You're only as good as who you surround yourself with

At ESB, we celebrate inclusion.  This year on International Women’s Day, we hosted a Masterclass on Strategic Networking and invited Amanda Scott from Personal Boardroom to show us how to really power up our networks and build relationships that empower us every day, to achieve our potential and to be at our best.  Who is in Your Personal Boardroom encourages each of us to consciously strive for a diverse personal boardroom and to Pay It Forward by playing one to of the 12 Personal Boardroom roles for someone else.

Bernie O’ConnorDiversity and Inclusion Specialist, Electricity Supply Board, Ireland

Zella King has brought us a new narrative around networks and our clients have loved the ‘personal boardroom’ framework. Her insights and advice are delivered in ways which both inspire and provide practical answers.

Liam BlackCo-Founder, The Same Wavelength

Zella’s session was inspiring in the way that it asked some fundamental questions about our business and personal relationships, encouraging strategic but also very practical action to broaden our perspective. Zella helped us identify and target a variety of opportunities, which we can leverage with a powerful tool to help us think about managing our refreshed networks as the year unfolds.

Duncan BaldryManaging Director, Accenture Technology Consulting

The workshop was absolutely brilliant and a huge inspiration to all of us. It was so useful to have some practical advice and we all left feeling incredibly galvanised to think about how we can use the personal boardroom to achieve this year’s goal.

Harriet Agnew, Financial TimesCreator of Broadminded

As a speaker and presenter, Zella lights up the room with her engaging and energetic style. Her talks combine research evidence and real life examples with activities that stimulate people to take action. The outcome is that people have better-focused conversations with a broader range of people, and that benefits our business. 

Michael Cole-FontaynChairman of EMEA, BNY Mellon

Zella’s session went down a storm, and the Personal Boardroom language continued to be used for the rest of the week.  I personally loved the session too.  Zella was very engaging and she did an excellent job of making her content relevant to us and our agenda. 

Client UK manufacturing company

A powerful tool for creating a culture of collaboration and mutual support, focused not just on individual performance but also team and organisation success.

Maria O'DonoghueFormer VP of Global L&D, Hertz

About a coaching session with Amanda — “It increased my awareness of me and my position within the organisational network by making me think about managing up, down and within my peer group. It’s turned out to be the best development conversation of my career.”

Toby McHenryInternational CFO, Hertz

A vibrant, illuminating and engaging authority on networking best practice, Zella’s energetic and interactive session engaged the whole room – offering theoretical and practical tactics on how we can network effectively and sincerely with each other to build and develop meaningful business relationships.

Rachel MitchellIMG

Insightful, engaging and actionable. Amanda’s professionalism and conversational approach created an atmosphere of openness that allowed all to participate in ‘Your Personal Boardoom’ activities both beneficial and tangible.

Carina FurlongPWN Dublin City President

The Baileys global team is leading a transformational turnaround on the brand. This requires working with a very broad group of stakeholders. Working with Amanda and the Personal Boardroom tools enabled us to sharpen and tighten our relationship maps, identify areas where we were missing key roles in our virtual boardroom and also identify how and where to add divergent and more diverse thinking to our team.

Grainne WaferGlobal Brand Director, Diageo

Zella King and Amanda Scott have nailed the secret of modern career success: knowing who to ask for help from, and how to help others in equal measure.

Julia HobsbawmProfessor of Networking, Cass Business School

About the book, “Who is in your Personal Boardroom?” — A brilliant, simple and intuitive way to set about personal and career development”

Matt BrittinPresident, EMEA Business & Operations, Google

Zella ran a fantastic session with the fundraising department at Teach First. Taking the time to consider who makes up your personal boardroom, what you need from them, and where your gaps are was incredibly enlightening to the department. It also enabled people to look beyond their ‘instant’ contacts to those who provide different perspectives and mindsets. The session was energetic, fast paced and with key actions that people have taken away.

Terence LovellDirector of Development, Teach First

As someone who doesn’t like the whole idea of networking, I love the Personal Boardroom construct. It helped me really think about what I need to prioritise and gave me a structure to do it within. My observation was that a number of others felt the same and got some real benefit from the speed network session by being able to have focussed and meaningful discussions aligned to their goals

Justin MaggsL&D Manager, Severn Trent

Really like the Personal Boardroom approach to helping leaders develop stronger relationships/networks that build their influence inside and outside the organisation. Many thanks to Amanda Scott for running a great event. Great feedback coming through from leaders. 

Pedro AnguloOrganisational Effectivenes