Where Talent Strategy Meets Leadership Experience
WHY “VIVARIA”
Growing Leaders. Strengthening Organizations
Organizations often know who their high performers are. They don’t always have an equally clear view of who is ready for the next level or what it will take to prepare them.
WHAT DO WE MEAN BY VIVARIA?
Meaning: The word comes from the Latin vīvārium, meaning “place of life” It recreates a specific ecosystem, raising, and observing organic life in conditions that mimic the natural environment.
As organizations grow, leadership complexity increases—and the loss of critical expertise or leadership capability can create significant strategic and operational risk.
The name Vivaria evokes environments designed to support careful cultivation and growth. That idea reflects our philosophy: leaders develop best when they have the right environment, experiences, feedback, and intentional support.
Vivaria Leadership Partners creates the conditions for leaders to grow into the responsibilities of their next level.
Vivaria Leadership brings together two perspectives that are rarely combined in one practice.
So what will it take to test and prepare those leaders for what’s ahead?
THE HR INSIDER’S PERSPECTIVE
We understand how organizations evaluate talent, think about succession, assess leadership potential, and make decisions about readiness.
THE BUSINESS LEADER’S PERSPECTIVE
We understand what it takes to lead teams, deliver results, navigate complexity, build influence, and earn credibility in demanding business environments. Together, these perspectives create a practical approach to cultivating leadership development that connects what organizations need with what leaders need to develop.
Meet Claire Marré
Managing Partner
Claire brings experience as an HR insider and global sales leader to the work of leadership assessment, succession, and executive development. She excels in offering a deeply practical human approach to compliment the technology driven world driven by rapid change.
Throughout her corporate and consulting career, Claire has worked at the intersection of people and performance helping organizations develop talent while understanding the business realities leaders face every day. She advocates for coaching as a key element in building a leader’s capacity for change.
Clients often engage with Claire while stepping into a new or expanded role, navigating a difficult team dynamic, or feeling called to become more strategic. Their work might involve strengthening leadership confidence, having difficult conversations, setting priorities, making consequential decisions, or moving beyond day-to-day demands to see the broader business landscape.
Her coaching philosophy supports the development of strategic visibility, authentic influence, and the key transition from execution to enterprise leadership for greatest impact at the next level. She partners with mid-level directors and VPs to help them to interpret the nuance of corporate diplomacy, building cross-functional alliances, and commanding a room with confidence.
Working with Claire
Claire’s clients describe her as warm, candid, and practical. She listens for patterns, asks thoughtful questions, and offers both support and accountability. Her approach combines useful reflection with constructive challenge, helping clients make clear connections between insight and action.
She encourages clients to consider not only how they can become more effective but also what success means on their own terms. The result is space to pause, gain perspective, and make more intentional choices about what comes next.
Credentials and Experience
Claire brings the credibility of a practitioner who has built impactful leadership development programs leveraging the learnings from her own global career. A certified coach since 2017, Claire credits hundreds of hours of deep conversations with leaders and teams with giving her a deep expertise and knowledge in a passion for coaching that she brings to every session.
15 years in Leadership Development and Talent Management in global Financial Services, Technology, and Healthcare Industries. She served as a trusted internal HR advisor to identify and develop high-potential talent, strengthen leadership capabilities, and build succession pipelines at scale.
10 years as a global sales and marketing leader in the UK, Germany, Mexico and the U.S.
ICF International Coaching Federation Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
Certified Leadership Coach: Center for Executive Coaching
Practitioner: Hogan Leadership & Team Assessments, Inside Out Coaching
Vivaria Leadership Partners: Our Global Network of Associate Partners
Vivaria Leadership Partners have a global network of associate partners who we collaborate with and support for global project work.