Naya Antoniou
Workforces now span five generations, all carrying different expectations of work, recognition and progression. Many organisations treat this as a communications problem when it is a culture problem, and burnout, disengagement and quiet exits follow. Building a culture where psychological safety is a working condition, not a slogan, is what separates organisations that retain talent from those that leak it.
Naya Antoniou is a Greek career consultant and evidence-based coach who helps organisations build cultures where multigenerational teams stay engaged, psychologically safe, and protected from burnout.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Naya Antoniou
- She brings dual training in organisational psychology and integrative psychotherapy to workplace mental health, which sharpens her work on burnout beyond surface-level wellbeing programmes.
- Her career-transition practice with vulnerable populations through Doctors of the World and ActionAid Hellas gives her direct evidence of how work loss, identity and recovery interact, which translates into how she advises corporate clients on restructuring with humanity.
- She works across the full multigenerational stack, from Gen Z entrants to senior leaders, and treats generational tension as a culture-design question, not a stereotype-management exercise.
- As a Lean In Greece Circle Leader and Women on Top mentor, she has a substantive track record on women in workplace mental health and HR, useful for organisations whose inclusion work has stalled at policy level.
Biography highlights
- Postgraduate Degree in Organisational Psychology
- Postgraduate Degree in Career, Executive and Business Coaching
- MSc in International Relations, University of Piraeus
- Evidence-Based Coaching certification, Athens Coaching Institute
- Circle Leader, Lean In Greece Network (Mental Health and HR circle)
- Career coach with Doctors of the World and ActionAid Hellas career transition programmes
Biography
Burnout has stopped being an individual diagnosis. Organisations now carry it as an operating cost: turnover, presenteeism, project slippage, the quiet attrition of people who never quite leave. Naya Antoniou’s work sits inside that operating cost, with the tools of organisational psychology and evidence-based coaching applied directly to how teams are structured, led and supported.
Her training combines a postgraduate degree in Organisational Psychology with a postgraduate qualification in Career, Executive and Business Coaching, anchored by an MSc in International Relations from the University of Piraeus. Ongoing postgraduate training in Integrative Psychotherapy gives her practice a clinical grounding that is unusual in corporate coaching.
The applied work spans corporate culture transformation, leadership development, and career transition programmes. With Doctors of the World, she has coached women asylum seekers rebuilding work identities from zero. With ActionAid Hellas, she has run career transition programmes for vulnerable groups facing displacement from the labour market. That work shapes how she advises corporate clients on restructure, redeployment and the human side of workforce change.
Within Greece, she leads the Mental Health and HR circle of Lean In Greece and mentors with Women on Top on workplace equality. The through-line across her practice is concrete: cultures hold people when they are designed to, and fall apart when wellbeing is treated as a benefit rather than a system. Her speaking work brings that argument into rooms where leaders are deciding which to choose.
Key speaking topics
- Multigenerational teams and Gen Z engagement
- Burnout and workplace mental health
- Psychological safety as a leadership practice
- Culture change in high-performance organisations
- Future skills for emerging leaders
- Career transition and workforce change
- Women in mental health and HR
Ideal for
- CHROs and heads of people redesigning engagement strategy across five generations
- Leadership teams managing burnout risk during restructure or rapid growth
- HR and DEI leads building culture programmes that move past policy statements
- Founders and senior leaders of mid-sized organisations in Southern Europe scaling their first formal people function
Audience outcomes
- A clearer view of how generational expectations shape engagement, retention and management overhead
- Specific moves leaders can make to install psychological safety as a working condition, not an annual survey question
- A working diagnostic for burnout that distinguishes individual recovery from structural cause
- Practical reframing of culture change as a design problem with measurable inputs
Talks
A working session on the leadership capabilities required as work, technology and workforce expectations realign.
Key takeaways:
- The capabilities that distinguish leaders in hybrid, AI-augmented environments
- How to develop those capabilities inside an existing leadership pipeline
- Where current leadership development programmes typically fall short
A direct treatment of psychological safety as a leadership practice, not a wellbeing initiative.
Key takeaways:
- What psychological safety looks like operationally, beyond the survey question
- The leadership behaviours that build it and those that quietly erode it
- How to embed it into team rituals and management routines
A session that separates burnout’s individual symptoms from its structural causes across a multigenerational workforce.
Key takeaways:
- Why burnout reads differently across generations and how that affects diagnosis
- The organisational design choices that produce it
- What changes for leaders when they treat burnout as a system signal
A grounded look at what Gen Z employees expect from work, management and progression.
Key takeaways:
- The expectations Gen Z bring that older generations did not
- Where those expectations align with good management practice generally
- Practical changes to onboarding, feedback and progression that retain them
A working session on getting five generations to operate as one team rather than five constituencies.
Key takeaways:
- The friction points most organisations underestimate
- How to design teams and rituals that draw on generational difference rather than suppress it
- What leaders need to model personally for the work to land
Videos
Fees
| EUR | GBP | USD | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home Country | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |
| Asia Pacific | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |
| Europe | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |
| Middle East & Africa | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |
| South America | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |
| United Kingdom | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |
| US East Coast | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |
| US West Coast | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |
| Virtual | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |