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Executive leadership development

Strengthen the leadership that drives your organisation forward.

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Composure is a leadership skill

Leading when the pressure Is high

Senior leaders today operate in a climate of constant acceleration, with shifting markets, leaner teams, and rising expectations. In such an environment, every decision carries weight, and composure becomes as critical as competence.

I work alongside executives and leadership teams to strengthen that composure, helping them think clearly when pressure rises, make decisions that hold up under complexity, and lead in a way that steadies both themselves and their teams. As an ICF Certified Coach and EMCC Senior Practitioner, my approach combines the structure of business with the understanding of human behavior, so leadership remains both strategic and sustainable.

Capability built where it matters

Develop the leadership capabilities your organisation depends on

Every organisation is different, and so are the people leading it. We begin with understanding your context, priorities, pressure points, and the everyday realities your leaders face. From there, we shape focused work that strengthens judgment, presence, and communication where it matters most.

Here’s what I offer under executive leadership development for organisations:

C-suite and senior leadership programs

Strengthen collaboration and decision quality at the highest level.
Tailored coaching engagements that help executive teams focus on what matters most, align on direction, and communicate with clarity across the organisation.

Leadership transition and culture renewal

Guide change without losing cultural integrity.
Structured support for organisations navigating leadership shifts, mergers, or integration, ensuring stability, coherence, and a shared sense of purpose through transition.

Resilience and performance under pressure

Maintain clarity and composure in high-stakes environments.
Practical tools and daily habits that help leaders regulate under stress, reduce reactivity, and sustain focus and performance when it matters most.

Inclusive leadership initiatives

Turn inclusion into a leadership habit instead of a campaign.
Development pathways that expand visibility and influence for underrepresented leaders while embedding inclusive practices across teams and decision-making.

Female leadership

Build visibility, influence, and confidence without losing authenticity.
Coaching and peer-based programs that equip women in leadership to communicate their value, lead decisively, and grow influence on their own terms.

Pressure exposes leadership systems

When the pressure rises, leadership either holds the organisation together or frays it…

We’re growing fast, but our leaders are stretched thin, and their decisions feel reactive instead of clear.

Teams are waiting for direction, but leaders are too busy managing the noise to set it.

We have strong talent, but communication between levels breaks down under pressure.

Different leaders interpret the company vision in their own way, and it’s starting to show.

We’ve promoted great specialists into leadership roles, but they weren’t prepared for the people's side of the job.

Change fatigue is setting in, and we can’t afford to lose momentum or morale.

We know what needs to happen next, we just need leaders who can bring others with them.

Let’s rebuild clarity, confidence, and cohesion at the leadership level.

What pressure quietly erodes

The new demands of leadership

Behind the meetings, strategy decks, and business targets lies an invisible demand,  the emotional load leaders carry every day. Many executives describe feeling constantly “switched on,” moving from one decision to the next with little time to process what those decisions cost them. Their focus fragments, presence fades, and even rest starts to feel like another task on the list.

Recent studies in neuroscience show that sustained pressure narrows attention and weakens empathy, the two capacities essential for wise leadership. As a result, leaders begin to lose the very skills that made them effective in the first place.

What often gets lost in the process is the space to recover, reflect, and reconnect. Without that space, leadership becomes a series of reactions rather than conscious choices.

My work begins at that point. Together, we examine how pressure shows up in their communication, trust, and decision-making. We identify where small shifts can restore focus, improve collaboration, and bring a sense of steadiness back to the system.

As such, when leaders regain that steadiness, trust strengthens, collaboration deepens, and strategy becomes more human and more effective.

The result is both measurable and felt. Organisations that function with greater cohesion, leaders who can hold complexity without losing sight of people, and teams that move forward with shared purpose.

Credibility, earned

My professional foundations

Learning has always been central to how I work. Each qualification represents a step towards understanding people, communication, and change from different perspectives – strategic, psychological, and systemic.

Academic Foundation
  • Degree in Marketing & Communication, University of Bari, Italy
Professional Training
  • Diploma in Coaching, Allenati per l’Eccellenza
  • Diploma in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Allenati per l’Eccellenza
  • Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation (ICF)
  • Senior Practitioner, European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC)
  • Positive Intelligence (PQ) Coach, trained with Shirzad Chamine
  • Team Coaching Certification, Solution Focused Academy
  • EMCC Team Coaching Quality Award (TCQA), as a recognition for the quality, depth, and ethical standards of my team coaching practice.


These frameworks, from ICF’s structure to EMCC’s reflective practice, shape a coaching style that is both rigorous and deeply human. They also mirror my belief that learning never ends, but evolves through every client conversation and every challenge faced together.

Regulation shapes judgment

What neuroscience tells about effective leadership

Regulated leaders think more clearly, listen more deeply, and make better decisions under pressure. Neuroscience shows that when we train emotional regulation, we strengthen neural pathways that support focus, empathy, and resilience.

In practice, this means:

Recognising stress patterns early

Noticing the physiological cues before they shape behaviour.

Creating small regulation habits

Brief pauses, reframing, and breathing patterns that reset attention and emotional tone.

Building long-term capacity

Rewiring the brain through repeated, conscious practice that sustains clarity and self-awareness.

Using simple, science-backed methods, I help leaders respond with clarity instead of reactivity. Over time, these small shifts reshape the brain’s response to challenge, creating patterns that sustain balance and better judgment.

When leaders are calm, their teams feel safe, and when teams feel safe, performance follows naturally.

The Book is out now

Marketing Yourself Forward

After years in corporate, I reached a point where the metrics, meetings, and milestones no longer aligned with the meaning I was looking for. Marketing Yourself Forward was born from the moments I nearly walked away.

This book explores a different approach to career growth that brings together marketing insight, personal evolution, and the understanding that your story, values, and lived experience can become your strongest professional advantage.

The book is now available. You can download a free excerpt to get a feel for the ideas inside, or purchase your copy on Amazon.

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Reflections from clients I’ve coached and collaborated with

Paola Simona Pavero
“Before starting the usual recommendation I’d like to focus on the elements of real distinction in the merits and skills. I believe that the professional path Katia is going through demonstrates the lucid interpretation of the market environment and phenomenon and the propensity to conjugate real innovation with operations, a clear vision of the future with a pragmatic approach to present, a different mindset to improve everyday life.”
Paola Simona Pavero
Senior Communication Project Manager
Betina Mazzarino - Limbica
“I had the pleasure of working under Katia Triggiani’s leadership while she was the President of PWN Chapter Munich —a global for a non-profit organization. She’s not only a result driven and loyal perfectionist, but also an inspiring and very reliable professional. Goal oriented, methodical, and with a strategic mindset, as a leader, she invests time and energy in building a strong team synergy, taking care of its members and its results. No matter how difficult and intense things may look, she always remains calm and focused. This rare mix of drive, productivity and ambition always set a great example for the rest of the members of the board.”
Betina Mazzarino - Limbica
Limbica | Executive Thought Partner | Connecting the dots forward. Cracking the echo chambers. Breaking Execution Deadlocks
Michael von Hamm
“I believe Katia`s superpowers are (1) ownership as she is really focusing on her partners needs, always trying to find a path to green, (2) delivering results through quick wins but also long-term results within defined marketing campaigns with Tier 1 partners in EU, and (3) earn trust, being transparent in her positive communication and setting the appropriated expectations to partners/customers.”
Michael von Hamm
Manager Business Development , B2B
Anja Fordon
“Working with Katia is an absolute bliss. She is a senior marketing expert with deep roots in putting the costumers or consumers first. From the first day on, working with Katia has been an inspiration. Her ideas are well thought through and go beyond the "normal" marketing playbooks which I really love. She questions the staus quo, is super resilient and a true power house. On top of her professional expertise, Katia is a strong advocate for diversity and social equity which is what the world needs now more than ever. Any organisation would be happy to have her!”
AF
Senior Brand Marketing Specialist, advocacy manager, content marketing manager, author, book lover and storytelling ambassador. I create and develop brand, content marketing & storytelling strategies.
Christina Haeussler (Häußler)
“Katia is really a great pleasure to work with. With empathy and focus she managed the coaching process. Her ability to ask the right questions at the right time is magic- it made me re-thinking situations and I was able to overcome challenges with Katias help. Thank you, Katia.”
Christina Haeussler (Häußler)
Senior Project Manager bei SThree
Carlo Perfetto
“I highly recommend Katia as a coach of outstanding quality and integrity. She is deeply responsible, demonstrates a strong work ethic, and approaches her practice with great professionalism and care. One of her key strengths is her openness to feedback: she actively seeks it, reflects on it thoughtfully, and applies it consistently to improve her work. Katia combines reliability, ethical awareness, and a genuine commitment to continuous learning, making her a trusted and effective coach.”
Carlo Perfetto
Slow enough to think. Clear enough to act. Navigating complexity with coaches and leaders.
Paola Simona Pavero
“Before starting the usual recommendation I’d like to focus on the elements of real distinction in the merits and skills. I believe that the professional path Katia is going through demonstrates the lucid interpretation of the market environment and phenomenon and the propensity to conjugate real innovation with operations, a clear vision of the future with a pragmatic approach to present, a different mindset to improve everyday life.”
Paola Simona Pavero
Senior Communication Project Manager
Betina Mazzarino - Limbica
“I had the pleasure of working under Katia Triggiani’s leadership while she was the President of PWN Chapter Munich —a global for a non-profit organization. She’s not only a result driven and loyal perfectionist, but also an inspiring and very reliable professional. Goal oriented, methodical, and with a strategic mindset, as a leader, she invests time and energy in building a strong team synergy, taking care of its members and its results. No matter how difficult and intense things may look, she always remains calm and focused. This rare mix of drive, productivity and ambition always set a great example for the rest of the members of the board.”
Betina Mazzarino - Limbica
Limbica | Executive Thought Partner | Connecting the dots forward. Cracking the echo chambers. Breaking Execution Deadlocks
Michael von Hamm
“I believe Katia`s superpowers are (1) ownership as she is really focusing on her partners needs, always trying to find a path to green, (2) delivering results through quick wins but also long-term results within defined marketing campaigns with Tier 1 partners in EU, and (3) earn trust, being transparent in her positive communication and setting the appropriated expectations to partners/customers.”
Michael von Hamm
Manager Business Development , B2B
Anja Fordon
“Working with Katia is an absolute bliss. She is a senior marketing expert with deep roots in putting the costumers or consumers first. From the first day on, working with Katia has been an inspiration. Her ideas are well thought through and go beyond the "normal" marketing playbooks which I really love. She questions the staus quo, is super resilient and a true power house. On top of her professional expertise, Katia is a strong advocate for diversity and social equity which is what the world needs now more than ever. Any organisation would be happy to have her!”
AF
Senior Brand Marketing Specialist, advocacy manager, content marketing manager, author, book lover and storytelling ambassador. I create and develop brand, content marketing & storytelling strategies.
Christina Haeussler (Häußler)
“Katia is really a great pleasure to work with. With empathy and focus she managed the coaching process. Her ability to ask the right questions at the right time is magic- it made me re-thinking situations and I was able to overcome challenges with Katias help. Thank you, Katia.”
Christina Haeussler (Häußler)
Senior Project Manager bei SThree
Carlo Perfetto
“I highly recommend Katia as a coach of outstanding quality and integrity. She is deeply responsible, demonstrates a strong work ethic, and approaches her practice with great professionalism and care. One of her key strengths is her openness to feedback: she actively seeks it, reflects on it thoughtfully, and applies it consistently to improve her work. Katia combines reliability, ethical awareness, and a genuine commitment to continuous learning, making her a trusted and effective coach.”
Carlo Perfetto
Slow enough to think. Clear enough to act. Navigating complexity with coaches and leaders.
Paula Seipel
“I have the pleasure to work together with Katia since more than one year now. Since day one I highly appreciate her open mind, networking competencies and her motivation to always drive business. Especially her proactivity, creativity and out-of-the box thinking are an inspiration to me. I would always gladly work with Katia or recommend her without hesitation.”
Paula Seipel
Instructional Designer & Trainer with a passion for AI @ E.ON Digital Technology 🤖
Liz 🎙 Howard
“Katia‘s ability to lead any team is an understatement. Her professional attitude, her ability to comprehend each member of her team and client, is a gift! Katia leads with a quiet strength combined with compassion! Her knowledge with years of experience of today’s IT market is more than excellent, Katia is the Go-To Expert! Liz Howard, Founder Soulfood-Seminars”
Liz 🎙 Howard
TEDx Speaker | Spiritual Voice Expert & Healer | Author | Founder of Soulfood Voice Retreats, Seminars & Veterans Initiative
Mayte G.
“Katia is passionate about marketing and a great team player! She is always looking for new creative ideas to drive amazing customer experiences and make them happen. It was a pleasure to work in the same team at Amazon Alexa!”
Mayte G.
Senior Brand Manager | Prime Video | Amazon
Stefan Moll
“Dear Katia, thanks so much for the great collaboration with TA for the herCAREER event and also in the Women@Workday DACH team. It is such a pleasure working with you with your drive, guidance and extremely positive can do attitude. Your passion for female leadership and creating an inclusive environment is contagious and radiates on the people around you. Thanks,”
Stefan Moll
Principal Talent Acquisition Partner EMEA - finding the best sales talents #wdaylife
Costanza Cecconi
“I had the pleasure of working with Katia as a coach during a phase of reflection and growth. Our work together helped me gain clarity, refocus my priorities and translate this increased awareness into concrete and sustainable actions. Katia combines a deep ability to listen with a structured and pragmatic approach. A coaching journey with Katia is not just an exercise in introspection, but a true investment in one's effectiveness, leadership, and alignment between who you are and what you do.”
Costanza Cecconi
Global Medical Partnership Lead, Viatris
Paula Seipel
“I have the pleasure to work together with Katia since more than one year now. Since day one I highly appreciate her open mind, networking competencies and her motivation to always drive business. Especially her proactivity, creativity and out-of-the box thinking are an inspiration to me. I would always gladly work with Katia or recommend her without hesitation.”
Paula Seipel
Instructional Designer & Trainer with a passion for AI @ E.ON Digital Technology 🤖
Liz 🎙 Howard
“Katia‘s ability to lead any team is an understatement. Her professional attitude, her ability to comprehend each member of her team and client, is a gift! Katia leads with a quiet strength combined with compassion! Her knowledge with years of experience of today’s IT market is more than excellent, Katia is the Go-To Expert! Liz Howard, Founder Soulfood-Seminars”
Liz 🎙 Howard
TEDx Speaker | Spiritual Voice Expert & Healer | Author | Founder of Soulfood Voice Retreats, Seminars & Veterans Initiative
Mayte G.
“Katia is passionate about marketing and a great team player! She is always looking for new creative ideas to drive amazing customer experiences and make them happen. It was a pleasure to work in the same team at Amazon Alexa!”
Mayte G.
Senior Brand Manager | Prime Video | Amazon
Stefan Moll
“Dear Katia, thanks so much for the great collaboration with TA for the herCAREER event and also in the Women@Workday DACH team. It is such a pleasure working with you with your drive, guidance and extremely positive can do attitude. Your passion for female leadership and creating an inclusive environment is contagious and radiates on the people around you. Thanks,”
Stefan Moll
Principal Talent Acquisition Partner EMEA - finding the best sales talents #wdaylife
Costanza Cecconi
“I had the pleasure of working with Katia as a coach during a phase of reflection and growth. Our work together helped me gain clarity, refocus my priorities and translate this increased awareness into concrete and sustainable actions. Katia combines a deep ability to listen with a structured and pragmatic approach. A coaching journey with Katia is not just an exercise in introspection, but a true investment in one's effectiveness, leadership, and alignment between who you are and what you do.”
Costanza Cecconi
Global Medical Partnership Lead, Viatris
Simone Dappert
“I met Katia late 2012 when she started the initiative for a Munich chapter of the Professional Women´s Network. Like so many others I was inspired by her passionate yet well organized way of setting up a volunteer organization in a foreign country, with people of all different backgrounds and motives and look, what she has made out if it!”
Simone Dappert
Recruiting, Assessment, Training, Coaching
Jana Pastore
“By walking into the room she drives an effective collaboration, trust environment that everyone is open to brainstorm and contribute. Katia is emphatic, provides strong evidence of business ownership and excels at marketing and sales programs management, people motivation and cross group partnership. She has great ideas, knows how to make alignments and stays on top of every process stage to ensure expected is achieved.”
Jana Pastore
Sr. Business Analyst Renal Care DACH at Baxter International Inc.
Fuat Kirikci
“At Microsoft, I had the opportunity to work together with Katia. Katia is an absolute team player and power woman: reliable, integer, honest, inspirational, professional, a sales- and project management expert and on top very much fun to work with. Katia, I hope we get the chance to work together again and wish you all the best for your future!”
Fuat Kirikci
Put AI to work for people
Maria Elisa Fontanelli
“Avevo delle sfide personali che volevo superare attraverso il coaching e Katia ha saputo guidarmi ad elevare i miei standard! E' incredibile quanta consapevolezza è riuscita a generare in me durante il percorso. Katia hai una grande capacità di ascolto che mi ha allenato alla riflessione quella vera che produce risultato! Grazie di cuore. Mary”
Maria Elisa Fontanelli
ICF ACC Coach | Giovani & aziende | Crescita personale & professionale | Formazione per team efficaci
Catarina Almeida
“Katia is very kind, she listens carefully and asks the perfect questions. She makes you think about life, your priorities, and question your beliefs. I recommend Katia, if you want to look deep inside you.”
Catarina Almeida
Investment Analyst @ AM Investment Management | Teaching Personal Finance @ Financas Para Todos
Costanza Cecconi
“I had the pleasure of working with Katia as a coach during a phase of reflection and growth. Our work together helped me gain clarity, refocus my priorities and translate this increased awareness into concrete and sustainable actions. Katia combines a deep ability to listen with a structured and pragmatic approach. A coaching journey with Katia is not just an exercise in introspection, but a true investment in one's effectiveness, leadership, and alignment between who you are and what you do.”
Costanza Cecconi
Global Medical Partnership Lead, Viatris
Simone Dappert
“I met Katia late 2012 when she started the initiative for a Munich chapter of the Professional Women´s Network. Like so many others I was inspired by her passionate yet well organized way of setting up a volunteer organization in a foreign country, with people of all different backgrounds and motives and look, what she has made out if it!”
Simone Dappert
Recruiting, Assessment, Training, Coaching
Jana Pastore
“By walking into the room she drives an effective collaboration, trust environment that everyone is open to brainstorm and contribute. Katia is emphatic, provides strong evidence of business ownership and excels at marketing and sales programs management, people motivation and cross group partnership. She has great ideas, knows how to make alignments and stays on top of every process stage to ensure expected is achieved.”
Jana Pastore
Sr. Business Analyst Renal Care DACH at Baxter International Inc.
Fuat Kirikci
“At Microsoft, I had the opportunity to work together with Katia. Katia is an absolute team player and power woman: reliable, integer, honest, inspirational, professional, a sales- and project management expert and on top very much fun to work with. Katia, I hope we get the chance to work together again and wish you all the best for your future!”
Fuat Kirikci
Put AI to work for people
Maria Elisa Fontanelli
“Avevo delle sfide personali che volevo superare attraverso il coaching e Katia ha saputo guidarmi ad elevare i miei standard! E' incredibile quanta consapevolezza è riuscita a generare in me durante il percorso. Katia hai una grande capacità di ascolto che mi ha allenato alla riflessione quella vera che produce risultato! Grazie di cuore. Mary”
Maria Elisa Fontanelli
ICF ACC Coach | Giovani & aziende | Crescita personale & professionale | Formazione per team efficaci
Catarina Almeida
“Katia is very kind, she listens carefully and asks the perfect questions. She makes you think about life, your priorities, and question your beliefs. I recommend Katia, if you want to look deep inside you.”
Catarina Almeida
Investment Analyst @ AM Investment Management | Teaching Personal Finance @ Financas Para Todos
Costanza Cecconi
“I had the pleasure of working with Katia as a coach during a phase of reflection and growth. Our work together helped me gain clarity, refocus my priorities and translate this increased awareness into concrete and sustainable actions. Katia combines a deep ability to listen with a structured and pragmatic approach. A coaching journey with Katia is not just an exercise in introspection, but a true investment in one's effectiveness, leadership, and alignment between who you are and what you do.”
Costanza Cecconi
Global Medical Partnership Lead, Viatris
Paola Simona Pavero
“Before starting the usual recommendation I’d like to focus on the elements of real distinction in the merits and skills. I believe that the professional path Katia is going through demonstrates the lucid interpretation of the market environment and phenomenon and the propensity to conjugate real innovation with operations, a clear vision of the future with a pragmatic approach to present, a different mindset to improve everyday life.”
Paola Simona Pavero
Senior Communication Project Manager
Simone Dappert
“I met Katia late 2012 when she started the initiative for a Munich chapter of the Professional Women´s Network. Like so many others I was inspired by her passionate yet well organized way of setting up a volunteer organization in a foreign country, with people of all different backgrounds and motives and look, what she has made out if it!”
Simone Dappert
Recruiting, Assessment, Training, Coaching
Betina Mazzarino - Limbica
“I had the pleasure of working under Katia Triggiani’s leadership while she was the President of PWN Chapter Munich —a global for a non-profit organization. She’s not only a result driven and loyal perfectionist, but also an inspiring and very reliable professional. Goal oriented, methodical, and with a strategic mindset, as a leader, she invests time and energy in building a strong team synergy, taking care of its members and its results. No matter how difficult and intense things may look, she always remains calm and focused. This rare mix of drive, productivity and ambition always set a great example for the rest of the members of the board.”
Betina Mazzarino - Limbica
Limbica | Executive Thought Partner | Connecting the dots forward. Cracking the echo chambers. Breaking Execution Deadlocks
Paula Seipel
“I have the pleasure to work together with Katia since more than one year now. Since day one I highly appreciate her open mind, networking competencies and her motivation to always drive business. Especially her proactivity, creativity and out-of-the box thinking are an inspiration to me. I would always gladly work with Katia or recommend her without hesitation.”
Paula Seipel
Instructional Designer & Trainer with a passion for AI @ E.ON Digital Technology 🤖
Jana Pastore
“By walking into the room she drives an effective collaboration, trust environment that everyone is open to brainstorm and contribute. Katia is emphatic, provides strong evidence of business ownership and excels at marketing and sales programs management, people motivation and cross group partnership. She has great ideas, knows how to make alignments and stays on top of every process stage to ensure expected is achieved.”
Jana Pastore
Sr. Business Analyst Renal Care DACH at Baxter International Inc.
Liz 🎙 Howard
“Katia‘s ability to lead any team is an understatement. Her professional attitude, her ability to comprehend each member of her team and client, is a gift! Katia leads with a quiet strength combined with compassion! Her knowledge with years of experience of today’s IT market is more than excellent, Katia is the Go-To Expert! Liz Howard, Founder Soulfood-Seminars”
Liz 🎙 Howard
TEDx Speaker | Spiritual Voice Expert & Healer | Author | Founder of Soulfood Voice Retreats, Seminars & Veterans Initiative
Fuat Kirikci
“At Microsoft, I had the opportunity to work together with Katia. Katia is an absolute team player and power woman: reliable, integer, honest, inspirational, professional, a sales- and project management expert and on top very much fun to work with. Katia, I hope we get the chance to work together again and wish you all the best for your future!”
Fuat Kirikci
Put AI to work for people
Michael von Hamm
“I believe Katia`s superpowers are (1) ownership as she is really focusing on her partners needs, always trying to find a path to green, (2) delivering results through quick wins but also long-term results within defined marketing campaigns with Tier 1 partners in EU, and (3) earn trust, being transparent in her positive communication and setting the appropriated expectations to partners/customers.”
Michael von Hamm
Manager Business Development , B2B
Mayte G.
“Katia is passionate about marketing and a great team player! She is always looking for new creative ideas to drive amazing customer experiences and make them happen. It was a pleasure to work in the same team at Amazon Alexa!”
Mayte G.
Senior Brand Manager | Prime Video | Amazon
Anja Fordon
“Working with Katia is an absolute bliss. She is a senior marketing expert with deep roots in putting the costumers or consumers first. From the first day on, working with Katia has been an inspiration. Her ideas are well thought through and go beyond the "normal" marketing playbooks which I really love. She questions the staus quo, is super resilient and a true power house. On top of her professional expertise, Katia is a strong advocate for diversity and social equity which is what the world needs now more than ever. Any organisation would be happy to have her!”
AF
Senior Brand Marketing Specialist, advocacy manager, content marketing manager, author, book lover and storytelling ambassador. I create and develop brand, content marketing & storytelling strategies.
Stefan Moll
“Dear Katia, thanks so much for the great collaboration with TA for the herCAREER event and also in the Women@Workday DACH team. It is such a pleasure working with you with your drive, guidance and extremely positive can do attitude. Your passion for female leadership and creating an inclusive environment is contagious and radiates on the people around you. Thanks,”
Stefan Moll
Principal Talent Acquisition Partner EMEA - finding the best sales talents #wdaylife
Maria Elisa Fontanelli
“Avevo delle sfide personali che volevo superare attraverso il coaching e Katia ha saputo guidarmi ad elevare i miei standard! E' incredibile quanta consapevolezza è riuscita a generare in me durante il percorso. Katia hai una grande capacità di ascolto che mi ha allenato alla riflessione quella vera che produce risultato! Grazie di cuore. Mary”
Maria Elisa Fontanelli
ICF ACC Coach | Giovani & aziende | Crescita personale & professionale | Formazione per team efficaci
Christina Haeussler (Häußler)
“Katia is really a great pleasure to work with. With empathy and focus she managed the coaching process. Her ability to ask the right questions at the right time is magic- it made me re-thinking situations and I was able to overcome challenges with Katias help. Thank you, Katia.”
Christina Haeussler (Häußler)
Senior Project Manager bei SThree
Catarina Almeida
“Katia is very kind, she listens carefully and asks the perfect questions. She makes you think about life, your priorities, and question your beliefs. I recommend Katia, if you want to look deep inside you.”
Catarina Almeida
Investment Analyst @ AM Investment Management | Teaching Personal Finance @ Financas Para Todos
Carlo Perfetto
“I highly recommend Katia as a coach of outstanding quality and integrity. She is deeply responsible, demonstrates a strong work ethic, and approaches her practice with great professionalism and care. One of her key strengths is her openness to feedback: she actively seeks it, reflects on it thoughtfully, and applies it consistently to improve her work. Katia combines reliability, ethical awareness, and a genuine commitment to continuous learning, making her a trusted and effective coach.”
Carlo Perfetto
Slow enough to think. Clear enough to act. Navigating complexity with coaches and leaders.
Costanza Cecconi
“I had the pleasure of working with Katia as a coach during a phase of reflection and growth. Our work together helped me gain clarity, refocus my priorities and translate this increased awareness into concrete and sustainable actions. Katia combines a deep ability to listen with a structured and pragmatic approach. A coaching journey with Katia is not just an exercise in introspection, but a true investment in one's effectiveness, leadership, and alignment between who you are and what you do.”
Costanza Cecconi
Global Medical Partnership Lead, Viatris
Costanza Cecconi
“I had the pleasure of working with Katia as a coach during a phase of reflection and growth. Our work together helped me gain clarity, refocus my priorities and translate this increased awareness into concrete and sustainable actions. Katia combines a deep ability to listen with a structured and pragmatic approach. A coaching journey with Katia is not just an exercise in introspection, but a true investment in one's effectiveness, leadership, and alignment between who you are and what you do.”
Costanza Cecconi
Global Medical Partnership Lead, Viatris
Paola Simona Pavero
“Before starting the usual recommendation I’d like to focus on the elements of real distinction in the merits and skills. I believe that the professional path Katia is going through demonstrates the lucid interpretation of the market environment and phenomenon and the propensity to conjugate real innovation with operations, a clear vision of the future with a pragmatic approach to present, a different mindset to improve everyday life.”
Paola Simona Pavero
Senior Communication Project Manager
Simone Dappert
“I met Katia late 2012 when she started the initiative for a Munich chapter of the Professional Women´s Network. Like so many others I was inspired by her passionate yet well organized way of setting up a volunteer organization in a foreign country, with people of all different backgrounds and motives and look, what she has made out if it!”
Simone Dappert
Recruiting, Assessment, Training, Coaching
Betina Mazzarino - Limbica
“I had the pleasure of working under Katia Triggiani’s leadership while she was the President of PWN Chapter Munich —a global for a non-profit organization. She’s not only a result driven and loyal perfectionist, but also an inspiring and very reliable professional. Goal oriented, methodical, and with a strategic mindset, as a leader, she invests time and energy in building a strong team synergy, taking care of its members and its results. No matter how difficult and intense things may look, she always remains calm and focused. This rare mix of drive, productivity and ambition always set a great example for the rest of the members of the board.”
Betina Mazzarino - Limbica
Limbica | Executive Thought Partner | Connecting the dots forward. Cracking the echo chambers. Breaking Execution Deadlocks
Paula Seipel
“I have the pleasure to work together with Katia since more than one year now. Since day one I highly appreciate her open mind, networking competencies and her motivation to always drive business. Especially her proactivity, creativity and out-of-the box thinking are an inspiration to me. I would always gladly work with Katia or recommend her without hesitation.”
Paula Seipel
Instructional Designer & Trainer with a passion for AI @ E.ON Digital Technology 🤖
Jana Pastore
“By walking into the room she drives an effective collaboration, trust environment that everyone is open to brainstorm and contribute. Katia is emphatic, provides strong evidence of business ownership and excels at marketing and sales programs management, people motivation and cross group partnership. She has great ideas, knows how to make alignments and stays on top of every process stage to ensure expected is achieved.”
Jana Pastore
Sr. Business Analyst Renal Care DACH at Baxter International Inc.
Liz 🎙 Howard
“Katia‘s ability to lead any team is an understatement. Her professional attitude, her ability to comprehend each member of her team and client, is a gift! Katia leads with a quiet strength combined with compassion! Her knowledge with years of experience of today’s IT market is more than excellent, Katia is the Go-To Expert! Liz Howard, Founder Soulfood-Seminars”
Liz 🎙 Howard
TEDx Speaker | Spiritual Voice Expert & Healer | Author | Founder of Soulfood Voice Retreats, Seminars & Veterans Initiative
Fuat Kirikci
“At Microsoft, I had the opportunity to work together with Katia. Katia is an absolute team player and power woman: reliable, integer, honest, inspirational, professional, a sales- and project management expert and on top very much fun to work with. Katia, I hope we get the chance to work together again and wish you all the best for your future!”
Fuat Kirikci
Put AI to work for people
Michael von Hamm
“I believe Katia`s superpowers are (1) ownership as she is really focusing on her partners needs, always trying to find a path to green, (2) delivering results through quick wins but also long-term results within defined marketing campaigns with Tier 1 partners in EU, and (3) earn trust, being transparent in her positive communication and setting the appropriated expectations to partners/customers.”
Michael von Hamm
Manager Business Development , B2B
Mayte G.
“Katia is passionate about marketing and a great team player! She is always looking for new creative ideas to drive amazing customer experiences and make them happen. It was a pleasure to work in the same team at Amazon Alexa!”
Mayte G.
Senior Brand Manager | Prime Video | Amazon
Anja Fordon
“Working with Katia is an absolute bliss. She is a senior marketing expert with deep roots in putting the costumers or consumers first. From the first day on, working with Katia has been an inspiration. Her ideas are well thought through and go beyond the "normal" marketing playbooks which I really love. She questions the staus quo, is super resilient and a true power house. On top of her professional expertise, Katia is a strong advocate for diversity and social equity which is what the world needs now more than ever. Any organisation would be happy to have her!”
AF
Senior Brand Marketing Specialist, advocacy manager, content marketing manager, author, book lover and storytelling ambassador. I create and develop brand, content marketing & storytelling strategies.
Stefan Moll
“Dear Katia, thanks so much for the great collaboration with TA for the herCAREER event and also in the Women@Workday DACH team. It is such a pleasure working with you with your drive, guidance and extremely positive can do attitude. Your passion for female leadership and creating an inclusive environment is contagious and radiates on the people around you. Thanks,”
Stefan Moll
Principal Talent Acquisition Partner EMEA - finding the best sales talents #wdaylife
Maria Elisa Fontanelli
“Avevo delle sfide personali che volevo superare attraverso il coaching e Katia ha saputo guidarmi ad elevare i miei standard! E' incredibile quanta consapevolezza è riuscita a generare in me durante il percorso. Katia hai una grande capacità di ascolto che mi ha allenato alla riflessione quella vera che produce risultato! Grazie di cuore. Mary”
Maria Elisa Fontanelli
ICF ACC Coach | Giovani & aziende | Crescita personale & professionale | Formazione per team efficaci
Christina Haeussler (Häußler)
“Katia is really a great pleasure to work with. With empathy and focus she managed the coaching process. Her ability to ask the right questions at the right time is magic- it made me re-thinking situations and I was able to overcome challenges with Katias help. Thank you, Katia.”
Christina Haeussler (Häußler)
Senior Project Manager bei SThree
Catarina Almeida
“Katia is very kind, she listens carefully and asks the perfect questions. She makes you think about life, your priorities, and question your beliefs. I recommend Katia, if you want to look deep inside you.”
Catarina Almeida
Investment Analyst @ AM Investment Management | Teaching Personal Finance @ Financas Para Todos
Carlo Perfetto
“I highly recommend Katia as a coach of outstanding quality and integrity. She is deeply responsible, demonstrates a strong work ethic, and approaches her practice with great professionalism and care. One of her key strengths is her openness to feedback: she actively seeks it, reflects on it thoughtfully, and applies it consistently to improve her work. Katia combines reliability, ethical awareness, and a genuine commitment to continuous learning, making her a trusted and effective coach.”
Carlo Perfetto
Slow enough to think. Clear enough to act. Navigating complexity with coaches and leaders.
Costanza Cecconi
“I had the pleasure of working with Katia as a coach during a phase of reflection and growth. Our work together helped me gain clarity, refocus my priorities and translate this increased awareness into concrete and sustainable actions. Katia combines a deep ability to listen with a structured and pragmatic approach. A coaching journey with Katia is not just an exercise in introspection, but a true investment in one's effectiveness, leadership, and alignment between who you are and what you do.”
Costanza Cecconi
Global Medical Partnership Lead, Viatris
Costanza Cecconi
“I had the pleasure of working with Katia as a coach during a phase of reflection and growth. Our work together helped me gain clarity, refocus my priorities and translate this increased awareness into concrete and sustainable actions. Katia combines a deep ability to listen with a structured and pragmatic approach. A coaching journey with Katia is not just an exercise in introspection, but a true investment in one's effectiveness, leadership, and alignment between who you are and what you do.”
Costanza Cecconi
Global Medical Partnership Lead, Viatris
Where strategy meets behaviour

Bridging strategy and humanity in organisational leadership

With over 25 years in international marketing and business development at Microsoft, Amazon, and T-Systems, I understand how organisations grow and what makes leadership under pressure succeed or stall. That experience now meets my work as an ICF-certified Coach and EMCC Senior Practitioner, combining structure with reflection, and strategy with empathy.

Clients describe my approach as clear, grounded, and practical. I help them translate complexity into focus, turning leadership development into something tangible – better decisions, stronger alignment, and teams that trust how their leaders lead.

KATIA TRIGGIANI
Marketing Yourself Forward book
NEW RELEASE · 2026
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The book I almost
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After years in corporate, I reached a point where the metrics, meetings, and milestones no longer aligned with the meaning I was looking for. Marketing Yourself Forward was born from the moments I nearly walked away.

This book brings together marketing insight, personal evolution, and the understanding that your story and lived experience can become your strongest professional advantage.

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