Giacomo graduated in Law in 1990 with a specialization in International Law. Currently he is Global Head of Human Resources, at Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A. Italy.

Previously he had been a member of the Senior Executive Team at Grünenthal, as Senior Vice President Human Resources, as well as Legal Director and member of the Board at Grünenthal Southern Europe. With over 25 years of demonstrable experience, he has been developing full Human Resources expertise playing the role as key business partner within the senior management team, and managing and developing team of professionals, motivating and inspiring them through positive and exciting on-going professional challenges.

He is continuously looking for the proactively chance to influence changes and to contribute visibly in a supportive and positive way to the company success.

I have  grown as corporate executive for over 25 years in the pharmaceutical industry within the Human Resources and Legal functions.

On a private note, I have been undertaking a long journey (more than 15 years) of psychotherapy, both as per the early Jungian approach and the more recent neuroscience psychology.

What above has brought me to strongly believe that a systemic-psychodynamic approach to coaching is what most makes sense to me.

I believe in the power of self-reflection and of the subsequent enlargement of our self-awareness, and because of that I do believe in the possibility to change, and I experienced it myself. This  is what I bring with me.

As a coach I do not position myself as the knowledge owner, I position myself as a very “empathic tool” for my coachees, being there with them to offer a mirroring space, being there with them to offer a new perspective, possibly asking the right question at the right point in time, being there with them to help navigate and to help finding the right answers at the given point in time.

Before Tavistock Program on “Coaching for Leadership and Professional Development”, I had attended a program named “Coaching Academy” lead by Massimiliano Saccarelli, B-Motion, and I got a further exposure to the matter during an executive leadership development program I attended at INSEAD.

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Along my professional career I have also experienced being myself a coachee under the lead of very well qualified coaches.

With all my coachees, though very different one from the other, I would experience the immense beauty of the creation of a very deep professional relationship.

I would feel my coachees well contained very early on and I would keep a very open and trustworthy learning attitude, with rather stable boundaries in place.

Being with my coachees, living, deep in my brain and in my heart, the relation with them as a unique time of dedicated undivided attention and as a true joint exploration would prove to be very powerful and very rewarding.

I strongly believe in the power of the relation between coach and coachee.

Therefore the coaching situations I can relate to the most are individual coaching situations where people are at a corporate level, but not only, are facing the huge dilemma of going for a change, and they are struggling with their decision making process.

Moreover I can fully relate to all those situations were individual are lacking self-esteem, and are doubtful about their value, and need to be helped to get back to a clearer picture of where they stand, what's the value they bring.

Eventually all the situations of interpersonal issues, where people cannot stand others and tend to demonize them. There I feel I can help to bring in constructive new perspectives and ways-forward, leveraging on my empathy and my emotional intelligence.

In first place I bring at the coaching encounter my full self, all my history, all my expertise and experience, all my mind and all my hearth.

• At every session I welcome my coachee with a very containing smile and end the session again with a containing smile.
• I build a trustworthy relation, listening very carefully and refraining to go to any fast conclusion.
• I accompany my coachees with undivided attention and full empathy, living every coaching session as very unique experience which deserves my complete respect and care.
• I play my role as a big antenna trying to help my coachees to see what is hidden, to bring to the consciousness what is dysfunctional unconscious. 
• I also try to help my coachees to remind they are part of a system, and that the need of an investigation and understanding around the system represents a major necessary step to go for change.

For a proper systemic-psychodynamic coaching engagement I believe in a program which can last at least 6 months, but I would easily see the likelihood to go for a prolongation up to 12-18 months in order to achieve a sustainable a significant change.

I have experienced the importance of longer term relationships myself and I believe that too short assignments are rather limited in their impact.

Without going into any over-dependant relationship I would sponsor longer coaching relationship rather than shorter.

And with a longer relationship I would definitely work for a proper involvement of other major stakeholders (i.e. peers, direct reports, line managers, etc..) to avoid to be stuck in a too self-centred narcissistic contemplation between coach and coachee, and to offer the opportunity to validate interpretations and assumptions thanks to third parties inputs and views.

Languages

• English
• Italian

 Region

• Milan, Italy
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