To stay competitive in a hypercompetitive and uncertain world, multinationals need their workforce to be creative and innovative, motivated, stress-resilient, emotionally intelligent, engaged, energized, and productive. This is why we have developed a series of services in our newly established Human Capital Advisory (HCA) practice. Many of our corporate clients have already used and piloted several of our HCA services, but we have now systematized them under one practice.
The overarching goal of our Human Capital Advisory is getting better business results through people – by developing, nurturing, and retaining talent that will keep adding superior value to any corporation/organization.
Based on three years of in-depth, holistic scientific research, IMAGINO® is the only assessment tool in the world that reliably identifies strengths and gaps in individual creativity and corporate/ departmental innovation climate – in one go. Following the assessment, identified gaps are closed via written feedback, tailored individual coaching sessions, and bespoke group workshops. The resulting increase in creativity and innovation:
Stress does not have to be a villain. Our coaching and workshop sessions will teach your employees to turn stress into an advantage for them personally and ultimately for better corporate results. It will help your employees:
Our partly proprietary General Emotional Intelligence assessment tool will identify strengths and gaps in the emotional intelligence of your employees. Identified gaps will be closed via written feedback, tailored individual coaching sessions, and bespoke group workshops. This service has multiple benefits for organizations:
We can assist you in selecting the right talent, with three assessments: proprietary IMAGINO® tool, Personal Style Inventory, and partly proprietary General Emotional Intelligence assessment. Results from these three assessments will help you to decide which candidate is the right choice for each vacancy (considering organizational strategy) and to better target the right candidate with the necessary set of competencies for an opened position.
We prepare a detailed report for each tested individual with recommendations. These assessments will improve your hiring process, talent retention, strategic alignment and corporate performance.
Through coaching sessions and workshops, we equip leaders with best practices/tools and show how to implement them to enhance employee satisfaction, engagement, and commitment. Some of the best practices and tactics are:
Key benefits are:
After graduating with multiple honours in Psychology in Vienna, Antonija earned her Master’s degree in Psychology from the University of Cambridge.
She started her career in 1997 as a consultant at Hewitt Associates in Vienna. Antonija was a member of the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) People Value division. In her consulting capacity she worked daily with multinational corporations providing advice and workshops on the following key “soft skills” topics: leadership skills, motivation, managing change, innovation, performance management, interpersonal communications, stress management and emotional intelligence in business.
Between 2004 and 2011 she was a Vienna-based representative for the Centre for Creative Leadership focusing on leadership projects for clients. From 2008 to 2012 Antonija was an educator at the “Die Erste Academy” (an Austrian bank) providing seminars and workshops in areas such as Managing Across Cultures, Presentational Speaking, Persuasive Speaking, Selling Ideas Internally, Increasing Stress Resilience, Train the Trainer seminar, and Team Building.
Since 2012 she has been working in a family business (Global Success Advisors and EMEA Business Group that currently advise over 500 multinationals). After running various human capital related programs over the years with multinational clients, she now runs the Human Capital Advisory practice of Global Success Advisors and the EMEA Business Group. The practice focuses on five areas: boosting creativity/innovation (via IMAGINO), furthering emotional intelligence, building stress resilience, recruitment support via assessments, and boosting motivation/engagement of employees. In her capacity at GSA, she created the assessment tool IMAGINO®, a globally unique tool that measures individual creativity and corporate innovation climate strengths and gaps in one go. Antonija provides comprehensive individual coaching and bespoke corporate training sessions on how companies can close identified gaps to boost their individual creativity and corporate innovation climate.
During creativity/innovation sessions with clients, Antonija sometimes plays her self-composed, contemporary piano music to demonstrate how participants can better tap into their own creativity and divergent thinking. She released seven albums of neoclassical piano music, with publishing deals that include Warner Chappell, the publishing arm of Warner Music in Germany as well as Audiowell in Sweden. As a neoclassical composer and performer, she was touring Italy on multiple occasions, including concerts at the prestigious concert halls such as Teatro dal Verme in Milan and Auditorium Parco Della Musica in Rome. Antonija played concerts in Italy, Croatia, Austria, Germany, and the Emirates. On Spotify, her music has almost 2 mil. streams, and her compositions have been broadcasted on numerous classical radio stations around the world including BBC Classics, New York Classic Radio, Vienna Classic Radio and many others. Antonija is also a voting member of the Recording Academy that decides on Grammy awards.
Since 1997 Antonija has also been an adjunct University Professor teaching various courses at two private Universities in Vienna, Austria. She has taught Industrial Psychology, Social Psychology, Personality Theories, History and Systems of Psychology, Emotional Intelligence Applied to Business, Psychology and Film, Personal Development, Leadership Development and Learning Strategies. On several occasions she was invited to co-lecture with the legendary Dr Phil Zimbardo (known for Stanford Prison Experiment) during his guest lectures in Vienna. They were co-teaching the course on Exploring Human Nature. Since March 2019 she started lecturing for Duke Corporate Education, the world’s number one ranked provider of corporate education. She is also speaking around the world via London Speaker Agency.
In her free time, she enjoys composing piano music, painting, and swimming. Antonija resides in Vienna, Austria. She is married with three daughters.