Giovanna Manto

COACH

Giovanna is a leadership coach and a facilitator for transformation with extensive international experience and a profound understanding of business systems’ dynamics.

For more than a decade, she has been supporting high-impact decision makers in adapting their natural leadership styles to thrive in their quest for success and fulfilment in ever more complex business environments. Consistently Giovanna’s clients are able to attain their coaching goals and find renewed motivation in a trusted and thought-provoking space.

With a background in industrial engineering, Giovanna has worked for years in various roles for multinational corporations, fully grasping the potential hurdles and hidden driving forces that may get in the way in volatile, uncertain and ambivalent organisational contexts.  

Giovanna earned with distinction a master in Clinical Psychology for Organisations at INSEAD and the Professional Coaching Certifications with the International Coaches Federation and the Co-active Training Institute. She holds several assessment practitioner’s accreditations, such as the Leadership Circle 360-feedback, the Hogan assessment, the Scrum Agile coaching and the DISC.

To complement and deepen her coaching skills, she has expanded her edges with purposeful and innovative work, certifying as vinyasa yoga instructor, and breathwork and meditation practitioner.

With unflagging curiosity and determined motivation to facilitate the expression of untapped potential, she has proficiently accrued an impressive experience with executives and their teams in a large variety of industries and geographies, holding their developmental space with unconditional regard, mindful presence, and client-centered growth.

Italian by origin, she now lives in Amsterdam with her family, after a number of relocations in the UK, US, and throughout Europe. She works in English, Italian and French.

Qualifications

2022 International Coach Federation (ICF), working on the Master Coach Certification (2500+ hrs.)

2021                 Internal Family System, Certified IFS Coach                                                              

2019                 Gita Bellin & Associates, Advanced Retreat for Personal Transformation                               

2018                 Aberkyn, Accredited Facilitator for Transformation                                               

2018                 Scrum Alliance, Certified Agile Coach                                                                                

Since 2018        Hogan Assessment, Certified Practitioner                                                                            

Since 2017        International Coach Federation (ICF), Professional Certified Coach                                                              

Since 2016        INSEAD, Executive Master in Clinical Psychology with Distinction                                      

Since 2016        The Leadership Circle 360 / Culture Survey, Certified Practitioner                                                  

Since 2013        Co-Active Training Institute (CTI), Co-active Certified Coach Leadership Facilitation   

Testimonials

'“I have worked with Giovanna on several occasions. She is a highly skilled and very motivational coach and great fun to work with. In my experience Giovanna is the kind of coach that can help to bring out the best in people.”

“I've had the privilege of meeting with Giovanna in 2018 and enjoying her well experienced coaching support. This was an enlightening, inspiring but also friendly and genuine journey for me. I am grateful to Giovanna for being a partner in my walk and lighting my way in a short time.”