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Executive Coach.
Career Strategist.
Former Executive
Search Leader.

Hi, I'm Theresa Fuchs-Santiago

I’ve spent more than two decades at the intersection of people, careers, leadership and organizations.

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First as an executive search consultant, and now as an executive career and leadership coach.

 

I’ve worked with talented people at some of the most pivotal moments of their professional lives.

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20+ 

YEARS IN EXECUTIVE SEARCH & LEADERSHIP

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01.

BEFORE COACHING

I was on the other side of the table.

For more than 20 years, I worked in executive search and consulting across fashion, luxury, beauty, retail and lifestyle, partnering with organizations and senior leaders globally.

I assessed executives, advised companies on talent and leadership, and helped define what “great” looked like at senior level.

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I saw how hiring decisions were really made. Why some people stood out. How careers were built. And how difficult it could be, even for highly accomplished people, to articulate what made them distinctive.

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I learned to see the value in people's experience, sometimes before they could see it themselves.

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That perspective has never left me.

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I became more interested in a different question.

Executive search was largely about the opportunity:

Are you right for this role?

 

Coaching opened up a different conversation:

Is this role, this path, this version of success still right for you?

 

That question led me into coaching and a deeper exploration of leadership, identity, psychology and human potential.

 

Because after years of building a successful career,

the challenge isn't figuring out what you're capable of doing.

 

It's figuring out what you want to do

with everything you've built.

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THEN

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03.

TODAY

I bring both worlds together.

The strategic lens of executive search: how organizations think, how senior hiring decisions get made, what differentiates people and how experience translates into opportunity.

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And the curiosity and challenge of coaching: creating the space to question assumptions, see yourself differently and turn insight into action.

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My work sits at the intersection of identity and strategy.

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I’m interested in both sides of the equation: what makes sense in the world you’re navigating, and what makes sense for you.

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Because a next move can look perfect on paper and still be completely wrong for the person you are now.

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That’s the perspective I bring to my work today.

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Enough about me. What about you?

If something in my story resonates with where you are right now, perhaps it's time to explore what comes next.

My coaching approach

MY APPROACH

Good coaching should be deeply human

and practically useful.

There is space for reflection, curiosity and insight.

And there is space for strategy, action and momentum.

 

I draw from Positive Psychology, Appreciative Inquiry, IFS, neuroscience, leadership development and other

evidence-informed approaches, including PERMA-Lead®, always adapting the work to the person in front of me.

 
There is no one-size-fits-all formula.
You are not a framework to be fixed.

 

You are a real person navigating a real moment in your life and career.

 

My role is to listen closely. Ask better questions.  Challenge assumptions. Help you see patterns and possibilities you

may not see yourself. And turn what we discover into choices

you can actually act on.

 

Sometimes the work goes deep.

Sometimes it gets very practical.

 

Usually, it's both.

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