Viola’s clients and colleagues call her “Master Mentor and Connector”. An inspirational teacher, personal and business leader, humanitarian, a sustainable influencer. She is particularly valued for her intuition, grit, experience, integrity and creativity. Her motto is “Together is Better for Caring Alliances”.
She is a transcultural psychotherapist, a trainer in mentoring, breathwork and coaching, a social entrepreneur, Business Consultant B and Advisor to many leaders and organizations across multiple sectors.
She has been pioneering and developing mental health fitness and wellbeing in the workplace since the nineties, bridging the space between breathwork therapy, mindfulness and business management.
She now works internationally with individual and corporate clients in a cross pollination between self-development, management, and leadership. As a creative entrepreneur, she is a synergist, developing innovative schemes. She recently introduced breathwork to rehabilitation from addiction, a theme in her life that she successfully overcame.
Viola is an expert in Wellbeing and Mental Health fitness with thirty years of experience.
She is the CEO-Co-founder-owner of GRIT Academy and Partner-ED of Creative Women Platform.
She is the Co-creator of the BQ- Breath Intelligence and GRIT Breathwork. Viola also sits on the boards of several magazines and NGO’s and serves as ambassador for Human Rights and for Gender Equity.
Author of two books: “Breathing the Rhythm of Success” and the amazon Best Seller “Who Makes the Bed?” both translated to Spanish, co-author of eleven more.
Languages: English, Spanish and Arabic.
Multi-awarded leader, including a Doctorate Honoris Causa, Aspirational Woman and Outstanding Contribution to Mentoring, Viola started her working life at the age of thirteen when she immigrated from Lebanon to Venezuela. She fed her passion for development and study through home schooling, evening lessons and alternative educational pathways. For twenty-one years, she worked in small, medium and large businesses, mainly in the insurance sector. In 1993, she commenced her new career path and following her dream and love for the human psyche - she realized that breath was at the core of every person’s wellbeing, a discovery she was eager to share with others-. She combined her years of working experience and her knowledge of transpersonal psychotherapy, meditation and breathwork to found her first company.
She emigrated again at 43 for love, and lives in Cyprus.
“I have been a serial migrant throughout my life, recreating myself and continuously evolving and expanding to embrace new environments. My passion and purpose are to transfer the knowledge and wisdom I acquired throughout my journey to serve the growth and evolution of others. I fulfill that by creating teaching spaces which enable people to develop, grow and sustain themselves, individually and in groups.”