In the latest episode of the Empowerography Podcast, my guest is Fotini Iconomopolous. Fotini empowers executives and their teams through her expertise in negotiation, communication and persuasion. She was nicknamed “the negotiator” as a child. Today, business executives partner with her to achieve their business goals, increase profitability and create a competitive advantage. In this episode we discuss the art of negotiation, being dubbed “the negotiator”, accipurpadental occurances, relationships and their importance, adversity and struggle, connection, teaching, cracking glass ceilings and community.

“I help people get what they want.” Nicknamed “the negotiator” as a child, Fotini has always channeled her energy into a passion for the power of forward thinking. Today, business executives partner with her to achieve their business goals, increase profitability and create a competitive advantage. Fotini empowers executives and their teams through her expertise in negotiation, communication and persuasion. To share her strengths with more business leaders, she is also an adjunct professor of MBA Negotiations at the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto where she completed her MBA in Organization Behavior.

After a decade of owning and managing small businesses in the retail sector, Fotini refined her negotiation skills in the corporate world in the consumer goods industry before becoming a management consultant. She created a successful negotiation advisory practice for another global firm before branching off on her own. Over the last decade she has helped clients all over the globe focus their energy on moving their commercial objectives forward. Fotini thrives on guiding clients through high-stakes scenarios in such industries as CPG, retail, professional services, energy, telecommunications and finance.

Having overcome significant gender adversity early in her career, Fotini is passionate about helping people develop the confidence to take on whatever challenges come their way, with a particular interest in empowering women and disadvantaged groups. In 2018, she expanded her attention to educating adolescent girls through an empowerment camp experience, to start building their confidence and resilience even earlier than her corporate audience. When not with clients or in the classroom, she is a frequent guest on CBC & CTV television and she spends her time professional speaking on negotiation, communication, leadership and conflict management, and offering her experience to meaningful non-profit initiatives. She’s worked extensively with the Network of Executive Women for the last 5 years and currently serves as one of their Regional Officers for the Canadian chapter on their mission to advance women and transform the workplace. She’s been honored by The Greek America Foundation as one of their Top 40 under 40 in recognition of her achievements and philanthropic contributions, and nominated for the Women of Influence RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Awards.

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Fotini Iconomopolous Episode