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Loretta L. Stagnitto, CCUCG

Executive Coach & Leadership Consultant

Loretta’s Executive Coaching and Leadership Development approaches enable Senior-Level Leaders & Teams to re-assess their Strengths, Vulnerabilities, and Capacity for Change in order to create New Futures of Possibility and Enhanced Leadership.

She helps build a new awareness of how to more effectively inspire, operate, and inter-relate in organizations.  From assessment and aspiration to action and achievement, Loretta’s clients build stronger relationships and drive changes that create better business value for their people and organizations.

Loretta has worked with hundreds of leaders who are in and on their way to the C-suite, serving first and foremost as a trusted advisor to provide objective and knowledgeable feedback and new ways of working. Challenges and opportunities faced by her clients include transitioning from one level of leadership scope to another; leading in dynamic, highly matrix, and culturally engrained structures; influencing without authority; prioritizing workloads and customer/employee satisfaction in under-resourced environments; dealing with difficult people; building high-performing teams; and inspiring and leading transformational change.

 

  • As an outcome of the 2020 pandemic, Loretta has developed an expertise in the causes and remedies for anxiety and burnout in the workplace and helps leaders develop strategies and programs for building resilience. Having worked extensively in the healthcare, technology, finance, higher-education philanthropy, and biotech industries, she has delivered leadership coaching to professionals and teams in large corporate and start-up environments alike. 

 

  • Prior to becoming an Executive Coach, Loretta spent more than 20 years leading public and investor relations, marketing communications, and customer acquisition functions for start-ups, turnaround, and large corporate environments in Silicon Valley.  As a VP of Marketing in the early years of the Internet, she orchestrated multi-million-dollar marketing and brand development campaigns for object-oriented application development, voice-over-Internet (VOIP), and online photo-sharing companies that fundamentally changed the way consumers and businesses use technology. 

 

  • Loretta is certified as a professional coach from Corporate Coach University/Coach U and has completed several years of leadership training at the Institute for Generative Leadership.  She is accredited with the International Association of Coaches, Therapists and Mentors (IACTM) and certified in a variety of academic-based psychometric tools and organizationally oriented behavioral assessment programs.  She holds a B.A. in Journalism and Public Relations from San Jose State University. 

 

  • A strong advocate for women’s leadership, Loretta serves as a Guide for several Core groups in CHIEF, a nationwide organization dedicated to advancing and keeping women in the C-Suite.  She also serves on the leadership council of Rise Up a global non-profit dedicated to promoting education, gender equality, and reproductive rights for women and girls in 13 countries including the US.  She has raised two amazing adult children with her husband in the northern California bay area.  Loretta’s hobbies include biking, rowing, Pilates, walking, decorating, philanthropy, and connecting with family and friends. 
What We Believe

Loretta’s coaching philosophy is simple.

All great leaders and teams “Know Themselves.” They are highly aware of their talents, skills, and what they don’t do so well. They act on what they know. And they have an ongoing drive to learn, to change, to challenge, and to achieve.

By applying The “I Know” System™, leaders who work with Loretta Stagnitto Leadership Associates develop effective interpersonal and communications skills. They recognize and engage in purposeful behaviors and effective management practices. They identify and learn new competencies. They coach and develop others. And they create positive organizations and team dynamics that produce high value.

Who We Work With

Loretta works with individuals up and down the corporate ladder, from C-suite Executives to High-Potential Senior Managers. She supports Newly Formed, Intact, and Cross-Functional Teams.

Over the past 10 years, Loretta has delivered executive and leadership coaching/training programs to individuals and teams at Kaiser Permanente, Cisco Systems, Bank of America, LifeLock/Symantec, and Yahoo! Inc. Loretta is also an executive leadership consultant with Corporate Edge, Inc., a San Francisco-based leadership consulting firm that offers executive advisory services to prominent corporations and their senior leaders.

Why We Are Qualified

A former Silicon Valley Marketing executive, Loretta has more than 20 years of management and leadership experience in start-up, turnaround, and large corporate environments. She has orchestrated multi-million dollar marketing and brand development campaigns for products and services that fundamentally changed the way consumers and businesses use technology. In the late 1990’s, during the height of the new Internet economy, Loretta served as VP of Marketing & Customer Acquisition for PhotoPoint.com, Multitude.com, and FireTalk.com. In the early 1990’s she was the Director of Corporate Marketing at Taligent, the historic joint venture between IBM Corp & Apple Computer, and developer of one of the first object-oriented computer operating systems.

Prior to that, she was head of Marketing at Digital Research, creator of the first computer graphical user interface. From 1986 until 1989 she was the Director of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations for popular video game maker, Activision. Loretta started her career producing television commercials for Las Vegas casino hotels and Nevada politicians, and then spent 10 years in Public Relations running cause-related marketing programs for Post Cereals and brand-development campaigns for newly created technology companies like Dell Computer and Verbatim “floppy disks”.

Loretta received her CCUCG certification through Corporate Coach U (a division of Coach U, Inc.) in January 2004, and has studied leadership and business management at the Institute for Generative Leadership in Colorado since 2000. She is certified in several psychometric tools and skill development assessments and is creator of The “I Know” System™ for Individual and Team Leadership Development. Loretta graduated from San Jose State University with a B.A. in Journalism and Public Relations, and has taken continuing education courses at Santa Clara and Stanford Universities. She is currently applying for Academy Diplomate Status in Professional Coaching through the International Academy of Behavioral Medicine, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Inc.

How Else We Contribute

A passionate volunteer and community leader, Loretta currently serves on the Leadership Council for Rise Up a global non-profit that advances health, education, and equity for girls, youth, and women and has advocated for over 100 laws and policies, impacting 115 million people. Loretta has also served on the program committee for the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association; as a LEAD program mentor for WOMEN Unlimited; as a Grade Level Advisor (GLAD) for the Heritage Oaks Chapter of the National Charity League; as marketing and communications coordinator for the Yes on Measure E Los Gatos Parcel Tax Campaign; and as a board trustee for the Hillbrook School in Los Gatos.

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Loretta L. Stagnitto, CCUCG is the Creator of the “I Know” System™ for Personal and Team Leadership Development, a unique coaching methodology she developed after years of interpreting how good managers become great leaders and how productive teams evolve into high-performing ones. WELCOME TO LORETTA STAGNITTO LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATES