CCL Webinars

Alessia D'Amato, is Research Associate at the Center for Creative Leadership - Europe. She has a PhD in Industrial and Organisational Psychology from University of Bologna.  Her current research focuses on leadership practices and processes across generations and in relation to successful implementation of sustainability and social responsibility strategies in global organisations.  Alessia has presented the results of this and earlier research at several academic conferences as well as at professional meetings in Europe, US and Asia.  In particular she has been focusing recently on Europe Emerging Leaders and she has presented the results of different research project in several venues both in Europe and US.

Before joining the Center for Creative Leadership, Alessia spent a period doing research at the University of Maryland (US) and worked at the University of Surrey (UK), where she was involved, among other research projects, as the local leader of a European project on individual and social perspectives of the influence of changing social structures on stress and quality of life. Her areas of expertise include Leadership development, the effects of organisational climate particularly in relation to organisational stress and psychological well-being, job performance and personality, and research methods. Alessia is a member of a number of international academic and professional associations.

Kim Lafferty joined the Center as a Senior Associate, based in the United Kingdom. Her primary responsibility is to develop the UK, Iceland and Ireland markets and provide client relationship management to clients across a range of industries and countries. In addition, Kim is a researcher and is currently working on a talent management project.

Prior to joining CCL, Kim was Chief Knowledge Architect for Academee, an e-learning start-up. Her role was essentially that of a partnership manager responsible for the identification, recruitment, and management of key relationships with world-class organisations in learning, such as INSEAD and the Buzan Group. She was one of a small team of experts who invented Academee's collaborative e-learning architecture and all the associated concepts, models, and processes. Before her work with Academee, Kim was a Global Practice Leader for Organisational Effectiveness and Change Management for the American Management Association, reporting into New York. Her role was that of an intellectual property asset manager and subject matter expert, responsible for the development and acquisition of best practice content.  Kim was also a Corporate Development Director for Management Centre Europe, based in Brussels, and worked with many established international companies.

Kim holds a Master's Degree in Management Learning from Lancaster University and a Diploma in Organisation and Consulting Skills from NTL, USA. She is certified in the use of numerous psychometrics and has spoken at a broad range of European conferences on the topics of knowledge management, e-learning and talent development.