OUR FACILITATORS
Almendra Staffa-Healey, MBA
Madrid, Spain
- Intercultural competencies development
- Cross-cultural facilitation
- Coaching
- PLSeminars contact for Spain
PL work
Almendra Staffa-Healey, MBA, was first introduced to Personal Leadership while participating in intercultural competencies coaching. She was amazed at how PL’s principles and practices allowed her to go deeper into understanding her frameworks and worldview.
In 2016, she took part in the Training of Facilitators Seminar and joined the Facilitator Program. She became a Senior Facilitator in 2017. Since her introduction to PL, she has been using it with her clients to help them integrate cognitive knowledge with a reflective framework, which builds skills and transforms behavior.
Almendra’s company, Intercultural Understanding, focuses on developing intercultural competencies. Through her business, Almendra incorporates PL into a number of professional environments: with families in the context of raising cross-cultural children, with teachers and educators in schools and in universities, with study abroad students as part of IDI-guided developmental coaching, and with teacher trainer and professional development programs.
Almendra facilitates PL in English as well as in Spanish.
Other work
As the Madrid Director for EUSA Academic Internship Experts, she has been working for over 15 years in experiential learning programs that allow US university students to live, work and study abroad.
Personal background
Almendra is a dual citizen of Spain and the United States. Born in Granada, Spain, to USAmerican parents, she has lived extensively in both countries as a child and as an adult.
Academic
Almendra holds a Bachelor's degree in Art History from New York University, and an MBA from the Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles, an institution associated with the Universidad Complutense of Madrid and the Madrid Stock Exchange. At present, she is pursuing a Master’s degree in Anthropology through the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid.
Other interests
Almendra enjoys spending time with her family and travelling. A deep believer in lifelong learning, she reads extensively and is always working on increasing her understanding of humanity. Whenever she is able, she also volunteers her time and her expertise to her community.
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