Louisa Yamartino
Executive Coach, Facilitator and Training Professional
With over 35 years of business experience in leadership, facilitation, management, sales, business development and training, Louisa has honed her abilities in various industries and business settings. Louisa launched her career at Procter & Gamble in its intensive sales and brand training program and went on to earn recognition as a top producing sales representative in a highly competitive field. Then, during a 10-year career at Spaulding & Slye Colliers in Boston, a full-service commercial real estate firm, Louisa held several leadership positions including Assistant Vice President and Director of Training and Employee Relations. Here she oversaw, led and delivered a wide range of training and development programs for employees in the Boston and Washington, DC offices.
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Complementing her corporate background, Louisa is an experienced entrepreneur having served as president of two companies.
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A graduate of Gettysburg College, Louisa holds an executive coaching certification from the Center for Executive Coaching as well as a positive psychology coaching certificate from the Wholebeing Institute. She is also certified to administer the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, Insights, and the EQi 2.0 assessments. Louisa is also trained to administer verbal 360 assessments.
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To learn more about all that she has to offer, feel free to get in touch.
Testimonials
Susan O'Connor
​CHRO
Beam Therapeutics
Louisa is simply awesome! She is a superb partner in every way and is an expert in her field. Louisa takes a professional, balanced approach with each of her clients and caters to each of the client's different needs whether it be executive coaching, education, facilitating training, project specific sessions, etc. Highly recommend Louisa to any client or company that is seeking out an individual who is dedicated to working with teams to amplify overall performance! She is best in class!
Stacy Proctor
​EVP, Chief People Officer
Gritstone Bio
It is a true pleasure to work with Louisa! She is responsive to our training needs and has been so thoughtful in helping me design our leadership development program directly connecting the sessions to our leadership expectations. Her training classes include targeted content, engaging material, and each session compels attendee participation. I’ve received positive commentary from participants after each session and the executives are witnessing changed behaviors. I strongly recommend partnering with Louisa for any training needs.
David Gonzalez
​Head of HR
Natera
I strongly and whole heartedly recommend Louisa! Not only do I enjoy working directly with her as the main point of contact at the company, but more importantly, the participants and the managers of the participants in the programs she facilitates for us rave about her! Her trainings have had a very positive impact on our employees and have helped us with employee retention and engagement.
Gregory Robinson
​Chief Scientific Officer
Nightstar Therapeutics
Akouos
I have known Louisa for over four years while I was at two companies. As a Team Facilitator, she ran a successful off-site meeting with the management team and helped everyone consider key topics to make sure we were all pulling in the same direction. I have also worked with Lousia as an Executive Coach and have found her advice extremely useful. Louisa is very insightful and has been extremely helpful in identifying solutions for difficult workplace issues. She listens carefully and presents useful options that provide successful results. In addition, senior members of my research team have worked with Sharim Afnan, another coach at Yamartino Associates, and all of them benefited from her advice. I would highly recommend working with Louisa and the other coaches at Yamartino Associates in order to increase the productivity of Senior Executives and Senior Teams.
Eman Namati
​CEO
SpectraWave, Inc.
Louisa is incredible. We engaged her services to increase the capacity and awareness of a high-velocity innovation team in the nuances of leadership, collaboration and communication. Although there was initial hesitation by some members of the team to 'spend' precious product development time on what they believed was an intangible activity, the team was immediately drawn to her warm, professional and data-driven approach, and quickly recognized the latent value she was unlocking through each training session. Taking time to reflect as a team was the first step, but having an experienced and pragmatic facilitator like Louisa was so important as it ensured our investment of time could be successfully applied and leveraged across the organization. Some part of me wants to keep Louisa a secret so we can continue to have access to her, but...well that would be against many of the principles she taught us!
Harith Rajagopalan
Co-Founder and CEO
Fractyl Health
Louisa is a phenomenal executive coach. We have worked with her for several years in offsites and in office training for managers at several levels of the organization. She is dynamic, thoughtful, and effective. I have been particularly impressed by her insights into personalities and how to help Individuals have better insight into their individual strengths and weaknesses to become more effective. In groups, she judiciously and skillfully navigates interpersonal relationships to help teams find common ground, gain alignment, and work together optimally. I would recommend Louisa’s management training without equivocation to any team looking to optimize its performance.
Nicole M. Gaudelli
VP, Head of Gene Editing Technologies
Beam Therapeutics
Louisa is an exceptionally gifted coach with whom I have had the recent opportunity to engage with 1:1. Through her coaching and mentorship, Louisa has enabled me to recognize the tools and powers within myself to rise up and become the leader I need to and want to be. I highly recommend Louisa if you're committed to doing the hard work necessary to bring clarity to your leadership style. I am forever grateful for the opportunity to learn and grow with her.
Lisa Spiess-Yanez
CEO
Aerami Therapeutics
Louisa is the best executive coach I have had in my career! She is well versed in all of the leadership styles, personality tests, executive books and techniques; yet applies them to your personal style versus a one size fits all approach to leadership and coaching. She is warm, sharp, disciplined and dependable. She gets to know your leadership style, helps you practice techniques to enhance existing skill sets, and helps you mitigate weaker areas where you feel you need to sharpen your approach. I would recommend her to anyone in a leadership position - you will become better, stronger and add more value to your company.
Lisa A. Parks
Managing Partner and General Counsel
MacDougall Advisors
Louisa has effectively designed and delivered diverse trainings for our company over the years. She’s an expert at crafting trainings to meet our specific needs and adapting them for all of our audiences, from entry-level staff through our most senior leadership. Her trainings and facilitated discussions have advanced the professional development of our individual employees as well as our growth as a group. She has helped us to become a stronger, more cohesive team. Her impact on our organization has been invaluable.