Women at Microsoft Latam

We created a coaching program to support leaders at Microsoft to navigate leading and working remotely during challenging times.

The Women@Microsoft Latin America Coaching Program was specifically designed to support leadership skills, managing teams and driving impact remotely as well as creating success and generating energy during challenging times.

We partnered with Giuliana Figueiredo, Marketing and Operations Director of Caribbean and Women at Microsoft – Latam [Latin America] Lead and her team to create an agile, flexible and easy solution to implement for the large team quickly across the region.

The program started with a series of 3 Leading Virtually Group CoachingSessions, led by our coach on MS TEAMS focused on how to create structure, safety and possibility virtually. The 1 hour sessions were a mix of reflection, discussion, storytelling and sharing best practices. All leaders, male and female, across the region attended virtual group coaching on MS TEAMS.These sessions created a needed space for leaders to share issues, challenges and solutions on leading virtually. In addition, 50 leaders were invited to participate in 1:1 virtual coaching to support a specific personal leadership topic of their choice. We collaborated all along the way to host the calls, bring relevant content and provide monthly usage reports and track success.

The group sessions were well attended across all three sessions with hundreds of male and female leaders actively participating and exchanging their own stories and ideas. Leaders felt supported, validated, they had a space to connect and they learned new strategies together.

In the 1:1 coaching, we had 100% satisfaction and 4.95/5 coach ratings. The top 5 topics for coaching were: personal effectiveness, leading teams, leading virtually, communication, career development and influence and impact.