Stella is an international higher education professional with a specialization in career and executive coaching, and a solid 18 years’ experience gained fr om the UK, Middle East, Asia, EU and US markets. She has coached countless diverse candidates on their professional development goals from undergraduate to executive level and has helped many with international career transitions. After setting up and growing successfully for the past 5 years the Executive Career Development office at INSEAD, across France, Abu Dhabi and Singapore, she founded “Inspiration Ride”, an education and career consulting partner for individuals and corporations. In the past she also supported the career journey of INSEAD’s MBA students in the Middle East and in Singapore, from wh ere she gained local market knowledge. She has continually brought her knowledge from global markets and employer recruitment practices into developing future leaders who achieve successful personal transitions. Stella advises also ed-tech founders, due to her renowned knowledge of the global higher education sector and her passion for disrupting education. She serves at the advisory board of GeniusMesh, Aluminary Network, Streeme.io, to name a few exciting education startups. She also currently serves as the Director of Communications at the executive board of the MBA Career Services for Working Professionals Alliance, in the USA. Stella was the initiator and curator of a regional “think tank” in 2012, the Middle East Career Development Conference, that run for 4 consecutive years and she was among the 50 top career thought leaders that were invited to the Career Summit organized by Google in 2013. In 2020 she won the INSEAD Innovator Award for launching a community of global experts at an INSEAD-wide peer to peer network and today she continues coaching the school’s alumni and executive MBA participants.
