Build Organisations Where People and Performance Thrive
Helping leaders navigate change, build resilient teams, and create cultures that perform.
Whether you are managing rapid growth, driving digital transformation, or building the leadership capability to sustain high performance, we work with the people who make it happen.
Extensive Fortune 500 leadership · Europe · Americas · Asia · Australia
Book a Discovery CallThe Evidence Is Clear
Organisations that invest in their people and build psychological safety consistently outperform those that don't.
76%
more engagement
in psychologically safe teams
Gallup / Harvard Business Review
50%
higher productivity
when psychological safety is high
Gartner / Gallup
27%
lower turnover
in high psychological safety teams
Google Project Aristotle
The Cost of Getting It Wrong
70%
of change initiatives fail
often due to people resistance, not strategy
McKinsey & Company
$8.8T
lost to disengagement globally
equivalent to 9% of global GDP
Gallup State of the Workplace, 2024
50%
of managers report burnout
driving attrition at the most critical level
Microsoft Work Trend Index
Google's Project Aristotle studied 180 teams and found psychological safety was the #1 predictor of team effectiveness. Not talent. Not resources. Not seniority. Safety.
Monika Gietz
Founder, Stoa Advisory
With extensive experience as a corporate senior executive across Fortune 500 companies in Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Americas, I've led global teams through complex transformations, restructures, and cross-border integrations.
I've seen first-hand what happens when organisations invest in their people properly, and what it costs when they don't. The organisations that will thrive aren't just the most technically advanced. They're the ones where people feel safe enough to challenge, adapt, and do their best work.
I founded Stoa Advisory to help organisations build exactly that.
What We Do
We work with leaders and teams to navigate change, build capability, and create the conditions for sustained high performance.
Change & Transformation Support
Most transformation programmes focus on strategy, systems, and timelines. We focus on the missing piece: helping the people who actually have to change. We work with middle managers and operational teams to reduce resistance, build readiness, and ensure new processes and digital tools are adopted, not just rolled out.
Leadership Development
Building leaders who create the conditions for trust, high performance, and innovation. From frontline managers to senior executives, we equip leaders to navigate complexity, drive engagement, and build teams that deliver.
Psychosocial Risk & Safety Briefings
Focused briefing sessions that give boards, leadership teams, and HR professionals the clarity they need on psychosocial risk obligations, the 17 hazards, and what good looks like.
Learn more about our briefing sessionsMediation & Conflict Resolution
Skilled intervention to restore relationships, rebuild trust, and transform conflict into stronger collaboration.
Work Design Advisory
Redesigning how work is structured to create clarity, sustainability, and the conditions for people to do their best work.
The Outcome
Organisations that invest in their people don't just avoid problems. They outperform.
Change That Sticks
New processes and tools that are actually adopted. Transformation that delivers results because the people driving it are equipped and engaged.
Greater Innovation
When people feel safe to challenge the status quo, organisations adapt faster and innovate more boldly. The competitive edge in any market.
Stronger, Resilient Teams
Teams that collaborate effectively, stay longer, and perform through complexity. Leaders who build capability at every level.
Who This Is For
Best suited to organisations that:
Limited capacity maintained to ensure focused, high-impact support.
For Operational Leaders
Practical support to drive adoption, manage change, and build team performance.
For HR & People Teams
Tools to manage culture, risk, and leadership development strategically.
For Boards & Directors
Strategic oversight of organisational resilience and psychosocial risk.
For Senior Executives
Coaching and capability to lead through complexity and build high-performing cultures.
Credentials & Qualifications
Extensive Fortune 500 leadership · Europe · Americas · Asia · Australia
Master of Business
University of Applied Sciences Bremen
Psychosocial Risk Management
Bond University
Psychological Health and Safety at Work ISO 45003:2021
Risk Training Professionals
Change Management Practitioner
PROSCI
Diploma of Strategic Management
Macquarie Business School
SMART Work Design
Curtin University
Psychological Safety Leadership
Australian Institute of Management
Accredited Mediator
Australian Dispute Centre
Mental Health First Aider
MHFA Australia
Human-Centered Design
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