Executive coaching
— Rigorous, confidential, calibrated
to the leader you are becominG.
You've outgrown the version of yourself that got you here. That's not a problem. That's the work.
Most leaders at your level aren't struggling because they lack skills. They're struggling because they've hit something that skills don't reach.
The decision you keep not making. The conversation that always gets deferred. The version of you that shows up when the pressure is real, that you'd rather nobody saw — including you.
This is where coaching at Total Leadership begins.
Not all coaching is the same
Generic coaching works on behaviours. It asks what you're doing and helps you do it differently. For a certain level of leader, at a certain point in their development, that's exactly right.
But you may have already done that work.
What Daniele Perchiazzi has built over fourteen years is something more demanding.
Coaching that starts with diagnostic precision, holds you fully accountable to your own standards, and never mistakes warmth for honesty.
If you want to feel better, there are cheaper ways to do that. If you want to lead better — the kind of better that lasts and compounds — this is that conversation.
Who this is for
You're a senior leader. You carry real weight — decisions that affect people, organisations, reputations. You perform at a high level. Most of the time.
And there's a ceiling you haven't been able to name yet.
Over fourteen years and more than 1,700 coaching hours across four continents and twenty countries, Daniele has worked with:
CEOs, founders, and managing directors
Chiefs of Staff to senior executives in major global organisations
Vice Presidents and Senior Vice Presidents
Transformation directors leading large-scale change
Regional and divisional leaders managing across cultures
Finance directors and CFOs
Chief Technology Officers moving from technical expert to strategic leader
Sectors: luxury, hospitality, aerospace, defence, financial services, pharmaceuticals, technology, public sector.
All engagements operate under strict NDA. No names, no logos, no exceptions.
How coaching works
Most engagements begin with the LLPA — Daniele's proprietary vertical leadership assessment. It surfaces the interior qualities shaping how you perceive, decide, and act under pressure. Not what you do. How you're constituted underneath what you do.
From there, everything is calibrated to you. There is no template. There is no fixed curriculum.
Some leaders need help thinking more clearly. Some need to be challenged where they've stopped challenging themselves. Many need both, at different points in the same engagement.
Sessions are rigorous without being punishing. Calm without being soft. Reflective without losing sight of the decisions actually waiting on your desk.
What you can expect: honest counsel, not validation. Insight grounded in evidence, not personality cliché. A space where complexity can be thought through without performance.
Credentials
ICF Associate Certified Coach
EMCC Senior Practitioner
Certified Solutions Focused Coach
Trained in somatic coaching
Licensed NLP Trainer under Richard Bandler. Certified administrator of Hogan, MBTI, DiSC, LDP, Spotlight, and REACH Ecosystem.
Creator of the LLPA.
These credentials answer the question procurement teams ask first. The coaching itself answers what comes next.
Focus areas
Leadership transition and identity work
Strategic decision-making under uncertainty
Cross-cultural leadership and matrix structures
Executive presence and communication
Delegation, trust, and releasing operational control
Conflict management and difficult conversations'
Performance, goal-setting, and accountability
Emotional sovereignty and regulation under pressure
Working through limiting beliefs and self-imposed ceilings
Formats
One-to-one coaching, in person or virtual
Most engagements run as eight sessions of sixty minutes, fortnightly, with practical experiments between sessions
Group coaching for senior leadership teams
Possible in multiple languages, including English and Italian
What happens next
A confidential exploratory conversation. No obligation. No pitch. The conversation determines whether there's a genuine fit before either party commits.
