Dounia Zellou helps leaders rediscover what makes them irreplaceable in the age of AI: presence, relating and courage.
She is an International Embodied Leadership Facilitator, Executive Coach and the founder of Humanaya. Her talks and workshops blend systems thinking, the body, art and movement so audiences experience leadership as well as hear about it. Her signature topics are leadership in the age of AI, women’s leadership, and the human capacity to relate with heart, body and mind.
Dounia brings a rare double perspective. She spent more than 12 years in banking and financial services, including consulting to asset and wealth managers in Paris and London. She then spent over 15 years developing executives, leadership teams and organisations across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. She is certified in the Leadership Circle Profile 360°, the Collective Leadership Assessment and BRITE, and she directed the dance documentary Danse Demain.
Based between Paris and Casablanca, she speaks in French, English, Arabic and Spanish. She is an active voice in women’s networks including PWN, WIAM, Emlyon au Féminin and Led by Her, and holds an MSc in Management from EM Lyon Business School.