Partners
Tony Anagor is the founder of the Institute of Leadership & Negotiation (ILN), where he works with founders, executives, and leadership teams to strengthen one of the most difficult aspects of leadership: handling conflict and difficult conversations well.
His work focuses on how leaders navigate disagreement, competing priorities, and high-stakes decisions while maintaining trust and performance inside organisations. Drawing on the principles of Emotionally Intelligent Negotiation,
Tony delivers leadership workshops, facilitates executive offsites, and coaches senior leaders across Europe and internationally. His sessions combine practical frameworks with real leadership scenarios, allowing teams to work through the conversations and tensions that shape how organisations actually operate.
He is also the host of the Empathy at the Table podcast, where he speaks with leading thinkers and practitioners about negotiation, leadership, and decision-making.
Lavinia Biagetti is a communications and operations professional specialising in organisational systems, content management, and workflow design. She brings a structured, detail-oriented approach to the full breadth of communications, administration, and operational work that keeps an organisation running smoothly and consistently.
Within ILN, Lavinia is the central point for communications, administration, and operations. She manages digital assets, builds and maintains structured workflows, develops processes, and drives the social media strategy, while ensuring the day-to-day organisational work is handled with clarity and precision. Her focus is on creating the repeatable systems and operational foundations that allow ILN to deliver high-level leadership and negotiation content at scale.
Zsuzsanna Ferenczi works with leaders and leadership teams seeking to build more conscious, human-centred organisations.
She brings more than two decades of international business experience, including senior roles at global companies such as Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Citibank. Her work focuses on leadership development, organisational culture, and helping leaders create environments built on trust, clarity, and accountability.
Zsuzsanna is also a partner at the Conscious Business Institute and co-author of Enter Your Flow. Through coaching and mentoring, she supports leaders in developing the awareness and judgement required to lead effectively in complex environments.
Fiona Garvey is an experienced CEO and business leader with more than two decades of international experience in business development, strategy, and organisational leadership. She has held senior leadership roles in global technology companies and currently serves as CEO of the digital media company Softonic.
Through her work leading large organisations and international teams, Fiona brings deep practical insight into leadership, decision-making, and organisational culture. As a mentor and advisor within ILN, Fiona supports founders and leadership teams in navigating the realities of senior leadership — balancing performance, people, and long-term organisational health. Her perspective combines operational experience with a strong belief in authentic leadership and continuous growth.
Mike Inman is a commercial negotiation expert and trainer with over 25 years of experience leading complex B2B negotiations across manufacturing, defence, technology, hospitality, and beyond. He has personally led more than 1,000 Fortune 500 negotiations totalling over $1 billion, and has trained more than 30,000 negotiators across 30 countries on 6 continents, with 95% of his work coming from repeat clients.
As a mentor and advisor within ILN, Mike brings a practical, no-nonsense approach to commercial negotiation built specifically for B2B contexts. He supports founders and leadership teams in developing the skills, structure, and mindset needed to protect margin, reduce unnecessary concessions, and negotiate with confidence, drawing on a methodology forged across decades of high-stakes commercial deals.
Stephen Stynes is an entrepreneur, executive coach, and facilitator with over four decades of experience studying human behaviour, leadership, and personal growth. He has held senior international roles with Hewlett Packard across Europe and the US, founded one of Europe’s first digital marketing agencies, and has since worked with company leaders across four continents in leadership development, coaching, and facilitation.
Based in Barcelona and working globally in English and Spanish, Stephen brings a rare combination of business experience and deep inner work to his practice, grounded in the belief that scaling a business requires first scaling yourself. As a mentor and advisor within ILN, he supports founders and leadership teams in developing their inner game alongside their professional performance, drawing on expertise in conflict coaching, team development, emotional intelligence, and conscious leadership.
Kwame Christian is a two-time bestselling author, keynote speaker, business lawyer, and CEO of the American Negotiation Institute. Recognised as one of the world’s leading negotiation experts, he hosts Negotiate Anything, the number one negotiation podcast globally for nearly a decade, with over 16 million downloads, 1,700 episodes, and listeners in more than 180 countries. His TEDx Talk, “Finding Confidence in Conflict,” has been viewed over 500,000 times, and his work has been featured in Forbes, NPR, CNBC, USA Today, and beyond.
As a mentor and advisor within ILN, Kwame brings world-class expertise in negotiation, conflict confidence, and difficult conversations to founders and leadership teams. His work with Fortune 500 companies including Google, Apple, NASA, and Uber demonstrates the real-world application of negotiation fundamentals at the highest levels, and he brings that same rigour and accessibility to the leaders ILN serves.
Natalya Berdikyan is an international leadership coach, facilitator, and speaker with over 20 years of experience across multinational corporations, entrepreneurship, and executive leadership. She is the Founder of Leadership by Design Academy, a PCC-accredited coach through the International Coaching Federation (ICF), and collaborates with the Leadership & Negotiations Institute on leadership, communication, and negotiation programs.
Natalya coaches founders, senior executives, and leadership teams globally, facilitating leadership development programs, negotiations and communication workshops, executive offsites, and retreats that help leaders and organizations thrive without sacrificing wellbeing, connection, or purpose.
She also serves as a Communications Coach at IESE Business School, supporting leaders in executive presence, influence, and high-stakes conversations. In addition, Natalya is a member and Forum Trainer at Entrepreneurs’ Organization, where she trains founders in the Forum methodology, fostering deeper trust, meaningful connection, and both personal and professional growth.
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