Where coaching stops being a perk and becomes a strategic advantage
Coaching can be one of the most powerful strategic levers for your organization.
But only if it is more than a “nice-to-have” benefit for a few individuals.
Our leadership development coaching services are designed to be integrated into your business strategy, aligned with your culture, and connected to shared goals. Our programs support executives, high-potential talent and managers at all levels, helping them develop the mindset and skills they need to lead with clarity, courage, and impact.
Leadership coaching is not just about “fixing” problems. It is about expanding awareness, unlocking new ways of thinking, and turning leadership into a consistent, intentional practice.
For your leader
For your company
Our leadership development coaching services can also be embedded into your broader talent development strategy, so that coaching does not sit “on the side” but becomes a consistent part of how your organization grows its people.
We work with organizations that want leadership development to be intentional, scalable, and deeply human. Our services are modular, so you can build the solution that best fits your context, culture, and goals:
Training
One-on-One Leadership coaching
Interventions with the Leader and their Team
Programs can be delivered in cohorts and integrated with other development initiatives already in place in your organization.
Our group training modules help participants develop the mindset, presence, and practical tools required for modern, human-centred leadership. What participants learn in this program:
MODULE 1 – THE BEING OF A LEADER
Lead from who you are, not just what you do.
MODULE 2 – STEPPING INTO AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP
Stop performing leadership. Start embodying it.
MODULE 1 – THE BEING OF A LEADER
1. Understand, develop and demonstrate leadership soft skills
2. Prioritise a people-centric approach over a problem-centric approach
3. Improve communication effectiveness and handle crucial conversations
4. Lead through influence rather than authority
5. Build and foster healthy relationships based on trust
MODULE 2 – STEPPING INTO AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP
Participants learn to:
1. Navigate complex team challenges with confidence
2. Improve team culture and dynamics, boosting engagement and performance
3. Lead and embed sustainable change across the organisation
4. Manage diverse stakeholders effectively
5. Develop and demonstrate authentic, purpose-driven leadership traits
Our one-to-one leadership coaching provides a structured, personalised pathway for leaders to grow through deep self-awareness and targeted behavioural development. Each coaching journey begins with a comprehensive Leadership Assessment, ensuring that every goal, insight, and action is grounded in real data and meaningful reflection.
1. LEADERSHIP ASSESSMENT
See yourself as others experience you and lead with intention.
2. COACHING FOR BEHAVIOURAL AND STRATEGIC GROWTH
From knowing better to leading differently.
Effective leadership starts with understanding how you show up. Our assessment process offers leaders a clear, honest picture of their impact, combining quantitative data with rich qualitative insight to illuminate strengths, blind spots, and behavioural patterns.
At the core of the assessment is the Leadership 360, which evaluates four essential dimensions:
Leaders receive an integrated view based on feedback from peers, direct reports, and stakeholders, offering a nuanced picture of how they lead and how they are perceived day to day.
This is followed by an Individual Debrief & Integration Session, where a certified coach helps the leader to:
Once the leader has a grounded understanding of their impact, the coaching process focuses on turning insight into action. Sessions provide a confidential, supportive environment where leaders can think strategically, experiment with new behaviours, and address real challenges.
One-on-one Leadership coaching enables leaders to:
This is deeply personalised work, tailored to the leader’s context, role, and development trajectory, ensuring growth that is both meaningful and measurable.
Our interventions support leaders not only as individuals but as key drivers of team culture, alignment, and performance. We work directly with the leader and their team to strengthen collaboration, improve communication, and create the conditions for sustainable, high-performing teamwork. This work combines systemic team coaching with the design and facilitation of strategic collective sessions.
1. SYSTEMIC TEAM COACHING
What’s happening between people matters most.
2. WORK, OFFSITE & STRATEGIC MEETING FACILITATION
Because alignment doesn’t happen by accident and action makes it real.
Leadership impact becomes most visible within the team. Our systemic team coaching examines how the team functions as a connected system, its patterns, behaviours, strengths, and tensions.
Interventions may include:
This approach reveals both enablers and blockers affecting team collaboration, communication, and overall performance, giving leaders and teams a clearer understanding of what needs to shift to work more effectively together.
To reinforce development at a collective level, we design and facilitate high-impact sessions tailored to the team’s needs and organisational priorities.
These may include:
These sessions help teams align around priorities, strengthen relationships, clarify expectations, address cultural or relational challenges, and co-create concrete next steps. They also offer a structured space where insights emerging from coaching can be transformed into shared action and lasting organisational change.
Our leadership development coaching services are built around two core dimensions:
By the end of the activities, leaders typically learn to:
Learning is not limited to the classroom or the coaching session. We work with leaders to integrate new habits into their daily routines, so that the impact is visible in real meetings, decisions, and interactions.
Our work is grounded in measurable progress. Here are some of the outcomes we consistently help our client organizations achieve
of leaders report increased clarity and confidence
After completing our leadership development coaching programs.
improvement in team collaboration and communication
Measured through before–after assessments and stakeholder feedback.
faster integration of new leadership behaviors
When coaching is combined with systemic team work and tailored workshops.
Founder of Coaching Outside The Box • ICF Master Certified Coach • ICF Advanced Certified Team Coach
Lucia is an Italian leadership and team coach with over 20 years’ experience in human development. She began her career in process improvement, quickly realising that meaningful change happens through people. Her approach is rooted in deep inner work, emotional intelligence, empathy, and grounded presence.
She works globally with leaders, executives, teams, and coaches, offering one-to-one leadership coaching, systemic team coaching, and coach development through training, mentoring, and supervision. She helps organisations build coaching mindsets, stronger relationships, and workplaces where people can do their best work.
Lucia is the founder of Coaching Outside The Box (est. 2016, Gibraltar) and co-author of the Amazon bestseller The Human Behind the Coach, winner of the Specialist Business Book 2024. She has supported hundreds of leaders and coaches worldwide and volunteers as an executive coach for non-profits.
Her philosophy centres on human connection, courage, and genuine presence, with the belief that growth is a lifelong journey and that a coaching mindset benefits everyone.
Every organization is different, but our approach follows a clear, transparent structure
We’ll also develop strategies to embed changes into your organizational culture and processes, ensuring long-term success beyond our coaching engagement.
A program for all levels
Our Leadership Development Coaching is designed to benefit leaders at all levels of an organisation, from emerging talent to senior executives. This includes:
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Professional leadership coaching is a structured, goal-oriented partnership in which a coach supports a leader to increase awareness, develop new perspectives, and experiment with different behaviors in order to be more effective in their role.
A leadership development coach works specifically on growing leadership capabilities. They support leaders in understanding their impact, exploring new ways of leading, and aligning their behaviors with both their values and the organization’s strategy.
A leadership coach listens, asks powerful questions, reflects back patterns, and offers tools and frameworks. They do not give ready-made answers, but help the leader think more clearly and act more intentionally.
Yes. Our leadership development coaching services can be delivered online, in person, or in a blended format, depending on your needs, locations, and budget.
Typical skills include self-awareness, emotional regulation, communication, feedback, conflict navigation, strategic thinking, and the ability to empower and develop others.
You can expect better alignment around strategy, improved collaboration and accountability, higher engagement, and stronger execution of key priorities.
We always start from your strategic goals and culture. Coaching objectives are defined in alignment with these, so that the work leaders do in their sessions translates into tangible behaviors and outcomes at work.
Through goal setting, regular check-ins, feedback from stakeholders, and, when appropriate, follow-up assessments or surveys. Progress is both felt and measured.
We can help you clarify this during a discovery conversation. Together, we explore your goals, challenges, and current initiatives, then recommend the most suitable mix of one-to-one coaching, group programs, or team coaching.
It depends on your context, but leadership development journeys often last between 3 and 12 months, with regular sessions and touchpoints.
Typical outcomes include more effective leadership behaviors, stronger teams, clearer decision-making, and a culture that supports both performance and wellbeing. The exact outcomes are defined with you at the start of the program.
Hello, I’m Maria, an ICF Professional Certified Coach, Trainer, Facilitator, and Mindfulness Teacher. My superpower is empathetic joy, and I genuinely thrive when contributing to others’ well-being and success.
With a Master’s in Computer Science, specializing in Artificial Intelligence, and expertise as a Senior Agile Coach, I’ve supported organizations through transformations, acquisitions, and rapid growth in the AI and e-commerce industries.
Beyond the technical realm, I’m a Registered Yoga Teacher and Mindfulness Meditation Teacher. My true passion lies in providing holistic support to individuals and teams, enabling self-fulfillment and sustainable change.
I am Italian and have had the privilege of calling Barcelona and Berlin home. Currently, I am based in London.
I co-founded The Mindful Facilitator Certification Program.
I am a multilingual Life Coach, Facilitator, and Mental Health First Aider passionate about helping people move from stuckness and uncertainty into clarity, confidence, and purpose. I’m based in France, and I work in English, French, and sometimes in Spanish.
I trained with the MOE Foundation and I’m currently on the ICF PCC pathway. I’ve coached individuals across industries and continents, with a strong focus on emotional well-being, neurodiversity, and meaningful life transitions.
With a background in International Business and a deep love of learning, I’ve lived, volunteered, traveled, and contributed to development programs globally. I’ve facilitated coaching certification courses, supported students at the University of Oxford, and spoken on international stages and podcasts about resilience and recovery.
