FACULTY


Executives first.
Leader developers by vocation.

Every Claristrat faculty has operated at senior level. We understand your world. We have also lived it.

FOUNDER AND FACULTY LEAD

Fabiana Pereira Hotz, PCC

Author, the Claristrat Method™. Executive coach and advisor to Fortune 500 ELTs and boards.

Valencia & NYC. EN/FR/PT/ES

MENTORING LEAD

Dominique Bel, PCC

Former CEO and COO across Europe and North America. Founder, Consciousness Unleashed©.

Amman & Montreal. EN/FR

INVITED FACULTY

Thomaz Meirelles, MBA

20+ years executive at GSK, Unilever, Dow Chemical. Partner at Artisan Consultoria.

Rio de Janeiro. EN/PT/ES

INVITED ADVISOR

Debbie Carkner

Former Accenture Managing Partner, Microsoft CX Portfolio Lead. Advisor and entrepreneur.

Toronto. EN/FR

SUPERVISION LEAD

Louise Kovacs, MA, PhD

Author and Consulting Partner. Global executive coach and senior coach mentor.

Sydney. EN

FOUNDER AND LEAD FACULTY


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Fabiana Pereira Hotz, MA, PCC

FOUNDER & CEO. AUTHOR, THE CLARISTRAT METHOD™

Executive, academic,
leader developer.

Fabiana has spent 25 years inside the complexity she now teaches others to navigate: leading more than $200M in transformation programs across finance, healthcare, technology, public sector, and consumer industries at Accenture, Deloitte, and high-growth scale-ups.

This is the real-life background on which the method stands. A coach who has operated at this level brings a different quality of understanding: firsthand knowledge of the terrain.

Years leading transformation in complex organizations

25

In transformation programs led across five sectors

$200M+

Continents served in four global languages.

6

She went first.
This is the point.

The principle at the centre of the method, that you cannot take a client somewhere you have not been willing to go yourself, is not a teaching position. It is an autobiographical one.

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"For most of my career, I was exceptional at producing results and genuinely poor at being present to the people around me. I built this method because I needed it. Going through that work myself showed me what is possible on the other side of it."

FABIANA PEREIRA HOTZ

Mastery across traditions,
integrated into a practical method
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A confessed bibliophile, Fabiana has read a few thousand scholarly books in the search for key knowledge that might help her operationalize human development. The Claristrat Method™ emerged directly from 39 of these volumes.

It is a sustained effort to integrate what each intellectual tradition gets right about human development, and to build the architecture missing at their intersection. Systems thinking, depth psychology, adult development theory, applied neuroscience, somatics, assessment science, leadership frameworks — each tradition contributes a lens the others don't fully address.

The method modularizes and articulates core concepts from this multidisciplinary body of knowledge in a single coherent structure, designed from the ground up for the realities of consequential leadership.

CERTIFIED MENTOR & FACULTY


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Dominique Bel, PCC

FOUNDER, CONSCIOUSNESS UNLEASHED®

COO, CEO,
executive coach mentor.

Dominique spent the first decade of his career as COO at an architecture and engineering firm in Paris before moving to North America, where he led Canadian operations for Mercuri International Group and built advisory relationships with organizations including Google and HSBC.

Through his practice Consciousness Unleashed® and his work as founder of LEA — The Leadership Evolution Architects, Dominique works at the intersection of inner governance and strategic clarity. His focus is the internal operating system that determines how a leader performs under pressure: the nervous system of the organisation scales from the nervous system of its leaders. As mentor coach on the Claristrat program, he brings this lens to every student's mentored practice.

A deeply human approach
to leadership development.

Dominique's mentoring is not simply feedback on technique. With integrity and vulnerability, he creates a safe developmental mirror surfacing what the student cannot yet see in their own approach.

His training in Internal Family Systems, Leadership Circle Profile, and Co-Active Coaching gives him a multi-layered vocabulary for what happens in the space between coach and client. Students who work with Dominique learn the difference between running a process and being present for change.

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"Leadership rarely fails from lack of intelligence. It falters when internal reactivity governs under pressure."

DOMINIQUE BEL

COACH SUPERVISOR


Louise Kovacs, MA, PhD

CONSULTING PARTNER, COACH SUPERVISOR & AUTHOR

Twenty years coaching executives through complexity.
now supervising coaches who embrace this work.

Louise has spent more than twenty years coaching executives, from individual contributors to CEOs, across industries and around the world. She came to coaching from sales leadership in the technology industry.

Her practice is backed by unusual scholarly depth. She holds a doctorate in executive coaching, with research focused on coaching in an era of complexity, publishes in peer-reviewed journals, and co-authored A Guide to Formulation in Coaching.

Today Louise supervises individual coaches and supervision groups, supporting both experienced and novice practitioners. At Claristrat, she leads monthly group supervision for our graduate and certifying coaches. Her work invites every coach to sit with the question: who is helping you see blind spots in your own work?

INVITED FACULTY


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Thomaz Meirelles, MBA

PARTER, ARTISAN CONSULTORIA

20 years operating the system.
another 16 developing its leaders.

Thomaz spent two decades as a senior executive at GSK, Unilever, and Dow Chemical across Latin America leading organizational development, change management, HR strategy, and global manufacturing and supply operations at director level.

He has sat in the rooms where global organizations decide how people are developed, deployed, and led. He knows the gap between what is said about development and what is actually done.

Since 2009, he has built a parallel practice as partner at Artisan Consultoria, one of Brazil's leading organizational consulting firms, and as founder of CUORE, a Rio de Janeiro-based executive coaching practice. His executive development programs have reached thousands of leaders across multinationals in Brazil and Latin America: in banking, FMCG, steel, mining, media, healthcare, and construction.

The bridge between
system and individual.

Thomaz's training in Ontological Coaching, Systemic Organizational Consulting, and Pathwork Group Facilitation gives him a distinctive capacity: to hold both the individual leader's development and the organizational system they are embedded in simultaneously. He sees the structural forces that shape behavior — the governance gaps, the incentive misalignments, the cultural norms that make certain changes hard — and brings that systemic literacy directly into the classroom.

As assisting faculty, Thomaz brings the Latin American context and the accumulated wisdom of thousands of development engagements. For a program working in four languages across six continents, his ground-level experience is a pillar.

INVITED FACILITATOR


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Debbie Carkner

ENTREPRENEUR & SENIOR ADVISOR

Thirty years redesigning how organizations work.
now helping leaders rethink how they lead.

Debbie has spent her career inside the transformation of modern organizations. From early ecommerce platforms to today’s AI-enabled customer ecosystems, she has worked with global companies navigating digital change and customer experience transformation.

As a Managing Partner at Accenture, she led CX/EX strategy across a $200M portfolio within the Accenture Microsoft Business Group, guiding major enterprises through complex transformation programs. But over time she observed something many transformation efforts overlook. Organizations do not transform if people don’t.

Today Debbie focuses on executive development, mentoring, and leadership facilitation: helping leaders reflect on how their own mindset, presence, and leadership patterns shape the organizations they lead. Her work invites executives to step back from operational urgency and consider a deeper question: who must I become to lead the change I want to create?

Upcoming cohorts now enrolling.

Places limited.

GLOBAL CLIENT PARTNERS

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“I believe in coaching and had several coaches over the years. Nothing came close to the depth and practicality of what emerged with Fabiana.”

— EVP, Client Delivery, Global Technology Firm

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Claristrat gave us a scalable model that not only developed our leaders but also strengthened engagement across the company. The ROI was clear within months.

— Head of Talent Development, Fortune 500