Maria Pastorelli - Executive and Team Coach
Bio
Maria is an experienced executive and team coach, cross-cultural facilitator, and keynote speaker based in Shanghai, China, for the past 15 years. As the founder of Bridge Consulting and co-founder of Global Impact Teams, she is dedicated to helping international leaders and teams find new ways to work better together in globally distributed environments to improve both performance and engagement. She has partnered with Fortune 500 companies in various sectors (manufacturing, automotive, beauty, Chemical, Retail, telecommunications) to strengthen cross-cultural leadership, remote team collaboration, change management, and more. She is fluent in Italian, English, and Chinese, and has been a speaker for TEDxNYU Shanghai on the importance of conversations to deal with differences in business. She also passionately advocates for women by leading the Global Women Entrepreneurs Network community and supporting local initiatives like Mentor Walks Shanghai.
Experience
Highlights: -15 years in China
- Founder and Director, Bridge Consulting Co-founder and Partner, Global Impact Teams
- Cross-cultural Communication Degree
- ICF PCC, ODCP
- TEDx Speaker
- Founder of Global Women Entrepreneurs Network (2018)
Experience:
Founder and Managing Director at Bridge Consulting
- Executive and leadership coaching for senior leaders
- Cross-cultural leadership training and facilitation for multinational companies in China, APAC and Europe
- Customized leadership development facilitation and advisory Strategic leadership, stakeholder management, resilience, conflict management facilitation
Co-founder and Managing Partner at Global Impact Teams
- Team coaching, alignment and development for global remote/hybrid teams - with the support of proprietary psychometric diagnostic assessment (Team IMPACT Model)
- Leadership team / Management committee alignment facilitation session
Examples of past work:
- Master trainer and coach for APAC Leadership Development program (Automotive industry)
- Strategic Team coaching for the world's largest cosmetics company Team coaching for leadership teams / Managing Committees (Manufacturing industry)
- Cross-cultural communication and collaboration coaching sessions for Senior Leaders, Directors and Senior Managers in diverse sectors (Higher Education, Chemical, Retail etc.)
- Leading global remote teams facilitation for a Fortune 10 technology company
- Lecturer for MBA programs from ECNU and Emlyon Business School
- 600+ executive and team coaching hours
Qualifications
- Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential - International Coaching Federation (ICF)
- Systemic Team Coaching Certificate - Academy of Executive Coaching
- Organization Development Certified Professional (ODCP) - Institute of Organizational Development
- Cross-cultural Communication Degree - Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
- Certified Facilitator, Silver Tier - #IAmRemarkable (Google Initiative)