Executive Coaching and Leadership Development for Professionals and Teams Navigating Complexity, Leading Through Change, or Making Important Transitions

Improve Your Thinking. Expand What's Possible.

With continual change as the new normal, expertise and hard work are no longer a guarantee of success. The ability to adapt to shifting dynamics and uncertainty with intention, rather than to react, has now become a critical skill. Coaching creates the space to step out of immediate demands and patterns to gain the perspective and strategies that lead to better outcomes.

Clients typically work in high-pressure environments and value a thought partner who can quickly understand their complex professional dynamics. Whether pursuing an ambitious goal, recognizing a necessary mindset shift, or facing an important decision or transition, coaching is a way for clients to bring their best thinking and purposeful action to a moment that matters.

Tailored Coaching and Consulting Solutions

Nothing pre-packaged or off-the-shelf.

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Leadership Coaching

Three to six month engagements supporting professionals taking on increased responsibility and visibility, pursuing an ambitious goal, or navigating a complicated challenge or conflict

For over twenty-five years, Gianna has been a trusted advisor and coach to clients during times of significant opportunity or challenge. Her early career was spent as an employment attorney and mediator working on high-stakes legal disputes. Most recently, Gianna was as an executive and leadership coach in an AmLaw 50 firm, where she had the privilege of working with talented and ambitious attorneys at all stages of their careers.

Gianna's coaching approach is solution-focused, grounded in neuroscience, and focused on helping clients more effectively influence themselves (self-leadership) and others in a positive way.

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Gianna Karapelou, Principal

Training and credentials

Coaching: NeuroLeadership Institute Brain-Based Coaching Certification • Systemic Team Coaching Certification (AOeC) • Mindfulness Coaching School • Hogan Certified | Conflict Resolution and Negotiation: EEOC Trained Mediator • Cornell Advanced Mediation Skills • Black Swan/NSTD Negotiation Training | Education: JD, Villanova University School of Law

"Gianna – Thank you for the role you played during such an important career transition. Your experience and nuanced understanding of C-suite dynamics enabled you to be a genuine thought partner...helping cut through complexity to focus on what would truly move the needle for me in terms of personal and professional fulfillment at this stage in my career. I appreciated not only your insight, but also the consistency and
confidence you brought to each step along the way."

C-Suite Executive, Fortune 200 Company

Interested in working together?

Please send an email to schedule a conversation:

info@karapeloustrategies.com