About Candy Jannetta

Candy Jannetta – Founder, Chief Learning Strategist

With a marketing background working for Warner Music International and CNN, Candy has a wealth of experience in enabling large corporates to nurture talent, to develop outstanding leaders and to embed a new culture. She approaches all her coaching and facilitation with a focus on embedding behavioural change in line with a business’s strategy whilst creating a feeling of total trust within the groups she leads. Spearheading the design and delivery for clients in North America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Candy is particularly interested in applying virtual learning to enable global collaboration and to speed innovation.

Working on a global level, Candy designs and leads cultural change and leadership development programs for a wide range of high-profile multinational organisations including Adidas, AXA, Lebara, Kering, Unicef and ICBC Standard Bank. 

Her areas of expertise include: Leadership development, Executive coaching, High Performance Coaching, Virtual and Hybrid Facilitation, Creating Executive Presence, Developing Emotional Intelligence and Talent Development.

Candy brings her warmth, her inspiration and her depth of expertise to her workshops, helping her learners to grow, transform and positively impact their teams and the business they are contributing to. She values diversity highly and inclusion is at the heart of Candy’s style which she uses to create the best possible learning experiences. She is exceptionally skilled at virtual facilitation, building an immediate connection with all the individuals in her group, and making them feel included and special. As a result, she delivers highly engaging, creative and interactive online sessions that leave delegates both energised and enthused. Candy’s success lies in enabling client teams to identify their own performance blockers and in skilfully coaching these teams so they drive business results. 

Qualifications/certifications

Certified Team Coach

Certified Life Coach

Certified Youth Coach

Certified in the Emotional Intelligence psychometric, Emotional Capital Report

Chartered Institute of Marketing post-graduate diploma in marketing

Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Honours Degree in French and English

Awards

Part of the design and delivery team that won Gold in the Brandon Hall HCM Excellence Awards for ‘Best Innovative or Unique Leadership Program 2021’ for adidas Management Development Experience.