Maria is an enthusiastic and passionate coach, facilitator, writer and speaker dedicated to empowering people to do their best work by supporting them in focusing on their strengths and acquiring new skills. She has been in the coaching and training industry working with individuals and organizations in China and Europe since 2011.

With a cross-cultural communication background, she has helped teams and organizations improve their soft skills across cultures: presenting, negotiating, influencing, leading, writing, and communicating with peers and clients from diverse backgrounds. Her strength is creating and delivering customized, engaging and effective group and individual training and coaching programs to help business owners, teams and professionals by clarifying their priorities and focusing on doing the right things.

Maria is a community leader: in 2018 she founded the Global Women Entrepreneur Network (G.W.E.N.), a learning and sharing community focused on helping women entrepreneurs improving their personal and business skills, and from 2019 to 2021 she co-founded and lead Monday Morning Motivation, a community for everyone who wants to develop healthy, meaningful and sustainable habits.

Maria has a degree in Cross-Cultural Communication and works in English, Italian and Chinese. Originally from Italy, she has lived in China since 2010 and has extensive experience in:

• designing and leading communication skills, leadership, and team management trainings for individuals, teams, and organizations (online and in-person) in English and Chinese

• Coaching individuals and teams on cross-cultural awareness and communication challenges in global working environments

• Managing small and medium intercultural teams on global L&D / OD projects in APAC

• Coordinating and managing psychometrics assessment platform projects

Accreditations

• ICF Certified Coach – on track to submit for ACC

• NLP Practitioner

• Chinese Language Certificate HSK 5

Why did you wait before, and why are you not waiting anymore?

If I don’t move forward, nobody will do it for me