Technology leadership is demanding in a specific way: the work is never only technical. You are expected to make high-stakes decisions with incomplete information, align people who hold different truths, and keep execution moving without burning out your team or yourself.
Clarivia provides executive and leadership coaching for leaders in software, SaaS, AI, and telco, with a focus on SMBs and mid-market companies with global ambitions or existing international reach. The work is practical, structured, and built to strengthen how you lead when complexity, speed, and pressure are non-negotiable.
Why technology leadership feels uniquely hard at SMB and mid-market scale
In growth-stage technology companies, complexity arrives faster than the organization’s leadership habits. Priorities shift, dependencies multiply, and the same meeting can feel like three different conversations depending on whether you sit in Product, Engineering, Sales, or Customer Success.
Add global ambition to the mix and the challenge compounds. Time zones, cultural context, and distributed decision-making increase friction. The cost is often invisible until it is not: slower decisions, repeated debates, misalignment that shows up as execution drag, and leaders who carry too much alone.
What coaching is (and is not)
Executive and leadership coaching is a structured thinking partnership. It supports leaders in clarifying what matters, making stronger decisions, building influence, and handling the conversations that shape outcomes. Coaching is most useful when it translates into observable changes in your day-to-day leadership: clearer direction, stronger alignment, and better execution.
Coaching is not resume writing, job placement, or a guaranteed-results program. If your primary need is tactical career marketing, a specialist is likely the better fit. If your primary need is to lead effectively when the stakes are high and the context is complex, coaching can be the right container.
Who this is for
This work is for leaders who are building and scaling in environments where the map is always changing. You might be a founder stepping into enterprise-level leadership expectations, a CTO or VP Engineering navigating accountability and delivery, a product leader balancing discovery and revenue pressure, or a GTM leader trying to align the whole system around what winning actually means.
It is also for leaders who are serious about scale without unnecessary collateral damage. You want to move fast, but you also want your decisions to hold. You want strong performance, but you do not want burnout to be your business model.
What we work on, in a way that fits technology realities
Coaching focuses on the leadership moves that unlock momentum in tech organizations: decision clarity, stakeholder alignment, and communication under pressure. That can include sharpening priorities and decision criteria, designing an operating cadence that reduces thrash, and strengthening executive presence so you can lead with calm authority amid noise.
We also work on the human dynamics that technology companies often underestimate. That includes cross-functional tension, influence without authority, accountability conversations, and cross-cultural leadership across geographies. The goal is not to add more tools; it is to build a leadership operating system you can actually use when deadlines, ambiguity, and complexity are real.
How Clarivia works
Clarivia’s approach is designed to be practical and action-oriented. Sessions are anchored in real situations you are facing, not generic leadership theory. You bring what is happening now, and we work it into clarity, choices, and next steps.
A typical flow includes clarifying the real problem beneath the urgent one, mapping stakeholders and friction points, selecting a small number of high-leverage moves, and practicing the conversations that matter. Over time, you build a repeatable way of thinking and leading that improves decision quality, alignment, and execution without relying on constant personal overextension.
What changes can you see?
Leaders often notice that decisions become simpler to make and easier to communicate. Priorities get sharper, reversals decrease, and teams spend less time re-litigating the same debates. Stakeholder conversations become more direct and productive, especially across Product, Engineering, and GTM.
You may also notice a shift in leadership presence. You communicate with more calm and precision, set clearer boundaries, and handle tension without escalation. The long-term outcome is not perfection; it is sustainable effectiveness: the ability to lead at speed, with clarity and integrity, across the complexity of global growth.
About the coach
Marielle Métrailler is an ICF-certified executive and leadership coach with extensive international experience. Her coaching is grounded in three practical values: courage, curiosity, and compassion, used as an operating system for how leaders make decisions, lead people, and navigate complexity.
Clarivia’s coaching is built for leaders who want depth without drama. The work is direct, respectful, and designed to create meaningful change that shows up in how you lead every week.
If you are exploring executive and leadership coaching in the technology sector, the next step is a short conversation to understand your context and see whether there is a fit. You will leave that conversation with more clarity than you arrived with, whether or not you decide to work together.
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Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
Who is this coaching for in a software, SaaS, AI, or telco company?
This coaching is for leaders who operate where complexity is normal: founders, executives, and senior leaders who must make decisions under uncertainty, align stakeholders, and keep execution moving. It is particularly relevant in SMB and mid-market companies where leadership roles are broad and the pace is high.
It is also for leaders who are navigating a step-change in scale. That could mean new layers of management, international growth, tighter governance, higher customer expectations, or more cross-functional dependency. Coaching creates the space to think clearly and lead deliberately when the environment pushes you toward constant reaction.
What is the difference between coaching and consulting?
Coaching focuses on strengthening your leadership capability and decision-making in your specific context. The emphasis is on how you think, how you communicate, how you influence, and how you lead through complexity. The outcome is a better leader, not a borrowed plan.
Consulting typically focuses on solving a business problem with recommendations, deliverables, and operating changes. Coaching can include perspective and challenge, but it does not replace ownership. Many leaders choose coaching when they want to become stronger at navigating the problem landscape, not only receiving a solution.
Can coaching help with cross-functional conflict between Product, Engineering, and Sales?
Yes, especially when the conflict is rooted in misaligned incentives, unclear decision rights, or different definitions of success. Coaching helps you clarify what the organization is optimizing for, name trade-offs explicitly, and design conversations that surface the real disagreement without turning it personal.
Coaching also supports you in practicing the stakeholder conversations that create alignment. That includes how to frame decisions, how to handle pushback, and how to set boundaries that protect execution. Over time, you build a repeatable approach to alignment that reduces recurring friction.
How does coaching support leaders managing global, distributed teams?
Distributed leadership requires more than good intentions, it requires clarity and cadence. Coaching helps you define the principles, expectations, and decision pathways that prevent teams from drifting into confusion, duplicated work, or silent misalignment across time zones.
It also supports cross-cultural leadership: how to communicate in ways that travel well, how to build trust across differences, and how to interpret tension accurately. You develop an approach that respects local context while keeping the organization aligned around shared outcomes.
Is this relevant for founders and first-time executives?
Yes, because the transition from expert or founder to enterprise leader is often where hidden constraints appear. Your instincts may have been built in smaller contexts, and they may not scale without adaptation. Coaching helps you keep what made you successful while upgrading how you lead through others.
It also supports identity and role clarity. First-time executives often carry too much, solve too much, and communicate too late. Coaching provides a structured way to shift from being the engine to building the engine, without losing speed or standards.
What outcomes should I expect in the first 4 to 8 weeks?
Early outcomes usually show up as clearer priorities, better decision criteria, and fewer circular debates. Many leaders feel relief simply because they regain a sense of control over what matters, what can wait, and what the next right action is.
You may also see immediate changes in how you handle conversations. With preparation and practice, difficult discussions become more direct and less draining. Even before big organizational shifts occur, your leadership presence often becomes calmer, clearer, and more effective.
How do you handle confidentiality?
Confidentiality is essential for coaching to work. The coaching relationship is designed to be a safe space where leaders can think out loud, explore uncertainty, and rehearse conversations without fear of internal consequences.
In practice, that means the content of sessions stays private, with limited exceptions only where required by law or safety. If coaching is sponsored by an organization, any reporting focuses on process and engagement, not personal session content, unless you explicitly request otherwise.
Do you give advice, or do you only ask questions?
Coaching is not a rigid format. Clarivia’s approach is a thinking partnership that includes questions, reflection, challenge, and when appropriate, perspective and frameworks that help you see options more clearly.
The goal is not dependency on the coach’s opinion. The goal is strengthening your own judgment and leadership moves. You will leave sessions with clearer thinking and practical next steps that you own, not a script you have to borrow.
Is coaching a fit if I feel close to burnout?
It can be, especially when the root cause is prolonged overextension, unclear boundaries, and constant reactive leadership. Coaching helps you identify what is driving depletion, what must change in your operating rhythm, and what leadership choices will protect sustainable performance.
It also creates space to rebuild your internal capacity: how you recover, how you decide, and how you lead under stress. The aim is not to make you work harder with better tools, it is to help you lead with more clarity and less hidden cost.
What if I am actually looking for resume or job-search support?
If your main goal is a resume refresh or job search marketing, a resume specialist is usually the best fit. That kind of work requires targeted positioning, writing craft, and ATS-aware formatting that coaching does not try to replace.
If you are not yet clear on your direction, coaching can help you get crisp on what you want and why. Once your direction is clear, resume support becomes far more effective because your story and targeting are grounded in real clarity, not guesswork.