Category Archives: Members of the Year

Marie-Josee (MJ) Boesten is the founder of MJ Coaching & Consulting. She has over 35 years of experience in coaching, consulting, workshop design and facilitation, with an overall focus on (personal) leadership and culture transformation. She has worked across Europe and Australia with thousands of people from many cultural backgrounds in a wide variety of industries, including oil & gas, energy transition, local government, small business, public and wholistic health and higher education. MJ credits her success to her passion for what she does, her focus on the lived experience, needs and desires of the individuals and groups she works with, and her commitment to make a difference – all the while sharing her wisdom based in her own life experiences and staying very curious about the mystery of being human and of life. MJ is also a grateful mother to a wonderful adult son, loyal friend, loving partner, supportive sister, budding painter, student of yoga and meditation, avid reader, committed investor in The Hunger Project and passionate about poetry.

Czarina Sheikh Mathew has a career history spanning over 25 years and is currently the Executive Director of Imtiaz Consultancy Limited. She supports organisations to enhance the employee and customer experience via consultancy, training and coaching. Czarina brings customer-focused solutions to mitigate financial, operational and reputational risk across the business. With substantial experience as a Senior Leader, Service Delivery Professional and Customer Champion, Czarina has developed and executed strategy to enhance the customer journey. She is also a mentor for the Women in Tech Mentoring programme, an Executive Coach and Corporate Trainer. Czarina has been listed in the Top 100 UK Customer Experience Professionals 2021 and was a Judge at the UK Customer Experience Awards 2020.

Imtiaz Consultancy is a management practice that focuses on enhancing the customer experience via consultancy, training and coaching. They provide a unique service that offers both profit improvement and cost management initiatives to Medium and Enterprise organisations. By identifying cost savings, this releases funds that can be re-invested into the business to strengthen the management of people, platforms, practices and partners.

Czarina holds her Bachelor’s degree in Geography. In her spare time, she enjoys travel and running.

Lisa Evans has been an integral part of her company for the past 14 years. As Director of Defense for Donaldson Company, Inc., she is known for her leadership and innovation, and worked her way up the ranks from sales assistance into the director role. Her focus on revenue, profit, continuous improvement, process implementation and sales excellence continues to contribute to her success.

She strives for employees to be empowered to make decisions and is a people developer pushing employees to take on stretch assignments and moving obstacles out of their way for their success, Donaldson’s success and our customer’s success. Lisa is clear in her thinking and communication to others and is thoughtful and honest. She is able to be vulnerable and is also a person that is on the court and also knows when to step back to allow others to shine. She is a pace setter and change agent and problem solver.

In addition to her primary role, Lisa has been involved with the company’s Women Leadership Network and organized their first Women’s Leadership Conference in March 2020. She is helping to steward and engineer the firm’s diversification and inclusion efforts, and looks forward to engaging with other women at large organizations, to learn how they work with their executive management team along with individual contributors at their companies, to engage in development or recognition of women’s contributions to the company.

Anaida Deti is a Business Owner and Entrepreneur. She is passionate about her work and credits her success to perseverance, focus and hard work. She is looking forward to connecting with likeminded professionals.