Petra Owusu-Brandstaeter๐Ÿƒ

Human Capital Growth Strategist I Emotional Intelligence Trainer I Leadership Coach I Work Culture & Wellbeing Assessment

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

About

Reflecting on my first HR leadership role, I vividly recall the challenges of attracting, developing, and retaining talent. It felt like an unachievable and overwhelming task. If I had access to training or mentoring to cultivate the mindset needed to tackle these challenges, I am certain I could have positively impacted the work culture much earlier in my role. Sheryl Sandberg once said, โ€œ๐‘พ๐’† ๐’„๐’‚๐’'๐’• ๐’„๐’‰๐’‚๐’๐’ˆ๐’† ๐’˜๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’˜๐’† ๐’‚๐’“๐’† ๐’๐’๐’• ๐’‚๐’˜๐’‚๐’“๐’† ๐’๐’‡ ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’๐’๐’„๐’† ๐’˜๐’† ๐’‚๐’“๐’† ๐’‚๐’˜๐’‚๐’“๐’† ๐’˜๐’† ๐’„๐’‚๐’๐’๐’๐’• ๐’‰๐’†๐’๐’‘ ๐’ƒ๐’–๐’• ๐’„๐’‰๐’‚๐’๐’ˆ๐’†.โ€ Today, I am a Workplace Wellbeing and Sustainable People Growth Partner, leveraging my expertise and experience to enable organisations to address their work culture challenges quicker and more effectively. I partner with medium-sized multinational organisations that are aiming to: ๐ŸŽฏ Reboot Employee Engagement & Drive A Productive Work Culture ๐ŸŽฏ Decrease Employee Turnover & Retain Next Generation Of Leaders ๐ŸŽฏ Grow Emotional Intelligence Capabilities & Cultivate Self-Leadership Mentality ๐ŸŽฏ Implement Wellbeing & Resilience Focused Strategies At Work Through our partnership, you will have access to: โœ”๏ธ Invaluable Insights Into Your Leadership Culture โœ”๏ธ A Detailed Roadmap Crafted To Your Unique Needs โœ”๏ธ Tools To Upskill Your Talent Management Strategies โœ”๏ธ Transformational Individual And Group Coaching โœ”๏ธ ๐‘จ๐’๐’… ๐‘ด๐’๐’”๐’• ๐‘ฐ๐’Ž๐’‘๐’๐’“๐’•๐’‚๐’๐’•๐’๐’š, ๐’€๐’๐’– ๐‘พ๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐‘บ๐’‚๐’—๐’† ๐‘ด๐’๐’๐’†๐’š, ๐‘ป๐’Š๐’Ž๐’† ๐‘จ๐’๐’… ๐‘ฎ๐’‚๐’Š๐’ ๐‘ท๐’†๐’‚๐’„๐’† ๐‘ถ๐’‡ ๐‘ด๐’Š๐’๐’… But donโ€™t take my word for it. Hereโ€™s what others have to say: โ€œI would like to thank you, Petra, for the great job you did with the managers of our company. You succeeded in embarking them on this journey for a better understanding of themselves, and you have established the foundations to support them in managing their emotion in various business contexts we face. We clearly see the positive effect of your actions, which significantly benefited the individual and collective performances.โ€ โ€“ CEO of a Global Sourcing Company. โ€œPetraโ€™s LWEI program has helped me change my mind completely, more than I have managed before. I have come to care more for myself and my team members than before. The training has benefitted me a lot in my work, business development and department. I have become more confident.โ€ โ€“ Operation Manager (anonymous) โ“Why not join me for a virtual coffeeโ“ Itโ€™s a small step that could lead to significant improvements. โžก๏ธ https://calendly.com/unbox-leadership-petra/virtual-coffee

Experience

  • Founder / CEO / Leadership Coach & Consultant / Wellbeing & Sustainable People Growth Partner at Unbox Leadership
    Aug 2022 - Present ยท 3 yrs 11 mos

    Unbox Leadership Consulting is your partner in fostering growth within your organisation by reshaping your work culture with a people-led, simple-to-implement, and future-ready approach. Given the impact of economic disruptions and the complexity of leading multigenerational workforces, every organisation understands the importance of continuously evolving and fostering mindsets that promote self-leadership, accountability, emotional health, and growth. However, the conflict for most HR leaders is not having the right resources and time to tackle their people management challenges. Plus, changing workplace culture often involves complex, lengthy, underappreciated, and costly processes that yield minimal lasting results. Why? Most initiatives treat the symptom but not the cause. We use emotionally safe assessment tools to give business leaders invaluable insights into their leadership and team's emotional culture. With this insight, we can address the root cause of their people management challenges, develop a customised talent management strategy, and support them with training and coaching. This strategy will improve employee retention, build a robust talent pipeline, and reduce acquisition costs. Our goal is to reduce the sources of unhealthy, unproductive, unengaged, and unsustainable work cultures to prepare for an unimagined, humanised future of work. "We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change." - Sheryl Sandberg

  • Founding Coach, She Leads Here at She Leads Here
    Apr 2026 - Present ยท 3 mos

    Success is rarely the result of capability alone. It is shaped by mindset, beliefs, and emotional norms that we often inherit without questioning. In my work as a Founding Coach within the She Leads Here community, I support female leaders in unboxing the emotional blueprints shaping how they show up and lead, so they can move beyond the patterns that quietly limit their growth and leadership impact.

  • Principal at Boyden
    Apr 2020 - Jun 2022 ยท 2 yrs 3 mos

    Boyden China & Singapore specializes in customized leadership solutions including Executive Search, Interim Management and Leadership Consulting. With more than 75 offices in 45 countries, Boyden is a global leader in the executive search industry. With our offices in China and Singapore, our 17-member team has expertise across global practices in Technology, Consumer & Retail, Industrial, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Financial Services, and Professional Services.

  • Principal- Leadership Advisory at Stones International - Executive Search & Leadership Advisory
    Oct 2019 - Apr 2020 ยท 7 mos

    Stones International is a search & leadership firm dedicated to assisting some of the worldโ€™s most successful companies and brands in identifying, securing and retaining senior management talent in Asia, through Retained Executive Search and Leadership Advisory Services. As a member of the Leadership Advisory Team, I will place a strong focus on transforming Managers into future-ready Leaders, developing New Generation Leaders as well as creating a coaching culture workplace using Emotional Intelligence and coaching technics, in order to help organisations establish the needed environment to grow. Further, I engage with Human Resources Professionals in assessing and up-skilling high potential employees and leaders.

  • HR Strategist and Transformation Coach at Self Employed
    Apr 2018 - Oct 2019 ยท 1 yr 7 mos

    Focus: HR Management Solution, Cross-Cultural Engagement, Enhancing People Skills, Emotional Intelligence, Personal Development & Career Development Coaching - helping individuals maximising their potential in work or private environment.