Giulia Brutesco
CEO & Leadership Coach @Stratesco Group Inc
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CEO & Leadership Coach @Stratesco Group Inc
Ottawa, ON, CA
At Stratesco Group, I work directly with senior leaders and executives to strengthen authority, decision-making, and influence at moments that matter most.I partner with clients who are technically strong and highly capable, yet experiencing friction—misalignment at the leadership table, diluted authority, or pressure to lead in ways that don’t reflect who they are. I diagnose where authority is breaking down and engineer leadership strategies rooted in each leader’s core strengths, not performative behaviors or generic frameworks.My work sharpens executive presence, clarifies leadership intent, and aligns how leaders think, decide, and show up with how they are perceived. The result is leaders who move with conviction, communicate with precision, and are followed without needing to push.
EDUCATION
Carleton University
B.Eng., Environmental Engineering
ABOUT GIULIA BRUTESCO
What happens when you promote your best engineers into management?They fail.Not because they\'re not smart. Because you promoted them without preparing them to lead.You didn\'t build a world-class engineering team just to watch talent walk out under bad managers. You didn\'t invest in hiring top engineers only to have them fail as leaders.But that\'s what\'s happening: Your best engineer just became a manager…and now they\'re drowning, working 70-hour weeks trying to solve problems AND manage - failing at both. Team productivity dropped 20% after the last restructure. High-performers are quitting within 18 months of getting a new manager.The research is brutal:60% of new managers fail within their first two yearsOnly 48% receive training before their first leadership rolePromoting high-performers causes a 7.5% decline in team performance Each failed promotion costs $280K-$400K in turnover, lost productivity, and team disruption.How many promotions in your organization are quietly failing?Here\'s the truth: Your people ARE leadership material.They don\'t need corporate workshops with trust falls. They need a system built for technical thinkers who\'ve earned expertise through mastery, not management theory. I\'m the CEO of Stratesco Group.I\'ve lived both sides. Technical career. Management transition. The realization that what made me excellent as an engineer made me struggle as a leader.I rebuilt—with research, evidence, and empathy for the challenges technical leaders face.Now? I help technical organizations stop the $280K-per-promotion failure cycle and build leadership capability as intentionally as they build technical capability. My clients retain their best people, boost team performance, and turn technical experts into confident leaders. BY DESIGN.Here\'s how: Leadership Launchpad: 16-week system for new technical managers - moving from doer to enabler. 1:1 Coaching: Deep support for Managers, Directors, VPs, CEOs navigating strategic leadership.🧠 Group Cohorts: Peer learning, problem-solving, accountability. Ongoing Support: Continuous development and community.If you\'re ready to stop promoting people into roles they\'re not prepared for and build leadership excellence the same way you built technical excellence—Let\'s close the leadership gap. It starts right here.Your engineers deserve better than sink-or-swim management. So does your bottom line.
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