Assunta Cucca
Executive and Emotional Wellness Coach
Helping leaders and individuals to strengthen emotional intelligence, mental resilience, and embodied presence.
Hello
I’m Assunta
I am an ICF‑accredited PCC Coach with thousands of hours of experience supporting senior leaders and high‑achieving individuals.
My approach is holistic, integrating emotional, cognitive and physical intelligence to help people understand themselves more deeply and navigate complexity with resilience, clarity and embodied presence. Through therapeutic coaching, neuroscience, somatic awareness and the psychology of high performers, I create a space where leaders and individuals can explore themselves with honesty, curiosity and courage.
Welcome to Kokoro!
Services
What I Offer
Personal Coaching
I support high‑achieving individuals, intense thinkers and those with gifted or neurodivergent profiles who want to understand themselves more deeply and navigate life with greater clarity and resilience. Through emotional wellness, somatic awareness, neuroscience and Hogan insights, we explore the patterns, beliefs and physical responses that shape your experience. I really believe that if you find the courage to be honest with yourself, a new world of possibilities will open up for you.
Our work will help you cultivate confidence, emotional regulation and a more authentic way of being. No clinical framing, but depth, evidence-based tools, compassion and lived expertise.
Leadership 1-1 Coaching
I work with senior leaders who want to lead with emotional intelligence, embodied presence and psychological depth. Using Hogan assessments, neuroscience‑informed insight, somatic practices and my experience as a competitive athlete, we will explore how your behaviours, values and derailers influence your leadership impact. Our first step is to build a strong connection and safe space, so that you can find clarity, develop a sense of ‘humanity’, and the ability to inspire, retain your people, especially in environments where complexity, intensity and high performance are the norm.
Team & Group Coaching
I help teams build trust, resilience and connection so they can navigate complexity together. Through group dialogue, somatic practices and shared reflection, teams learn to communicate more openly, manage conflicts, regulate pressure, develop self-motivation and create cultures where people feel valued, motivated and proud to contribute. I can tailor the approach to also support teams with diverse cognitive styles, gifted thinkers and high‑intensity minds.
Leadership & Wellbeing Training
I design and deliver leadership programmes that integrate emotional intelligence, mental resilience, somatic awareness, neuroscience and human‑centred communication. No, they are not off-the-shelf trainings. I take my time to understand your specific needs and contexts, so that I can help your organisation cultivate healthier, more sustainable workplaces, where leaders understand themselves deeply, support their people effectively and create environments where diverse minds can thrive.
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What is coaching?
Coaching is a non-advisory, non-judgmental, conversation-based approach aimed at moving someone from where they are to where they want to be.
It's about listening, questioning, holding a safe space, and offering time and silence so the client feels empowered and supported.
Coaching is not directive, and it strongly holds the belief that everyone has the right answers inside themselves.
Coaching gently guides the client through their journey, unleashing their potential and understanding.
It's positive, future-looking, and pragmatic.
Coaching is NOT counselling, mentoring, or advice-based: it's an equal, trustful partnership.
Who do I work with?
I work with leaders, high‑achieving individuals, gifted and neurodivergent minds, and anyone ready to grow with more clarity and resilience. I coach in English and Italian, supporting clients across cultures and countries worldwide (except the US for insurance reasons). I also partner with companies that want to cultivate emotionally intelligent, resilient and human‑centred leadership.
My approach is particularly supportive for intense thinkers, fast processors and gifted profiles – not from a clinical perspective, but through a human, holistic lens informed by research, training and personal experience.
Coaching is a powerful self‑development tool, but it's not magic: you need to be ready to be challenged, try new things, and adopt a growth mindset. If this sounds right to you, then coaching might be just what you are looking for.
Why Kokoro?
Kokoro Consultancy has the vision to help people thrive in life and business by bringing back more humanity into the workplace and in everyday life.
Kokoro is a space where people are free to be their authentic self, nurture their feelings and minds (their kokoro in Japanese) and develop resilience.
Kokoro means heart, but also mind, soul, emotions, feelings, mindset. It embraces the whole human experience. It’s a beautiful concept that represents what I would like to bring to all my clients: a space where people can nurture and develop their minds, emotions, and desires. All of this through a true heartfelt approach.
Getting Started is Easy
How I Work
It all starts with an authentic conversation.
Coaching is powerful only if we build a trustful and respectful relationship.
1. Contact me to set up a free discovery call.
I promise there won’t be any cold selling bits here, I genuinely want to see if we can work together. And I bet you do too!
2. Discovery call and options
Here is where we decide if we are a good fit. And if we are, we will discuss what packages might be best for you or I will tailor a Kokoro proposal which reflects your needs and requirements.
3. Sign our coaching agreement, make the payment and decide our starting date
Clarifying boundaries makes us free. It’s important we contract what we want to achieve, by when and how. Once you sign our agreement and I receive the payment, we will then set up our first coaching session.
4. We start!
Our first session might be a very exploratory one, where we discover what your short and long terms goals are, what’s holding you back from achieving them, what approach is best for you and how you would like to move forward. Sessions are either face to face if in London, or online if in another city, country or continent or if you just prefer doing all over the phone- wherever you are based.
5. Going forward
We will decide the frequency and we will use techniques and resources as we see them suitable. You drive the agenda; I am not here to tell you what to do but to guide you.
Testimonials
What my clients say
Assunta is an exceptional coach whose empathy and intuitive listening set her apart.
During our sessions, she consistently demonstrated a unique talent for asking the right questions that unlock breakthroughs and align core values with career choices. She excels at helping leaders step back and gain a deep personal perspective.
Her guidance gave me the courage to take my next bold step - founding my own executive mentorship and strategy consultancy and pursuing an MBA in Digital Transformation to further elevate my professional skills.
Any professional or leader working with Assunta will benefit immensely from her emotional intelligence, structure, and coaching mastery.
As part of my Executive MBA at SDA Bocconi, I had the opportunity to participate in several coaching sessions with Assunta. From the very beginning, the experience proved to be extremely positive and highly valuable, distinguished by its quality, methodology, and practical relevance.
Her professionalism, combined with a deep ability to listen and a consistently insightful and stimulating dialogue, enabled a structured and pragmatic approach to key topics in managerial development. In particular, the work on leadership, emotional intelligence, and self-awareness fostered authentic reflections never abstract, but always closely connected to real professional contexts.
At 50+, and holding senior executive roles, I would never have imagined being able to truly question and above all significantly transform my mindset. This, in my view, represents the highest value of high-quality coaching: the ability to open new perspectives even when you believe you have already explored many, challenging established beliefs and long-standing patterns.
Within a relatively short timeframe, the process generated deep reflections and practical insights that were immediately applicable. The impact of the coaching extended well beyond the individual sessions, continuing over time to support my personal and professional growth, positively influencing my approach, decision-making, and way of relating to others.
Overall, this has been a highly valuable and enriching experience, which I would strongly recommend to anyone, including those already in senior leadership roles who is willing to invest in a serious, conscious, and structured way in their personal development.
There are people who enter your life at a precise moment and leave a mark that lasts over time. For me, Assunta was one of those people. She accompanied me through a phase of my life filled with major challenges, changes and responsibilities, helping me find clarity when everything felt confusing and restoring my confidence when my energy began to waver.
Her ability to listen, her empathy, and her approach – deep yet practical – allowed me to embark on a growth journey that goes far beyond traditional coaching. She helped me become a more self‑aware leader, but above all, a person who is kinder to herself, more authentic, and stronger.
Looking back, I can see that many of the choices and achievements of these past years also carry the imprint of the work we did together. It is a rare gift to meet professionals who can combine competence, humanity and authenticity the way Assunta does.
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