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About Forward

Unlock the critical piece that enables excellence!

If your company is achieving amazing results and you are still struggling to motivate your team, don’t change the team. Change the only thing you can control – yourself. Because you don’t need to change everything to make a change, but the 1% that changes everything.

What do we do?

Imagine driving an old car in the snow. Its performance can't provide the reliability and speed you seek. Your car keeps skidding, wasting time and energy. You think the problem is with your car, so you buy a newer, more stable one. But the skidding problem persists. Why? Because in circumstances you don’t control, actual progress happens when you adopt new skills that help you drive any car under all conditions, not solely in changing the car.

Now, imagine that the snow is the business environment, and the new car is your team. Whenever something happens in a business environment that you can’t control, and your team doesn’t adapt as quickly as you would like them to, you are considering if you have the team you need? But the real question is what you can do to make your team better and what skills do you need to develop a team that will work successfully in all conditions? We support you to find answers to the questions that hold you stuck and enable you to develop the capacity to move forward and achieve excellence.

Who Are We?

We are FORWARD Consulting, a management consulting firm with a mission of unleashing the leadership potential within individuals and organizations, enabling them to navigate and thrive in a dynamic world.

We combine our 20+ years of experience working as top executives in the government, non-profit, corporations, and startups with the academic knowledge gained at Harvard University to create programs that 90% of our clients give the highest rating.

Behind this story is our founder, Ana Babović, who has been leading change initiatives and innovation campaigns for the past 20 years in governmental, non-governmental, and business sectors in Serbia, Europe, and the US. The results of her leadership work were not only reflected in achieved KPIs but were also captured in case studies written by the World Bank and Harvard. This is proof of what she believes in – excellence is achieved when coupled with the right team dynamics, steadfast commitment to continuous learning and a culture of adaptability.

The skills developed through our training programs

ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP

PUBLIC NARRATIVE

EXECUTIVE PRESENCE

PUBLIC SPEAKING

MESSAGE FRAMING

PERSUASION

BUILDING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE

NEGOTIATIONS

RELATIONSHIP BUILDING

TEAM BUILDING

STRATEGIC PLANNING

Recruitment

STRATEGY EXECUTION