Oona Collins: How prime resi leaders can nurture ambition & retain their brightest stars
Building loyalty among today's high-achievers requires clarity, flexibility, and cultures that celebrate autonomy without losing connection, explains top executive coach Oona Collins.
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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