Ana Volanis

Ana Volanis Assoc CIPD is an international Learning& Development Expert Consultant with a career spanning over 18 years. She holds a MD in International Business Communication and is an Accredited Trainer and Accredited Evaluator of Professional Competences. She has held positions of Administration Manager, Operations Manager and L&D Manager. Her last corporate role involved managing the L&D Function for a staff of 5500.

Having lived and worked in Europe and the Middle East, she has spent more than 26.000 hours managing Communication& Development Programmes for people from 37 countries on 6 continents.

Ana has delivered 12.900 training hours to diverse industries (Medical, Telecom, Insurance, FMCG, Banking, Oil& gas, Beauty, Mass media, Human Rights, Geological and Geophysical Prospecting, Home Improvement, Transport& logistics, Cleaning Products, Energy, Design, Chemical& Consumer Goods, Public sector, IT, Construction, Education, Facility Management, Petrochemicals), to participants ranging from Frontline Staff to Top Management and Secretaries of State.

She has collaborated with global organizations, among which: Unicef, L’Oréal, Adobe, Hearst Corporation, Engie, Lidl, Wipro, Netop, Engie, Henkel, AON, DSV Logistics, Oriflame, LeroyMerlin, SC Johnson, Hootsuite, Governmental Organisations, etc.

In 2015 she was involved in designing the Business Development Training handbook for the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in the context of the Training for Water and Energy Efficiency Development Program (TWEED) in Jordan.