{"id":1933,"date":"2024-09-03T15:36:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T13:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemmagarciagodall.com\/about-me\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:05:13","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gemmagarciagodall.com\/en\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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After years in bank auditing with Deloitte, I reached the position of my dreams and became the CFO of an international company. I was leading a team of eight people. On the first day I wanted to take a coffee with them and they left me alone in the office. I asked them ‘let’s go for a coffee together’ and they didn’t move away from their desks. You can’t get anywhere as a leader if the team doesn’t follow you. That’s what I learnt that day while I was having the coffee by myself. <\/span><\/p>

After my adventures as a CFO, I went into our family business for financial services where I started from the bottom and learnt the art of Sales at the sides of my dad. Following his advice, always being the first to arrive and the last to leave, I became the CEO achieving 20% in annual growth for the company. We became the market leader of the sector in Spain. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Years later I undertook a Management By Out with a risk capital firm. The changes and the crisis in the industry brought us to the limit, as a team and as people. We learnt to manage our emotions, to lead the change and to face the new challenges of the market heads-on. Successively, I took the decision to pivot my profession towards team management and consulting for organizational transformation. In the biggest moments of difficulty and stress, I learnt the value of values, and the importance of being well myself to do good for my environment.  <\/span><\/p>\n

I am a member of YPO International, the biggest association of leaders in the world and I am part of the leading commitee of YPO Barcelona. I also moderate and faciliate leadership retreats for YPO and other leadership associations. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Currently, as partner of The Zone I guide companies on their cultural transformation journeys to create high-performance environments that also support happiness and a more balanced life. Without being able to handle our own emotions and the emotions of our teams, bringing change forward and overcoming the big challenges of today’s world is impossible.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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My passion for Emotional Intelligence has led me to create the Emotional Intelligence Institute (Instituto de Inteligencia Emocional) to support young people and parents on their learning journey. I’ve experienced first-hand what it means to be a leader and to bring a company forward while in parallel caring for a family. Being a mother or father today is not easy, for me, understanding and managing my emotions and those of my two children, was the only way to move forward. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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