Cotecna Middle East leaders participated in a mindfulness training to enhance service delivery, build stronger teams, and foster collective wellbeing.
At Cotecna, we believe that our greatest asset is our people. True excellence in our work starts not with our robust systems and standards but with the people who uphold them. In line with our commitment to promoting a culture of wellbeing, leadership, and ethical responsibility, our Dubai team recently participated in a powerful, science-backed mindfulness training session led by Mindful Living, an organization founded by Ashish Kumar.
This engaging, science-based session was attended by key Cotecna Middle East leaders, managers, and various experts, including:
- Kamlesh Parmar – Director, Cotecna Middle East
- Chandrajith A V – CEO, Wimpey Laboratories
- Lancy Menezes – Regional HR Manager
- Veena Babukrishnan – Regional Finance Controller
Ashish Kumar curated “Mindfulness: The Swiss Knife for Corporate Professionals” for professionals in high-performance environments regardless of designation or titles. With more than 300 sessions delivered, these sessions help teams manage stress, enhance emotional intelligence, improve productivity, and foster a culture of deep awareness and conscious leadership.
Mindfulness in High Performing Environments
Working in high performing environments can introduce stress due to the pressure to keep up with tight deadlines, complex client demands, and the ongoing challenge to stay up-to-date with evolving regulations.
At Cotecna, cognitive clarity, emotional agility, and mental resilience are just as important as technical expertise. This mindfulness training helped our team bridge the gap by strengthening the mind, what Mindful Living calls the “core of the person.” Our team enhanced skills such as attention, awareness, ego identification, and intentional choice-making, all of which have a direct impact on ethical decision-making, client communication, and sustainable leadership.
We Care About People, a Core Cotecna Value
As a trusted partner for governments and businesses across the Middle East, Cotecna delivers expert compliance services. From our VOC services that help exporters and importers meet destination country compliance requirements, to comprehensive inspection services for Commodities like Agriculture and Metals and Minerals, we help safeguard quality and integrity to promote global trade.
However, we also acknowledge that doing what we do, the way we do it, requires mental fortitude. To achieve and maintain excellence, our teams must be aligned, focused, and emotionally equipped to make decisions that reflect our values.
Key Takeaways
The mindfulness training gave the team some key and tangible takeaways to equip them to better manage deadlines, client demands, and constant motion.
- How to transform routine client conversations into moments of clarity and trust.
- Practicing deep focus to cut through chaos and deliver quality in spite of external pressures.
- How to recognize our egos and preventing it from sabotaging collaboration and weaken team synergy.
- Empowering our leaders to respond calmly and with emotional intelligence; guiding their teams with empathy.
This training equipped us to maintain mindfulness in our busy schedules, turning every pause into a power-up, whether between meetings or in airport lounges. Because at Cotecna, mental clarity isn’t just a virtue — it’s how we care for our people. It’s the Cotecna Way!
Conclusion
As we advance our compliance services across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman, and other regions, we are equally committed to nurturing a workforce that leads with intention, empathy, and resilience. Mindfulness is more than a personal wellness tool; it is a leadership imperative.
Through initiatives like this, Cotecna continues to set the standard not only in regulatory excellence but in human excellence too.
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About Cotecna
For over 50 years, we have been supporting agriculture, food and pharma, minerals and metals, and consumer products supply chains all over the world. We provide testing, inspection, and certification services to help our clients navigate evolving regulations, ensure product compliance, and support their sustainability journey.