When I approached Ella, my business struggled despite growing from 3 founders to 150 employees. Feeling alone in fighting for survival, I considered closing the business. A friend recommended Ella. She listened, conducted interviews with my direct reports, and led an offsite group meeting where she bluntly asked, “What’s your purpose for coming to work here?” This question shocked us and shifted our perspective. After nine months, we began aligning our actions with a clear purpose. Three years later, we are still implementing the strategies she suggested and building on them. I highly recommend her for cultural transformation, especially for the self-made leaders of multicultural teams.

Before meeting Ella, I believed culture was only important for big organizations with over 100 employees. Ella changed my view, showing that a leader’s biggest challenge is behaviour, and a business’s challenge is collective behaviours and unspoken rules. I realized I struggled to find people who could consistently exceed expectations. A group value assessment revealed that my team saw us as an egocentric business, contrary to my intentions. Working with Ella, we discovered our patterns, unpacked our goals and vision, and achieved our first value-driven milestone. We are now on the path to our second, confident we’re on the right track.

I have been working with Ella for 6 months now; gee, every single conversation is mind-opening; it seems so effortless for her just to have a friendly conversation with me and then bang! The way I look and approach life changed significantly. Well, if you do work with Ella, she will definitely say that you are the person who did all the shifting work, but without her guidance and support and kept challenging me, it would have taken much longer and many more frustrations and struggles before I can arrive at where I am today. I eternally appreciate her help!

I have been working with Ella for over 1 year now, and I just happily renewed for another 1 year last month. The initial purpose of engaging Ella as my coach is to help me to develop my leadership skills and mindset, but man, I got way more than that from the sessions, not only I now have more confidence to lead my team to actualise the vision I have truly, I learned from her to embed some daily rituals and routines to allow me to shift my world view, to stand up and tall, and not afraid to be the game-changer.