Lina Vitolo
Executive Coach
& Advisor
Thriving into meaningful change as a manager.
My Mission
Passionate about human development, my mission is to inspire and develop professional communities to embrace sustainable leadership models and cultivate positive working cultures.
Who I’m Serving
As an Executive Coach and Positive Psychology Practitioner, I work with Executives, Managers and Talents who are willing to challenge themselves on a transformational path, want to thrive in their life and have a strong desire to scale their positive impact.
I am committed to support my clients to uncover authentic selves underneath the surface, enhance strengths, overcome limiting beliefs, and embrace new opportunities. I enable leaders to build innovative, effective, and collaborative working models by encouraging commitment, creativity, and intuition.
What is Coaching?
When meeting new people or practicing as a coach, I often get the question of what coaching is. In my view coaching is a partnership between equals where coachees are accompanied to learn, evolve and thrive into meaningful changes, by tapping into their own resources and sharpening the most precious tool that they have: themselves.
Through listening and questioning the coach uncovers the authentic and inspirational goals of the coachees, unveils core values and beliefs and works with coachees to spot and remove blocks and fears that are holding them back.
As a result of a coaching journey you will enhance clear thinking, presence and awareness, become able to drive generative conversations, develop new opportunities and desired outcomes, gain more clarity on goals, foster decision making, increase in motivation, accountability and action.
You will become overall more resilient and satisfied in your professional and personal life.
“Lina was hired by our law firm to co-create with us a healthier work environment. She was absolutely striking when facilitating our conversations. I think that this is mainly due to her high degree of emphatic skills to understand everybody’s perspective, needs and expectations. Further, this is mixed with excellent communication capabilities.
What distinguishes her as a coach is that she doesn’t act as a problem-solver but rather as someone who guides you to identify the problem and find your own solution.”
Francesca S. 🇮🇹 Partner of a law firm
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Why Partner With Me?
First and Foremost: I’ve Been There!
As a manager and director for several years in multinational companies with diversified working cultures, I experienced the complexity of the corporate world and the struggles of the executive role.
Recruiting, leading and motivating people in a multigenerational context, managing a budget, dealing with last minute emergencies and crises, building solid and collaborative relationships with peers, delivering high standard performances, meeting challenging deadlines, gaining trust, and proving your value to your Board.
Combined with personal duties, all of this may feel daunting, deplete your energy, and lower your motivation. Your view lacks clarity, you are swallowed by the flow, and you risk losing your true self into the autopilot mode and keep on languishing.
Instead, you can flourish and thrive by partnering with me, as I have gone through your same struggles in different sectors and diversified cultures and combine my practice and competence as a qualified Executive Coach with a 20-years career in the corporate world.
My Approach to Coaching
I believe that every human being is resourceful and can achieve full potential, bring value and thrive
Through challenging questioning and without judgment, I create a thinking environment and generative conversations with my clients guiding them to discover what lies beneath the surface and explore new opportunities
My coaching practice is grounded on deep, authentic and compassionate listening
I am passionate about human development and strive to bring harmony in my clients’ life through a lasting change to increase their overall satisfaction
My coaching conversations equip clients with tools they can later use in autonomy to achieve valuable goals
My approach to coaching is science-based on Positive Psychology and Cognitive Behaviour theories
My practice is focus on “moving toward” a positive change (rather that “moving away from” problems) at the same time paying attention to limiting beliefs and other obstacles that get in the way
Professional Experience
Founder | Executive Coach and Advisor, The Thriving Project (Italy 🇮🇹, France 🇫🇷)
Board Member and Vice-Chair, ABC (Sweden 🇸🇪)
General Counsel and Data Protection Officer, Iliad (Italy 🇮🇹)
Antitrust and Compliance Manager, Danone (France 🇫🇷)
General Counsel Italy, Spain & Portugal, UPS Europe (Belgium 🇧🇪)
Associate Lawyer, Clifford Chance, DLA Piper, Bonelli Erede and Legance (Italy 🇮🇹, Belgium 🇧🇪)
“What always strikes me in Lina is how she combines a strategic and big picture mind with the outcome orientation and a practical approach. She can draw from her incredible business experience and her business acumen, bringing fresh insights.
I would wholeheartedly recommend Lina to anyone who wishes to create more adaptive organizations.”
Alessandra M. 🇨🇭 Executive Coach
My Background
Before becoming an Executive Coach and Positive Psychology Practitioner, I spent almost 20 years in the legal sector, in top tier international law-firms (such as Clifford Chance and DLA Piper) and multinational companies (such as Danone and United Parcel Services) in France, Belgium, and Italy. Lately in my legal career, I experienced the struggle of balancing the relational and collaborative dimension of the working culture, from one side, and the achievement of sound business performances, from the other side.
My Path to Becoming an Executive Coach
In my last executive role as a General Counsel of a maverick telecommunication group in Italy (Iliad), I was confronted with a rapid business growth from a start-up level to a 10% of market share (and close to 1Bn€ revenues) in a highly regulated sector. I was challenged to rapidly build from scratch a solid and trustful legal team for the group.
How could I maintain high standard performances and timely delivery, as required by a fast-growing business, and at the same time foster collaboration, effectiveness, synergies, and motivation towards common goals?
The embracement of an authentic and courageous leadership style enabled me to transform my-self, impact my team and my organization, and foster a positive and collaborative working culture. Generative and trustful conversations in a safe thinking environment are the foundations of my leadership.
From there a journey started towards a meaningful change in my career. How could I leverage my learnings and experience to serve corporate environments for a greater good?
Through Executive Coaching and Leadership Development programs, I inspire and develop professional communities to embrace sustainable leadership models and cultivate positive working cultures.
Education and Qualification
Executive Coach (Meyler Campbell), EMCC Accredited
Positive Psychology Practitioner (School of Positive Transformation)
Executive Program for Board members (ValoreD)
PON Negotiation Program (Harvard Law School)
Phd Corporate Law (Bocconi University)
LLM Competition Law (King's College)
BA and PG Master in Business Law (LUISS, Sole24ore BS)
Languages
Italian, English and French.
