A Practical Approach to Enhance Emotional Intelligence for Finance and Corporate Professionals

Emotional intelligence (EQ) is the key soft skill finance professionals need to elevate their technical abilities and enhance workplace performance. This course helps shift your mindset—from viewing work as a chore to embracing it as a space for creativity, purpose, and self-growth. Through the power of mindfulness and visualization, you’ll develop practical EQ skills that can be used right away.
Inspired by leading organizations like Google, Apple, and Nike, this course explores the five core components of EQ, with a special focus on Self-Regulation—the daily application of emotional intelligence. Whether you're new to EQ or looking to deepen your practice, you'll walk away with actionable tools, guided exercises, and a personalized plan to bring more clarity, motivation, and effectiveness to your professional life.

Chartered Professional Accountant and Financial Leader
Nada Boutarieh Kamaleddine is a Chartered Professional Accountant and a Certified Global Management Accountant. Nada brings over fifteen years of experience in the field of financial leadership, specializing in delivering high-quality team building solutions and financial results that align with organizational strategy and people culture. In the course of her career, she worked primarily in complex, fast-changing organizations leading teams of chartered accountants and financial professionals. Throughout her career and for the past 20 years, Nada has been practicing mindfulness while taking courses and training on emotional intelligence and leadership. Nada incorporates mindfulness and emotional intelligence into her leadership style and always finds transforming results in terms of creative performance, team building, and overall energy and engagement. This inspired her to start a consulting firm, NB Consulting, where she offers courses and training to professionals, designed to help them enhance their soft skills in order to manage their careers and businesses effectively and joyfully. Nada is an instructor with the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario teaching emotional intelligence. Her training is offered at organizations throughout Canada to enhance employee wellness and satisfaction. For more information visit https://nbconsulting.ca/ or send an email to onlinecourse@nbconsulting.ca.
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