May 17, 2022
My purpose is to reveal the potential of what can be for leaders
who balance growing a business, leading a team, and being fully
engaged and present in their families and lives. I help them define
the actionable steps from large challenging decisions and difficult
conversations to the small daily and deliberate habits that lead to
significant results."
By trade and training, Massimo is a master facilitator, speaker,
and leadership coach. He helps leaders uncover who they are, who
they want to be, and how to transform old habits and patterns that
hold them back. They learn to lead with self-awareness and
self-management that drives discovery, growth, and success.
Massimo built leadership capability at start-up to Fortune 500
companies by applying the science of leadership, behavior change,
and mindfulness practices. He was the head of leadership
development for Slalom Consulting where he designed and facilitated
workshops, coached, and challenged over a thousand leaders to
increase their clarity of purpose, growth as a leader, and
performance impact.
By combining a deep curiosity and expertise in organizational
behavior psychology and team dynamics, Massimo cultivates increased
emotional intelligence and agility with the ability to hold
multiple perspectives. His coaching combines assessment, skill
development, deliberate practice, accountability, and
organizational systems thinking to create behavior change that
sticks.
In addition to coaching, he facilitates leadership team experiences
that get to the root cause of dysfunction and empower teams to
chart their path to success. He is a dynamic and powerful speaker
at corporate events for high growth organizations to ignite culture
and drive behavior change. He blends the latest leadership and
behavioral science, talent development strategy to help his clients
achieve lasting business outcomes.
Massimo has coached and consulted across a breadth of companies and
industries, including Cisco, Accenture, Slalom, Salesforce,
Southern California Edison, Sutter Health, Nintendo, and Fox
Entertainment.
He holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and a Masters degree in
Organizational Behavioral Psychology from Claremont Graduate
University. His professional coaching education is through The
Co-Active Training Institute. He holds certifications and
credentials in DISC, MBTI, Hogan Assessment, Korn Ferry Architect,
Co-Active Coaching Certification, ORSC (Organization and
Relationship Systems Coaching) Certification (in progress), and is
a Hoffman Process Graduate.
Massimo is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and loves to tell
life’s great stories. These days he finds creative inspiration in
his roles as father and husband.
Find out more:
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