Five growth strategies every property leader needs in 2026
As the market emerges from a turbulent period, top executive coach Oona Collins explains how the best-run businesses are balancing courage, discipline & sustainable growth.
Oona is a Global Executive Coach & Consultant. She specialises in coaching leaders and senior executives through transition periods, typically pre and post promotion, restructures, mergers or in new roles. She has over 20 years’ experience incorporating board level positions in sales and management and has coached over 25 different nationalities. Oona has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Singapore, Toronto, Sydney, Europe and USA and holds a Non-Executive Directorship.
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