Candy Jannetta

Candy is the founder of Essencial (one of our partners) and its chief learning strategist. She is the queen of translating big-picture thinking into impactful solutions.

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Having worked in marketing for Warner Music International and CNN, Candy knows how to enable large corporates to nurture talent, develop outstanding leaders and embed a new culture. She approaches all her coaching and facilitation with one strong focus: to embed behavioural change in line with a business’s strategy. And she brings her warmth, creativity and expertise to do this.

Candy is passionate about helping organisations prioritise and value learning. She played an integral part in the design and delivery of adidas’ Manager Development Experience (MDE), which won Gold in the Brandon Hall HCM Excellence Awards for ‘Best Innovative or Unique Leadership Program 2021’.

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In 2021, Candy decided she needed to do more to help tackle climate change. Having built up a substantial carbon footprint flying to clients around the world, she felt compelled to do more than simply reducing her general personal consumption. She’d just read Paul Polman and Andrew Winston’s Net Positive , which says, ‘to thrive today and tomorrow, companies must become "net positive"—giving more to the world than they take.’ It inspired her to put sustainability at the heart of Essencial – and to create their The Sustainable Talent Program.