ELAINE TEO
FOUNDER & PARTNER
As Founder and Partner of acclaimed consultancy LPI Living Potential International, Elaine Teo excels in bringing life skills for personal success to students and the workforce worldwide.
Elaine designs and delivers leadership development and intercultural coaching, training, facilitation, and thought leadership to some of the world’s most influential organisations, including Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Harrow School, the École hôtelière de Lausanne, City of London Corporation, JP Morgan, Barings, Baillie Gifford, Deutsche Bank, Sport England, The Guardian, Lloyd’s, McKinsey, EY, Suntory, and Tesco.
She speaks on the BBC and internationally, bringing her cutting-edge expertise and solutions-focused approach as keynote speaker and moderator, business and social psychologist, intercultural expert, and life skills coach. She is sought after for her uniquely insightful strategy and execution on wellbeing, resilience and emotional health for young people, diversity, equity, culture and inclusion, women and minority leadership, the workschool skills gap, and mind training for top performance at work and life. She inspires leaders to drive exceptional outcomes that last.
Elaine was awarded her meditation teaching diploma with distinction by the British School of Meditation as one of the top students of the internationally-accredited course. She founded The Mindful Hedonist, an authentic lifestyle platform bringing mind sciences (contemplative science, psychology and neuroscience) into real-world solutions to help people new to meditation to live better in their everyday, flourishing at work and enjoying healthy pleasure. Her pioneering initiative WINE AND MIND blends life skills, psychology, meditation and winetasting in small-group interactive workshops to help people “manage their conscious experience”, from handling overwhelm, toxic people, solitude and isolation, releasing fear & anxiety, working with strong emotions and overthinking, making wise decisions, to finding meaning and purpose, appreciating oneself, and the power of community.
As an active member of Mind & Life Europe and Mind & Life Institute, Elaine volunteers in leading community meditations, and has presented posters and co-led workshops at MLE’s Summer Research Institutes, while supporting fellow community members with coaching, resource sharing and discussion.
Elaine read Psychology & Philosophy at Oxford on a full academic scholarship, where she was Piano Scholar and co-founder of the groundbreaking Oxford University Chinese Cultural Society, the university’s first truly diverse and inclusive forum for students from non-Asian backgrounds to engage with Chinese heritage & contemporary culture. She speaks five languages including Mandarin, German, Italian and French in addition to English. As a Singaporean Chinese who has lived, worked and travelled in 39 countries, her insights on the EastWest axis are particularly valued. Prior to founding LPI in Switzerland 20 years ago while having the first of her three children, Elaine worked in strategic marketing and product development in American Express and Singapore Airlines.
Elaine is passionate about her individual, family, team, organizational and community work, interweaving them seamlessly in order to stoke positive change, and helping everyone to play better to their strengths at work and life. With three decades of firsthand experience she has seen the profound power that is unlocked when people finally align with who they are best meant to be – living life as their true, whole selves, plugged into the greater whole. As a single parent, she walks the talk herself and parents her children the same way to stellar results.
elaine@livingpotentialinternational.com
+44 786 4167626
PAUL GENOVESE
PARTNER
Through 25 years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience Paul Genovese has honed a sharp sense for developing individuals, teams, and cultures to perform at their dynamic best to meet the challenges of the modern global workplace.
Paul’s primary talent for synthesizing disparate information into a system of knowledge helps teams make objective, data-driven business decisions. His innovative insights and perspective are sought after to unearth novel solutions for challenging business problems by clients worldwide including Anschutz Exploration, Aspect Energy, ChevronTexaco, Wingate Capital, Kinder Morgan Inc, Marathon, Nexen, Noble Energy, Shamaran Petroleum, Unocal, Canargo Georgia, and Block Energy PLC.
Paul began his professional career serving in various geoscience technology roles at Texaco Exploration and Production. Prior to joining LPI, Paul established his international oil & gas exploration consultancy in 2001, where his work was instrumental in discovering notable world-class oil and gas fields. A serial entrepreneur, Paul has since partnered in founding a number of petroleum and technology start-ups.
Over two decades of navigating a traditional male-dominated industry has honed Paul as a spearhead for change toward more diverse, inclusive, and fulfilling work environments that nurture open collaboration paired with individual creativity for maximum business impact.
Throughout his career, Paul has recognized the critical value of high-functioning teams, and has championed efforts to assemble the most inclusive and cognitively diverse teams, most visibly through his memberships in Texaco’s groundbreaking Diversity Council and the Mentoring for Excellence in Technology program.
Paul believes that individuals within even large organizations have the power to nucleate significant positive change through creativity and innovation, and to lead from within. As examples of his intrapreneurial leadership within Texaco, he cross-pollinated his oil/gas exploration and production skills with a colleague in corporate IT to develop pioneering data science applications, and he collaborated with colleagues from business units around the globe to design and facilitate Texaco’s first ever Worldwide Virtual Technology Conference.
Paul holds degrees in geology and geophysics from SUNY Brockport, Western Michigan University, and Princeton University. Among his academic awards and achievements are the Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award, a National Science Foundation grantee, and he was Princeton’s John C. Meeker Amoco Fellow.
Paul holds a lifelong passion for learning and teaching. He excels in mentoring and coaching university students to prepare them for industry careers and brings his real-world business experience into the classroom via practical lectures and laboratories.
paul@livingpotentialinternational.com
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