Emilia Garrigues

Senior Executive Coach & Consultant

Paris, France

French
Spanish
English

Emilia is a certified Executive Coach and lawyer, with over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. She has held senior positions in several multinational companies and has successfully managed international teams. She is particularly sensitive to intercultural issues, having lived and worked abroad all her life.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

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Career history

Emilia became an Executive Coach and Consultant following a successful career in the pharmaceutical industry. She was Vice-President Legal and Chief of Staff to a succession of CEO’s, sitting on the Executive Committee. Over the last years she has coached and provided strategic advice to numerous high-ranking Executives, Executive Committees, and Leadership Teams around the world.

Her clients appreciate her significant professional experience in leadership roles that give her an in-depth understanding of their challenges and needs. She brings her rich multicultural background and exposure to her clients and works regularly in English, Spanish and French, both with individuals and teams, across a wide range of industries around the world.

Coach expertise

Emilia is passionate about leadership and bringing professionals to their full potential to deliver high-quality, sustainable results through constructive confrontation and building confident humility (all while remaining human). She takes a holistic approach to coaching, considering the person in relation to their full context, both personal and professional. She is a problem solver and an enabler who helps leverage individual and team strengths, with expertise in simplifying and streamlining complex situations.

She has built her own career around the core values of authenticity, trust and integrity, and as an Executive Coach and Consultant she focuses on Results, Relationships and Reputation as key pillars to sustainable and effective leadership.

What people are saying about Emilia Garrigues at Turningpoint

Her clients and peers appreciate her authenticity as well as her authority in her direct, but friendly style.

Coach experience

  • INSEAD Coaching Certificate (2020)
  • GALLUP CliftonStrengths Coach (2022)
  • HOGAN Certification (2022)
  • DISC Certification (2023)

Career history

  • Chief of Staff to the CEO, IPSEN PHARMA
  • Vice-President Legal, IPSEN PHARMA

Academic qualifications

  • MA, College of Europe
  • Law, Carlos III University of Madrid

Other commitments

  • Working with the younger generations to prepare for entering the workforce (partnership with EDHEC business school)

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