Ben Nothnagel is a South African-born coach and educator based in Helsinki. He serves as Senior Adviser at Aalto University Executive Education Ltd and Visiting Faculty at KEDGE Business School Shanghai, specialising in personal and professional development with a focus on linking high cognitive function to performance and wellbeing.
He began his career as an attorney at law, specialising in technology transfer and mergers and acquisitions. Today, he is an international trainer, coach and developer of global executive education programmes, having delivered training in 12 countries to participants from 31 nations.
His areas of expertise include cognitive function and its impact on individual decision-making, performance and wellbeing; emotional intelligence as a key predictor of personal performance and organisational results; diversity and its impact on individual and group performance; developing and leading high-performance teams; emotion regulation in fast-changing business environments; self-leadership and its influence on potential, performance and wellbeing; and the impact of habit on potential and relationship quality.