Welcome to Spark Back Coaching

Leadership coaching grounded in corporate reality

Practical, no-fluff coaching for managers navigating career transitions, leadership challenges, and burnout.

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Career

You recently became redundant and you're unsure how to navigate this change.
You feel stuck in your career and want to explore different options.
You want to develop your leadership skills and take your first career step in management.

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Leadership

You're managing people but nobody taught you how
Your team isn't performing and you're not sure why
You feel isolated and want a sparring partner that can help you deal with your leadership challenges.

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Burnout

You're exhausted in a way that sleep or a holiday doesn't fix.
You dread Monday before Sunday is even over.
You find it harder and harder to keep yourself motivated.
You don't have enough energy to live your life.

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The Spark Back Approach

At Spark Back, we believe coaching should be direct, practical, and grounded in how organizations actually work. We call it No Fluff, Just Progress. Every session has a clear focus and ends with concrete next steps.

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For Individuals

Spark Back Coaching offers programs designed to help ambitious professionals move forward with confidence. For those who need needs clarity, strategy, and action.

Career Coaching

For professionals navigating transitions, job searches, or the feeling of being stuck. Whether you're re-entering the market or rethinking your direction entirely.

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Burnout Coaching

For professionals who know something needs to change but are too exhausted to figure out what. Evidence-informed, not wellness fluff.

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Leadership Coaching

For leaders who want to build stronger teams, navigate complexity, and grow without burning out.

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Power Hour

One session. One challenge. No fluff. For high-stakes moments: a critical interview, a salary negotiation, a tough workplace decision, or simply figuring out your next move.

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For Organizations

Strong businesses need strong people. Spark Back partners with organizations on leadership development, outplacement, burnout prevention, and HR advisory.

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I had the privilege of working with Christina for approximately six months during a pivotal period in my professional development. Her coaching was instrumental in helping me refine essential skills, enhance my communication abilities, and rebuild my confidence in both myself and my career trajectory. Christina demonstrates a rare combination of pragmatism, empathy, and challenge. She knows when to listen attentively and when to encourage you to push beyond your limits. Thanks to her guidance, I gained greater clarity and was able to successfully land a new role, feeling both grounded and self-assured. I could not have asked for a better career coach.

Altea Barbato

Engineering Manager

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If you haven't decided what your team needs before you interview someone, you will end up judging the iced coffee 🧊 ☕ If you've been on LI for even 5 minutes this past week, you've read about Gen Z candidates bringing iced coffee to job interviews. Half the comments call it unprofessional - the other half couldn't care less. My question is: What was the interviewer/OP in question really assessing? In my years in talent acquisition, I heard one sentence in intake meetings mor

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Someone tried to recruit me for a job that does not exist

Twice this month, someone tried to recruit me for a job that does not exist. 🤦‍♀️ I did not fall for it but only because I was paying proper attention that morning. On a different morning, at the end of a harder week, I am less sure. Here's what happened The first email arrived at 1:32 AM CET. A recruiter at a large US insurer, writing about a confidential search. My background, she wrote, had stood out during their shortlist review. I had never applied to anything. The seco

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Is it less ambitious to walk away from the corporate ladder?

A client of mine apologized to me recently. Her words: "I don't know if you coach less ambitious people that don't want a corporate career path." She is a senior Program Manager. Decades on large-scale international projects with the kind of career that a lot of people strive for. Then her contract ended, and instead of diving head-first into a #job search, she stopped and asked what she actually wanted next. We spent the first part of our #coaching #work on self-awareness. W

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What do you do when two people in your team cannot stand each other?

What do you do when two people in your team simply cannot stand each other? Every few weeks my client has to deal with this exact situation. One member of his team comes to him privately to say his colleague is unprofessional and lazy. Then the other one comes separately to say he can never get a straight answer and that nothing is communicated openly. His plan was to keep the whole thing strictly factual. What was supposed to be delivered, what actually arrived, who said wha

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