Rose: The Person and the Approach

Catalyst for Leadership Excellence and Organizational Transformation

Over 30 Years of Corporate Success and International Impact: Empowering Leaders, Driving Change

Rose is a leadership advisor, executive coach, board director, investor and entrepreneur with over 30 years of success in the corporate world. In addition to working for organizations such as American Express and UNICEF, she co-founded and served for many years as COO of Scharper, a European pharmaceuticals company, which she successfully sold in 2011. Today, she advises, coaches and trains C-Level leaders and their teams on how to stay at peak performance and grow in times of rapidly accelerating change.

Core Characteristics

Extensive Business Experience :

The heart of Rose’s ability to bring distinctive value to clients is her ability to combine expertise in managing critical and strategic business issues with skills in bringing about personal and organizational transformation. Rose believes that in order to transform performance, leaders have to be equally fluid between long term critical thinking, geared to create a robust future, and deep diving into the present in order to optimize results today.

Expert in Leadership Development :

Rose has helped hundreds of senior level leaders and their teams up their leadership skills and stay relevant and ahead of the curve in a world of accelerated change and complexity. She been instrumental in helping them build more inclusive workplaces, accelerate innovation processes, create motivating and clear visions and communicate them, create higher performing teams and get more agile.  

Thought Leader:

A TedX speaker and co-author of “Winning Mindset”; Rose shares her insights internationally on leadership strategy and culture change. Her numerous articles in global publications underscore her mission to amplify diverse voices in decision-making spaces.

Trusted Advisor and Board Member:

Rose serves on the Executive Board of European Women on Boards, where she launched the successful Board Readiness Program, and also sits on the Advisory Board of Diversity magazine. She is a trusted advisor to many leadership teams.

Global Perspective:

Having lived, studied, and led in the U.S., India, Indonesia, Somalia, and Italy, Rose is fluid in working across diverse cultures and excels in guiding companies to align strategy and culture seamlessly across business models, functions, cultures, and viewpoints.

Lecturer At Elite Business Schools:

She has taught at Columbia University Business School (New York, USA), SDA Bocconi School of Management, (Milan, Italy) and University of Milano – Bicocca, (Milan, Italy).

Deep Academic Preparation:

Rose has an MBA in Marketing and Management from Columbia University (USA) and a BA in Economics and International Relations from Brown University (USA). She is a Results Trained Coach (Neuroleadership Institute) and is also certified in Emotionally Intelligent Leadership (Case Western University) and Social Styles (Tracom Intl.).

Client Testimonials

“Rose’s guidance was transformative. With her extensive business acumen and coaching expertise, she helped me redefine my skills for new opportunities. Her insightful questions led to a clearer vision of my personal and professional goals, aligning them seamlessly for success.”

“Rose is an exceptional “no BS” coach. With her deep wells of wisdom, she gets straight to the heart of the issue with uncanny precision. She remains super focused on results without losing her incredible humanity and caring. Her ability to blend compassion with a results-oriented approach makes her truly unique”

Research has shown that companies that are great at innovation are actively creating and nurturing not only cultural, racial and gender diversity, but also cognitive diversity.

— Rose Cartolari, NatWest

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