life.

Career Coaching can help you identify what you really want out of life – what would really give you satisfaction, and to gain clear objectives and clarity on your field of work. Through the various methodologies used, it can help you appreciate the skills and experience that you have accumulated also help you identify opportunities and a network of contacts who may be able to connect and link you to the ideal industry or position that you always desired.

Career coaching analyses the goals that you have set and develops a strategy to achieve the career you really want. It may be progressing in your existing organisation, or it may even result in a complete change of direction.

Career Coaching will aid any individual in the areas of Promotion, change of job, and even early retirement planning resolutions.

Benefits of Career Coaching

• discover and understand who you really are
• identify and clarify what you most want
• create and develop strategies for how you will achieve your goals

Aventis Resident Career Coach:

Mr Mark Powell on Career Risk and Reward

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR0ScLnblXE

Other Videos on Mr Mark Powell Blog

About Mr Mark Powell

With a history of over 20 years of management and board level experience with corporations of all sizes across Asia Pacific, Mr Powell has a deep understanding of the ongoing issues facing executives in developing and executing their career goals. He developed new businesses from scratch and has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney.

Over the past 10 years, Mr Mark Powell has worked across Asia Pacific in Banking & Financial Services Executive Search. Mr Powell has executed many senior placements for global banking, financial services and consulting firms across Asia Pacific. Mr Powell was ranked in the top 5 funds management headhunters in the 2004 Asiamoney poll and again personally rated in 2 categories in the 2005 headhunters poll – funds management and financial services middle and back office. He has been involved in over 100 senior placements for global banking, financial services and consulting companies across Asia Pacific. He has interviewed thousands of senior executives. He also has 12 years of corporate experience with large international companies: Citibank, Macquarie Bank and Shell. He ran the SME capital markets division at Macquarie Bank and was head of Product Management for Citibank’s Business banking Division in Australia.

Mr Powell has an undergraduate degree in Economics (Qld Uni) and post graduate qualifications in Education (Qld Uni), Business Administration (QUT) and Applied Finance (SIA). He is a Fellow of Securities Institute of Australasia. He is licenced though Management Research Group international (USA and Europe), Hermann International (ASIA) and ChangeWorks Global to use their respective range of psychometric tools and consulting processes. In addition to his extensive search and recruitment experience, Mr Powell’s career has seen him focus a number of years with international training companies, applying and developing his skills as a NLP facilitator and in adult learning practices. He is trained as a NLP facilitator and an executive coach through Coach U.

Mr Powell is Australian but has lived in Asia for the past 8 years. He now calls Singapore home. He has now for the past 4 years operated his own boutique search firm Executive Directions. Their coaching and consulting programs include: Senior Executive Coaching, Closing the Talent Gap, Executive Transitioning.