Strategic Leadership
Amplify your leadership impact across your team and organization
About this service
Our coaching program for leadership development helps you take your leadership skills further, strengthening your ability to support your team, build influential relationships and create meaningful change throughout your organization. Exceptional leadership evolves continuously: you keep refining how you influence others and deepening the impact you make.
Leadership today requires more than expertise. It demands a nuanced awareness of power dynamics, skill in building strong cross-functional relationships and the ability to inspire others authentically. Our coaching guides you in developing these capabilities with purpose and integrity.
Why Strategic Leadership Matters
Investing in leadership development changes your own potential and the potential of those you lead. Through this coaching program you gain insights that deepen your personal effectiveness, improve team performance and strengthen organizational resilience. You learn to build strong, trusting relationships, master the subtleties of influence and lead with authenticity and impact.
Focus
What We Focus On
Our coaching is personalized to your strengths, challenges and organizational context. It gives you tools to increase your impact:
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Refining how you influence
Leading effectively means understanding the complex power dynamics within your organization. We work together to refine your influencing skills: how to gain support, navigate authority structures and drive initiatives forward, even in challenging environments.
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Building relationships across the organization
Influence grows through relationships. Our coaching helps you create and nurture high-value connections across functions and levels, so that you have a broad network of support to champion your ideas and initiatives. These relationships also let you gain insights, build trust and foster a collaborative culture that aligns with your goals.
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Strengthening self-awareness and emotional intelligence
Great leaders lead from within. We focus on increasing your self-awareness and emotional intelligence, helping you understand how your actions, words and decisions affect others. By leading with empathy and insight, you build deeper, more authentic connections with your team and colleagues.
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Motivating your team
Leadership is about enabling others. You learn strategies to motivate your team, foster a culture of accountability and create an environment that encourages innovation and growth, so that your team can reach new levels of success.
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Navigating organizational dynamics
Effective leaders understand the nuances of their organization. We help you map and navigate the formal and informal structures of influence within your company, so that you can drive strategic initiatives that align with both organizational goals and your vision.
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Developing a strategic mindset and vision
Being proactive is key to impactful leadership. Together we build a forward-looking, strategic perspective that lets you anticipate challenges, seize opportunities and make well-informed decisions that benefit your team and organization.
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Cultivating presence and communication
How you show up matters. We work on cultivating an authentic executive presence and refining your communication skills, so that you inspire, influence and lead with confidence in every interaction.
Who you would work with
The coach who fits
The coach who fits is agreed in the first conversation. The first step is a chemistry meeting.
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Senior Partner, North America
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Senior Partner, Europe
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Senior Partner, Latin America
The engagement
Our coaching process
Here is what you can expect, step by step.
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Chemistry Meeting
In this first meeting we establish a strong connection and clear alignment. We explore your goals, discuss what success looks like for you and make sure we are a good fit for the work ahead. This foundation sets the stage for work that has an effect.
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Personality Assessment
Using a trusted assessment, we look closely at your strengths, your growth areas and your natural tendencies. These insights give you a deeper understanding of your own leadership style, and help us identify the specific areas that will support your growth and resilience.
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Stakeholder Interviews
We collect feedback from the people who work closely with you: your colleagues, direct reports and supervisors. These insights give a rounded view of how others perceive your impact, which helps us pinpoint the key areas for development and for alignment with organizational goals.
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Development Plan
Together we design a personal development plan with concrete steps, timelines and measurable goals. The plan keeps you focused and makes sure each step aligns with your professional goals and your organization’s priorities.
The three steps that follow
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Ongoing Coaching Sessions
Our regular sessions give you the support, accountability and feedback needed to address challenges and refine your strategies. This is where the real change happens, as we translate insights into steps you can act on that make a lasting difference.
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Process Review
Midway through, we pause to review your progress. This is a chance to recognize what has been achieved, work through any obstacles and make sure your development plan is still aligned with your goals. We adjust as needed to keep you moving forward with confidence.
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The Path Forward
As the formal coaching concludes, we outline a clear plan for continuing your growth and applying your insights on your own. This path forward equips you to sustain and build on your progress long after our sessions end.
In their clients’ words
“Anna Maria is truly in a class by herself.”
“With a broad and holistic perspective, they’ve guided me through challenging moments, helping me make crucial decisions with greater awareness and confidence.”
Anna Maria’s clients have included
From Anna Maria’s clients. Names withheld. Coaching is confidential.
Common questions
Who is strategic leadership coaching for?
A leader who wants to take their leadership further: supporting the team, building influential relationships and creating meaningful change across the organisation.
What does strategic leadership coaching work on?
Amplifying your leadership impact across your team and organisation, from how you support the people who report to you to the relationships that carry change.
How does strategic leadership coaching start?
With a chemistry meeting, so that you and the coach can see whether the match is right. A short note through the form on this page is the first step.
Who is executive coaching for?
CEOs and senior leaders, and their teams. Each of the three coaches held senior operating roles before coaching, so the conversation is with someone who has sat where you sit.
Is executive coaching confidential?
Yes. All coaching conversations are completely confidential. Information is shared only with explicit written consent, and written agreements protect your privacy and intellectual property. The one exception is a legal obligation to report an immediate risk of harm.
Are the coaches certified?
Each coach’s credentials are listed on this page under the standard the practice holds itself to, and on their own pages. The practice is guided by the International Coach Federation.
How do I start?
With a short note through the form on this page, saying what you are facing. A coach replies personally.
Talk to a senior coach.
Thank you.
Your note is on its way. One of the three coaches will reply to you personally.