Navid Nazemian
Navid Nazemian helps senior executives land well in new roles, accelerate impact, and build lasting leadership legacies.
Why you should book Navid Nazemian for your next event
- Navid equips senior leaders with practical frameworks to succeed in their first 90 days and beyond, ensuring fast impact and long-term credibility.
- With over 20 years in global HR leadership, he brings real-world insight from boardrooms across regions, industries, and cultures.
- His sessions combine strategic clarity with human depth, helping leaders transition with confidence, purpose, and authority.
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Executive Transition Coach. Trusted advisor to C-suite leaders worldwide.
Navid Nazemian is one of the most recognised voices in executive transitions and senior leadership acceleration. He works with C-suite leaders and leadership teams at critical career moments, supporting them as they step into new roles, broader mandates, and higher expectations. As the author of Mastering Executive Transitions – The Definitive Guide, an international bestseller and #1 new release, Navid brings both thought leadership and hands-on experience to the stage. His work is grounded in more than two decades of senior HR leadership across five countries and six industries, making his insights highly relevant, practical, and globally informed.
Navid Nazemian and executive transitions
Navid Nazemian is globally recognised for his work in executive transitions, helping senior leaders accelerate their impact when it matters most. He supports executives as they move into C-suite and enterprise-critical roles, ensuring they land well, lead with confidence, and create meaningful, sustainable legacies. His approach blends strategic clarity with deep human understanding, focusing on what truly drives success in the early and defining phases of leadership.
As the author of Mastering Executive Transitions – The Definitive Guide, Navid has shaped how organisations and leaders think about onboarding, role clarity, stakeholder alignment, and leadership presence. The book’s international success reflects the relevance of his work for today’s complex and fast-moving leadership landscape.
Global leadership experience across industries
Before becoming a full-time executive transition coach, Navid spent over 20 years in senior HR leadership roles across emerging and developed markets. His career spans five countries and six industries, with leadership positions at organisations such as Vodafone, Roche, BAT, General Electric (GE), and Adidas. He has operated at country, regional, and global levels, giving him a rare, end-to-end view of leadership challenges in diverse cultural and organisational contexts.
This background allows Navid to speak the language of senior executives. He understands the pressures of board expectations, investor scrutiny, organisational politics, and the personal demands placed on leaders at the top.
Trusted advisor to leading organisations
Through his consulting, coaching, and speaking work, Navid has partnered with some of the world’s most respected organisations. His global client portfolio includes LVMH, Coca-Cola, Shell, SAP, Nestlé, and KPMG, alongside influential regional organisations such as ADQ, TAQA, and the Chalhoub Group. Leaders trust Navid not only for his frameworks, but for his discretion, credibility, and ability to challenge constructively.
His keynote speeches and leadership sessions are known for being sharp, engaging, and highly actionable, leaving audiences with clear direction and renewed confidence.
Board-level perspective and governance experience
Navid Nazemian brings a strong governance lens to his work with senior leaders. He has served on multiple boards, including a six-year tenure with BAT, a FTSE 10 organisation. He also spent four years on the Nominating Committee of the International Coaching Federation (ICF). In addition, Navid holds board-relevant qualifications and remains actively involved with non-executive director communities such as Nurole and The Advisory Board Centre.
This experience strengthens his ability to support executives who work closely with boards or are preparing for non-executive and advisory roles themselves.
Recognition and impact
Navid’s influence has been widely recognised across the global leadership and HR community. He has been named HR’s Most Influential Practitioner by HR Magazine, ranked the #1 Executive Coach globally by CEO Today for three consecutive years, listed among the 100 Most Iconic Coaching Leaders by CHRO Asia, and honoured with the Outstanding Leadership Award by Education 2.0.
Book Navid Nazemian for your event
When you book Navid Nazemian for your event, you bring in a speaker who combines credibility, clarity, and calm authority. His keynotes resonate with senior audiences because they are grounded in experience, research, and real leadership moments. Navid leaves leaders better equipped to navigate transitions, elevate their impact, and lead with intention from day one.
Keynotes
Keynote by Navid Nazemian:
How to Master Executive Transitions
Pre-covid research proves that executive transitions are risky with 40% of executive transitions failing during the first 18 months after being appointed into a new role. New executives often require 6+ months to break-even productivity levels.
#TheGreatResignation coupled with #QuiteQuitting have further intensified the risk of a rocky start, so executive transitions are even more challenging now.
Together we will explore how organisations can apply proven de-risking strategies as well as enable powerful interventions to enable their executives to hit the ground running and accelerate value creation for shareholders.
Keynote by Navid Nazemian:
Executive Breakthrough - Navigate Your Way to the Top
Ambitious to move into the C-suite? Practical, interactive and led by Navid Nazemian, this session will offer pragmatic advice and best practices for transitioning into the C-suite, building high performing teams and creating a lasting legacy for your organisation.
With the Author of Amazon’s #1 new release and international bestseller Mastering Executive Transition: The Definitive Guide you will get insights about challenges to move up to the C-suite & learn about common mistakes that are made.
Discover what sets exceptional leaders apart, gain actionable strategies to accelerate your career trajectory, and learn interventions that can turbo-charge the move to the top.
Keynote by Navid Nazemian:
Resilient Leadership in High-Performing Teams During Challenging Times
This session equips leaders with a clear understanding of the key performance differentiators that consistently drive success in high-performing teams, helping them identify the mindsets and behaviours that enable people to excel under pressure, uncertainty, and prolonged challenge.
Participants will gain practical insight into how to strengthen trust, resilience, and accountability across diverse, mixed-experience teams, and learn how to translate winning behaviours from high-stakes, high-risk environments into everyday organisational contexts.
By the end of the session, leaders will have developed a deeper awareness of their role in setting the tone, maintaining focus, and reinforcing a shared purpose—especially when navigating the most challenging moments.
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