Coaching & Advisory

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Long-term partnerships for founders, CEOs, and senior leaders navigating complexity. When the familiar frameworks no longer fit. When something emergent asks for attention.

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Coaching Partnerships

Practical, real-time advisory. A steady space to think through what’s live. The decision you’re holding. The relationship that’s shifted. The pattern you can’t yet name.

Leadership at this level is isolating; not everything can be shared with the board, team or partners. Here you can speak plainly about what you’re seeing and what’s uncertain.

This work strengthens your capacity to lead: how you read situations, hold creative tension, communicate under pressure, make decisions when the path forward isn’t clear - and stay connected to yourself as responsibility grows.

We meet regularly, usually monthly; more often during pivotal stretches. Between sessions, you have access when something can’t wait.

Built on trust and discretion. The work evolves as your leadership evolves.

“Carissa is just an outstanding coach and expert in the human condition.”
— Brady Rafuse, CEO, euNetworks

Executive Reflection

A spacious container for longer-term work. Not to solve immediate problems, but to tend how you’re evolving as a leader.

For senior leaders with little room to reflect on how leadership is shaping them. For those navigating succession, stepping back from operations, moving into unfamiliar territory. For leaders whose work has become effective yet quietly isolating.

The focus: your practice as a leader. How you hold responsibility. How you sustain yourself. How your presence shapes culture.

We meet when it suits, bi-monthly or quarterly. Slow by design.

Available standalone or as part of a coaching partnership.

“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, International Corporate Affairs, UPS

Coaching Supervision

For professional coaches within ICF and EMCC frameworks. I’m faculty at CRR Global and active with the Coaching Supervision Academy (CSA).

This is a kind, confidential space to bring the whole of your practice, the wins and the knots. We look not only at client work, but at how the work is shaping you, the patterns that repeat, and how you stay grounded.

What we tend together:

  • Partnering at the top (CEOs, founders, co-founders) without losing yourself

  • Evolving identity toward presence and heart intelligence—deeper ways of working

  • Senior leadership team dynamics for team coaches—cleaner contracts, clearer roles 

How it works:

One-to-one or small-group supervision

We begin with a conversation.

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“I dared to believe that anything was possible.”
— Melanie Seymour, Global Head of Client Experience, BlackRock

What Others Say

  • "Carissa focuses on people and their results, not methods. She gently yet resolutely helped evolve outdated habits, catalysing my career progression. Having worked with her one-on-one and as an executive team, I’ve experienced firsthand the impact of her holistic, impact-driven approach.”

    Dr Philipp Vetter

    CEO & Founder, Rheo (Former VP Strategy, Abu Dhabi Health Authority)

  • "Coaching should be uncomfortable if it is making you think big enough. Carissa has made me see the world from a new perspective. She has shown me the value of a leadership style that I had taken for granted and how to use it as a platform for change."

    Melanie Seymour

    Head of Global Client Services, BlackRock

  • "Carissa has been an invaluable ally. Her insights have helped me approach strategic challenges with greater empathy, unlocking my ability to lead with compassion - essential for driving transformational change. I trust Carissa’s insights to shape and communicate a leadership narrative that is authentic, inspiring, and impactful"

    Silviu Popovici

    CEO, PepsiCo EMEA