Stella Atela (Chartered FCIPD, MBA, BSc)

Commander
DISC Type : D

People and Culture Director at International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Rome, Latium, Italy

Overview

Stella Atela is a seasoned People and Culture Director at IFAD with over 19 years of global HR experience at organizations like the UN World Food Programme, Unilever, and Shell. She specializes in leadership development, talent management, and organizational design, backed by an executive leadership program from the University of Oxfords Saïd Business School.

Outside of work, Stella is deeply connected to her Kenyan heritage and expresses great pride in her motherland. Her reflections show a focus on gratitude, faith, and building personal resilience to navigate challenges. She is also a proponent of strategic rest for leaders to prevent burnout and maintain high performance.

She has extensive cross-cultural experience, having managed HR responsibilities across 14 African countries and worked in the Philippines.

Personality Overview

Decisive

Very Quick

Risk-Taker

They prefer to move quickly, and expect the same from others.  They do not care very much about building rapport or relationships. They put a lot of effort into ensuring personal success.

Topics They Care About

Leadership Wellbeing
Advocates for reframing rest not as a reward for exhaustion but as a crucial strategy for leaders to operate at a sustained high intensity.
Rural Development
Expresses pride in her organization's mission to invest in rural people, particularly farmers, women, and youth, to enhance livelihoods and eradicate poverty.
Employee Engagement
Her career focus has been on the entire employee lifecycle, and she has held senior roles with 'Engagement' explicitly in the title.

Media Appearances

Stella Atela - IFAD. Featured in International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) website

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Work History

7-2024
People and Culture Director at International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
7-2024
People & Culture Director at International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
1-2022
Global Head Leadership Development, Learning, Performance & Engagement at World Food Programme
11-2016 - 1-2022
Human Resources Director (Snr HRBP) - East & Central Africa at the World Food Program at World Food Programme
9-2013 - 10-2016
Human Resources Director, Supply Chain- East & West Africa at Unilever

Education

11-2022 - 2-2023
Oxford Executive Leadership Program from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
1-2017 - 9-2019
DELF B2 from Alliance Française de Nairobi

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Insights For Selling To Stella

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Objectively showcase the impact that your product creates
  • Make sure that you circle back fast on any action items, it wins their trust
  • Be respectful but crisp

DONT's

  • Do not spend too much time focusing on product tech or features
  • Avoid being too verbose
  • Don’t focus on process and rules, give the impression of being a ‘gets it done’ person

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Stella is

  • Conviction around the impact matters the most to them, followed by a sense of achievement and ROI.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Stella

  • If they are not convinced, they will say no without any hesitation.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Stella move?

  • If convinced, they can reach decisions quite fast.
  • Can Stella take some risk or not?

  • They do not shy away from taking risks, but can be quite binary about them.

You And Stella

Personality Compatibility


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