E.166 Compassionate Leadership w/ Massimo Backus

My purpose is to reveal the potential of what can be for leaders who balance growing a business, leading a team, and being fully engaged and present in their families and lives. I help them define the actionable steps from large challenging decisions and difficult conversations to the small daily and deliberate habits that lead to significant results."

By trade and training, Massimo is a master facilitator, speaker, and leadership coach. He helps leaders uncover who they are, who they want to be, and how to transform old habits and patterns that hold them back. They learn to lead with self-awareness and self-management that drives discovery, growth, and success.

Massimo built leadership capability at start-up to Fortune 500 companies by applying the science of leadership, behavior change, and mindfulness practices. He was the head of leadership development for Slalom Consulting where he designed and facilitated workshops, coached, and challenged over a thousand leaders to increase their clarity of purpose, growth as a leader, and performance impact.

By combining a deep curiosity and expertise in organizational behavior psychology and team dynamics, Massimo cultivates increased emotional intelligence and agility with the ability to hold multiple perspectives. His coaching combines assessment, skill development, deliberate practice, accountability, and organizational systems thinking to create behavior change that sticks.

In addition to coaching, he facilitates leadership team experiences that get to the root cause of dysfunction and empower teams to chart their path to success. He is a dynamic and powerful speaker at corporate events for high growth organizations to ignite culture and drive behavior change. He blends the latest leadership and behavioral science, talent development strategy to help his clients achieve lasting business outcomes.

Massimo has coached and consulted across a breadth of companies and industries, including Cisco, Accenture, Slalom, Salesforce, Southern California Edison, Sutter Health, Nintendo, and Fox Entertainment.

He holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and a Masters degree in Organizational Behavioral Psychology from Claremont Graduate University. His professional coaching education is through The Co-Active Training Institute. He holds certifications and credentials in DISC, MBTI, Hogan Assessment, Korn Ferry Architect, Co-Active Coaching Certification, ORSC (Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching) Certification (in progress), and is a Hoffman Process Graduate.

Massimo is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and loves to tell life’s great stories. These days he finds creative inspiration in his roles as father and husband.

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