Luisa Girola, MCC

Leadership and Organizational Coach, Executive Advisor, and Facilitator

Luisa is an experienced executive coach, leadership development specialist, facilitator, and advisor for top-tier organizations navigating the challenges of global talent management and organizational transformation. She provides coaching and development centers for global organizations in multi-lingual (English, Italian, German) and multi-cultural contexts.

Luisa specializes in team development, post-merger integration, cross-functional alignment, and systemic leadership programs, and has worked with leadership and functional teams across automotive, pharmaceutical, financial services, and higher education sectors, spanning mainly Europe, Middle-East and China. Luisa maintains a rigorous quality practice through regular individual and group supervision, reflective peer coaching, and active engagement with the ICF ethics framework. As a previous host of the ICF German Chapter, co-founder of the ICF Germany Virtual Education Program, and a guest speaker at ICF global conferences, she brings both practitioner depth and a systemic view of coaching quality across distributed practices.

Since 2001, Luisa has supported leaders and their teams who aspire to achieve their potential both in professional competencies and in corresponding business outcomes, through individual coaching, leadership development programs, and targeted facilitation. Her consulting experience includes supporting M&A integrations and developing HR strategies that strengthen leadership effectiveness and align teams with business objectives. Her areas include performance management, employee engagement and empowerment; effective communication: emotional intelligence, influencing, courageous conversations; decision-making: risk-assessment, goal setting, resilience, empowerment; change management: managing uncertainty, innovation and adaptability; cross-cultural management: valuing diversity, cultural sensitivity; Development Centres for leadership programs; and design and facilitation of leadership programs.

Communication is Luisa’s greatest passion, something she discovered early on in her love for foreign languages, literature, and as a means to explore the self. Her career began in Business Development with a Japanese company, and an MBA in the UK provided a solid foundation to build her experience as a manager and developer in different organizations. As a mother of four children, Luisa has a deep understanding of and resilience about the contrasting demands in one’s personal and professional life.

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Professional Highlights

  • Over 20 years of experience in leadership and organizational coaching

  • Trusted advisor for top-tier organizations navigating global talent management and organizational transformation

  • Provides coaching and development for organizations in multi-lingual, multi-cultural contexts

Industry Experience

  • Automotive

  • Pharmaceutical

  • Financial services

  • Higher education

  • Global contexts spanning mainly Europe, Middle-East, and China

Certifications & Education​

  • International Coaching Federation, Master Certified Coach (MCC)​

  • ICF Converge, Paris

  • Agile Lean Europe, Munich

  • Agile Lean Europe, Budapest + Play14 – Berlin

  • AI in Coaching, ICF Germany

  • Managing Emotions in Times of Uncertainty & Stress, Yale University

  • Liberating Structures Munich, design & facilitation and participation

  • Saville Assessment Wave

  • Hogan and Hogan 360° accreditation

  • Agile Methodology - LinkedIn

  • Emotional Resilience Awareness Certification, EiWorld, UK

  • Leading Diverse Teams & Organizations, University of Michigan, USA

  • Existential Well-being Counselling - Leuven University, NL

  • Science of Happiness - Yale University, USA

  • Mindshift: Break through Obstacles to Learning - McMaster University, Canada

  • Design Thinking and Creativity for Innovation - University of Queensland BS, Australia

  • Certification Mercer Assessment Potential (MAP)

  • U-Lab: Leading from the Edge – MIT, USA

  • Clean Language, ICF Converge, London UK & Washington USA

  • MindGym Training Academy, London

  • Intercultural Management (Hofstede, Lewis Model), NetExpat, D

  • Birkman FirstLook accreditation

  • Coaching Skills, Cranfield School of Management, UK