What is Advance?

Advance is an award-winning group coaching program designed to help everyone, and specially women, discover and harness the power  of leadership principles that lead to purposeful careers, characterized by harmony, connection, and impact.

The model

Five steps to future-proof your career

We approach "life" and "career" integration as, perhaps, one of the  the most complex challenges we all face  on a daily basis. We take advantage of this problematic to help participants to prepare for the future of work by unlocking intentional learning: Advance is designed to explore the core mindsets and skills of effective learners and apply it to career development.

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Testimonials: Advance is launched at the World Health Organization

With participants from 32 countries

During this course participants will:

  • Outline the current reality

    Explore with curiosity: reframe current thinking through new insights, connections and questions.

  • Design a fresh vision

    Embrace their creative potential: take time to reflect, understand themselves and design a new future.

  • Move into courageous doing

    Learn by doing: this mindset is about the willingness to try and the importance of pursuing progress over perfection.

Focus on work and life integration

ADVANCE is designed to empower participants to harness the passions and powers of the various parts of their lives, bringing them together to achieve a meaningful live and career.

  • We will challenge the binary thinking revealed by the term we use to describe the ideal lifestyle: “work/life balance.”

  • Focus on “life” as the intersection and interaction of four major domains: work, home, community, and the private self.

  • Design tangible experiments to integrate these 4 domains.

The results

Participants will see opportunities that were previously unimagined and:

  • Find clearer purpose in what they do

  • Feel more connected to the people who matter most

  • Produce stronger business and life results

  • Feel equipped to lead themselves into the future of work.

Real impact

  • 96%

    96% of learners had relevant, engaging interactions with the facilitator and peers.

  • 98%

    98% of learners found the activities engaging and though-provoking.

  • 100%

    100% of learners said they intend to apply the knowledge, tools and best practices in leading my life and career.

Advance wins award for innovation in staff engagement

The Career Development Roundtable (CDR) brings together international organisations across the multi-lateral sector, particularly the United Nations System, the European Union, International Financial Institutions, as well as national public sector, academia and private institutions. The CDR Awards is the reference celebration event for HR Professionals in the fields of recruitment and employee engagement. It recognises the potential of creativity and the people behind it. The award took place in the new campus of the SDA Bocconi School of Management. Fabiana Mariano Green, creator and Facilitator of Advance and Sara Canna, Career Development Lead at the World Health Organization, received the 2021 Award for Innovation in Employee Engagement, in recognition of the impact the Advance program has had in the lives of participants from 32 countries. The program has helped them re-engage with their careers in new and creative ways, specially during COVID times.
Fabiana Mariano Green and Sara Canna

The project has also been featured in the UN Magazine

Advance’s innovation lies in two particular areas. First, on its focus: many development programmes only focus on professional skills, while others on personal growth and on needs beyond the workplace. Advance is different. It's a unique and long-awaited resource that draws from neuroscience and the power of creating new habits to show women how to win in the 4 spheres of live: work, home, career and your private self. Second, Advance is designed to explore key agile mindsets and skills necessary to prepare staff for the future of work and apply them to career development.

Structure

Total of 28 hours of learning over a period of 3 months.

  • Assignments and self-reflection

    7.5 hours our are dedicated to assignments and self-refections. This is where the learning experience comes out of the virtual training room and into the flow of work.

  • 5 Modules

    5 live online sessions of 2.5 hours each. When asked if conversations had with the facilitator and peers during the live session were relevant, engaging and interactive, over 95% of students said: Yes!

  • Peer-to-peer and coaching

    At least 5 hours of peer-to-peer learning and 3 optional coaching sessions. For organisations, coaching can be provided by your internal coaches if you wish.

Meet your instructor

Fabiana Mariano Green

As an experienced Executive Coach, Facilitator and Leadership Instructor, Fabiana has coached and advised leaders from over 50 countries so far. She believes that there is a present, emerging, or future leader inside every one of us. What catapults her out of bed every morning is the chance to help others find their strengths, seize agency, see opportunities that were previously unimagined, and make a plan to achieve it. One of her career highlights was to travel with leadership expert John C. Maxwell, by invitation of the Presidents of Guatemala, Paraguay and Costa Rica, to launch three national transformational leadership projects in these countries. In recognition of her passion for people, she was a nominee of the Multiplier of the Year Award and of the John Maxwell Team Culture Award.

Loved by learners across the globe

Participants say that Advance has helped them to feel more confident, have a clearer vision for life and career growth, and gain new strategies for work-life balance

It was a wonderful course

Areej Taher, Yemen

I learnt a lot and felt that I am not the only one in this world facing all these obstacles in my life and career. I feel ready to achieve my life and career goals!

Like a wake-up call!

Mei Yee, Malaysia

I would like to say thank you very much for this course. It felt like a shoulder-shaking course telling me to pause and think about what I want from my life and career.

Every week’s topic was wonderful

Dr Sally-Ann, Ghana

I would like you to know I have found the ADVANCE course very useful. You really made every week’s topic wonderful. I have learnt a lot and it is helping me in my life as I speak.

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Thank you for this passionate experience

Vinoda Vythelingam

Dear Fabiana, this is to say thank you for the wonderful capacity-building course this year. For me, it has been like a ‘wake-up call’. It made me realize ...

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Dear Fabiana, this is to say thank you for the wonderful capacity-building course this year. For me, it has been like a ‘wake-up call’. It made me realize I was ‘wrong’ – Wrong because I focused too much on work and less on my dear ones – my family. I knew it already and was feeling bad about it. Under your coach, I learned about prioritizing things both at work and in my personal life. I learned to say ‘no’ to people in order not to be overstressed. Finally, I stopped trying to be ‘perfect'. I wish to highlight that after completing the ADVANCE sessions, I felt ready to step out of my comfort zone and to grow further professionally! I am now caring more about myself, taking rest when I need to and living life better. Thanks again. Just hope to get the opportunity for further advancement through this passionate training in the future. Wishing you a successful 2022! Kind Regards, Vinoda NPO NCD/Health Promotion WHO Mauritius

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Truly an enriching experience

Padmawati Mariappan

I am so grateful to have been able to take part in this amazing program assisting in my development. Truly an enriching experience together with other fellow...

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I am so grateful to have been able to take part in this amazing program assisting in my development. Truly an enriching experience together with other fellow participants. The facilitator, Ms Fabiana is a great motivator, caring and understanding person who facilitate the program in interesting way . I would like to take this opportunity to thank her for the learning opportunities. This program also allows you to be engaged with a Coach who will guide on your vision.

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Very inspiring and practical

Nathalie Germain Julskov

I appreciated the short visual explanatory presentation of the training in the welcome module. The module 0 is designed as a self-reflection. It needs some t...

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I appreciated the short visual explanatory presentation of the training in the welcome module. The module 0 is designed as a self-reflection. It needs some time to complete, but is a good introduction tool to the course. Even more excited to start!

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A life-changing course

Retno Sulistyowati

Through this course I have realised how a change in mindset for the right purpose is so important. As a result I feel empowered to work on myself, my career ...

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Through this course I have realised how a change in mindset for the right purpose is so important. As a result I feel empowered to work on myself, my career and my job!

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Totally worth it!

Marceline Kissangou Mouila

This program was worth, and a lively and challenging experience. I commend Fabiana for her fantastic facilitation skills and an authentic mindset. She c...

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This program was worth, and a lively and challenging experience. I commend Fabiana for her fantastic facilitation skills and an authentic mindset. She conducted the Advance program with enthusiasm and passion. The impact, I believe, for each learner is significant. Thank you so much, Fabiana.

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I have a clear vision now!

Marybeth Pua

One breakthrough for me is this course was achieving clarity of vision. I know exactly where to focus to achieve my life and career goals.

One breakthrough for me is this course was achieving clarity of vision. I know exactly where to focus to achieve my life and career goals.

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All is perfect

Ekaterina Simko

Very comprehensive and inspiring. Thank you!

Very comprehensive and inspiring. Thank you!

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I can see new possibilities now

Harriet Kabagenyi

Dear Fabiana, I just wanted to thank you for the Advance programme course that you gave us. It was very interactive and interesting and I have learnt a lot. ...

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Dear Fabiana, I just wanted to thank you for the Advance programme course that you gave us. It was very interactive and interesting and I have learnt a lot. I have been exposed and I am now able to explore possibilities which I thought I would not come across. I will take all the advice that you gave me on board in terms of career growth.

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More balance in my private and professional life

Bernadette Fogue Kongape

My heartfelt gratitude to Fabi and Sara for the opportunity to be part of this ADVANCE group, as the course has been an eye-opener in many ways. Profession...

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My heartfelt gratitude to Fabi and Sara for the opportunity to be part of this ADVANCE group, as the course has been an eye-opener in many ways. Professionally, the programme gave me a coach I had been dreaming of for a long time. The course has allowed me to reorganize my schedule and balance my private and professional life. Today, I am remarkable, and I know perfectly how to express my leadership while remaining authentic. Fabi, you are such an original and caring person, a coach and mentor in implementation, a very good mother, sister and friend...You have shown us by your example that each of us is unique and that it is this uniqueness and the values we have chosen that make us remarkable and it is true because many things are clear in my mind now and I can see it through my vision board. I also want to thank the other women that took the course with me: I feel we became like a new family, where we felt safe to share our hearts and be ourselves naturally, and without any fear, because of our similarities. To them too, I say thank you for being there and for your patience because my English expression was not easy at the beginning, But now, dear sisters and colleagues, I must admit that my expression has improved and I am proud of you and I am even more remarkable. I look forward to continuing to work together with you to design a better future. Thank you Warm regards Bernadette

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