“My coaching sessions with Margo are delightful and invaluable towards my personal and professional development. The regular discussions I have with Margo have also had a positive influence on the success of my business. Margo has helped me identify values I use when making decisions and that vulnerability is an important leadership skill. Through a clever and informal coaching approach, I have gained insights that help me become a more powerful leader. My collaboration with Margo has greatly affected my life.”

Jacob Nørgaard Andersen
CEO, Stiesdal

Expert Coach: Margo McClimans

Zurich, Switzerland

Executive Coaching,
Women’s Leadership,
Intercultural Communication,

Team Coaching and Facilitation
Leadership Development Training

Certifications: CPCC, PCC, CTI Leadership, MBTI, TMSDI, Leadership Circle Profile, ORSC (trained), Diversity, StrengthScope, GALLUP Strengths, HOGAN

Languages: USA flag Italy flag icon

Margo holds an MBA in International Business (2003) and a BA in International Relations (1999). She is a graduate of the Co-active Leadership program.

She has been working as a certified executive coach since 2005. She specializes in training and coaching leadership for executives at some of the world’s largest and most global companies. She also offers individual and team coaching in both English and Italian and provides intercultural training. She has worked with over 2,500 clients from over 50 countries on 3 continents. Margo also co-created a leadership program called Whole Leadership. She is a guest lecturer and keynote speaker at a variety of Universities and Conferences. Her passions are leadership, intercultural relations and developing women leaders.
She helps people to increase their confidence, build on their strengths and learn how to be ‘fully expressed’ leaders by dis- covering the best version of themselves. She is author of The Four Channels; A Businesswoman’s Guide to Cracking Confidence and owner of Coaching With- out Borders GmbH, a Zurich-based company.

Previous and parallel to being in the coaching world, she was in the natural stone business. At first as Purchasing Manager, then running her own import-export brokerage company (International Stone Consultancy) from Italy. At the start of her career she worked for Bank One Investment Advisors in customer service and later for a small Italian software firm in marketing.

Margo lives in Zürich Switzerland, where she enjoys spending time with her family of 6. She also savors any opportunity to play tennis, go skiing, do Bikram Yoga, or improv theater.