Culture, Leadership and Authentic Self, with guest Irene Riad

Dec 8 2023 • 27 mins

What is your work in the world?

Irene Riad is a multinational, multicultural executive coach and organizational culture coach (ICF PCC) who specializes in leadership transformation, complex drama recovery coaching and Jungian psychology coaching. She is also the founder of SIGHTcet, the Self Mastery Coaching Institute.

Her mission is supporting leaders to live their legacy through their work: the authentic expression of the whole of who you are. With her coachees she peels a little bit more of the onion, going deeper into all the dimensions of their experiences of their culture and how they identify as a person.

Born and raised in Saudi Arabia, with parents from Egypt, and having lived in Britain and Albania, Irene brings all the diversity of those cultures into her work and perspective. She recognizes that we take away pieces of culture when we meet friends or have extended family in various cultures as well. The beliefs, traditions, needs, habits interwoven in every culture. And this impacts how we see the world.

From experience, Irene knows that we often don’t realise what we’ve absorbed from different cultures into who we individually are. We are all a mosaic made from pieces of culture. With a growing awareness about that, we can start to choose what pieces we individually want to highlight in our lives. ‘What is it really that I believe in and want to bring into my life now?’

Irene’s focus is on growing self-mastery, the outcome of which is your authentic self, in mind, body and soul. And so, the process of growing into our authentic self involves this diversity of culture. Exploring when various pieces are widely different, sometimes in conflict. Identifying and then integrating them.

It takes some practice, Irene acknowledges, yet it is an opportunity for renewal and reawakening of your personal leadership, your chosen way of expressing yourself in the world.

A world where cultures meet and blend, around and within us.

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