Workplace
Wellness Coaching
Support Your People. Sustain Performance.
Strategic coaching, workshops, and educational programs supporting stress resilience, communication effectiveness, and burnout prevention. Designed for academic and organizational settings.
Based in San Francisco and working globally in English and Italian
Why High Performers Burn Out Despite the Resources
Academic professionals, clinicians, and organizational leaders are highly capable—but capability alone doesn't prevent burnout. The same qualities that drive excellence in demanding roles—high standards, deep commitment, relentless problem-solving—can create unsustainable patterns over time.
When external pressure is constant and boundaries are unclear, stress becomes chronic. Communication suffers under strain. The relationship between professional and personal life becomes difficult to navigate. Employees remain functional and committed, but the cost accumulates quietly.
Common challenges for complex roles
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You keep rising to meet new demands, but the cost is invisible: chronic overfunctioning, difficulty delegating, and a baseline sense that rest has to be “earned.” Efficiency replaces presence. Logic replaces emotion. What looks like success externally often masks unsustainable patterns internally.
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When stress is constant, communication defaults to transactional, defensive, or avoidant modes. Difficult conversations get postponed. Feedback feels threatening. Collaboration suffers. Relationships—with colleagues, direct reports, partners, family—become strained precisely when connection matters most. Employees who excel technically often lack frameworks for communicating effectively when stakes are high or emotions run strong.
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In hybrid, global, and “always available” work cultures, the line between professional obligation and personal life quietly disappears. Work bleeds into evenings, weekends, and vacations, and messages seem to demand a response at all hours. Over time, your role slowly expands until you are holding work that should sit with a team, a system, or another leader. Saying no feels professionally risky, so you keep absorbing more—often at the expense of your health, relationships, and capacity to think clearly.
How Workplace Wellness Coaching Works
A structural approach to sustainable performance.
Workplace Wellness Coaching focuses on how executives and employees manage pressure, communicate under stress, set boundaries, and sustain performance without burnout. My approach is strategic and structural, building systems that prevent breakdown rather than just managing crisis. You’ll leave with frameworks, language, and practices you can return to long after our work together ends. Together, we typically focus on four core areas:
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Rather than generic advice, we map your specific stress profile: how pressure shows up somatically, cognitively, and relationally. We design micro-practices you can integrate into the day (before a board meeting, after a conflict, between context switches), so regulation becomes embedded—not another item on your to-do list.
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We examine how you communicate, negotiate, and hold boundaries in the real dynamics you’re navigating: cross-functional stakeholders, matrixed structures, distributed teams, and high-visibility roles. We identify where you tend to overfunction or under-communicate, and build clear, repeatable patterns for difficult conversations, expectation-setting, and decision-making.
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We clarify what is truly yours to hold and what belongs to the system, the role, or the organization. We translate that clarity into concrete boundaries: how you structure your calendar, how you say no, how you communicate tradeoffs, and how you design handoffs so you’re not the default shock absorber.
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We distinguish between heroic effort and sustainable excellence. We track your energy, attention, and emotional load over time and design rhythms that protect deep work, recovery, and relational presence—so performance is supported by your system, not extracted from it.
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Executive and leadership roles demand more than technical expertise—they require relational intelligence, strategic decision-making under pressure, and the self-awareness to lead effectively without depletion. Through structured, goal-oriented coaching, we strengthen communication skills for high-stakes conversations, develop frameworks for sound decision-making amid competing demands, and build the capacity to provide clear feedback and navigate team conflict. This work enhances professional performance, sharpens self-awareness, and develops the leadership presence needed to achieve strategic goals while sustaining your own and others' well-being.
Coaching & Program Formats
Workplace wellness support is available in three formats, designed to meet the diverse needs of your employees—from individual coaching for personalized work to workshops and comprehensive programs. Tailored for universities, teams, and leaders seeking practical tools without clinical intervention. For individuals residing in California, I also offer licensed psychotherapy for deeper clinical support.
1:1 Individual Coaching
Confidential, personalized support for specific challenges
Individual coaching provides private, one-on-one sessions for employees navigating stress, communication challenges, leadership transitions, or work-life integration. Sessions are structured around the employee's specific needs and goals.
Format: Three to five sessions
Delivery: Secure video conferencing
Sample Topics: Stress management, relational effectiveness, communication skills, boundary-setting, role transitions, leadership challenges
Best for: Employees seeking confidential support for personal growth and skill development
Workshops & Classes
Learning and skill-building in collaborative, group settings
Classes & workshops bring employees together to learn practical skills in a supportive, interactive environment. Each session combines expert guidance, group discussion, exercises, and actionable tools employees can apply immediately.
Format: 60-90 minute live sessions,
Class size: 10-30 participants
Sample topics: “Navigating Conflict with Clarity,” “Managing Emotions and Communication Under Pressure,” “Relational Effectiveness in High-Stress Environments,” “Parenthood and Ambition.”
Best for: Teams, departments, or cohorts building shared skills
Custom
Programs
Multi-week series for sustained development and Continuing Study
Programs are comprehensive, multi-session offerings designed for specific populations within your organization. They combine structured curriculum, peer support, and ongoing skill development over time.
Format: 4-8 week programs with weekly sessions
Delivery: Live online sessions
Sample programs: “Relational Mastery for Professionals (6 weeks)
Best for: Organizations investing in long-term development for specific employee populations
Includes: Structured curriculum, facilitation, participant materials, and optional individual coaching add-ons
Why Work With Me
Hi, I’m Giulia.
I understand the needs and demands of academic and corporate environments because I’ve worked inside them.
Before becoming a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, I spent 15 years in global management consulting, advising Fortune 500 organizations and leaders operating under sustained pressure. I also served as Program Director at Stanford University’s World House Project. I worked closely with faculty, staff, and senior leadership within its complex systems where the work matters, expectations are high, and responsibility is ongoing.
This rare combination shapes how I work. I provide structured coaching and educational programs for people in demanding institutional roles—supporting stress resilience, communication effectiveness, and burnout prevention by building Emotional Wealth: the clarity, self-trust, and relational grounding that make performance sustainable over time.
Emotionally wealthy leaders build thriving organizations and institutions.
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Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #157653 CA - Verify License)
Former Stanford Program Director, World House Project
15 years management consulting experience
The Mycelia Framework
See the Pattern
Map how roles, demands, and pressures interact.
Repattern the System
Create structures that support sustainable functioning.
Build Structure
Design systems that sustain energy and purpose.
Sustain Change
Support long-term performance without burnout.
Your Questions, Answered
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Workplace wellness coaching supports professionals in managing stress, communication challenges, boundaries, and performance under pressure. It focuses on how people function in demanding roles—personally, relationally, and professionally—without clinical treatment.
Marriage therapy goes deeper into attachment wounds, trauma, and mental health concerns. Both are valuable—coaching is for optimization, therapy is for healing. You can learn more about couples therapy and marriage counseling at www.myceliatherapy.com
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Workplace wellness coaching is designed for faculty, clinicians, administrators, executives, and staff in academic, healthcare, and corporate environments. It's for employees who are functional and committed but facing patterns that are no longer sustainable—chronic stress, boundary erosion, communication breakdown, or difficulty managing competing demands. If employees are experiencing significant mental health symptoms or active crisis, therapy may be more appropriate.
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Yes. Executive coaching is available as part of workplace wellness offerings for organizational leaders, senior administrators, department heads, and executives navigating leadership transitions, strategic decision-making, communication challenges, or role complexity. Executive coaching sessions are confidential, goal-oriented, and focused on enhancing leadership capacity, relational effectiveness, and sustainable performance. Organizations can include executive coaching in their wellness programs, professional development budgets, or leadership development initiatives.
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Coaching focuses on present-day challenges, decision-making, communication, and sustainable performance for functioning professionals seeking practical tools. Therapy addresses mental health conditions, trauma, or acute distress. Depending on your context and needs, I offer both forward-focused coaching and licensed psychotherapy for California residents, always aligned to the right scope.
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Custom Programs are multi-week series for sustained development
Programs are comprehensive, multi-session offerings designed for specific populations within your organization. They combine structured curriculum, peer support, and ongoing skill development over time.
Format: 4-8 week programs with weekly sessions
Delivery: Live online sessions (recordings available for enrolled participants)
Sample programs:Managing Emotions Using CBT Skills (5 weeks)
Learn cognitive behavioral therapy principles for managing distress, challenging thought patterns, and navigating difficult emotions. Includes readings, case studies, CBT worksheets, and group exercises.Relational Mastery for Professionals (6 weeks)
Build communication effectiveness, conflict navigation skills, and relational health practices for high-stress environments. Designed for faculty, clinicians, administrators, and staff.Sustainable Performance Without Burnout (4 weeks)
Address stress resilience, boundary-setting, workload management, and capacity-building for employees in demanding roles. -
Yes. Workplace wellness coaching and programs are commonly used by university employees as part of wellness, professional development, or employee support initiatives. Services can be structured to align with institutional programs such as Stanford BeWell.
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Yes. All individual coaching is confidential. Group workshops and programs are designed to respect privacy while offering practical, skills-based learning appropriate for institutional settings.
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The best way to get started is to schedule a free 20-minute consultation. During that call, we'll discuss your situation, clarify whether coaching or therapy is the right fit, and answer any questions you have about working together.
If you prefer to reach out first via email, you can contact me at gpdavis@myceliaconsulting.com. I typically respond within 24-48 hours.
