Herve Da Costa

Hervé helps executives become transformational leaders and realize their vision. His interventions take place in the US and Europe. Herve's activities include « From Expert to Leader » workshops, project team coaching and innovation/creativity trainings, and Coaching of high potential executives.

Hervé brings over 20 years of experience as a senior executive in Silicon Valley: HP Labs, Xerox PARC, UC Berkeley and 2 successful startups. He has served as Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Operations at Scientific Learning in California; the company has been listed on NASDAQ since 1999. Herve current;y works as Leadership Coach at Google.

“When I faced critical aspects of my personal life, Hervé helped me change my life : his commitment to my problems was great and his positive coaching attitude helped me in developing aspects of my personality I did not think I could develop. In a word, Hervé hepled me to become what I am today. Very good coach with tremendous results ! Thank you Hervé.” -Dr Francois Druel PhD

“Herve was our team coach for the Orange Talent/High Potential Programme focused on General Management and Intrapreneurship. Rather than providing one-size-fits all solutions, Herve empowers and encourages the people he coaches to develop their own answers. He works with you to find new ways to help you achieve the results and meet the goals that you want. Herve is not only equipped with leadership competencies and in-depth people knowledge but he also possesses a relentless spirit, passion and an enviable track record of coaching and delivering successful support. He is always very dedicated and enthusiastic at his job. He is a great motivator and a great communicator. I really enjoyed Herve’s coaching.” -Florence Chavaren

“Hervé was our project coach at the International Talent Pool program at France Telecom / Orange. He has been involved in the ITP program since the first years of program. He is a fantastic an enthusiastic proffesional, able to give you good orientation and provide advise helping you out to solve your problems and find your own way at the same time. He had to manage difficult situations with different characters and always found a way to develop our team and project. Thank you for that Hervé.” -Lazaro Javier Frenandez Parra

““Hervé has been coaching our team for 4 months, on an innovation project which ended in January 2008. He is a very efficient and respectful coach. By setting very high standards in the quality of the deliverables he led us to do our very best.” -Helene Autrand

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