Maqsood Mamawala

About Maqsood Mamawala

Maqsood (Msq) Mamawala is passionate about finding ways to assist leaders globally in rapidly reaching their own ‘next phase’ – using his varied background and cross-cultural experiences in Performance Management, particularly in Sales, Leadership, Marketing, and Distribution. He is driven to help you identify and improve your skills and competencies to achieve personal and professional Growth and Revenue goals. Whether you are a solo entrepreneur or leading a team of associates or managers, Maqsood is committed to helping you enhance your practice, team, and company via 1:1 and team coaching or facilitation, whether face-to-face or virtual. Having lived and worked with clients in the Americas, Asia (including the Middle East), Africa, and Europe, and speaking multiple languages, Maqsood has a unique awareness and sensitivity to coach in multicultural business environments. He shares his experiences and abilities to help clients and their teams view their marketplace through a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion lens. In addition to coaching across the U.S, he has worked with clients in China, Côte d\'Ivoire, France, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan, the U.K, and Vietnam. Maqsood enjoys working with leaders who are either new to the leadership role or are moving into broader responsibilities that require them to view their executive and leadership talents and challenges through a new/different lens. His coaching process draws on his keen understanding of leadership, organizational culture, business, diversity, teams, and individual change. He has coached 100s of C-suite Executive Leaders, is fluent in Hindi and Gujarati, and has working knowledge of French, Urdu, & Marathi.Maqsood utilizes a holistic approach to understand and learn about the various aspects of his client\'s professional life, including any challenges related to work-life balance. He focuses on identifying and enhancing their strengths while addressing gaps, assisting them in creating personalized strategies and tactics for success in the short and long term via the co-creation of their personalized development action plan. He encourages and helps clients build metrics to measure progress and ways to follow up and communicate with managers and other key stakeholders, and celebrate successes!Maqsood is the principal of MMPHASE2 LLC, a private consulting firm that helps leaders explore their personal and professional potential to increase performance. He wants to help you and your practice get better – faster!

Experience

1. Executive Leadership Coach

   Center For Creative Leadership

   Jul 2015 — Present

   Maqsood provides Executive, Leadership & Business Coaching, and Management Development Services via 1:1 sessions (face-to-face or virtual) and group facilitation to individuals, teams, and organizations. He is certified in Hogan Assessments, Better Conversations Every Day™, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®, WorkPlace Big 5 Profile™, DISC, and Strong Business & Learning Tactics Inventory tools. He is also qualified to deliver Benchmarks® assessments and various 360s, including psychometric instruments like the Change & Influence Style Indicators, FIRO-B®, FIRO Business, and the FourSight Thinking Profile. Having lived and worked with clients in the Americas, Asia (including the Middle East), Africa, and Europe, and speaking multiple languages, he has a unique awareness and sensitivity which allows him to effectively coach in multicultural business environments, always through his Diversity, Equity & Inclusion lens. The Center for Creative Leadership is ranked among the world\'s top Leadership Development providers according to the Financial Times; and has offices in countries worldwide.

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

  MBA, International Marketing

  1979 — 1981

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics, Physics & Chemistry

  1973 — 1977

• Center for Credentialing & Education

  Board Certified Coach (BCC), Executive and Leadership Coaching

• The American College of Financial Services

  CLU (Chartered Life Underwriter), Insurance & Financial Services

  1992 — 1995

• Professional Business Coaches Association

  Certified Professional Business Coach

  2020

• The American College of Financial Services

  ChFC (Chartered Financial Consultant), Insurance and Financial Services

  1996 — 2001

Skills

• Non-Profit Volunteering
• Integration
• Health Insurance
• Leadership Development
• Series 7
• Retention Strategies
• Financial Planning
• Team Facilitation
• Customer Retention
• Employee Benefits
• Financial Services
• Relationship Management
• Candidate Selection
• Leadership
• Sales
• Securities
• Estate Planning
• Public Speaking
• Retirement Planning
• Organizational Development
• 401k
• Business Development
• Mutual Funds
• Wealth Management
• Operations Management
• Retirement
• Risk Management
• Dynamic Speaker
• Coaching
• Facilitation
• Executive Coaching
• Strategy
• Training
• New Business Development
• Investments
• Sales Management
• Term Life Insurance
• Marketing
• Insurance
• Disability Insurance