“Coaching for leadership involves an intense discourse”
Executive Coaching
I offer organisational role consultation, with an integrated focus on the person, the role and the organisation, thus always considering the larger system my clients are part of.
The coaching works as a joint exploration: an investigation for better understanding and more effective behaviours, thus going beyond mentoring, advisory support.
I normally propose an introductory free of charge conversation (30-45’ chemistry call online), followed by a specific proposal framed along these lines:
a first module of 6 coaching sessions, 1 hour each, online or in-person, every 3 or 4 weeks
a separate tacking-stock conversation to account for developments and agree on following sessions, in case
a second module of 4 or 6 sessions (or more, depending on role and issues at stake).
Please, do not hesitate to get in touch! I’ll be always happy to talk with you - in English, Italian, French and Spanish -, introduce my approach, listen to your case, thoughts and questions.
I offer deep empathy, high levels of trust and strict confidentiality, to create a space for reflection that is safe, challenging and transforming.
In these spaces, my clients can cultivate their ability to represent their feelings and emotions, hold them in mind, and convey them in a useful way.
It is the discovery of a new possibility: to take a different stance in relation to themselves and their work experience, develop personal insights and bring more into conscious awareness what might be covered (e.g., issues of authority, competition, generations, gender, power).
In this journey my clients and I play an equal power. Together, we make room for thoughtful interest in the emerging problems and develop more aware and creative strategies to deal with them.
I’m a practitioner in the use of self as a tool of analysis. This means that I take a sensitive listening position on the boundary between rational and irrational meanings, and work with issues emerging at both levels. We use thoughts, feelings, emotions as data, while focusing both on the individual and the institution.
I offer psychoanalytically oriented coaching, which my clients acknowledge as making a real difference to them in unlocking their potential for leadership.
My clients reach out to me mostly when:
Trying to make sense of what is happening around them in their organisations, they feel sometimes anxious facing some processes, curious and willing to consider new perspectives.
Looking for a coach with whom to go deeper, surface some more hidden and irrational factors, learn how to act more confidently in their roles, and become more capable of taking some risks.
Feeling somehow stuck in their definition of roles, repeating their ways of working and relating to supervisors and/or dependents: they want to improve their work relationships, performance, and understand better their motivation, feel better and more satisfied.
Taking a new, more demanding role, often implying mentoring or supervising other people, they do not feel fully ready and look for expanding their leadership styles.
Going through some challenging competitions or recruitment processes, very meaningful to them, they want to succeed but feel that something might get on their ways, wish to understand this, and eventually play in their full empowerment.
Thinking of changing job position, within or outside their organisations, they want to aim well and develop their abilities and self-awareness to make a good choice, and move forward.
“Such people are those in institutions who have minds and thoughts and are capable of thinking and having dreams. They question to find the skull beneath the skin of contemporary life.”