Graziella Reis-Trani

Graziella Reis-Trani is the global alumni leader, ICEO at LHH and an executive and leadership development coach at GRT Coaching. 

As a coach, she empowers leaders to uncover unconscious patterns in their beliefs, behaviors and language to increase their impact by establishing new ways of being that bring self-awareness, emotional intelligence, confidence and better relationships.

Graziella has spent over 15 years working as a corporate alumni leader in three top global law firms before joining LHH to serve as the global alumni leader for the International Center for Executive Options. During this time, she has coached associates and alumni around professional development and career transition, developed multi-year alumni strategies, identified and executed alumni focused activities that supported business development and recruiting objectives. Graziella also helped design and launch an award-winning internal Coaching Office while serving as a Coaching Office Steering Committee member, mentor and coach.

Prior to that, Graziella spent a few years working at the United Nations, at not-for-profits (the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO), the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and the US Committee for UNDP), UN agency (UNDP) and the UN Secretariat (DPA, DPI).

Graziella holds an M.A. in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University’s School of International Service, a B.A. in International Relations from Tufts University and a certificate in Women’s Entrepreneurship from Cornell University. Graziella completed her coaching certification at the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) and currently holds an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential from the International Coaching Federation.  

While at Tufts, Graziella became involved with the Institute for Global Leadership her freshman year, when she worked for the IGL during their annual symposium. She continued her involvement by organizing an event with QUNO ahead of the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racial Intolerance. Graziella participated in the 2002-2003 (Global Inequities) EPIIC class, which explored the relationship between globalization and inequality. Inspired by that class and her experience at the UN, Graziella helped organize an IGL delegation to the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Graziella was born in Brazil and raised in NYC, having also lived in Boston and Washington, DC. This international upbringing has given her a great appreciation for exploring different countries and cultures any chance she gets. She loves music (especially live!), from classic rock and 90s pop to opera and classical and is always up for going to show or concert.

I met Graziella when she was a first-year Tufts student and work-study student at the Institute for Global Leadership. 

 Impressed by her discriminating demeanor, intellectual curiosity, and her organizational skills, always problem-solving with a ready smile, I hoped to attract her to EPIIC. 

Several years later, she found its topic relevant to her concerns and shone brightly as an important member of the Global Inequities colloquium and symposium. At my Institute, dedicated to nurturing leadership, it was immediately clear she was a confident and sensitive leader. 

I recognized Graziella's deep concern for environmental justice, water rights, and preserving nature, prioritizing sustainability. She conducted valuable independent research on the relationship of water and conflict. She could at once be thoroughly passionate yet always thoughtfully determined in an utterly steady and calm manner. 

She was a frequent and prized volunteer. As Vice President of the International Club, she was responsible for setting up university-wide culture shows and was extolled as one of the finest host advisors for Tufts International Orientation. 

Graziella's deep capacity, actually her strong instinct, is to help nurture and care about people, and she has dedicated herself to furthering principled policy at numerous NGOs.  

I knew of her love for music and saw her intermittently, especially at our IGL Carnegie Hall benefit concerts by Music for Life International, supporting Syrian refugees, or for the UN agency concerned with preventing gender-based violence and protecting women.  

A fiercely independent and powerful advocate for women's empowerment, she possesses a deep sense of justice and commitment to equality and equity. 

Graziella is an impressive, thoughtful, and compassionate person. A highly sought-after corporate alumni leader, executive coach and mentor, she is the quintessential Convisero member, fusing knowledge, acumen, human and emotional intelligence skills, and integrity in a superbly professional manner.