Zhumadil
Yerke

Certified business trainer, coach, game practitioner

Professional interests:

Developing soft skills

Coaching for professional effectiveness and behavioural change

Developing corporate culture

Attention management and mindfulness

Building a learning organisation

Lifelong learning

Narrative practice and corporate storytelling

Body therapy and achieving psychological wholeness

Practical experience:

2022 – present — LEORON PDI, trainer for LEORON PDI in Kazakhstan

2018 – 2022 — KAZ Minerals (Aktogay project), management skills trainer

2018 — FreshMind training centre, trainer in leadership skills and public speaking

2013 – 2017 — British Council in Kazakhstan, project manager

2008 – 2012 — OSCE Centre in Astana, senior legal officer

2005 – 2006 — Eurasian Bank JSC, lead specialist in the Legal Review Department

2004 – 2005 — Adviser law firm, lawyer

Delivering soft-skills trainings: "Assertive Communication", "Effective Communication and Feedback", "Self-Organisation and Time Planning", "Emotional Intelligence for Managers", "Mental Hygiene against Burnout for Office Staff", "Managing Professional Meetings", "Engaging Leadership", etc.
Developing public speaking and spontaneous speech and communication skills in group and individual formats through the rhetorical game "GRATOR: The Power of Words"
Running the psychological transformation games "7 Seals" and "Roads of Change"
Designing training courses on request; methodological work with experts
Leadership and professional effectiveness coaching (behavioural change using the M. Goldsmith system, working with meaning and resourceful states through narrative practices and metaphorical methods)

Facilitation sessions on team communication, including developing corporate culture through storytelling
M. Goldsmith's "Leader of the Future" 360-degree leadership assessment (available in English)
Administering and analysing the HILL competency test for staff assessment

Education:

2006 — 2008 — Leiden University, Netherlands, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, specialisation: Public Administration: Crisis and Safety Management, Master of Science in Public Administration

1998 — 2003 — Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Faculty of International Relations, specialisation: International Law, specialist diploma in international law with two foreign languages

Further education and advanced training:

2022 — 2024 — Integration International Institute of Practical Psychology and Psychotherapy: diploma course "Psychological Counselling"

2020 — 2023 — International Academy of Psychological Sciences (IAPS): Body-oriented psychotherapy

International Labour Organization (ILO) MOOC, RPL: Recognition of Prior Learning

Skillbox: Educational programme methodologist, Storytelling

ICBT International School of Business Trainers, courses "Online Learning System in the Work of a Business Trainer"

HILL International, certification seminar "HILL Competency Analysis"

Certification course for professional mediators, Mediation Centre of the International Human Rights Centre

Leadership coaching using the Marshall Goldsmith system — Stakeholder Centered Coaching; GLOF 360 leadership assessment

ICBT International School of Business Trainers, business trainer certification programme

University of Pennsylvania, Coursera, course "Gamification"

Erickson Coaching International (ICF), coach training programme "The Art and Science of Transformational Coaching"

Erickson Coaching International (ICF), Coaching high-performance teams

Academy of Strategic Coaching (IAC), Strategic coaching intensive

Academy of Strategic Coaching (IAC), Metaphorical coaching

Step& Grow, Pinpoint facilitation technology

Vector of Growth (ICTA), Enneagram "Practitioner" and "Master" levels

All-Ukrainian National Association of Psychological and Transformational Games (VNAPTI), "Host, Master, Game Technician"

Orange-Apple, Gamification of business processes

ICBT, "Creating and Running Games for Business. Trainer-Game Technician"