Wherever you are on Your Leadership Journey...

...whether you are guiding a team or organisation through change, working on culture,

or trying to strengthen consumer-focus, cooperation, innovation, or engagement — you’ll find support here.

Empowering
Organizations & Leaders to Thrive
in Change

In an unpredictable world, adaptability matters more than ever.

The organisations that succeed are those that can shape a clear direction, turn it into action, and actively engage people in the change.

This asks something of leaders and teams at every level — from executives to project managers and team leaders. Not only skills in strategy, projects, and change, but the ability to lead, engage, and create the conditions for people to do their best work.

What I Do:

I help organisations build these capabilities from within — so people can deliver value, drive change,
and respond to opportunities as they emerge.

I work through a combination of training, coaching, and hands-on support, helping people develop the skills and judgement needed so that change doesn’t stay an initiative — it becomes how things are done.

I work with you and your people,
not instead of them.

Unlike traditional consultants who deliver and leave, or coaches who stay hands-off, my consulting-coach approach combines the best of both worlds with:

Working alongside project and change leads, helping them think through real challenges and grow into the role as they deliver.
Using proven tools and frameworks where structure helps — without letting them take over the conversation.
Supporting leaders as they navigate the human side of change — how they make decisions, give feedback, and stay grounded along the way.
Drawing on more than 20 years of working in complex, international environments, where clarity is rarely given and alignment takes work.

My role is to empower your leaders and teams to navigate complexity, deliver change, and create lasting value — together.

About me

I am Laszlo Szabo
Executive Coach; Transformation, Project & Change Management Consultant.

I am an international business leader with 20 years of experience in fast-paced multinational environments, recognized for fostering trust, collaboration, and ethical leadership, guiding diverse international teams to achieve sustainable impact.

My specialization is strategy, transformation, innovation and consumer insight-lead growth across B2B and B2C business models. I am an expert in business development, change management, and project leadership (Agile/PMI), with a track record of delivering impactful innovations and driving key transformation and organization initiatives.

I believe that people, human creativity and talent; a customer-insight driven innovation focus; and maintaining a culture of change and curiosity are the key elements to achieve a long-term competitive advantage for corporations.

My goal is to support executives, transformation leads, middle-management, teams and individuals to create an environment that encourages creativity coupled with long-term vision and effective processes, empowered by stakeholder alignment and sponsorship to deliver new opportunities resulting in profitable growth, efficiency and employee engagement across your organization.

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My Values

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COMPANIES I HAVE WORKED FOR:

“Laszlo accompanied me and my team through a large structural transformation - he brought clarity and calm to the otherwise stressful project.

He supported us through design, planning, execution and communication - his input was instrumental and more over: he managed to bring lightness, fun and full honesty to the discussion.”

Evelin, General Manager

A Trusted Partner on Your Leadership Journey

Leading transformation can be demanding and, at times, isolating.
By working together, you gain a trusted sparring partner who supports you in navigating complexity with clarity and confidence.

I help you to:

Define a clear destination and purpose for yourself and your teams
Translate ambition into action through structured, strategic frameworks
Identify and mobilize the right resources and support to reach your goals
Maintain energy, resilience, and perspective—especially when challenges arise
Leverage transformation and projects as opportunities for your own leadership growth
Balance structure with flexibility, planning with adaptability
Empower your managers and teams to move forward with alignment and ownership

For Executives & Senior Leaders

I provide

Leadership coaching to support clarity, confidence, resilience, and personal leadership growth

Consulting-coaching on your specific transformation strategy or critical projects — partnering with you to shape direction, challenge assumptions, and translate strategy into action

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Initial Consultation
Online meeting
A short conversation to get to know each other. Choose this if we haven’t worked together before.
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30 min
Free of charge
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Coaching & Leadership Development
Online meeting
Tailored coaching to explore your leadership context and possibilities
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1 hr
Pricing as agreed
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Business & Transformation Consulting
Online meeting
Practical support for your strategy, projects and change initiatives
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1 hr
Pricing as agreed
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For Teams & Organizations

I offer

Training programs in project and change management, tailored to your context and real business challenges

Workshops and facilitation to align stakeholders, define direction, and build shared ownership

Targeted consulting-coaching applied directly to participants’ live projects, ensuring learning is immediately translated into results

Team coaching or individual coaching, where appropriate, to support engagement, adoption, and sustainable change

Services for
your Team & Organization

Project & Change Management
Trainings

Setting the scene & vocabulary for the common work ahead. Can be done in teams (on-site) or one-on-one (online/at your location)

Project Management for Project Leads
(focused on Strategy & Leadership as opposed to technicalities & tools)
Effective Project Sponsorship
Project Management for Change initiatives
Change Management for Transformation/Project Leads
Sponsoring Change

The trainings are delivered in an interactive, action-learning setup.

To ensure maximum impact, every training includes 3 follow-up consulting/coaching sessions for the participants.

Project, Change & Transformation
Consultancy & Coaching

Based on your needs, we will discuss your project in detail and I support you in establishing:

A project health check
Clarify the purpose, benefits, deliverables and strategic elements
Stakeholder prioritization & management
Risk assessment and mitigation strategies
Leadership and project team management
Change management strategy:
Case for Change, Impact Assessment, Communication, Enablement & Empowerment, Reinforcement and Resistance management
Transformation and project roadmap management:
Holistic impact assessment, absorption capacity, governance and sponsorship, culture of change

This consultancy is delivered in a consulting-coach setup, meaning that I don't do the work for you but WITH you. I will advise and support you on both the strategic and day-to-day challenges in order to successfully deliver the project.

Individual & Team Coaching

Based on the needs of the team/project, we can also enter into a more traditional coaching setup, using open indirect questioning to support you or your team in developing solutions and insights on specific topics.

This is usually ideal for specific subjects i.e. team motivation & engagement, effective collaboration, time/task management, decision-making, meeting effectiveness, personal leadership growth etc.

Workshop Facilitation

I can also support you in running strategical workshops for your project team or key stakeholders. As an example we can work together on:

Vision & Strategy
Growth Opportunities & Strategic Blueprint
Team Mission & Sense of Purpose
Organization Design
Roles & Responsibilities
Ways of working and Process Optimization
Customer/Consumer Insight & Innovation

This allows the project manager / team leader to be a participant of the workshop and actively contribute to the strategy creation or content of the discussion

To best respond to you and your organization's needs, we will always prepare a bespoke solution together based on a first discussion with you. Do not hesitate to contact me to have an introductory call to understand your specifc needs.

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Contact Me

If you have any questions or you would like me to reach out to you, please don't hesitate to leave your contact details here.

I will get back to you the soonest possible.

Or you can contact me direclty at:

Laszlo Szabo

laszlo@yourleadershipjourney.co.uk