Leader Level

Leadership coaching is a personalized, collaborative process designed to improve how leaders perform, manage, and make decisions within their organizations. Unlike therapy, which focuses on healing past wounds, coaching is future-oriented and action-driven. Unlike consulting, where an expert tells you what to do, coaching equips you with the clarity and tools to lead effectively on your own. At Hive, we work with first-time managers and founders to build structural clarity around identity, expectations, and decision-making—so they stop reacting and start leading.

All three benefit, but at different stages. Founders need coaching when growth starts to strain the system and they’re solving problems that shouldn’t be theirs. First-time managers benefit most in their first 6–12 months, when they’re transitioning from doing the work to leading others. Teams benefit when there’s misalignment, low trust, or siloed work. At Hive, we specialize in all three layers—leaders, teams, and organizational clarity—because sustainable growth requires clarity at every level.

Executive coaching focuses on the development of an individual leader—helping them strengthen their leadership style, navigate difficult situations, and increase their effectiveness. Team coaching works with the leadership team as a system to improve how the team aligns, communicates, makes decisions, manages conflict, and takes collective responsibility. At Hive, we offer both, depending on whether the primary challenge sits with an individual leader or the team as a whole.

Hive provides executive coaching, systemic team coaching, first-time manager training, leadership and AI adoption workshops, leadership offsites, leadership assessments, and keynote speaking. Every partnership is tailored to the organization’s context, leadership level, and business challenges—rather than delivered as a fixed programme.

Yes. We offer both individual executive and leadership coaching for managers taking on greater responsibility, as well as team coaching for leadership groups. Individual coaching supports managers as they develop their leadership style, navigate difficult situations, and strengthen their effectiveness. Team coaching addresses alignment, communication, decision-making, and collective accountability across the leadership layer.

The Leadership Accelerator programme covers the practical skills required to transition from individual contributor to people leader, including delegation, feedback, difficult conversations, communication, decision-making, team motivation, and leadership identity. It’s backed by science, built for scale, and powered by clarity—so new managers can lead with confidence from day one.

Yes. Training and workshops can be adapted to your organization’s context, leadership level, business challenges, and development priorities—rather than delivered as a fixed programme. We diagnose your specific needs first, then tailor the content, format, and delivery to match your reality.

Most professional coaching engagements last 4–6 months, with bi-weekly or monthly sessions of 60–90 minutes. Clients typically see clearer focus, calmer weeks, and improved decision-making within the first few sessions. By month 3–4, managers report leading with more confidence, teams show better alignment, and founders reclaim significant time by delegating effectively.

Yes. Hive is based in Barcelona and serves clients across Spain, including Madrid. We offer both in-person sessions (for local teams) and online coaching via video call for remote or hybrid teams. Our work is tailored to your context—whether you’re a startup in Poblenou, a scale-up in Salamanca, or a distributed team across Europe.

Hive is based in Barcelona and works with clients across Spain and Europe, both in person and online. Services are available in English, Spanish, and Catalan—so you can work in the language that feels most natural for your team.

Yes. At Hive, we maintain strict confidentiality. We share progress themes and metrics only with your consent. The coaching space is yours to explore challenges, blind spots, and growth areas without fear of judgment or exposure.

Because you need someone who’s been in the room when everything was on fire. Most leadership coaches come from psychology, HR, or generic coaching backgrounds. They’re great at mindset work—but they haven’t scaled a startup, managed a leadership layer under pressure, or built systems that work when growth gets chaotic.

Alicia Rius, founder of Hive, is an ICF PCC-certified coach, former startup COO and co-founder, creator of The 4Ps Leadership Framework, published author of Lead With Clarity, and trusted by institutions like Foment del Treball. You’re not getting generic coaching. You’re getting battle-tested clarity from someone who’s built leadership pipelines, navigated international expansion, and turned high-performers into confident leaders—without the burnout.