SDLR Coaching & Consulting
Most companies lose their best leaders to a slow accumulation of pressure, unclear expectations, and the absence of any dedicated support for their own growth.
I work with organizations to coach their managers at one or more layers of leadership. The work is 1:1 and group, confidential, and built around what each leader is actually facing in their role.
They deliver. They adapt. They don't complain. That's exactly why they're the last people a company worries about...until the day they burn out or leave.
The pattern is consistent across industries and company sizes. And it's almost always preventable.
01. Leaders are solving problems their teams should own. When something breaks, they step in and fix it instead of asking where the breakdown started
02. Teams are not making decisions. The manager is the bottleneck, and everyone below them knows it.
03. There is no shared framework for accountability. Who owns what is unclear at every level, and recurring problems consume most of a leader's day.
04. Leaders have little visibility into their own development gaps. They know what good looks like for their teams but have never turned that question on themselves.
05. Some leaders feel their potential goes unrecognized but have never directly asked for support. So nothing changes.
Individual sessions focused on leadership communication, team dynamics, decision-making, and the personal patterns that get in the way. Fully confidential.
Monthly sessions with peer leaders to build shared language, reinforce accountability across the team, and strengthen how they lead together.
Regular check-ins with the senior leader who brought me in. Aggregated themes only. Individual content stays confidential. You gain visibility without breaking trust.
Direct access for brief check-ins between sessions. When something comes up that can't wait for the next call, there's a line to reach me.
I'm selective about the engagements I take on. A short call is the fastest way to find out if this is a good fit for your organization.
Before coaching anyone, I held senior operations and strategy roles across the U.S. and Europe, including at Amazon, where I managed large-scale distributed teams and programs across four countries.
I understand the pressure your leaders are under because I have been under it. I also went through burnout three times in my corporate career. I know what it looks like from the inside, what it costs the person and the organization, and what actually helps.
That combination — operational experience at scale plus coaching training — means I can sit with a senior manager and understand their environment without needing it explained.
15+ years · Amazon · Fortune 500 · Teams of 200+ across multiple countries
Certified Coach · Certified Project Manager · Six Sigma Green Belt
BSc Industrial & Systems Engineering, Magna Cum Laude — University of Florida
English · Spanish · Portuguese
Based in Lisbon · Clients in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America
The following is a current engagement with a Miami-based company serving Fortune 500 clients across the U.S. Client name is withheld. The details are shared to illustrate what this work looks like at scale, in a real operating environment.
Leaders coached across the organization
Organizational layers in one engagement
People under the project sponsor
People in the organization
Phased engagement with midpoint review
A senior director brought me in after identifying that the leadership team, while operationally capable, lacked a shared framework for communication, accountability, and customer ownership. There was no internal resource for leaders to develop in those areas.
The engagement was designed in two phases, each two months long, with a pause aligned to the company's peak selling season. Leadership development happened in parallel with business execution, not against it.
Coaching covers the National Director, four Regional Managers, ten District Managers, and two additional leaders. All 1:1 sessions are confidential. Group sessions with the Regional Managers run monthly.
When leaders stop being the default answer to every problem, their teams start making decisions. That frees the manager to do actual leadership work.
A senior manager costs 1.5 to 2x their annual salary to replace. Coaching addresses the root cause before the resignation letter arrives.
Leaders who communicate clearly and own their decisions show up differently with customers. That consistency builds over time, not in a one-day session.
In organizations where traditional incentives are limited, coaching signals something a bonus cannot: that the company believes in this person.
Aggregated theme reporting gives the senior sponsor insight into what is actually happening across the leadership team...patterns that never show up in a performance review.
The goal is to give leaders a new way of thinking that they carry into every conversation after this engagement ends. Not to keep them coming back.
CORPORATE PARTICIPANT · ONGOING ENGAGEMENT · U.S.-BASED COMP
A 30-minute call is enough to know if this is the right fit. No commitment on either side.
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