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Samantha Valand

samantha valand

My interest in wellbeing and weight loss was sparked in my early 30s when maintaining my weight was suddenly not quite as easy as it was in my 20s. Around the same time close family members were prescribed drugs for high blood pressure and cholesterol problems. I became interested in the concept of ‘eating yourself healthy’ and how lifestyle impacts a person’s health. This curiosity has never left and has evolved to include how we are choosing to age as we get older. #agingwithattitude In 2006 I trained as Pilates teacher and Personal Trainer, leaving the world of IT behind. While most of my clients successfully lost weight – usually men, a number did not – usually women. This was despite the women following exercise programmes and restricting their calorie intake. The “Eat Less and Exercise More” mantra was not working for everyone. I decided to determine the underlying cause by undertaking further training and research. I trained to become a Metabolic Effect Nutrition Consultant. This training is provided by a US company which combines holistic Medical Doctors and Personal Training qualifications. This course covered hormones and how they impacted the body and weight loss, for women in particular. Menofitness Training from Australia was next. It was a course about the Menopause and the health and fitness aspects for women as they get older. You can find a list of my qualifications here This combination of years of experience and courses has become my first book The Menopause Diaries I wrote it because I struggled to find any practical information on how to adapt to the changes that comes with the menopause. I cannot be the only person that is finding this challenge. Hopefully my book will help other women be as healthy as they can at this time in their life. coffe and cake I enjoy the simple pleasures of life, like coffee and cake at the weekend and rediscovered the joys of reading novels after purchasing a Kindle a few years ago. You can find some of my favourite health books here. While I don’t sit up reading in bed with a torch anymore (need to balance hormones with a good nights sleep!) I still enjoy a good book. Europe is one of my favourite destinations where I enjoy taking life a bit slower while enjoying good food and wine.

WWA Corporate Coaching

wwa corporate coaching

When we established WWA Corporate Coaching in Dubai in 2004, we became the first coaching experts catering exclusively for businesses in the Middle East. Our founder, Nic Woodthorpe-Wright PCC is one of the leading coaching pioneers in the region, and he set up the company when corporate coaching was almost unheard of. He had been enjoying a successful senior career with a global company when he was offered a major promotion. But Nic’s outlook had changed because he had spent several years enthused by the new concept of coaching. Confused by his options, he was weighing up the benefits of staying with his employer versus striking out on his own when his wife asked him the perfect coaching question. That moment changed his life, creating such a deep sense of knowing and clarity in him that the answer was unshakeable. WWA was born. Nic became a top authority on leadership coaching, trained in numerous effective coaching models and ultimately won coveted credentials from coaching’s top governing body, the International Coach Federation (ICF), becoming a Professional Certified Coach (PCC). WWA Corporate Coaching has since grown from a small company into the largest coaching provider in the Middle East, offering the expertise of over 40 executive and leadership coaches who work with passion, energy and tenacity to help you, our clients. Our current focus is on delivering the best executive and business coaching to senior and middle management leaders, both in multinational organizations and large, Middle East and North Africa based companies.