CV Sari Vuohtoniemi
Work experience
2019- Vice President at ICF Finland
2018- Entrepreneur, CEO, Executive and leadership Coach and Consultant. True Potential Ltd.
2018- Senior member in Enneagram in Business network
2018- Faculty Member and Trainer in the Integrative Enneagram Solutions
2014-2018 CEO and Partner, Executive and Leadership Coach and Consultant, Owner Gaia Leadership Ltd, Finland. Starting-up the subsidiary in Finland and building the company together with the team. Serving the clients as an executive and leadership coach and consultant. Leading Gaia Leadership in Finland, acting as a member of the Gaia Leadership's international management team.
2014-2014 Country Director Finland, Co-Founder, Partner, Coach & Consultant, Gaia Leadership. Starting-up the subsidiary in Finland and building the company. Serving the clients as an executive and leadership coach and consultant.
2012-2014 Entrepreneur, CEO, Leadership Coach & Consultant, True Potential Oy. Leadership development programs, management team development and executive and leadership coaching.
2010-2012 Vice President, Senior Leadership Development Consultant, Nordea Bank Group HR. Globally responsible for the coaching concept development (Nordea has been building a coaching culture for over ten years). Responsible for the group leadership development in Finland, and designing and delivering group leadership programs, coaching processes for executives and managers and management team development.
2001-2010 Development Manager and Expert, JTO School of Management. Leading and delivering mostly long-term leadership development programs and change processes, and acting as a project director, trainer, coach, work counsellor and process consultant. The clientele consisted of leaders and middle management, but also management teams and the whole personnel in multitude of industries. Responsible in 2008-2010 for leading a coaching services development team.
1999-2001 HR Consultant, Sonera. Consulting leaders in international HR and leadership issues especially in international M&A’s and transfers. Part of a team starting up a joint venture company in Germany, focusing on building a HR function and recruiting hundreds of people to the whole organisation.
1987-1998 Various jobs while studying: Executive assistant at Tetra Pak, Sales Assistant at Finncarriers, Sales Assistant at Flender, Marketing Executive Yorkshire & Humberside Tourist Board, UK, (Marketing executive) and several jobs in the summers and while at school in eg. Finnair Catering and grocery stores since the age of 14.
Education
1996-2000 Master of Social Sciences, University of Tampere. Major: Social Psychology. Minors: Business Management, Work Psychology. Specializing studies in assessment and development of individuals, groups and organisations. Master thesis: People in Acquisition. Employee Experience of Cross-border Acquisition and Post-Acquisition Integration Management.Case Sonera. Exchange Student, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, Autumn 1998
1992-1996 Bachelor of Business Administration, Mercuria Business School. Major: International Business. Bachelor thesis: Acquisition of information related to Asian trade through training in Finnish companies.Exchange Student, University of Humberside, UK, Spring 1994.
Other relevant studies and certificates
2019- Senso
Trainer, Functional Neuroscience, Spinacor
2018- Mentor
Coaching for MCC, Clarity Coaching, Meg Mann
2018 Advanced
Team Dynamics, Integrative Enneagram Solutions
2018- Studies
in Psychology, University of Helsinki
2018 Introduction
to Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Level 1 AAMET Accredited
2018 Way
of the Arrows, Enneagram workshop. Beatrice Chestnut & Uranio Paes
2018 Integrative
Enneagram Solutions test accreditation
2017 What
type of a leader are you? Enneagram train-the trainer, Ginger Lapid-Bogda
2017 Rising
above the instinctual subtypes, Beatrice Chestnut & Uranio Paes
2014 Energy
work and the enneagram, Uranio Paes
2014 Advanced
Coaching with the Enneagram, Ginger Lapid-Bogda
2014 The
responsibilities of CEO and the board. Rate-koulutus
2014 Mastering
Life Energies. Dr. Maria Nemeth.
2014 Integrative
Enneagram Questionnaire, Integrative Enneagram Solutions
2013- 16
Certified Mind-body Bridging Coach, Dr. Stanley H. Block
2013 Everything
DiSC, DiSC Classic, MLP- Instituutti
2013 Transformative
Coaching Training, Richard Bowell
2013 Authentic Facilitation,
Achieving Results Through Others, Global Leadership Foundation
2012 Bringing out the best in your
teams with Enneagram, Norbert Hägg
2012-14 Entrepreneurs’ vocational certificate,
Intotalo
2012 Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International
Coach Federation
2011-12 Certified
Business Coach Master, Business
Coaching Center
2011 Master
Class in Team Performance Model, Grove Consultants
2011 Occupational
Personality Questionnaire (OPQ) MQ, Verify, SHL
2010 Bringing out the best in everyone you coach. Ginger Lapid-Bogda
2009-10 Enneagram
Teacher in Narrative Tradition
2009-10 NLP
Master Practitioner, VMT-koulutus Oy
2009 Time
Taming®- Coach, Sun Innovations Oy 2009
2007-08 Certified
in Strategic Human Resources Management, JTO
2009 Associate
Certified Coach (ACC), International Coach Federation
2007-08 Certified
Coach Training, Coaching Development Ltd and JTO
2003-04 Specialized
Vocational Degree in Management (JET) JTO
2002-04 Management
Work Counsellor, JTO
2003-04 NLP
Practitioner, VMT-Koulutus Oy
2003 Transactional
analysis in group work, Ryhmätyö r.y
2002 Leadership and organisational
dynamics, Tavistock seminar, Metanoia Institute
Languages
Finnish mother
tongue
English excellent
Swedish good
German satisfactory
Spanish satisfactory
French basic