Avi Hasson
CEO, Start-Up Nation Central (Former Chief Scientist, Ministry of Economist & VC Investor)
"I had the privilege of working with Sigal for many years as general partner in Gemini Israel Funds. She is insightful, sharp, extremely efficient and highly productive.
Besides her extraordinary evaluation skills, Sigal has the rare ability of applying equally effective communication with both board of directors and management teams, as well as with both young and seasoned entrepreneurs.
As a prospect investor requiring due diligence services, her unique analytic skills in assessing management teams proved to be invaluable. From a board member perspective, her ongoing support in working with portfolio companies was equally critical and provided timely insights and an in depth perspective of those organizations I would wholeheartedly recommend her for any future position and would not hesitate to use her services in the future".
Besides her extraordinary evaluation skills, Sigal has the rare ability of applying equally effective communication with both board of directors and management teams, as well as with both young and seasoned entrepreneurs.
As a prospect investor requiring due diligence services, her unique analytic skills in assessing management teams proved to be invaluable. From a board member perspective, her ongoing support in working with portfolio companies was equally critical and provided timely insights and an in depth perspective of those organizations I would wholeheartedly recommend her for any future position and would not hesitate to use her services in the future".
Michael Eisenberg
General Partner, Aleph (Former General Partner, Benchmark Capital)
"Sigal is quite simply the best HR executive and confidant in Israel. She is a keen assessor of chemistry on teams and of the skills and integrity of candidates.
She seems to find her way to anybody and everybody through her extensive network. I was privileged to work with her for many years and would recommend her to everyone."
She seems to find her way to anybody and everybody through her extensive network. I was privileged to work with her for many years and would recommend her to everyone."
Noam Bardin
Former CEO, Waze
"Sigal Widman is one of the best advisors a CEO could have. Her insights into people, organizations, processes and pacing the organizational growth through each phase of a company's maturity makes her a strategic asset to any CEO, board member or manager in any organization. Regardless of the exact task, I would highly recommend her in any capacity."
Guy Horowitz
Partner, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners
"Sigal is instrumental to our investment process. The human factor is an integral part of our investment thesis, and there is no person in Israel - and arguably anywhere else - to understand the strategic aspects of the human factor better than Sigal. She is smart, perceptive, and experienced. Her ability to understands the intricate interrelations between an executive team's traits and capabilities, and the company's ability to scale and execute, is second to none. Her observations and recommendations are spot-on, and she has the unique ability to connect with almost anyone, and get them to open up, share, consult and reflect. Sigal is an asset to any investor and to any company she works with, and her contribution is beyond measure."
Daniel Cohen
General Partner, Viola Ventures (Former General Partner, Gemini Israel Fund)
"Sigal and I started working together in September of 2007 and worked together at Gemini for over 4 years. In that time we collaborated on many fronts. In fact, I worked with Sigal on all aspects of HR as it relates to venture capital. Some of our joint activities focused on company due diligence, working together in understanding the HR dynamics in various companies. Beyond that Sigal helped me in recruiting, filling key roles in portfolio companies, both in the US and in Israel. Finally, Sigal had an essential role in helping some of my portfolio companies in understanding their HR needs and implementing their HR strategies. Clearly, Sigal is strong on all aspects of the HR Role it. She knows a lot of people and can help in the process of recruiting. She is a great coach, and CEOs saw great value in her consulting. Most important, I think Sigal is world class in all that relates to analyzing and understanding organizations. Throughout the 4 years I have seen her work in assessing various teams, and
providing great value in mapping out HR capabilities against company’s strategy and goals. She has a unique ability to point out the pros and cons in every management team.."
Dr. Orna Berry
Former Corporate VP and GM for Israel COE, EMC Corporation
"Sigal is outstanding in her human approach and with her professional sharpness. Evaluation, recruitment and coaching are only a few of her characteristics.
Her ability to mentor a management team and to crystallize the connection between idea and action, strategy and execution, prioritization and leadership, improves the chances of a company to survive, grow and succeed. Her implementation ability is wonderful."
Her ability to mentor a management team and to crystallize the connection between idea and action, strategy and execution, prioritization and leadership, improves the chances of a company to survive, grow and succeed. Her implementation ability is wonderful."
Moti Rafalin
CEO, Chairman & Founder, vFunction (Former CEO and Co-Founder, WatchDox)
"Making sure your venture executes to its full potential means building it right from the human perspective.
Understanding what motivetes people, helping recruit, nurture, train and develop your team as well as making sure you build a cohesive team that's aligned with your business strategy are all areas where Sigal's experience and insight make a difference.
I'm thankful to have had the opportunity to have Sigal as a coach and a guide throughout the evolution of our venture. Management is all about people. Sigal is a top notch management professional."
Uri Gabai
CEO, Start-Up Nation Central Policy Institute
"I had the pleasure of Working with Sigal when I was VP strategy of the Office of the Chief Scientist in the Ministry of Economy. Sigal was an extremely valuable partner in the team that led the transition to the new Israel Innovation Authority. She has the rare ability to combine high-level vision and strategy with down to earth and practical approach. Sigal is much more than a consultant – she is a true partner in leading organizational change. I am proud to call her both a mentor and a friend ."
Assaf Carmi
CEO, Consumer Physics
"I have known Sigal for almost ten years, and had the pleasure to work closely with her at Consumer Physics.
When the company went through tough times Sigal played a critical role in reorganizing the management, and turning around the company. Her insights and deep understanding of the situation were valuable assets that helped me navigate and lead the company and communicate the changes to both the shareholders and the team."
CEO, Consumer Physics
"I have known Sigal for almost ten years, and had the pleasure to work closely with her at Consumer Physics.
When the company went through tough times Sigal played a critical role in reorganizing the management, and turning around the company. Her insights and deep understanding of the situation were valuable assets that helped me navigate and lead the company and communicate the changes to both the shareholders and the team."
Avner Mor
Executive Board Advisor (Former CEO and Co-Founder of Unbound)
"I've been using Sigal Widman's mentoring and coaching services for the past 7 years. Sigal exhibits a clear passion and drive for helping others achieve their goals. In our meetings, Sigal learnt the situation quickly and was able to analyze a problem and provide creative solutions. Thus being highly influential and having a major impact on the way I initiate and drive the execution and the business.
Sigal presents deep insights in market and business aspects and she has always offered informative insights and straight forward communication. At the same time Sigal shows excellent people evaluation skills in identifying talents while integrating the proficiency with management and business orientation."
Ron Levy
Head of Product, Atlassian (Jira) (Former CEO and Co-Founder of MyRoll {Acquired by AVG})
" Sigal was crucial in helping me navigate the crazy ups and downs of being a startup CEO all the way to the company's acquisition and the transition into corporate life. With Sigal's guidance I became better at focusing, communicated more effectively with my board and grew and managed the team. She holds an amazing ability to shine a spotlight on areas in the company that require additional investment, and provide the much needed plan and follow-ups in order to turn them into a success. It would be an honor to work with her again in the future.."
Avital Yaaran
HR Business Partner, Siemens
"Sigal led us through a management process during which we defined our organizational identity and values.
Sigal is an exceptional workshop leader! She leads the group with the utmost sensitivity and kept the participants interested and engaged at all times. She has the ability to keep a “macro” outlook on the process and yet pay attention to all the details and subtleties that occur within the group. She knows how to take a leading assertive position, but never forgets that the essence is the participants of the group. She shared her experience and knowledge with the group which added a valuable dimension to the process. Her uniqueness lies within her personality; dominant and significant on the one hand, yet sensitive and with excellent interpersonal skills on the other. I highly recommend Sigal as a workshop leader to any group of people, managers or others!"
Sigal is an exceptional workshop leader! She leads the group with the utmost sensitivity and kept the participants interested and engaged at all times. She has the ability to keep a “macro” outlook on the process and yet pay attention to all the details and subtleties that occur within the group. She knows how to take a leading assertive position, but never forgets that the essence is the participants of the group. She shared her experience and knowledge with the group which added a valuable dimension to the process. Her uniqueness lies within her personality; dominant and significant on the one hand, yet sensitive and with excellent interpersonal skills on the other. I highly recommend Sigal as a workshop leader to any group of people, managers or others!"
Oren HarNevo
CEO & Co-Founder, Feel (Former Founder & CEO, Eyeview)
“Sigal is one of the best advisors I had the privilege to work with. Sigal has a 'sixth sense' when it comes to people and organizations. Her inputs on management workflows, people skills, company structure and recruiting are invaluable. Sigal is a great mentor, management advisor, recruitment professional and a great partner to have on your side. I worked with Sigal for over 3 years and look forward to many more years of cooperation. “
Dror Sharon
Co-Founder, Consumer Physics (Former CEO)
"Sigal combines a unique blend of qualities that is rare in human capital executives. She can easily connect to people from all professions and backgrounds, while still remaining acutely perceptive.
Sigal has a deep understanding of complex and sensitive organizational situations. She can clearly synthesize and articulate her findings. Due to her operational and investing background, her recommendations are crisp, clear - and immediately actionable.
Sigal has helped us grow Consumer Physics from the very beginning. I would wholeheartedly recommend her to any organization, large or small."
Co-Founder, Consumer Physics (Former CEO)
"Sigal combines a unique blend of qualities that is rare in human capital executives. She can easily connect to people from all professions and backgrounds, while still remaining acutely perceptive.
Sigal has a deep understanding of complex and sensitive organizational situations. She can clearly synthesize and articulate her findings. Due to her operational and investing background, her recommendations are crisp, clear - and immediately actionable.
Sigal has helped us grow Consumer Physics from the very beginning. I would wholeheartedly recommend her to any organization, large or small."
Eliahu (Eli) Efrat
Former CEO, Axxana
"Sigal is my coach and my mentor for almost 3 years now and I am very much looking forward for the next 30...
I must admit, if it hadn't been for her, I would not have had the insight and the courage to make very tough decisions I had to make in the course of working with her. Sigal will listen, but will not let you beat around the bush. She will help you identify the root cause of your dilemmas and will both help you acknowledge them but also facilitate your thought process and assist you in dealing with them and finding the right solution. Sigal is truly in asset to me in that respect.
At Axxana, we asked Sigal to help us with our executive team finalists. I recently hired two key executives who joined the company. Sigal was instrumental in judging their character, evaluating their experience and fit to myself and to Axxana's existing executives and business plan. Her impressive network of contacts made it easy to cross reference any executive candidate. Now that I have my team in place, I look forward to harnessing her knowledge in working with us as a leadership group and making us all function flawlessly, like a well-oiled machine…
She is truly one of a kind".
Ori Levy
Angel Investor & Former CEO, Trendum, Hudson76
“I have had the pleasure and privilege of working with Sigal Widman in my second company. Her ability to extract ideas and concepts from simple conversations and use them to focus the entire company is a gift I truly admire.
I would recommend Sigal to work with any company or individual, from the largest corporation to the smallest independent business, her knowledge, methods and “can do” approach, really make a difference."
I would recommend Sigal to work with any company or individual, from the largest corporation to the smallest independent business, her knowledge, methods and “can do” approach, really make a difference."
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Uzi Breier
VP Business Development & Strategy, Appscent Medical (Former CEO, Dotz)
"I have been working and consulting with Sigal for over a decade.
During these years I found that she has a rare talent of being able to understand, analyze and consult on both people and processes and the interface/link between them.
Sigal has a phenomenal ability to diagnose and characterize human talents and make a match between their capabilities and a required job-function. She also has a superb capacity to analyze and understand business & operational processes; identify the gaps and requirements; and be instrumental in building, enhancing and optimizing organizations, groups and infrastructure, to support effectively the business goals."
During these years I found that she has a rare talent of being able to understand, analyze and consult on both people and processes and the interface/link between them.
Sigal has a phenomenal ability to diagnose and characterize human talents and make a match between their capabilities and a required job-function. She also has a superb capacity to analyze and understand business & operational processes; identify the gaps and requirements; and be instrumental in building, enhancing and optimizing organizations, groups and infrastructure, to support effectively the business goals."
Lior Koriat
CEO, Quali
“I have had the pleasure of working with Sigal, enjoying her ever available consulting, coaching and support. Sigal’s precise assessment of the company’s needs, clear alignment of its business and organizational goals and professional valuation of its management and management-to-be; are invaluable assets to any CEO. Sigal is a true partner and a skillful mentor. I highly recommend Sigal to any organization and I would definitely reach out to her for assistance with any new venture.”
Yaron Leifenberg
CEO & Co-Founder, Foxin Green (Former Founder, Funtactix)
"Only after I started to work with Sigal, did I realize what an invaluable asset she is to the organization. Aside from the huge benefits we derived from her in our organizational and strategic challenges, Sigal created a solid and incredibly productive communication channel between the company and the board, in what would otherwise have been be a painful process, filled with misunderstandings and friction."
Shay Shomroni
Director Business Development, Siemens PLM
“In two managerial workshops my company arranged, Sigal managed to explain complex theories in a very simple
and practical fashion, as well as, to keep a high level of audience interest. A great example was her communication skills workshop, which was very educative from one hand and enjoyable on the other; it gave us pragmatic tools to identify the optimal communication style strategy in our daily activities. Sigal has great presentation skills and excellent ability to combine serious content with creativity and fun ”
and practical fashion, as well as, to keep a high level of audience interest. A great example was her communication skills workshop, which was very educative from one hand and enjoyable on the other; it gave us pragmatic tools to identify the optimal communication style strategy in our daily activities. Sigal has great presentation skills and excellent ability to combine serious content with creativity and fun ”
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Yaron Simler
CEO, Zixi LLC (Former CEO of Contextream)
“When it comes to management assessment, Sigal has the rare gift of being right on every time. Her analytical skills and business acumen combined with a “sharp eye” for people, allows her to provide deep insight and guidance. She is a great advisor, coach and mentor to any CEO and management. I have used Sigal extensively and relied on her heavily for staff development and recruitment. She is a top tier professional and ranks among the best that I have worked with.”
Ofir Baharav
CEO, Power Breezer (Former founder & CEO, Xjet Solar)
"Our team made it a habit to not hire any senior executive without Sigal interviewing the candidate. Sigal has a keen and sharp eye, she is amazingly perceptive, always after receiving her feedback we could finally remove all vagueness and ambiguity putting words and detail to describe the intricacies of any candidate. Interacting with Sigal on either senior management team challenges or recruiting we were always impressed by her insistence on fully understanding the business context and goals prior to critiquing or assessing our work. Her words are not always pleasant or comforting but they are exactly what every management team needs to hear"
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Zvi Segal
Former CEO, Metrolight
"In addition to Sigal being my 'unofficial' HR Executive and helping me turning around my company, I was impressed by her ability to understand and being connected to the business side and operational requirements of the company.
Sigal also led successfully management workshop in an outstanding and effective manner which supported myself and the management team to lead the transition and set both business and culture objectives."
Sigal also led successfully management workshop in an outstanding and effective manner which supported myself and the management team to lead the transition and set both business and culture objectives."
Shira Regev
Former VP Human Resources, Orbit Technologies
"We had the pleasure of working with Sigal on our strategic analysis and assessment of our company. Our process was interesting, cooperative and more than anything effective.
I found the work with Sigal to be invigorating and challenging . She brings a breadth of experience and knowledge of businesses. Sigal has great interpersonal relationships and ability to establish trust and cooperation within diverse types of executives. It was a pleasure to construct the day and have her as the facilitator of our process.
Happy to recommend any time."
I found the work with Sigal to be invigorating and challenging . She brings a breadth of experience and knowledge of businesses. Sigal has great interpersonal relationships and ability to establish trust and cooperation within diverse types of executives. It was a pleasure to construct the day and have her as the facilitator of our process.
Happy to recommend any time."
Sigal Widman
Strategic-Organizational Consulting, Executive Coaching
Email: [email protected] - Phone: +972-52-342-4181
(c) 2011 Sigal Widman
Strategic-Organizational Consulting, Executive Coaching
Email: [email protected] - Phone: +972-52-342-4181
(c) 2011 Sigal Widman
