Leadership and Team Transformation Workshops
Boost team performance through creative, image‑based coaching. Empower leadership, emotional intelligence, innovation & collaboration. Ideal for forward‑thinking organisations and managers. Paris‑based, systemic Palo Alto + Jungian psychology.
See Differently. Lead Differently.
Today’s organizations face three pressures:
Strategic complexity
Generational divides
Emotional fatigue across teams
You will not solve these issues with new management tools. You solve them by changing how people think, feel, and work together.
Creativity as a Performance Driver
High performing teams do not work longer hours. They think in new ways. Creativity is a measurable business asset.
It helps you:
Solve complex problems faster
Improve decision quality
Strengthen team cohesion and engagement
When your organization runs on constant urgency, it loses the ability to imagine, innovate, and inspire. Leadership without imagination leads to rigidity and loss of meaning at work.
Business workshops:
Leadership and Employee Engagement
Objective: Strengthen your leadership team’s ability to make decisions under uncertainty, sustain engagement during transformation, align strategic intent with day to day behaviors, mobilize teams in complex environments, build a culture of continuous learning.
Formats
Adaptive Leadership Programs. Develop core competencies sought by employers such as critical thinking, emotional intelligence, collaboration, applied creativity, interpersonal communication.
Participants work with images they produce themselves. This process examines how perception shapes interpretation and action across leadership situations.
Meaning, Vision, and Complexity Seminars. Workshops designed to help senior leaders strengthen their capacity to create shared meaning in uncertain contexts.
Executive Team Coaching. Collective sessions focused on strategic alignment, leadership posture, observable managerial behaviors
Expected Impact
Higher engagement across leadership layers
Stronger managerial coherence
Improved internal dialogue and social climate
Resilience and Workplace Wellbeing
Objective: Strengthen your teams’ ability to manage cognitive and emotional load, maintain performance under pressure, recover after periods of intensity, prevent burnout, regulate interpersonal tension
Formats:
The Art of Resilience Workshops. Collective work focused on mental load, emotional regulation at work, early signs of disengagement, individual and team resources, team based stress regulation
Leadership and Mental Health Pathway. Train managers to practice active listening, detect signs of fatigue, regulate conflict, create psychological safety within teams
Coaching by image (Coaching par l’Image®). Support based on symbolic representation of lived situations, analysis of relational dynamics, development of adaptive strategies
Expected Impact
Lower absenteeism
Reduced burnout risk
Calmer team climate
Stronger sense of recognition and belonging
Team Coaching Method
Teams often face situations where analysis alone does not move things forward. Strategy appears clear. Yet tensions remain, communication weakens, and decisions stall.
My team coaching method combines three perspectives which help teams understand both visible and hidden dynamics of their work.
Systemic Perspective
Every team functions inside a network of relationships, expectations, and informal rules.
Systemic coaching examines how these elements shape behavior and decision making.
In sessions we explore communication patterns, decision processes, roles and power dynamics and the broader organizational context
When these dynamics become visible, teams gain room to adjust how they collaborate.
Jungian Perspective
Groups respond not only to strategy and facts, but also to meaning and psychological patterns.
Drawing on analytical psychology developed by Carl Gustav Jung, this perspective helps teams understand emotional reactions, leadership roles within the group, and symbolic elements present in organizational culture.
This brings depth to discussions which often remain purely rational.
Visual Reflection
Images provide a powerful tool to reflect on complex situations.
Through structured image analysis, teams project perceptions and assumptions which remain unspoken in normal meetings. This process often reveals new viewpoints and stimulates creative thinking.
Integration in Practice
During team coaching sessions these three perspectives work together through facilitated team dialogue, systemic mapping of team dynamics, guided image analysis and translation of insights into concrete actions
This approach works well for teams facing strategic change, leadership transitions, or collaboration challenges.
Clients
Creativity as a Leadership Discipline
Case study
Image as Language. From Artistic Gesture to Visual Merchandising
Context
As part of its continuous learning program, a premier French luxury house brought together visual merchandising teams from two national flagship stores. The goal was to expand their understanding of image as a working language.
These teams design and stage window displays, customer journeys, and product presentation areas. Their role involves the operational interpretation of intentions set by the artistic direction. The training aimed to strengthen their ability to read an image beyond its illustrative function, in order to identify formal dynamics relevant to in store practice.
Intervention
I led a half day workshop titled Image as Language. From Artistic Gesture to Visual Merchandising, based on the Coaching by image (Coaching par l’Image®) method.
The work was structured around photographs taken by the participants with their smartphones in their own work environments.
These images were then analyzed collectively. Participants identified principles of composition, tension, balance, and rhythm present in their daily practice. These elements were linked to artisanal gestures from the House’s workshops, then translated into spatial arrangement principles applicable to the retail environments of both flagship stores.
Observed Results
At the end of the workshop:
A shared visual language emerged across teams
Participants refined their interpretation of creative guidelines
The workshop received a 100 percent satisfaction rating from participants
Yury Li-Toroptsov
Certified Professional Coach | Artist | Jungian analyst-in-training
I support business leaders and teams in strengthening collective performance, developing resilient leadership, and fostering innovation within complex organisational contexts.
Within a structured coaching framework, I design and facilitate interventions tailored to business challenges such as decision making clarity, team cohesion, organisational transitions, and the prevention of psychosocial risks. My work aims to support organisations in maintaining effectiveness while developing sustainable balance between performance demands, adaptive capacity, and shared purpose.
Based in Paris, I have worked with organisations including Hermès, L’Oréal, and EDF. My approach integrates systemic coaching informed by the Palo Alto model with image based and creative methods that support collective reflection, communication, and long term engagement.
I am a certified professional coach (ESSEC Executive Education) accredited at EMCC Practitioner level, and a Training Candidate at the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich. Coaching services are delivered within a non therapeutic professional framework and in accordance with the EMCC Global Code of Ethics. When issues fall outside the scope of coaching, referral to appropriate qualified healthcare professionals is recommended.
My training
Now Jungian analyst-in-training, CG Jung Institute Zurich, Küsnacht, Switzerland
2024 Certificate of Fundamentals of Analytical Psychology, CG Jung Institute Zurich, Küsnacht, Switzerland
2021 Advanced certificate in Coaching, Leadership & Change, ESSEC Business School, Paris, France. Thesis: "Coaching by image, a tool for transforming managerial practices in the era of hybrid work".
2000 MS in Non-Profit Management, New School for Social Research, NY, USA
1997 Diploma in English Philology, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia
Professional organizations
I am an accredited member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC Global) at Practitioner level. I abide by its code of ethics.
I am bound by professional secrecy.
My coaching practice benefits from regular supervision.
Languages spoken
English, French, Russian
Client testimonials
Zoe Toriello, Ruinart, International Brand Manager
“I had the privilege of working with Yury for the Moet Hennessy's DE&I initiative "Ageless Conversations" that I am the project leader for. "Ageless Conversations" is an internal initiative aimed at bridging the gap between generations by matching two employees of different ages so they can confront and inspire each other. I was looking for a coach who could facilitate two events to engage the program's participants, and Yury was exactly was I needed: a professional with a creative spirit, who understands organizational challenges and tackles them with an original approach, using art and images.
If you are looking for a new perspective on professional coaching, Yury is the one for you. After a session he facilitates, you will feel more inspired, more open-minded and more creative.”
Participant of “Image as language” workshop