About

Coaching for career and role transitions

I work with professionals & leaders with a background in multinational corporations who are navigating a career or role transition.

You may be stepping into management, questioning a career that once felt right, adapting to a change you did not choose, or considering a new direction like a professional plan B, if so these are some of the transitions we can work on together.

Through coaching, we define the objective you want to work on and create space to explore it.

You may become more aware of recurring behavioural patterns, clarify what matters to you, examine different possibilities and finally deliberately choose the actions that serve the most the situation you are facing.

Understanding what is changing, what is driving your responses, and what you want to carry forward helps you direct your next steps intentionally, instead of responding to old automatic patterns you are no longer even aware of.

Coaching comes from the ancient Greek maieutikos, meaning "relating to midwifery" — the term Socrates used, comparing his method to that of his mother, a midwife, in helping ideas already present in someone's mind come to light.

I stay true to this meaning: you will find your own answers directly within you, and I will simply accompany you along the way, offering thinking frameworks and exercises that help you observe yourself closely and learn something new.

The philosophy I live by

My philosophy is simple: you hold the pen on the journey you want to build.

The direction the path takes may surprise you at times, as you learn along the way, in between turns and loops.

A mano libera, an Italian expression meaning “freehand”, describes the way of drawing when you set the ruler aside and let your hand trace its own line as it goes.

You may already carry important clues about what matters to you and what kind of direction could fit. Coaching can help you notice those clues, understand what may be getting in the way and test possible next steps in real life.

Awareness is what makes intentional choices possible.

When you begin to recognize an automatic reaction, name an emotion or notice a familiar mental pattern, you create more space between what happens and how you respond.

That space is what allows you to choose more deliberately, even when we cannot choose everything that happens to us.

The writings of Viktor Frankl and Rollo May have deeply influenced the way I think about freedom and responsibility: context and constraints matter, and reality sets the boundaries of our actions. But our current way of responding does not necessarily have to be the only one.

Carol Dweck’s work on the growth mindset has also shaped my thinking. I believe that our abilities and ways of responding are not fixed and that with practice, feedback, support and effort, we can often develop new capabilities at any age.

My story

From high performance to intentional living

As Alice discovers in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, sometimes you have to run simply to stay in the same place. And by following her example, I managed to climb the ladder quite quickly.

Was I happy? I did not even have time to think about it, I was running!

I had a plan from a very young age, and I felt I had to prove that I could follow it. I believed happiness would arrive once the plan was complete. But every goal achieved was followed by a new one.

So I moved abroad and lived in several places like China, Spain, France and Belgium, sometimes feeling alone and often having to face my fears. I wanted to reach a certain role, so I worked hard and proved that I could.

And while running i found myself often being the youngest person, or one of the few women, in the room. To keep up with the speed of things, I became focused, efficient and highly optimized. Very little space was left for listening to other people, or, worse still, to myself.

I made my way through a forest of advice: pick your battles, be less emotional, accept the feedback, listen more. I wanted to become better at all of it, but I did not yet understand how.

Somehow, things kept moving forward. So I kept moving too, sometimes like an elephant in a china shop.

You can imagine the effort. And the noise.

When the old path no longer fit

For almost twenty years, I led supply chain operations across different countries within multinational pharmaceutical companies. I was good at solving problems quickly, being right and staying ahead of things.

But eventually, it became too much to carry.

Around my fortieth birthday, I realized that I no longer fit the identity I had built for myself. The career I had worked so hard to create was no longer fully aligned with what mattered to me.

I then decided to dedicate time for myself without a clear plan and I took a sabbatical during which explored yoga and mindfulness practices, I returned to university, and completed a year-long coaching programme that lead me into my profession today.

During this period time passed by very slowly - uncomfortably so, at the time, though I find myself missing that slowness now - and I managed to evaluate my options carefully, trying to understand what I still wanted to carry with me, what I was ready to leave behind and what I wanted to explore next.

What I do today

Coaching found me after years spent studying, working closely with people, and trying to understand what actually makes change last

Today, I hold an ACC credential from the International Coaching Federation and I am a certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator and I continue to move between the corporate world I came from and the professional world I am building now, carrying what serves from one into the other.

Building a career through discipline and perseverance taught me a great deal, but it also taught me, eventually, that success on its own does not answer every important question.

This experience is part of what I bring into every coaching relationship: I understand that a professional transition can also involve identity, confidence, belonging, expectations and the question of who you are becoming, the same question a former professor once put to me, in words I still carry:

"You can't bring anyone to places you haven't been yourself."

The values that guide me

Non-Judgement

I believe people need space to be honest about what they want, what they fear and what no longer fits, without judgement, a space that holds your pace, your choices and the complexity of your circumstances, and that recognizes people make choices within real constraints. In coaching, this also means not imposing a ready-made identity, path or framework onto the client: meeting each person where they actually are and supporting them in their uniqueness.

Playfulness

Some insights emerge through play and experimentation rather than analysis alone.
This is one of the reasons I use LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®: building and making can help bring shape to something that is still difficult to articulate. Play can open a different kind of thinking and make possible directions easier to see.

Perseverance

Perseverance helped me navigate twenty years of corporate change and it is also often part of what a transition asks of us.
In this context, perseverance means giving yourself another chance to look at things differently, and sometimes staying with a question long enough to discover that the direction needs to change.

Freedom

This is where the philosophy I described earlier lands: freedom is at the heart of this practice. It's the possibility of becoming more aware of your choices, your patterns and your room for action, of reframing limiting beliefs and of becoming clearer about what is within your influence, and of deciding how you want to move, and what serves you best, within the reality you are in.

Why coaching

Coaching is my happy place: it encourages me to keep studying, to understand myself more deeply and to become a better coach.

What gives me the greatest energy is seeing a client notice something new: a pattern they had not seen before, a possibility they had dismissed, a choice they are finally ready to consider or a small action that changes the way they approach a situation.

Sometimes the shift is significant, sometimes it is very small — and when it is, the fact that you notice it is progress in itself.