Simona Cattabiani

Leadership & Executive Coaching and Facilitation, to Increase Alignment to Purpose and Meaning

Biography

Simona Cattabiani has extensive experience in coaching business executives and leaders and facilitating and training groups at all levels internationally, also collaborating with different international companies on coaching, leadership and mentoring programmes across Europe, USA and Asia. Simona is tri-lingual in English, Portuguese and Italian, with fluent French.

Simona is also a certified trainer and mentor for an ICF accredited certification coaching programme, addressing Individual, Teams and Organisational Coaching and working on the training and certification of new coaches. She is also a facilitator and mentor on a programme for Coaching Skills for HRDs with an international retail group in Paris, New York and Asia. Simona is a Coaching Supervisor and works with coaches in order for them to deepen their own professional development.

Simona works systemically and holistically with the whole person, with their inner and outer worlds, on rational, behavioural and emotional levels, working with leaders in ways that respond to today’s emergent crisis.

Simona loves travelling and reading and has run her own Book Club since 2008. She loves cooking, being in nature and practice Mindfulness & Feldenkrais Method.

Background

Simona worked in the corporate publishing world for over 20 years, first creating and managing a joint venture, then as Publishing Director for a big Portuguese publisher and later founding and managing her own publishing company.

Simona has worked with clients from various sectors (Engineering, IT & Tech, Consulting, Retail & Consumer, Non-profit NGOs, Energy, Agriculture, Travel, Scientific, Medical, Pharma and Publishing, amongst others) and with more than 25 nationalities so far.

Certifications

Education

BA degree in Economics, Politics & French from the University of Kent at Canterbury
BSc First degree in Psychology from a UK university
MA in Psychosynthesis Psychology with a UK university (completing in
2025)

Credentials
PCC, Professional Certified Coach by the ICF (International Coaching Federation)
Diploma in Coaching Supervision from CSA (Coaching Supervision Academy) in London

DISC Certified Professional Behavioural Analyst
Codevelopment Group Facilitator
Diploma in Psychosynthesis Leadership & Organisational Coaching (completing June 2024)
Classic Code & New Code NLP Practitioner trained by John Grinder and Michael Carroll

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