Ingrid Gavshon

Ingrid Gavshon serves as a lecturer at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business in Leadership Communications and in Creativity and Leadership, and at the UC Berkeley Executive Education organisations course, High Impact Leadership. She is a partner at The Berkeley Leadership Institute in charge of International Projects and serves as executive coach and senior training consultant. Gavshon is the Managing Director of the Berkeley Leadership Institute (BLI) and Chief International Strategy Officer of the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute and founder of Angel Films.

She specialises in leading Brand Ambassador programs, which are large-scale culture change projects that empower all employees as they learn to live the company’s values, culture and vision. Her goal is to bring Humanity to the workplace.

Gavshon is an award-winning social issue documentary filmmaker and photographer who founded Angel Films in 1994. She has made several documentary films about HIV/Aids, Orphans, the Death Penalty, Health Care, Gender Issues, about President Nelson Mandela. She draws on her filmmaking skills integrated with the executive coaching process that helps leaders discover their authentic selves and helps them actualise their vision, dreams and aspirations.

Roles:

• Lecturer at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business in Leadership Communications and in Creativity and Leadership and at the UC Berkeley Executive Education organisations course, High Impact Leadership
• Partner at The Berkeley Leadership Institute in charge of International Projects and serves as executive coach and senior training consultant.
• Managing Director of the Berkeley Leadership Institute (BLI)
• Chief International Strategy Officer of the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute and founder of Angel Films.
• Former Co-Chair the Documentary Filmmakers Association (DFA) South Africa

Areas of expertise:

• Specialises in leading Brand Ambassador programs, which are large-scale culture change projects that empower all employees as they learn to live the company’s values, culture and vision.
• Services offered:
• Social issues documentaries
• Leadership coaching

Project examples

• BETRAYED – Executive Producer
• Nominated for a 2007 SAFTA award.
• JAMMER EK SO BITTER IS – Executive Producer
• SAFTA 2011 Best Documentary Director
• SAFTA 2011 Best Documentary
• NIKIWE – Producer / Director.
  • Funded by STOP AIDS NOW & The Jan Vrijman Fund, The Netherlands
  • The Catalan Television Award for Best Human Rights Documentary Barcelona International Human Rights Film Festival – 2006
  • Short-listed for the Doen/ Amnesty International Film Awards, IDFA 2005

Client examples

Adobe Systems, Salesforce.com, Cisco Systems, Bio-Rad Laboratories, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, the Peterson /CAT Corporation, and internationally at Mubadala UAE, Dusit Thani and the Eastwater Group Thailand.