Margo McClimans

Margo C. McClimans is a leadership development coach with experience building and delivering programs for executives and business students. She has coached all levels of management, from CEOs to first-time managers both in Italian and English.

Coaching Style

Her coaching style is extremely supportive and at the same time intense. Common remarks from her clients are that she makes one feel very comfortable opening up and that her questions are thought-provoking. Her experience living and working in the US, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, UK, Thailand and Italy have also contributed to her acute cultural sensitivity, which makes her coaching style very accessible and language very comprehensible to clients from any nationality.

Areas of Specialisation

She specialises in one on one coaching for leadership development. She also designs and delivers customised leadership and management training to groups in the topics of trust building, active listening, intercultural training, communication, feedback, conflict management, and persuasion among others. She uses indicators like 360-degree feedback, Kouzes-Posner SLPI, VIA strengths test, and MBTI.

Client Organisations

She provides coaching and leadership training around the world for managers at Siemens AG. She has also done individual coaching for employees of Agusta Westland, Telekom Slovenija, Cardinal Health, and others. She co-developed and coached for the Leadership Development program at CIMBA Consortium International (MBA) in Italy through the University of Kansas.

Career Background

Her own professional background is entrepreneurial; she founded International Stone Consultancy, a natural stone brokerage and consulting company that facilitates exportation from Italy to Europe, Middle East and North America. Previously she worked as Purchasing Manager for a stone importer in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been in the stone business for nearly ten years and continues consulting in this field.

Qualifications and Training

Margo holds a BA with honours in International Relations from Franklin College Switzerland, an MBA from the University of Kansas’ CIMBA program and is a Certified Professional Co-active Coach with training through CTI. She is also a Six Sigma Green belt, has Kepner-Tregoe project management certification, and also has expertise in the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) tool. She is American born and also holds an Italian passport.