Advisory and coaching
Peer-level counsel for leaders doing work that matters
The moments that matter most in leadership rarely come with a clear path forward. A turning point. A plateau. An inflection point ready to be seized. Whether you are navigating one yourself or supporting leaders who are, what often moves things forward is a trusted peer who gets it and is committed to your success and wellbeing. Here you find the lived experience of a founder who has led her own organisations through full life-cycles, the pattern recognition that comes from working with 200+ leaders through similar terrain and a whole-person whole-system approach that gives you the clarity, confidence and support you need to get to your next stage of impact.
This work is for leaders who want more: more clarity, more joy, more revenue and resources, more impact, more influence and more future-readiness, without burning out, feeling isolated or becoming dependent on anyone to get there.
Valeria holds space for the whole person, not only the leader. Your wellbeing, your dreams and your relationship with your work matter as much as your strategy and results.
AT A GLANCE
200+
Leaders & Founders Supported
4
Continents
99%
Completion & Satisfaction rate
90%
achieve results beyond expectation
Supporting the people who drive transformation, not just the organisations they lead.
Signs you want to keep reading
You or the leaders you support are:
Feeling
- Stuck, isolated or stretched beyond your capacity
- Like you are becoming the bottleneck of your own ambitions
- In need of a trusted peer to think through a critical decision
- Ready to be challenged and pushed further
Facing
- A turning point: an opportunity, a pivot, a scale, or a challenge
- An organisation that has outgrown its current strategy or structure
- A strategic question about your leadership, business model, communications or systems and impact strategy
- A moment of momentum you want to accelerate
Programme directors, funders and fellowship leads often reach out on behalf of leaders in their cohorts navigating exactly these moments: at an inflection point, facing a critical decision or simply in need of a trusted thinking partner outside their immediate circle.
Supporting changemakers on their journey
Across stages and dimensions of leadership
Whether you are a founder at a critical lifecycle moment, an executive navigating complexity or a programme director supporting a cohort of changemakers, you will find a thinking partner here who understands your terrain. Valeria works with mission-driven leaders at all stages of their impact journey and organisational lifecycle. She is geography and issue-agnostic and supports leaders across models and scopes. Her collaborations span global and local organisations, charities, startups and social enterprises from early to late stage across four continents and 30+ countries.
Directly with leaders
Founders, leaders and executive teams in mission-driven organisations of all kinds. This is for changemakers navigating growth, transition or transformation wherever they are and at any stage of their organisation and impact journey..
Through programmes and funders
You commission support for cohorts of mission-driven founders and leaders. You want someone who works at peer level, understands the terrain they are navigating and can provide trusted thinking partnership that accelerates their growth without creating dependency. Institutional partners include UN SDSN, Ashoka, Empow’Her and EUSIC.
Recent examples of supported organisations include ventures in circular materials, public health access, women-led cooperatives, disability inclusion platforms and mental health innovation across Europe, Africa, Latin America and South Asia.The Goal of The Work
Getting to your next stage and making an outsized impact
By working with Valeria you unlock support across all dimensions of leadership: psychological, strategic, operational, governance and relational. Her approach is equally attuned to the needs of the people she supports as it is to their mission and ambition.
Together you gain the clarity and support to navigate crises and inflection points and maximise:
Impact
Future-readiness
Revenue & Resources
Sustainability, Joy & Wellbeing
Trust, Relevance & Influence
Team & Organisational Health
Scalability
Internal & External Relationships
Those are the questions founders and leaders often carry:
What is next for my organisation?
- Maximising impact: deepening it, widening it or making it last longer
- Maximising revenue and resources: building models that fund the mission sustainably
- Maximising scalability: designing for growth that does not depend on you alone
- Maximising relevance and reputation: sharpening narrative, positioning and visibility
- Maximising communications impact: crafting the narratives and messages that move the right people to act
- Maximising partnerships: building the ecosystem connections that open new possibilities
- Maximising future-readiness: leveraging technology, collective action and systems thinking to stay ahead
- Maximising team effectiveness: building, leading and developing the people who carry the mission forward
- Resolving operational and governance headaches: addressing the challenges that slow you down, drain your energy and distract from what matters most
- Navigating co-founder and leadership team dynamics: building trust and clarity between co-founders and leadership teams.
- Navigating a critical inflection point: a pivot, a turnaround, a restructuring or a wind-down
- Making the call: deciding whether to continue, scale, transform or exit with integrity
- Navigating transition and legacy: preparing the organisation to grow beyond its founding stage
What is next for me as a leader?
- Maximising clarity: knowing where you are going, why and what needs to happen next
- Maximising confidence and courage: making bold decisions and having the hard conversations required
- Maximising your communication and influence: expressing your vision, values and leadership with clarity and impact
- Maximising balance and wellbeing: reclaiming pace, joy and sustainability in your work
- Maximising your relationships: with your team, co-founders and stakeholders
- Maximising alignment: between who you are, how you lead and what you believe
- Maximising future-readiness: developing the mindsets, skills and strategies to lead with confidence in a changing world
- Navigating identity and purpose: answering the deeper questions that surface at turning points
- Navigating a crisis of confidence or direction when the path ahead is unclear
- Processing a difficult leadership experience: a failure, a conflict or a loss
- Breaking isolation: finding the peer connection, belonging and support that leadership rarely offers
The aim across both is the same: maximising and sustaining your impact over the long run, without sacrificing yourself in the process.
Why partner with Valeria?
What makes this counsel distinctive
The support of a peer
Valeria has founded and led impact-driven organisations herself, across multiple sectors, geographies and lifecycle stages. She is still in the field. She knows firsthand the operational, strategic, emotional and human dimensions of doing this work while being a human in the world.
Who has worked closely with many like you
Guidance integrates lessons from full-lifecycle leadership with pattern recognition developed through working with changemakers across dozens of countries, impact issues and leadership challenges.
With Built in Psychological Safety
The practice is anchored in long-term study of neuroscience, cognition and trauma-informed science, supported by embodied practice and inner work. This creates conditions that are not only strategically effective but profoundly safe.
Strategic rigour alongside empathy
Before founding social enterprises, Valeria worked as a research scientist and Fortune 50 consultant. Through your collaboration, you gain an analytical partner who deconstructs complexity to find objective truth, de-risking your highest-stakes decisions while maintaining the empathetic understanding of a peer who has walked the same path.
With creativity and insights filled by a large-range of experiences
Valeria is from a mixed-background, she has established organisations in the majority and minority world, and used policy, business, art, technology, media, education and ecosystem building as vehicles for impact across her career. This gives her an unusually broad toolkit to draw from when working with you.
The power of purpose: This work is part of a broader commitment to a world where everyone can dream big, live well and contribute to something larger than themselves.
The support you unlock
A dedicated approach with guaranteed results
A unique perspective: The whole-person whole-system lens
Grounded in a career spent founding and leading organisations and extensive experience supporting fellow changemakers across cultures and stages, Valeria operates from a fundamental conviction: the person, the work and the system are inseparable. Addressing these elements in isolation is a missed opportunity: it risks treating symptoms rather than root causes and never enables transformative impact.
To maximise the impact of her counsel, she applies a signature whole-person whole-system lens to her collaboration with the changemakers she supports: working at the intersection of leadership psychology and organisational strategy. Often, the most impactful levers for growth are found in unexpected places: a strategic bottleneck might be rooted in a leadership mindset, just as a personal plateau may be caused by an outdated organisational structure.
By engaging this integrated counsel, you gain a partner committed to understanding you, your organisation and your mission deeply so you can jointly identify and activate the most powerful levers to accelerate and sustain your impact, and transform your and your organisation’s future.
Committed to seeing the person, the work and the system to enable lasting transformative impact
Mentoring
Drawing on lived experience as a founder and systems leader to offer guidance, perspective and encouragement.
Coaching
A reflective structured process that helps you clarify goals, surface blind spots and expand your capacity for sustainable impact.
Advising
Hands-on strategic support on decisions, priorities and execution. Frameworks and pattern recognition to accelerate your impact and reduce noise.
Thought Partnership
A trusted thinking partner for high-stakes moments. Deep listening, grounding questions and presence without agenda or judgement.
An Experience Tailored to YOU and YOUR Goals
Every collaboration begins with a diagnostic conversation to identify core needs and design the right support pathway: whether building a bespoke engagement or adapting to a partner’s existing programme structure.
The Foundation: After this initial conversation, Valeria works with you to create an agreement that outlines the relationship and overall goals. This ensures total alignment on the mission from the start.
The Rhythm: To ensure every meeting creates immediate value, you will collaboratively establish a session agreement to define specific objectives and desired outcomes at the beginning of each session. These often include a concrete action plan, a list of strategic ideas, greater clarity, increased confidence or the readiness to face high-stakes challenges.
The Modalities: Valeria draws on a diversity of professional modalities: from mentoring and coaching to advising and thought partnership. Depending on the context and need, she can focus on one approach, move fluidly between them or blend them to provide the most effective counsel. This support can be led for individual leaders, co-founders or teams.
Zones of genius: Where to expect particular depth
While every engagement is bespoke, Valeria’s background brings uncommon depth to five key areas
Centring the human behind the leader
Your wellbeing, personal vision and relationship with your work remain at the heart of every engagement. Strategy is never decoupled from the person tasked with executing it: ensuring that your growth is sustainable, grounded and joyful.
Business, impact and organisational strategy
Partnering with you to architect the strategic engines that turn a vision into a sustainable, scalable reality. Whether you are founding a new venture, looking for investment or partners, seeking to scale your impact or revenue or evolving a charity into a hybrid social enterprise, or need to address any other strategic opportunity and challenge, you unlock the power of a gifted strategist. Together, you assess roadblocks and possibilities, interrogate your logic and stretch your thinking, while never losing sight of the reality you operate in, to design robust and innovative business, impact, operational strategies and models you can truly run with.
Systems thinking and future-readiness
Looking beyond the organisation to the wider field, ecosystem and emerging landscape it operates within. You are supported to leverage technology, collective action, culture and norm shifting, systems thinking, and strategic positioning to build influence, navigate complexity, stay relevant and accelerate systems and industry transformation.
Human dynamics and relational complexity
Navigating the “messy” reality of leadership: from co-founder dynamics and team alignment to stakeholder management and leadership identity and transitions. This work breaks the loneliness of leadership by providing a sophisticated space to process and address relational challenges and leadership evolution.
Communication, narrative and influence
Sharpening how you express your vision to move the right people to act. This is narrative as a strategic asset: from internal team alignment and high-stakes fundraising to global storytelling that commands attention. You gain the frameworks and critical feedback required to build an undeniable reputation and drive influence across your entire ecosystem, ensuring your mission is heard, understood and acted upon by the audiences, partners and investors who matter most.
Strategy: Impact model, Business model, Operating model, Communications, Systems strategy, Wellbeing, Governance
Leadership: Organisational leadership, Team leadership, Collective leadership, Self-leadership
Future-Readiness: Business modelling, Storytelling, Digitalisation, Collective action
Scope: From founding to exit, Across geographies,Across issues and scale
Need more support?
Beyond counsel: Embedded executive leadership
If your mission requires more than strategic advice, Valeria is available to step into senior leadership roles through fractional or full-time executive mandates.
Whether you are navigating a leadership transition, seeking an interim practitioner to launch a new venture or requiring a temporary senior partner to stabilise core operations, these mandates provide the embedded capacity needed to execute at pace. This is leadership without the lag: ensuring your organisation has the structural integrity to move forward while you find your permanent path.
What working together Looks Like
Always tailored, never assumed
Every engagement begins with a thorough diagnostic conversation. Nothing is assumed. Time is taken to understand you, your context, your mission and what you actually need before anything is designed or agreed. From there, your goals, pace, format and mode are built around what emerges.
Collaborative Goal Setting
Goals are set together, anchored to the bigger picture and revisited as the work develops. Structure without rigidity ensures you stay committed to the “North Star” while remaining agile.
Consistent Support and Follow-up
You gain a partner for the journey. Between sessions, asynchronous support is available so you can navigate critical moments and pivots in real-time, ensuring you never lose momentum or feel isolated again.
Honest and compassionate feedback
Feedback is specific, timely, compassionate and direct. You get the clarity of a strategist and the care of a peer. Nothing is softened to the point of uselessness.
No dependency created
The aim is always to build your capacity, confidence and tools to lead independently. The work is designed to make itself unnecessary.
Types of Engagements
Defining the architecture of our collaboration
Strategic Cycles (Packages)
A defined engagement with a clear arc and rhythm for individuals, co-founders or leadership teams navigating a specific objective, inflection point or longer transformation. Three formats available depending on what you need.
Retainers
An ongoing advisory relationship for founders, organisations and leadership teams that want a trusted senior thinking partner available for decisions, pivots and high-stakes moments as they arise. Monthly or project-based. The ongoing nature of a retainer also allows the configuration to shift as needs evolve, moving between individual sessions, co-founder work or leadership team sessions based on what each moment requires.
Investment is discussed as part of the initial conversation and tailored to the engagement. Some support is accessible through partnerships with supporting organisations. A limited number of pro bono and low bono collaborations are available each year for select causes and leaders. Learn more.
Package formats in detail
Strategic cycles designed to create real momentum while fitting around the demands of an active leadership role.
Depending on what the moment calls for, sessions can be one-on-one, with a co-founder or with your leadership team. All formats can be tailored.
Intensive
What: One or two focused days of deep work, followed by a call one week later and a check-in six months on.
Objective: Walk away with clarity, a concrete set of action steps and the strategic direction you need to move forward immediately
Best when: You are facing a specific challenge, decision or moment of clarity you need to reach quickly. You know what the problem is but need focused thinking partnership and clear next steps. You do not need ongoing support, you need depth in a concentrated burst.
Short-Cycle
What: Eight weeks with async support included. Structured around fortnightly 90-minute sessions or an agreed volume of hours distributed flexibly based on what each moment calls for.
Objective: Reach a defined objective or get through a critical inflection point with the support of a thinking partner and accountability structure behind you.
Sustained
What: Six to twelve months with full async support included. Works as a regular fortnightly rhythm or as an agreed volume of hours used flexibly as priorities and circumstances evolve.
Objective: Stay focused and make continuous progress towards your goals, saving time, money and energy while building the clarity and capacity to lead at your next level.
Not sure which format is right? Start with a conversation. Sometimes what feels like a quick fix turns out to need more time, and sometimes what feels overwhelming resolves faster than expected. The right format emerges from the diagnostic and can always be adjusted as the work evolves.
A few Commitments to You
A safe and accountable partnership
Full confidentiality
Everything discussed stays strictly between you and Valeria. Always.
Dedicated to your success
Valeria works with a limited number of clients at any given time to ensure every engagement receives the depth and focus it deserves.
Accountability
If you are not fully satisfied with the results, Valeria will work with you immediately to redesign the approach and ensure you receive the value you invested in.
If budget is a barrier
Get your engagement funded
If you are part of a network, fellowship or organisation that could sponsor your engagement, consider letting them know. Many supporting organisations actively fund this kind of leadership development for their members and grantees and would simply not know to offer it without being asked.
Share this page with them directly or email Valeria to let her know and she will take it from there.
Selected Success Stories
On Impact and Organisational Growth
Proven outcomes in impact scale and financial sustainability.
Unlocked investment and strategic partnerships
Supported founders in sharpening their strategy, narrative and foundations, enabling them to attract the investment and partnerships needed to reach their next stage.
Scaled impact across borders
Enabled founders to design and execute internationalisation strategies grounded in technology, innovative business modelling and multi-stakeholder partnerships, expanding both reach and impact to new regions and continents.
Doubled revenue and expanded partnerships
Supported a founder in co-creating a focused growth plan that doubled revenue within six months and opened valuable international partnerships.
Award-winning turnaround
Helped a leadership team redesign their business and impact strategy, turning a financial drain into an award-winning venture that attracted significant investment and deepened its reach.
Decoupled impact from resources
Enabled founders to develop strategies leveraging business modelling, digital technology, ecosystem and partnership design and narrative to scale their impact sustainably, expanding reach, reducing dependency on grants and unlocking new sources of value and revenue.
Found their voice and grew their audience
Guided a founder through a full repositioning and communications overhaul, creating coherence between personal brand and organisational mission and building the narrative clarity that increased both reach and revenue.
On The Human Side of Leadership
Proven outcomes in leadership evolution and relational health.
Reconnected with purpose, shed the weight of sacrifice
Enabled founders and leaders to step back from their role and honestly assess whether their organisation still served their personal and professional objectives and whether they remained the best person to serve their organisation’s mission. By removing guilt, habit and ego from the equation, created space for clearer purpose, better alignment and more joy in their work.
Navigated a critical turning point
Supported founders through the toughest decisions in the organisational lifecycle: pivots, turnarounds, exits and wind-downs, helping them navigate complexity with clarity, integrity and care for all stakeholders.
Reclaimed balance, joy and sustainable pace
Supported leaders in rebuilding their relationship with their work, developing the self-management practices, boundaries and rhythms that restored joy and ease. Many reported dramatic improvements in clarity and progress precisely as the pressure reduced.
Led with vulnerability, transformed confidence
Enabled a founder to lead with vulnerability, unlocking the courage and confidence that transformed both their organisation and their personal life.
Wellbeing and effectiveness restored
Enabled a founder to address leadership and organisational challenges at the root, building systems and processes that refocused resources on impact while securing personal wellbeing.
Strengthened co-founding team dynamics
Supported co-founding teams in improving communication, alignment and collaboration, resolving tensions and building the relational foundations needed to lead together sustainably.
Became the leader their team needed
Enabled founders and executives to grow into confident people leaders, developing the clarity, skills and culture needed to lead teams through complexity without becoming the bottleneck.
Across a vast diversity of people and ambitions
These stories represent a sample of the depth and diversity of the leaders Valeria is privileged to work with.
Examples of Supported Leaders & Ventures
Recent engagements include:
- Central African founder launching the region’s first coliving and acceleration space for social and environmental entrepreneurs -removing barriers to impact through housing, stipends, and community integration.
- A woman-led initiative in Afghanistan supporting cooperatives and grassroots associations through entrepreneurship training and economic inclusion programs in fragile, high-risk contexts.
- A social innovator scaling experiential workshops that enable collective awareness and action around gender inequality across francophone communities.
- A European entrepreneur developing a fully biodegradable, bio-based textile made from cork and linen as a sustainable alternative to leather; anchored in circular economy principles and local supply chains.
- A public health advocate in Ghana leveraging mobile colposcopy technology, theatre-for-development, and self-sampling tools to increase access to cervical cancer screening for underserved women.
- A Nigerian youth entrepreneur transforming electronic and plastic waste into affordable solar-powered lamps to address energy poverty and environmental degradation.
- A Pakistani team building a self-help mental health app tailored to users in low- and middle-income countries, aiming to destigmatize mental illness and support early intervention.
- A Latin American nonprofit designing a digital platform to support women with disabilities facing gender-based violence, with 24/7 support, accessible formats, and nationwide reach.
- A South Asian nonprofit developing Smart Inclusion Centers that bridge education, training, and employment pathways for youth with disabilities—now transitioning to a virtual replication model.
- A Middle Eastern accessibility organization training people with disabilities to audit customer experiences and consult businesses on inclusive service design, with a growing replication toolkit.
- A European ESG-tech founder building a SaaS tool to monitor reputational risk, stakeholder sentiment, and legal exposure for impact-driven companies navigating complex markets.
- An Austrian startup redesigning hotel interiors with the world’s first fully recyclable, zero-waste mattress system - bridging eco-design, circularity, and B2B sales innovation.
And many more.
Partners and Testimonials
Together, we’re making an impact!
Ready to explore working together?
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Valeria’s tailored coaching approach has led to remarkable outcomes. I’ve seen her coachees achieve goals faster than expected—whether it’s doubling revenue, securing high-level partnerships, or restructuring their organizations for greater impact. She doesn’t just coach; she empowers, offering support that’s both strategic and deeply empathetic.
What truly distinguishes Valeria is her unwavering commitment and versatility. Not only is she consistently available and eager to provide constructive feedback, but she also steps beyond her coaching role to actively collaborate with Empow’Her. Valeria has volunteered her expertise on our selection committees and participated in in-depth diagnostics for our fellows, showcasing her dedication to our mission. Her contributions have had a profound impact, both on the women she coaches and on the program as a whole. Valeria’s positive energy, professionalism, and extensive experience as a social entrepreneur, combined with her clear and effective communication, make her an absolute pleasure to work with.
I highly recommend Valeria to anyone looking for a coach who brings both business acumen and heartfelt commitment to personal growth. Her impact is profound, and she’s a true asset to any program supporting entrepreneurs and innovators.“
“I was fortunate to be linked to the highly skilled Ashoka mentor Valeria Duflot as part of the Zero Project Impact transfer programme. Valeria is an excellent social entrepreneur and systems innovator, and her passion for making a positive impact is evident in everything she does. She is an exceptional communicator with great patience and empathy to support us in framing our scaling strategy and public speaking competencies. Valeria acted as both facilitator and coach during our sessions. She supported us in leveraging our skills and vulnerabilities to showcase the project’s innovative aspects to drive positive change. Working with Valeria was a pleasure, as she brought a unique blend of clarity, creativity, energy, and expertise to support us with our Impact Transfer Programme. I know Valeria will continue to make a meaningful impact in her work and inspire those around her to do the same.”
“I had an opportunity to work with Valeria when our program was selected by Zero Project for the impact transfer. The project lasted for 6 months. She was our mentor. She was so committed. We had fortnightly meetings to check on the progress. Her inputs on the business model, impact model, and transfer model were very good and worth mentioning. Finally, she helped improved our project presentation and the process that brought out the strength of the program and simplified the impact transfer process. We felt comfortable and enjoyed working with her on this project. We hope others benefit from her skills too.“
“Our exchanges were a great help to me: it infused the whole summer so that in September everything would settle naturally.
What you do is powerful!
A big THANK YOU!“
“Valeria is always ready to get involved into your project. She works on it as if it were her own. She has strong values in social awareness, helping other and a great work ethic. I have seen her build communities around social and cultural subject, she is really a great asset for your projects. Valeria has been a great asset during the creation of my film production company Film Searchers. Her help in communication and digital marketing lead me to save a lot of time in content creation for my website. Her business acumen and customer-first approach were crucial in identifying and defining my strategy and niche. I definitely recommend working with Valeria on your venture. She is always encouraging, ready to get involved and eager to give you relevant business advices. “
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“We are so grateful for all your support, patience and trust. Even after going through a complicated health situation, you thought of us first — that shows what a wonderful person you are. Things went really well, and we owe a big part of that to you. We were able to make important connections for possible expansions of our app in other countries. It is in India now. We will not say goodbye because we will meet again soon “
“Working with you, when I think about where we started and where we are now, you really helped us navigate that roller coaster. Sharing these kinds of topics can feel quite uncomfortable, but you made us feel genuinely at ease. That safe space allowed us to dive deep and really work on the hard things. I find myself reflecting on what we discussed long after our sessions. You were there at one of the lowest lows of our journey. The fact that we are smiling now, you are part of that. I would highly recommend you to other founders without hesitation. And this is not goodbye,who knows what is around the corner.”!“
“What I really appreciate about our sessions is the incredible diversity of topics we covered. We started off not quite knowing what we wanted to discuss, both of us had different things on our minds, yet they crossed in unexpected ways. What emerged felt natural and right. The tools you taught us, particularly non-violent communication, were incredibly helpful. We already had a good baseline when we started, but these tools took things further, especially during some really tricky times in the last few weeks, where they genuinely helped us build better understanding and communication as co-founders. A big thank you for the variety of topics and the tools you gave us. So, so helpful.”
“As part of the great privilege, we at Access Israel had this year, to be chosen as one of the ten selected projects by Ashoka’s Impact Transfer program, with our Mystery costumer project and to be one of the projects selected by Project Zero as an innovating leading project for replication, I received a huge gift that is Valeria.
From day one, Valeria, who was assigned to me as a mentor throughout the program, understood our project perfectly, asked questions that made me think and raised new ideas all the time that already improve the existing product, and all along saw the great potential and how it should be presented and replicated.
Our sessions were very professionals in a very pleasant, instructive, goal-oriented atmosphere and always with a smile! There is a big difference in managing such a complex process, and even more when it is remotely through zoom, when done with a person who on the one hand is professional and very busy but on the other hand, so pleasant, without a drop of condescension and always give the feeling that our time is equally important.
As it was my first opportunity to experience a program that incorporates diverse worlds of business development, thanks to Valeria, who helped me to finetune the impact strategy, replication and marketing strategy of our service I now feel I know how to look at the service we offer from other angles, how to ask the questions that will promote it and keep it relevant to the worlds we want to enter as well as an understanding of investor-entrepreneur relationship. We also worked on storytelling and pitch preparation for the Zero Conference in Vienna that helped me a lot to at the end perform in front of all these people.
I’m 100% sure my experience wouldn’t have been the same without Valeria!
Thank you so much again for all the support and help.
Lilach.“
“ Valeria is a brilliant communicator and a creative mind. She is always ready to support your work and to look for solutions…she is unrestless! In particular, she supported my organization in structuring the yearly international event Making the Change Happens, bringing many insights on how to raise the effectiveness of communications, how to increase the positive impact for the community of Ascoli Piceno and certainly her sharp contributions raised the level of attention of the attendees and of our international network. “
“Having Valeria as our mentor for the Zero Ashok Impact Replication project was both fun and useful. Being a social entrepreneur herself she is clear on how to shape your business model…She ably fine tunes your ideas to give them shape. Her ability to both add to ,and actually perk up your communication, is worth mentioning…Valeria takes her role seriously, keen to follow up ,participate in discussions, and most importantly makes work fun….. I like her work and working with her!“
“Valeria is an attentive listener and an active group member. Valeria balances very well the need to go ahead and focus on the content as well as on the personal situation of her client. Especially, when external circumstances are challenging, she is open to change plans and puts herself in the shoes of her client. This is very helpful for me since circumstances and hence the project had to be adapted and changed. Valeria always refers back to the core mission and purpose and she makes one realise where to focus. Additionally, she is very supportive with creative ideas and thinking from different perspectives. She draws from her wide experiences as Social Entrepreneur as well as Marketing expert. I always leave our sessions with good intentions and a set of priorities and a big smile:) “
“During the time I worked with Valeria, she has approached my early stage start up with enthusiasm and encouragement. As with most micro business start up’s encouragement is a key factor in moving ahead especially in the planning stages. Valeria helped me set goals and made me accountable for them . I have frequently appreciated her because she keeps me accountable to my goals, challenging me when I didn’t meet them or helping me when I needed external insight to meet them. My business, Saisha Ayurveda is a skin care retail business that has a lot of clogs in the machine from supply chain management and regulations to marketing ,branding and packaging. Valeria has been a particularly good sounding board for me in terms of the marketing and branding and has helped me stay on track and avoiding any major bottlenecks. Valeria’s role to ensure ‘I am accountable’ for my actions and to challenge my thought process has moved my business from formulations to market ready products in a much quicker span of time than expected. The thought process she has trained me in has helped me manage my time to focus on achieveing my highly valuable goals. I now have the ability to create a clear direction and to be in control of my time to ensure Saisha Ayurveda’s success. Having improved my focus and direction, I am now enjoying the journey so much more. Thank you Valeria!“
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WHAT LANGUAGES DOES vALERIA WORK IN?
English, French and Italian. Working understanding of Spanish.
Does Valeria work in person or remotely?
Both. Sessions adapt to what serves you and the engagement best.
Are engagements standardised or tailored?
Always tailored. Every engagement begins with a thorough diagnostic and is shaped by what emerges from that conversation.
Does Valeria work with groups and teams?
Yes. You can be supported as an individual, as a co-founding team or as a leadership team. Cohort support through programme partnerships is also available.
What is the difference between coaching, advising and mentoring?
Coaching is a reflective process that helps you find your own answers. Advising brings strategic frameworks and direct input. Mentoring draws on lived experience to offer guidance and encouragement. One mode or a blend is used based on what your moment needs.
Can Valeria help with execution?
The focus is on building your clarity, confidence and capacity to execute. For select engagements, hands-on strategic support on specific decisions and priorities is also available.
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All enquiries are responded to personally. A short introductory conversation will be suggested to explore fit. There is no obligation and no pressure.
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