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Fabrizio
Micciche,
Ph.D.

Executive coach, leadership strategist, and scientist. A background that is genuinely unusual in this field — and a coaching approach built directly from 15 years inside complex global organisations.

Fabrizio Micciche, Ph.D.
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Coaching at the highest level. Built on what came before.

Since founding Nexum Coaching in 2023, Fabrizio has coached over 150 professionals across Europe and beyond — working with senior leaders, high-potential cohorts, and organisations navigating transformation in banking, financial services, life sciences, and technology.

He holds a consistent 4.8/5 coaching impact rating at LHH and delivers programmes through EZRA's global digital coaching platform. He is a preferred coach at Eindhoven University of Technology — one of Europe's leading technical universities.

750+
Accredited coaching hours
150+
Leaders coached
4.8/5
Coaching impact rating
Current practice

Nexum Coaching

Founder. Executive and leadership coaching, career transition advisory, and organisational leadership development programs. Based in Breda, Netherlands.

Executive Coach

LHH · Lee Hecht Harrison

Coaching senior executives through career transitions and leadership development. Consistent 4.8/5 impact rating for relevance, depth, and transformation.

Executive Coach

EZRA Coaching

Delivering goal-focused coaching to global executives through a digital-first platform — part of EZRA's international network of executive coaches.

Preferred Coach

Eindhoven University of Technology

Supporting leadership, personal, and team development across academic and professional staff at one of Europe's leading technical universities.

The marks behind the work.

Fabrizio holds the highest professional certifications available in executive coaching and health and wellness coaching — earned through rigorous training, supervised practice, and ongoing development.

★  Gold standard in executive coaching
ICF-ACC
Associate Certified Coach · International Coaching Federation

The ICF is the world's largest and most respected professional coaching body. ACC certification requires 750+ hours of accredited coaching experience, mentor coaching, and demonstrated competency across the ICF core competency framework. It is the recognised standard for serious executive coaching practice — and the credential corporate organisations look for when engaging an external coach.

NBC-HWC
National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach

The NBC-HWC is awarded by the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching. It integrates evidence-based health science with professional coaching methodology — underpinning Fabrizio's neuroscience-informed approach to sustainable leadership performance, energy management, and resilience under pressure.

Ph.D. Chemistry

Eindhoven University of Technology · scientific rigour at the foundation of every engagement

Applied Neuroscience & Brain Health

Ongoing advanced training · informing the biological dimension of leadership performance

BLCN · Lean Six Sigma

Dutch professional coaching association · process excellence and analytical precision

15 years inside complex global organisations.

Before coaching, Fabrizio spent over 15 years as an Innovation Leader at SABIC and DSM — two of the world's largest materials science companies. He directed global innovation portfolios across EMEA and the US, led cross-functional teams through high-stakes R&D programs, and was appointed Global Subject Matter Expert for a specialty business line representing 40% of unit revenue.

He received 20+ global awards for leadership and innovation. He filed 30+ IP submissions and secured 10+ patents. He built and mentored teams in environments where the pressure was real, the decisions mattered, and the human dynamics were as complex as the technical challenges.

What he noticed throughout — consistently, across organisations, teams, and levels — was that the most important challenges were never technical. They were human. And they all traced back to the same place: the leader's relationship with themselves.

That observation became the conviction that Nexum is built on.

"I didn't come to coaching from the outside. I came from the inside of organisations — from the pressure, the complexity, and the moments where leadership either makes or breaks what's possible."
— Fabrizio, Ph.D. · Founder, Nexum Coaching

Why this matters for you

When Fabrizio sits with a senior leader navigating complexity, he is not applying a framework to a case study. He has been in the room — under the same pressures, facing the same dynamics, making the same kind of decisions. That experience is not a credential. It is the foundation of genuine understanding.

From science to leadership to coaching.

A path that is genuinely unusual — and that gives Fabrizio a perspective on leadership that combines scientific rigour, corporate depth, and professional coaching expertise in a way that very few practitioners can offer.

2023 — now
Active
Founder · Nexum Coaching

Executive coaching, leadership development programmes, and career transition advisory. 150+ leaders coached across Europe and beyond.

2023 — now
Active
Executive Coach · LHH · EZRA · TU/e

Coaching senior executives at LHH — 4.8/5 impact rating. Delivering coaching globally through EZRA. Preferred coach at Eindhoven University of Technology.

2007 — 2023
Innovation Leader · SABIC & DSM

Over 15 years directing global innovation portfolios across EMEA and the US. Global Subject Matter Expert at SABIC. 20+ awards. 10+ patents.

Ph.D. & Postdoc
Researcher · TU/e & TU Delft

Doctoral research in Chemistry at TU/e. Postdoctoral research at TU Delft. The scientific foundation underpinning a rigorous, evidence-based approach.

Why he coaches the way he does.

Fabrizio's approach was not designed in a classroom. It was built from what he observed across 15 years of leading, mentoring, and watching what actually makes the difference in how leaders perform.

The person before the role

Every coaching engagement starts with the human being, not the job title. Who are you? What do you believe? What patterns do you carry without knowing it? Until a leader answers these honestly, no technique makes a lasting difference.

Reflection as the mechanism

Fabrizio creates space — genuine space — for a leader to think, examine, and see themselves clearly. Not to be advised. Not to be told. But to arrive at their own clarity through the quality of the questions and the depth of presence he brings.

Science in service of humanity

The neuroscience and positive psychology are not frameworks applied from the outside. They are lenses that help leaders understand what is happening inside them — so they can make different choices, not just better resolutions.

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What makes Fabrizio different is that he has actually done what we do. He doesn't need it explained. That saves enormous time — and it means the coaching goes straight to what matters.
Chief Executive Officer
Technology Scale-up · 1:1 coaching client

Coaching in your language.

English

Fluent · primary coaching language

Italian

Native · coaching available

Spanish

Professional · coaching available

Dutch

Basic · Netherlands-based

Global reach. European base.

Based in Breda, Netherlands, Fabrizio delivers coaching and programs across Europe and internationally — in person where depth requires it, virtually where geography demands it.

Ready to start a conversation?

Every engagement begins with a complimentary
45-minute discovery conversation.

Confidential · No obligation · Genuine mutual fit assessment
fabrizio@nexumcoaching.com  ·  +31 6 1119 7191  ·  linkedin.com/in/fabrizio-micciche