Meet Ghita
My background living and working as an expat in fast-paced competitive business environments from Paris to Milan to New York City enabled me to experience first-hand the myth that we get more success and fulfillment simply by moving faster. Guess what? It’s not true.
What I know to be true is this:
High performers create their success thanks to connection, support and being seen. Having these elements requires slowing down and uncovering who you truly are.
My mission is to support global business executives and leadership teams in this reinvention.
Forward motion and taking action to create results is as necessary as slowing down, getting supported and enjoying life. The latter, in fact, leads to unprecedented expansion towards success.
The pause is precisely where you connect to your inner wisdom.
It is where you stop hiding and meet your desires and commit to what you truly care about. It is the access point for increased creativity and resilience, regardless of the conditions. It is where failure and discomfort become things you can breathe through. And it is where you remember you are not here to do any of this alone.
Everything you want is right here in front of you, and it’s closer than you think.
To Your Success,
Ghita
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness… I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it!”
― William Hutchison Murray
How I Work
The Land + Expand Cycle begins when an individual or team is moving through a transformation. Coaching and consulting engagements support this natural cycle with efficiency, ease, and empowerment.
Land
downward and inward: arriving, grounding, rooting
Landing begins when you arrive at a choice-point – you can either return to what is comfortable and familiar, or venture into new and uncharted possibilities.
A new job • A new career direction • A new physical location • A new expression of a relationship
Inside this phase you are invited to create a foundation, to root firmly into new intentions and to choose where you want to go next.
Through my coaching, I support clients in seeing where they are and how they are relating to their circumstances, making peace with the past, and aligning with their purpose and desired future.
Through my consulting, I support the client in assessing the current reality and analyzing gaps to achieve the desired outcome.
Expand
upward and outward: rising, growing, connecting
Expansion is about movement, taking action and growth. In this phase, the individual or team grows into new ways of being and doing.
What you’re capable of • Your network and relationships • How you create success • How much you enjoy life • How you relate to others • Your leadership presence
I support my clients by helping them step over the edge of their perceived world, to go further than where they’ve gone before. Coaching helps them intentionally choose where they are going, take action consistently in the presence of discomfort and fear, transform their relationship to failure, access the willingness to keep going and celebrate their successes.
Through my consulting, I help clients design plans and implement processes, systems and tools to maximize their performance.
Professional Bio
Ghita Filali is an insightful executive leadership coach with more than 20 years of international experience working with global business executives and leadership teams in complex change and transformational settings.
Her strategic coaching expertise supports C-Suite executives, top level leaders and future principals in helping them to cultivate authentic presence, articulate a vision, lead inclusively, stand out, transition to new leadership roles, drive transformational change and build effective high-performance teams.
Ghita’s integrative cross-cultural coaching and supportive leadership style uniquely blends cultural intelligence and emotional intelligence to ignite behaviors in individuals and organizations which help to break down barriers, catalyze sustainable growth and achieve lasting breakthrough results.
Ghita has worked with global clients and executives from a variety of Fortune 500 companies and international businesses across multiple sectors including Google, Amazon, Meta, IBM, Salesforce, McKinsey, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, PwC, JP Morgan, BNY Mellon, Estée Lauder and L’Oréal amongst others. She provides leadership facilitation at Chief, a US-based private network of over 10,000 senior women leaders, ranked one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2021.
Before stepping into coaching, Ghita spent 15 years in management consulting at Accenture and PwC where she worked at the intersection of strategy, operations and technology to achieve organizational goals. Her key consulting strengths include client-facing program management, relationship cultivation across multiple constituencies and cross-functional team management.
Ghita is a certified professional coach and completed rigorous and transformative coach-specific training at Accomplishment Coaching, including the intensive leadership development program. She holds an MSc in Management from ESSEC Business School in France and is fluent in 5 languages.
Born in Fez, Ghita resides in New York and is an avid explorer of cultures having lived and worked in 5 continents.
Ghita envisions a world where leaders land deeply in their truest essence and rise to greater levels of excellence to create lasting impact in an ever-evolving multicultural world.
