Where leadership and connection grows

For CEOs, founders and the leaders and teams around them.

When the path ahead isn’t clear, I get to the heart of things quickly. As a leadership advisor, communications expert and systemic coach, I help leaders see what is really happening, find the conversations that matter and move forward with greater clarity and connection.

Connection isn't built. It's restored.

Presence and honest communication bring it back into the room. Everything else follows from that.

Lead from who you are.

Decisions you can stand behind.


Build a team that can move together.

Create the trust and clarity that doesn't need you in the room.


Say what's true, and be heard.

Find the words that land, and change what happens next.

25 years working with CEOs, founders and senior teams, across more than 100 organisations.

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Leadership Advisory +

A confidential partnership for senior leaders navigating significant change, relational dynamics, and opportunity.

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Teams & Organisations

When the work extends into the wider leadership system.

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Reflective Practice

Space to pause, listen and notice what is emerging.

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What others say…

  • "Carissa helps you look beyond the obvious to build fundamental, deep trust to achieve high-ambition goals as a team. Together with her, we have unlocked incredible value and energy."

    — Hans Peter Granicher, CEO and Co—Founder, D ONE

  • "I dared to believe anything was possible."

    — Melanie Seymour, Head of Global Client Services, BlackRock

  • "Carissa is just an outstanding coach and expert in the human condition. Her ability to tap into the key issues and be able to bring them to resolution sets her apart."

    — Brady Rafuse, CEO, euNetworks

  • "Our relationship has unlocked my ability to connect and lead with more compassion, essential for driving transformational change across our organisation."

    — Silviu Popovici, CEO, PepsiCo EMEA

  • "Carissa has the unique skill of getting under the skin of an issue with incredible insight coupled with a true grasp of commercial reality."

    — Harry Hyman, Founder and Chair, Primary Health Properties PLC

  • "If you’re looking to grow together as a leadership team, define a new sense of direction, or communicate with more impact, there’s no one I could recommend more."

    ― Ines Streimelweger—Pohl, Investor, Hedosophia

  • "When winging it is not an option and you need your top talent at the top of their game, it’s a reflex to seek support from the best."

    — Gregg Svingen, Vice President Internal Corporate Affairs, UPS

  • "For over a decade Carissa has designed and delivered our leadership development programmes and worked with the senior team to create a culture of shared leadership. Carissa is just an outstanding coach and expert in the human condition."

    — Brady Rafuse, former CEO, euNetworks

  • "You model what you teach, which is a great way to learn."

    — Barbara Reno, former CEO, The Conference Board Europe

“Life is a conversation worth being awake for.”

- Carissa

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