Leadership Advisory

One-to-one partnership for C-Suite leaders, founders and entrepreneurs

 
 
 
 

“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

Navigate complex relationships, critical transitions, and high-level communication challenges.

I've spent over twenty-five years acting as a thinking partner, executive coach and trusted adviser to C-Suite leaders, founders and family business owners. My role is part provocateur, part guide. I work at the edges of what's familiar, where real growth happens.

My clients share one thing: a purpose-driven vision to leave the world better than they found it. 

Our work takes many forms: Finding your voice and point of view. Navigating the relationship that's grown complicated, the one you can't quite name out loud. Moving through a transition that's changing who you are, not just what you do. Standing at the base of the next mountain, deciding whether, and how, to climb it. Building what lasts, on purpose, not something you'll look back on and wonder about.

We get beneath the noise of modern organisational life. We deepen what is good. We focus on how to bring about change that is aligned, empowering and actionable.

Together, we build the results your business needs now and the shift in you that makes future success possible.

It all begins with a conversation, get in touch.

“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, FORMER CEO, EUNETWORKS
 
 
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While there are several expected outcomes from our work together, these are a few you can bet on…

  • Clarity on how to lead from your heart, and stay authentic in leadership and life.

  • A voice and point of view strong enough to shape how others see you, not just what they hear you say.

  • The capacity to navigate the relationships that matter most, even the difficult ones, with skill and honesty.

  • Confidence moving through transition, toward whatever mountain is next.

  • Influence that lasts, built on purpose, not left to chance.

  • 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 combined unique skill of being able to get under the skin of an issue with incredible insight coupled with a true grasp of commercial reality and business.”

    — Harry Hyman, Founder and Chair Primary Health Properties PLC

  • “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