SELF-WORTH ACADEMY - Key Persons
Anne Randerson, Ph.D., is a coach, trainer, multilingual educator, and researcher who is passionate about helping people unleash their passions and purpose in life through a greater understanding of personal self-worth. Anne helps individuals from diverse cultures and backgrounds integrate and work successfully in organisations around the globe.
Anne received her BA degree in French at UC Davis, and her Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Human Life Studies at Koriyama Women's University in Japan. For over 25 years, Anne has lived in five countries, on three different continents, and learned to speak several languages as a former translator and interpreter. She is also a mindfulness teacher, trained by the UCSD Center for Mindfulness in 2017.
Drawing on her extensive intercultural expertise, Anne appreciates the opportunity to work with leaders from global and local organizations to assist them with best practices for effective inclusive communication, project management, conflict resolution, and leadership skills. She has been Managing Director of her own company, Cross Cultural Horizons, since 2007, and has taught intercultural communication, global business management, and global studies courses in Europe, Asia, and the USA for over 15 years.
Interacting constantly with executives and university students raised in diverse environments has heightened Anne's knowledge as an intercultural researcher and author on cultural differences, diverse work habits, communication styles, global leadership practices, mindfulness, and contemplative pedagogy.
After early years in production, design and stage entertainment, Bess mobilised her affection for group dynamics to accompany organisations and their teams in enterprise transformation, moderating collective discussions for management, innovation and accelerating sustainable development. Coaching senior leaders to improve their communication content and delivery, their leadership style and abilities, Bess helps to focus on the unique qualities of each person in their system.
As a moderator and Master of Ceremonies, Bess has contributed to events for Total, Edmond de Rothschild, Airbus, PSA, European Parliament, Council and Community, United Nations Y-Peer, UNfCCC and the West African Alliance, the French Health Ministry, TED, and a host of others.
Modeling for Yves St. Laurent, Chanel, Hermes, Dior, Christian Lacroix, Lanvin, Martin Marghiela, Giorgio Armani, Shiseido, Valentino, Dolce & Gabana, and many young designers has afforded endless material for interesting and funny storytelling. She has given conferences at the Ecole du Louvre, and has woven her experience into keynote talks and workshops, sharing the possibility of magic in any situation.
Claudia is a translator, interpreter, tour guide and planner, teacher of foreign languages in Italy and Italian for foreigners elsewhere, with a passion for cinema, travel and Argentine tango. She has lived in several places in Italy and abroad (UK, Belgium, USA, Luxembourg). As she is a trained translator and interpreter, she speaks Italian, English and French fluently.
A few years ago she stumbled upon Mindfulness and she had an immediate insight: in very little time she decided to start the teacher training pathway with the School of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts, where Jon Kabat-Zinn founded the Center for Mindfulness and designed the now renowned MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) Protocol.
She has completed two courses of Mindfulness for Children and Adolescents, with Mindful Schools (2015) and Amy Saltzman (2017) and one on Mindful Eating (2015) with Jan Chozen Bays. She has a particular interest in Self-Compassion as studied by Kristin Neff and in Insight Dialogue, i.e. Mindfulness applied to social relations and communication. In 2017 she met John Niland and immediately joined his Self-Worth Safari, finding a lot of common ground with her interest in self-care and self-compassion, and has become one of the first licensees, integrating it in her Mindfulness-based activities (MBSR Protocol cycles, Education and Corporate workshops and courses, retreats in nature, online sessions, special courses for caregivers, etc.).