Your team problems start on the inside. I help leaders do the inner work so teams can do their best work.
I help growing organizations develop strong leaders, winning teams, and a trusting culture. We Ignite Team Magic through thoughtfully designed development programs. From high-impact workshops to leadership programs, coaching, and consulting. I bring 20+ years of Fortune 500 leadership experience.
Ignite Team Magic
Does this sound familiar?
You keep losing good people, and you can’t figure out why.
It’s not always about the paycheck. People leave when they don’t see a future. Without a development structure in place, your best people are quietly looking for a company that will invest in them. Turnover costs far more than a development program ever would.
Your newly promoted people managers were great in their prior roles. Managing people is a different story.
They were promoted for what they could do, not for how well they could develop others. This isn’t a knock on your managers. They're trying to run operations AND support their teams, all without manager training Without support, even your strongest people managers will eventually burn out or break trust with their teams.
Development “happens” when someone gets around to it. Which means it barely happens at all.
If no one owns it, no one does it. You don’t have an L&D person. Your HR team (if you have one) is stretched thin on compliance and hiring. Your leaders are focused on hitting targets. So people development becomes a “when we have time” project and never gets the attention it deserves. The gap isn’t a lack of intention. It’s a lack of infrastructure.
Your business is scaling. Your team’s capabilities aren’t keeping pace.
Growth exposes every gap you’ve been papering over. New roles. New systems. New complexity. And a team that’s trying to figure it out on the fly because there’s no structured support to help them grow into what you need them to be. You can’t scale a company on institutional knowledge and good intentions alone
Onboarding is inconsistent, and every new hire feels like starting from scratch.
A great hire can become a frustrated one in 90 days if you don’t have a real onboarding process. An undertrained new hire slows you down and creates downstream problems. And when your onboarding depends on whoever has bandwidth that week, you’re rolling the dice every single time.
You know something needs to change. You just don’t know where to start.
And honestly? Building a people development strategy from scratch isn’t your job. It’s mine.
I help you Ignite Team Magic: develop strong leaders, winning teams, and a trusting culture.
Most of your organization's issues are really a people development gap. That gap is costly but fixable. I can help.
Manager & Leadership Development
Cohort programs, workshops and coaching for managers who are technically brilliant but need to build people skills: feedback, trust, development conversations, cross-cultural communication.
Cross-Cultural Team Facilitation
For multicultural or global teams navigating friction, trust gaps, or integration challenges. Built on 20 years of managing teams across four continents.
For organizations without a dedicated L&D function: I create and drive your people development strategy.
Consulting, Advisory or Fractional
I didn't learn this in a training program. I learned it in the trenches.
For 20 years, I led global supply chain operations for brands like McDonald's, Starbucks, and Krispy Kreme. I managed and collaborated with multicultural teams across India, Poland, Germany, China and Philippines. My job was operations.
But I kept building training programs nobody asked me to build. Mentoring people across levels and geographies. Having development conversations that weren't in my job description.
My direct reports went on to build remarkable careers. My mentees got promoted multiple times. And I kept thinking: why is this so rare?
That question is why I started this practice.
When I walk into a room full of skeptical managers, I've been that skeptical manager. When I work with a multicultural team stuck in friction, I've lived that friction: in five languages, across 15+ countries. That's not a credential. That's a track record.
"Fernanda's workshops have transformed my leadership style and boosted my team's performance significantly. Her expertise is truly exceptional."
- Brian M. - Director of Supply Chain
"Our organization has greatly benefited from the Leadership and Team Performance workshop organized by Fernanda. At the time, we were undergoing a significant structural change, with both leaders and employees navigating a high level of ambiguity and perceived risk.
Fernanda’s energy and positivity were magnetic. She created an environment of trust and engagement that gave our leaders the confidence and courage to tackle big change head-on ... I would highly recommend Fernanda to any organization looking to strengthen leadership capability and team performance during times of transformation."
- Olga G. - Business Analytics Leader
” Fernanda showed true leadership by challenging the status quo, and encouraging and facilitating rich discourse to achieve optimal results ... Her leadership inspired the team to strive for excellence and challenge their own thinking.”
- Jeanette S. - VP of Analytics
”... but what really sets Fernanda apart is her leadership. She has a unique ability to bring out the best in her team, fostering collaboration, empowering others, and always leading by example.”
- Kelsey 0. - Operations leader
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What you can expect when working with me
Discovery & stakeholder alignment: understanding your context, goals, and people before designing anything
Customization to your organizational reality (not off-the-shelf content)
Clear objectives and measurable success criteria set upfront
Practical tools and frameworks leaders can apply immediately
Follow-on coaching available to reinforce and sustain the work
Ready to Invest in Your People?
Whether you need a fractional people development partner, a leadership program for your managers, or a facilitator who can help your multicultural team actually trust each other, let's find out if we're a fit.
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Fernanda Brasileiro
People Development Consultant & Strategist
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