Episode Fourteen - Interview with Mairi McHaffie, Founder of SceneChange

The Assistant Lab

Mairi is a Personal Impact Expert and CEO of Scene Change Creative Consultants Ltd, global providers of bespoke people development initiatives across the sectors. Founder of the UK Houses of Parliament cross sector Mentoring Programme, Storytelling Expert for the European Women In Leadership Programme at Coca Cola and founder of the Graduate Professional Consultant Programme for Oracle.

Mairi specialises in face to face and online coaching sessions on Communication Skills, Resilience, Confidence and Body Language, Impact and Influencing, Presentation Skills, Coaching, Managing People Through Change, Unconscious Bias, Emotional Intelligence and delivers high level role-play sessions on Client Relationship Building – enabling delegates to credentialise themselves and their firm and confidently position themselves as a trusted advisor.
As a trained professional actress and BBC TV presenter, Mairi uses her skills to enable individuals and groups to communicate and present better, increase visibility and align personal branding to organisational values. As a motivational speaker she gives practical sessions on confidence and influencing skills combining her theatrical training with modern business psychology.
We cover a lot in this episode!

• Mairi's acting background
• Her time working as an assistant for the UK Civil Service
• Managing upwards
• The 'Inclusion Shadow'
• Unconscious bias and what it really means
• Human centered leadership
• The need for more pastoral leadership
• Top tips for assistants who really want to cultivate personal impact and confidence

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