Beyond Change: Design and Embrace Your New Identity

Fear of the dark is a feeling that we carry with us even as adults. When you are in the dark you feel alone, lost and helpless. It’s in these moments, like when you’re in a dark room, that you need someone to hold your hand and lead you into the light. I found that guide in Serenella, who with a calm and confident voice shook my hand tightly and together we transformed the fear of change into pure positive energy. With her I was able to focus my desires and better frame my qualities and skills. With you we have identified the tools to be able to change my professional trajectory and thus drive away the enormous weight that pressed on my shoulders.

Gianfranco has a marked and uncommon ability to listen, and he knows how to get in tune quickly with his Coachees from the very first meetings. Using the most advanced coaching techniques and a series of support tools, he knows how to stimulate his Coachees to reflect on their own situations and supports them in concretely identifying a series of objectives and the most targeted actions to achieve them. In addition to this, his energy and passion for this profession make every Coaching meeting enjoyable and enriching. In these 6 months in which I have had the opportunity to work with him, I have been able to progress on various professional fronts and acquire a series of methodologies which will also help me at the end of our journey.

I had the pleasure to have Gianfranco as my coach in an intensive and wonderful coaching path. Gianfranco has the rare skill of bringing to the surface your most hidden potential. He brings you into a journey of discovery, recognition, exploration, and awareness. He is very talented in motivating you to critically observe, get new perspectives, find diverse explanations and solutions to issues. He never lets you down and never lets you let yourself down. He does not allow you to easily dismiss complex topics. The easiest exit does not necessarily mean the more sustainable one for you. And he knows it. I was always looking forward to our sessions, entering them with enthusiasm and willingness to challenge myself.

I like to call the guidance experience I had with Serenella such as an awareness trail. The work challenge I tackled a few years ago was to switch from a field of business to a very different one. At that time I got even opposite feelings; from one side a good confidence in myself after many successes and achieved targets at work and on the other side the fear of jumping from the cliff. The guidance work led by Serenella did dramatically supported me to focus on the opportunities – both evident and hidden behind – and to evaluate and balance related threats and benefits. She made me actually a lot of questions, taking out from myself (likewise Socrate taught in the ancient Greece) the answers helping to better understand what I had been seeking after for myself and my future. Yes, in my opinion the key-factor were the questions I was made by Serenella and the answers I gave, leading me to the higher level of self-awareness. After each coaching session I realized in fact that I was really building up my own house, brick after brick. I also figured out that it was happening to me – even in good faith – to underestimate the risks relevant to my job’s or carreer’s change. So I learned how to do that step and how to gain even more than what I initially expected. I would definitely recommend it and experience once more.