Hi, Dave Stahoviac here, host of the Coaching for Leaders podcast. Whenever I'm

supporting someone and elevating their leadership, the conversation often starts with what to

start doing. But more often than not, it's just as important to stop doing the things that are

getting in the way. Today I'm bringing you a chat with one of our recent Academy graduates

who did just that. Here's our conversation. I'm talking today with Anna Bellini, one of our

Academy graduates. Anna, so good to see you. Good to see you, David. I'm happy to be back.

Oh, I am so glad to have you back. It is always such a pleasure talking with you. And I'm so excited

to explore some of your experience in the Academy. But before we do, perhaps you could share

with those listening a bit about yourself and your role and your professional work.

Yes, I'm happy to do that, Dave. So my name is Anna Bellini and I work as a R&D director in a company that make medical devices in Denmark. I'm originally from Italy.

I live in Sweden and work in Denmark.

So it's a little bit of a mixture of European cultures.

In my job, every day is about driving product development

from a part of a system engineering.

So this is what I do every day. From a personal

life, I'm married and I have two children that are grown up now. So we soon both live

the house. So this is pretty much my life. I have a cat as well that is very bothering me,

but otherwise everything is, yeah. I don't know if it's

something else that you want to know. No, it sounds blessedly full, actually, a blessedly full life,

as one of my relatives loves to say. So great. Thanks so much for sharing a bit about you.

How did you come across the podcast originally? Do you remember?

Yes, actually, I was talking to my manager who was in your academy before me.

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