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"Everyone should be a Lead!"
Team and Leadership Consulting for Game and Creative Studios
Services:
I help creative and high-performance teams work better together, grow faster, and deliver higherquality results without burining out.
My approach is practical, experience-driven, and biult on years of leading multidisciplinary teams in the videogame industry.
Art Direction and Visual Coherence
I help teams define and mantain a clear, consistent art direction aligned with product goals, production constraints and team capabilities.
My focus is on scalable, production-ready art direction, not just aesthetic.
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Focus:
- Visual vision and style definition
- Consistency across content and features
- Alignment with product constraints
- Cross teasm visual communicaiton
Leadership Formation
Great individual contributors don't automatically become great leaders.
I suport new and gorwing leads in develping the skills needed to guide teams with confidence, clarity, and empathy.
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Focus:
- Transition from IC to Lead
- Leadership mindset and responsabilities
- Trust-based leadership
- Clear direction without micromanagement
Process optimization for high-end performance teams
I analyze existing workflows and production pipelines to identify friction points, bottlenecks and inefficiencies.
Then I helo teams define clear, realistic processes that improve speed, quality and predictability without over-engeneering or killing creativity
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Focus:
- Production Workflows
- Art and cross-discipline pipelines
- Decision-making clarity
- Scalable processes 
Team performance reviews and individual growth
I run strutctured performance reviews for teams, focusing on growth, clarity and motiviation, not fear or bureaucracy.​
Each team member receives actionable feedback and a clear development path, aligned with both personal and team needs.
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Focus:
- Individual strenght and blind spots
- Growth plans
- Role clarity
- Motiviation and ownership
Cross-team communication and alignment
Misalignment between departments is one of the biggest productivity killers.
I help teams speak the same language, clarify responsabilities, and improve feedback loops between Art, Design, Tech, Product and Marketing.
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Focus:
- Cross-Team communication
 - Feedback structure
- Ownership and Accountability
- Reducing misunderstanding and rework
Team performance improvement through friction reduction
Many teams don't fail because of lack of talent, but because internal and external frictions. I help team focus on what really matters, avoiding or minimizing organizational, communication-based or process related frictions.
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Focus:
- Internal team dynamics
- External dependencies
- Process overload
- Context switching and congnitive load.
Why me?
Everyone should be a lead
Transparency, wellbeing and attitude
I believe every team member should understand the vision, strategy and reasoning behind decisions, not just execute tasks. Shared context creates autonomy, resilience and conitnuity.
High performance doesn't come from pressure. I promote transparency, sustainable pace, healty team dynamics, and attitude over skills, with zero tolerance for toxic behaviors.
Teaching people how to think
I help people grow by reasoning through problems, not by giving ready-made answers. This builds ownership, confidence and better decision-making at every level.
Logic over Ego
Responsibilities should live where the best information is.
Decisions are driven by data, context and goals, not hierarchy or personal preferences.

© 2015 by Damiano De Cataldo. All images and designs are copyrighted by their respective owners. Permission is needed for any use.

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