Executive Coaches in Private Practice

Website: www.sistersmart.com
E-mail: [email protected]

Through my human-first approach, backed by proven social science research and strategies, I’ve helped hundreds of incredible women evolve and develop their leadership style to excel in their roles, amplify their success and build thriving, productive teams. With a career spanning 25 years in corporate marketing followed by my entrepreneurial endeavors, I have first-hand experience with the challenges women face as leaders working in male-dominated fields.

Typically when clients come to me, it’s because their career has stagnated and they don’t know where to start or how to go about taking things to the next level. They’re extraordinary women with phenomenal talent, tenacity, and drive… But they’re stuck. They’re overworked, overwhelmed, and too busy dealing with a never-ending to-do list to focus on doing the work that *actually* moves the needle.

Website: www.naylabahri.com
E-mail: [email protected]

Dr. Nayla Bahri is a coach, leadership educator, designer, teacher, facilitator, speaker and advisor. Her work reflects both a sense of purpose and a sense of humor. Nayla’s coaching clients are professionals seeking or facing career disruption, looking to work with greater meaning and effectiveness across industries and levels. She partners with clients to create greater insight and clarity, generate new ideas and options, and to take action that moves them in the direction that best suits their goals, desires and needs. Nayla also specializes in leadership development, high potentials, women’s leadership, and team effectiveness.

Nayla has extensive training in the social/emotional intelligence, group dynamics, conflict resolution, appreciative inquiry, action learning, and counseling and coaching. Nayla earned her AB in English Literature and French Studies from Smith College, a master’s degree in Education from the University of Pennsylvania, and her doctorate in Adult Learning and Leadership at Columbia University. Nayla was the longtime Dean of Students in the MBA Program at Columbia Business School and teaches at Columba University and with the Institute for Personal Leadership. Nayla spent many years as a founder of a talent management practice at a medical devices company, where she was responsible for the learning and development function for 4,000 employees globally.

E-mail: [email protected]

As a global health consultant and leadership coach, Tricia Bolender advises governments, nonprofits, foundations, and Fortune 500 companies and senior leaders on strategy, innovation, and impact.  She serves as Faculty at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, where she partners with governments in low- and middle-income countries to accelerate affordable access to high quality health care through systems change and improvement.  Having worked across Asia and Africa, she is passionate about applying global health innovations to help improve US healthcare.  She received her BA from Harvard University, MBA from Columbia Business School and MA in International Affairs from Columbia University.  She has served on the Board of Directors and Advisory Boards of several non-profits in the health and education fields, including Minds Matter, Kangu, and Unite for Sight.  Her current focus is on authentic leadership, behavior change, and organizational effectiveness.

As a coach, Tricia helps individuals and leaders during times of significant transitions (assuming more leadership, shifting industries, re-entering the workforce, moving geographies, first 90 days, etc) and gain greater clarity on what matters most.

Website: www.chanexecutivecoach.com
E-mail: [email protected]

Margaret Chan is an Executive Coach who works with professionals seeking career advice, making career transitions, and returning to work after career breaks. Her experience includes guiding self-assessment; developing resumes, and career and networking strategies; preparing for interviews; and supporting her clients to build confidence throughout the process. 

She has a 25-year career in executive search advising professionals making career transitions. She spent 18 years at Spencer Stuart and Korn/Ferry International, the global executive search firms where she counseled hiring executives at Fortune 500, mid-size, startup and nonprofit organizations on recruiting strategies. She has assessed over 3,500 executives and has deep experience with successful networking and interviewing strategies, and resume preparation. She has also led webinars for business schools on strategies for women alumni returning to work after career breaks.

Margaret has industry experience in financial services, insurance, consumer products, retail, technology, healthcare, consulting and nonprofit. She has in-depth knowledge of a broad range of functions, including general management/business heads, finance, strategy, marketing, communications, sales, operations, consulting and nonprofit development. 

She had an earlier marketing career at General Foods, Citigroup and Oppenheimer Management. She earned an MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University where she was in an accelerated one-year program. She holds a BS with honors from New York University. Margaret serves as a board member for the West Side YMCA, New York. She and her husband live in New York City with their two children.

Phone: 212-874-0175
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ellischase.com

Mr. Chase has had a diversified, extensive experience in career and executive coaching, management consulting, and training in corporations, consulting companies, private practice, and colleges and universities.

In his 13 years as retained consultant to Columbia Business School, Ellis has worked extensively with EMBA students and alumni from around the world.

He currently maintains a varied consulting practice. Corporate clients have included Deloitte, General Electric, Estee Lauder, Goldman Sachs, The Gartner Group, Purdue Pharma, Swiss Re America, ING Capital, Penguin Putnam, American Civil Liberties Union, Hess Corporation, and Citigroup.

His employment history includes several years as Managing Director at Right Management Consultants and Systems Staffing Officer with the Chase Manhattan Bank.

He was an instructor with the Center for Career, Education, and Life Planning at New York University from 1987-2006, and, since 2001, has been a retained consultant to Columbia Business School in Alumni Relations, Career Management, and the Program for Social Intelligence. He has appeared on CNN, CNBC, and has been a regular contributor to a wide variety of media outlets.

His first book, In Search of the Fun-Forever Job: Career Strategies That Work , was released in April, 2013.

Mr. Chase holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and a Masters Degree in English and Secondary Education, both from New York University.

Phone: +852 9096 9005
E-mail: [email protected]

As a coach, Sherman Chin leverages his extensive experience in executive search. He works with individuals to understand employment markets and opportunities, plan career transitions, prepare resumes and LinkedIn profiles, practice interviews and negotiate offers. Based in Hong Kong, Sherman is particularly experienced in career coaching for the Asia Pacific region. He has coached individuals in Asia, the Americas and Europe, usually via Zoom. Sherman is a Certified Hogan Assessor and completed an Executive Coaching course at Cambridge University.  He usually works with alumni with 12+ years of experience considering a career move. More recently, he has helped new alumni managing their career progression and leadership skills in the first few years after business school. Sherman’s clients have commented that his approach is practical and focused, in terms of helping individuals to identify and reach their career aspirations.

Earlier in his career, Sherman was the Head of Leadership Development for Credit Suisse in Asia Pacific, where he was responsible for development programs and coaching for Directors and Managing Directors across all divisions of the bank. He has worked at the executive search firms Heidrick & Struggles and Odgers Berndtson and is currently a Partner at Signium. Born and raised in New York, Sherman moved to Asia over 25 years ago.  He completed his MIA at SIPA in 1990 and his MA in Political Science at GSAS in 1994. Sherman often advises Columbia alumni in Asia. He is currently a member of the Board of the Columbia Alumni Association of Hong Kong.

Phone: 917-929-8538
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.careercoachny.com

Roy Cohen ’85 has substantial experience as a career counselor working with sell-side and buy-side clients, i.e., investment banking, research, private equity, corporate development, hedge funds, venture capital, etc., and clients in management consulting, marketing, branding and strategy. His book, The Wall Street Professional's Survival Guide, was released by Financial Times Press in June 2010.

Phone: 914-263-3414
E-mail: l[email protected]
Website: www.careersculpt.com

Liz Colodny coaches professionals globally from all industries and functional areas. She has been a staffing executive in the financial services, consumer product, professional services and manufacturing industries.  Liz has also worked in executive search and for a premiere outplacement firm.  Her coaching expertise includes job search strategy, effective networking, interviewing, résumé, cover letter and LinkedIn profile development, offer negotiation and on-boarding.

Phone: 646-389-3748
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.thewriteresume.com

Francis de la Cruz '08 specializes in helping qualified candidates launch, manage, and advance their careers in investment banking. He also helps mid-career professionals and executives transition to the buy side by providing carefully-crafted resumes, cover letters, executive bios, LinkedIn profiles, and career coaching to win the recruiting and interview process. Francis has 12+ years of Wall Street experience and has served over 1,000 clients as a professional resume writer since launching his consulting venture in 2009. His clients have earned offers from all of the big banks and appreciate his unique dedication and personalized approach.

Francis holds a BA in History from Harvard University and an MBA from Columbia Business School, and is a Certified Professional Resume Writer.

Phone: 302-542-1887
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.erinewart.com

Erin Ewart is an experienced recruiter and career coach, and a 2009 graduate of Columbia Business School. She has over 15 years of experience leading executive searches and helping organizations develop and improve their recruitment strategies, and an insider's perspective on what recruiters and hiring managers are looking for.  She uses this knowledge to help mid-career professionals navigate the job search process, with a focus on tangible, action-oriented coaching and feedback on everything from your elevator pitch to your resume and interview skills.

Erin has worked for a diverse set of organizations including Google, the U.S. State Department, and KIPP, the nation's largest charter school network, and she understands the nuances and challenges of the public, private, and social sectors. Her areas of expertise include working with social impact professionals, sector switchers, and those returning to the workforce after running their own businesses or taking a career break. She is based in Seattle, Washington and works with clients remotely anywhere in the country or the world.

Phone: 203-637-3500
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.JobWhiz.com

Debra Feldman of JobWhiz is an international executive talent agent. After she discovers your most valuable niche and conducts a thorough employer market analysis, she positions you to command respect and focuses your campaign to attract targeted opportunities and establish key networking connections matching your requirements. Then, as your loyal representative, she researches, identifies and makes discreet, confidential introductions to hiring decision makers, not HR bypassing gatekeepers and automated screening systems. Debra specializes in career changers, industry switchers, and job market re-entry candidates across all industries and functional roles and provides outsourcing and support for job searching tasks, corporate due diligence and compelling correspondence.

Phone: 646-256-5323
E-mail: [email protected]
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/charlesgates

Charly’s coaching draws upon his extensive experience in banking, capital markets, derivatives, hedge funds and consulting. Charly helped found Citi’s derivatives business, and the World Bank establish its swap program. He subsequently built different capital markets businesses at First Chicago (now part of JPMorgan Chase-currency swaps), S.G. Warburg (now part of UBS-private placements and gold swaps), HSBC (derivatives marketing) and Rabobank (credit derivatives). He co-headed the Credit Risk Management consulting practice at Deloitte & Touche, and was SVP at FRM, a premier UK fund of hedge funds (now part of Man Group). As a consultant and expert witness, he serves many premier financial institutions and regulatory agencies.

Charly has been a career coach at Columbia Business School since 2008, and has worked with hundreds of experienced professionals in transition, many of them international. He is noted for his genuine interest, clarity of process, and candid advice. He has taught Negotiating Skills for Women for Barnard and Smith alumnae and Leadership in Deal-Making for the Leadership Center at Columbia. He helps clients develop leadership skills, implement transition and promotion strategies, conduct effective networking, and achieve success within a work-life balance.

Charly holds an MBA-Finance from Columbia Business School, and a BA-Sociology from Yale. He is a member of the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP), Capital Markets Credit Analysts Society (CMCAS), Fixed Income Analyst Society (FIASI), Association for Talent Development (ATD-NYC), and National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI-NYC).

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: 917-656-6487

I am a former executive who became a psychotherapist and focus on helping other high-achievers define and achieve success in the workplace.   I work with adults who want to live happier and more connected lives.  I have a particular interest in supporting women through career or relationship transitions, and guiding the balance of personal responsibilities.  I see coaching as a helpful tool to develop insight through a collaborative, empathic, and supportive process.  Clients leave energized and able to articulate, clarify, and achieve their goals.

I graduated from Columbia in ’02, worked in media and technology as a marketer until pivoting to coaching and psychotherapy.  Given my experience having built and launched brands for both startups and corporations, I often coach entrepreneurs and small business owners who need help prioritizing the needs of their businesses and themselves.

Website: https://www.karenrgrayllc.com/ 
E-mail: [email protected]

Karen Gray is an executive, career and team coach as well as Adjunct Faculty at Fashion Institute of Technology.  She has a private practice and works with Lee Hecht Harrison coaching professionals in transition.  In her executive coaching, Karen works with leaders who wish to increase their interpersonal effectiveness, are in transition and those who are developing new strategies.  In her career coaching, she works with a diverse range of clients at every career stage across many industries and specialties.

Karen’s business background includes work as a fashion retail executive and as an organizational development professional with extensive experience leading business units, coaching leaders and developing teams.  As Vice President of Retail and Global Development for the iconic brand, EILEEN FISHER, Karen was known for visionary leadership and developing leaders into roles which maximized their contributions.  Karen led the retail organization including all stores, buying, operations, real estate, customer service, retail marketing and global expansion into Canada and the UK.  

Karen came to EILEEN FISHER following work in the financial services industry as well as women’s and children’s apparel.  Her educational background includes a B.A. from Smith College, an M.B.A. from Columbia University Graduate School of Business, Masters in Positive Organizational Development from Case Western Reserve University, and a certificate in professional coaching from iCoachNY and Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business.  She is also a certified MBTI practitioner.

Website: https://www.petergraysearch.com/book-coaching
E-mail: [email protected]

There is so much confusion and misunderstanding around how to look for jobs, and how to manage our careers for upward mobility. Too often, our search for opportunities faces a demoralizing “wall of silence.” I have spent over 20 years behind that “wall of silence” as an executive recruiter. I advise hiring gatekeepers and decision-makers on which applicants to interview, which interviewees to call back, and which finalist to hire. That experience has trained me to recognize patterns in how they think and behave at each stage in the hiring process.

Coaching is my way to share those insights. Think of me as your personal spy from behind the hiring “wall of silence.” Working together, let's craft a winning plan for you to reach your career goals.

Website: https://nextnewgrowth.com
E-mail: [email protected]

My coaching style is much more than just empowering dialogue. We will be highly interactive, and you can expect to tap all aspects of your wisdom, skills, intuition … even body language, as well as some “geography”.  Weekly (or bi-weekly) sessions are always tailored to your needs, and involve your head, hands & heart.  You are in charge of the topic, while I am responsible for how we get to what you want.  You walk away with something meaningful and fully actionable after each call, as I am ever mindful of your over-arching goal: the reason(s) you came to coaching in the first place.  Together you will find clarity of insight, motivation and energy for next steps, plus a way to build on your learnings week by week, so we quickly evoke the transformation you seek.  See the 4-minute video about my coaching framework and philosophy here:  https://nextnewgrowth.com/value-of-executive-coaching-engagements

Ideal Clients: Many of my clients are CFOs, COOs, VPs of Finance, VPs of Operations – either in career transition, or longing for balance, fulfillment and resilience.  We may be an ideal match if you’ve just landed an important new role, or you’re about to, and you realize the actions you take in your first 3 months in a new job will significantly determine whether you fail or succeed.  With me as a Transitions Coach you can expect to (1) Develop a strategic plan to hit the ground running, (2) Define your A-List priorities, (3) Identify potential early wins, and (4) Win others over.  Ideal clients often work in finance or  in private equity; they value that my coaching is combined with 25-years of success at organizations of all sizes, both private and public – including as an Operations CFO for an F500 company, and as a VP of Operations at a Fortune 10.  High-visibility roles have honed a very adaptable way of partnering with each coaching client, and I’ve  been dubbed "a catalyst" by Fortune 500 CEO Kent Thiry. Learn more at: https://nextnewgrowth.com/about-executive-coach-edith-hamilton

Website: https://advisoryalliance.com
E-mail: [email protected]

David Harper is Managing Principal of The Advisory Alliance. A skilled business executive with a proven record in both domestic and international markets, he has more than 20 years’ consulting and leadership experience, with expertise in business and operations management, as well as leadership development and organizational change.

David has personally worked with clients on a variety of issues, including:

• 9- to 18-month Executive Coaching programs for high potential senior executives, developing Vice Presidents and above for their next-level role.
• Design and delivery of the flagship 4-day Leadership Development program for all District Managers of a #1 category U.S. national retailer (1,100+ stores; 22,000 employees) to foster better strategic thinking, improved customer service and experience, and increased in-store sales
• Turnaround change management for 26,000 employees of a Fortune 500 US financial services corporation, developing a customer-focused culture in a climate that had undergone extensive rationalization

He is a Beta Gamma Sigma Medal recipient and graduate from Columbia University Graduate School of Business (MBA, Finance and Management), and holds a Bachelors of Business Administration as well as a BA in Psychology from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Phone: 917-825-9595
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: hellmannconsulting.com

Robert Hellmann has helped thousands to define and reach their career goals through his private coaching practice and seminars. Rob is a certified Five O’Clock Club “Master” career and executive coach; he co-developed the Club's career coaching program, and co-leads new coach training. He’s also an adjunct professor at NYU, and a corporate trainer on Presentations, Pitches, LinkedIn, Interviewing and Team-building.   

Rob has authored the books Advanced LinkedIn, PEAK Presentations and Your Social Media Job Search. He has contributed three chapters to the Five O'Clock Club's Work Smarts: Be a Winner On-the-Job. Rob is a regular contributor at Forbes, and his career-related insights have also appeared in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, NBC News, ABC News, and more.

Rob combines his 20 years in corporate marketing, finance and organizational development roles (JP Morgan Chase, American Express, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York) with his coaching experience to help people market themselves in their job searches and careers. He has an MBA in Finance from Fordham University and a BS in Economics/Math from Binghamton University.

Phone: +34 93 415 2382 (Barcelona)
Skype: Cynthia.Indriso
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.CynthiaIndriso.com, www.Kenblanchard.com

Cynthia Indriso designs and delivers leadership coaching and training solutions for both global public and private sector organizations in a variety of industries. As an executive and leadership coach, her core competency is leadership development through coaching of C-suite and senior executives, and across middle management, who are leading change and committed to creating a culture of leadership, especially among culturally diverse stakeholders.

From her decades-long experience living and working internationally, Cynthia’s innate sensibility to the local cultural context combined with a global business mindset is at the heart of her work. She is an active thinking partner in helping business leaders with practical strategies that merge seamlessly with their day-to-day, with a style that’s insightful, direct, forward moving, and results-focused. Clients say that she helps them easily and quickly transform the way they lead for bigger and better impact and results.

Cynthia is also a Channel Partner, EMEA-LATAM, for the Ken Blanchard Companies, known for its leadership program, Situational Leadership II, based on their book, Leadership and the One-Minute Manager. She is certified to deliver this program, along with a portfolio of other Blanchard leadership training and leadership assessments, as stand-alone learning experiences or as integrated components paired with other training for a broader design based on client organizational and individual needs.

Cynthia has a BA in anthropology from Connecticut College, New London, and an MPH from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She is also a certified Master NLP Practitioner, and certified in the delivery of various leadership development tools, including: DISC, 360 Feedback (Voices Multi-Rater by Lominger/Korn-Ferry & the Booth Company’s Clark Wilson’s Task Cycle Surveys), and the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI).

For the last 10 years, as the founder and CEO of her own leadership training and coaching services company based in Barcelona, Cynthia has been working on mainstreaming leadership development and coaching into organization development initiatives.

Website: www.performanagement.com
E-mail: [email protected]

Isabella offers business and multicultural coaching, career counseling and leadership development programs to support anyone express their full potential, with her active listening and solution-oriented coaching skills. She enables her clients leverage their unique identity and accomplish impactful goals by encouraging them identify myriad creative and sustainable strategies that can succeed in such diverse ecosystems as: multinationals, government entities, United Nations and European Union agencies, so every client can live the life they desire. Her latest publication is a translation into English of coaching “anti” manual: “Managers are Alone”.

Isabella relies on 30 years of experience which includes working in advertising, marketing, finance, telecommunications, insurance brokerage, professional acting, as well as several certifications and continuous training, to offer the most value to clients experiencing change processes and career transitions, who want to succeed in complex, especially multicultural, contexts since Isabella coaches at mother tongue level in English, Portuguese and Italian, is fluent in French, with working knowledge of Spanish. Isabella is proud to be the President of the CBS Alumni Club in Rome, Italy and to volunteer as mentor for the Professional Women’s Network (PWN). She always has her three passports and bicycle ready. Expert also in coaching via video-call, Isabella is available for a free 1st consultation on the phone (Skype and WhatsApp).

Phone: 212-289-3540
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.JillLauri.com

Jill Lauri ’87, MSW, uses innovative and spiritual approaches to career management and transition. Her techniques release creativity and transform uncertainty into possibility. Jill shows clients how to attract new opportunities, using universal principles like the law of attraction. She helps people find their passion, so that they can live with authenticity and purpose. Jill also coaches groups on a variety of customized themes including how to Capitalize on Stress,Transform with Creativity, Morph Change into Opportunity, Boost Your Career with Intuition, Grow Your Business Using Spiritual Practices and Move Beyond Traumatic Events.

E-mail: [email protected]

Lindsey Honari is a graduate of both Columbia’s Graduate School of Business and SIPA. She helps mid-career professionals find or change jobs, mothers returning to the workforce and leaders on the rise.

She began her finance career at Salomon/Smith Barney (Citibank) and worked at Cambridge Associates as an Investment Consultant to endowments and foundations. Her true passion – to empower people to succeed in their careers – led her into Career and Executive Coaching.

Areas of expertise include mid-career professionals, career changers, mothers returning to work, and careers in finance, consulting and energy. Given her Houston, Texas location, she works remotely by phone or Skype, and has clients across the globe.

An experienced and compassionate coach, she is certified in Lominger Voices™ 360˚, Hogan Assessment Systems and Career Leader. She guides people of all ages and stages of their professional careers, helping them to articulate their goals, skills and experience into narratives that build confidence and resonate with employers.

Website: www.thefreshairproject.com
E-mail: [email protected]

Devon coaches executives and leaders who want to achieve greater impact and feel more energized. Every leader reaches a place where they feel stuck in a situation or familiar cycle, usually in a few key areas:

• Influencing key partners and managing politics, including conflict management and engaging in negotiations that achieve your goals
• Creating a professional identity beyond your organization - broadening your network, being seen as an expert in your field
• Developing a leadership style and executive presence that creates genuine loyalty, strong cultures, and higher performance 
• Feeling more energized and fulfilled in work and life - enjoying the success you’ve achieved

This is the work we do in coaching to create sustainable success that leaves you feeling valued, purpose-driven and with energy to spare.

Before becoming an executive coach, Devon spent twenty years taking on successively larger leadership roles in Fortune 100 companies, most recently as the Managing Director and Chief Marketing Officer of the Americas at BlackRock. She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and an MA in Counseling. She is a certified Executive Coach from Columbia University and is pursuing her Ph.D. at Oxford University, where she leads research on creating healthier & higher-performing businesses. Devon is based in San Francisco and works with clients globally.

Phone: 732-494-6635
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.linkedin.com/in/robertmckiernan 

With over 15 years of providing career advisory services exclusively and with a unique blend of career management, human resources and marketing credentials, Bob McKiernan ’73 is dedicated to and has a demonstrated record of assisting his clients gain greater satisfaction and control over their own professional lives.

In addition to serving as executive coach addressing career development issues, Bob’s broad based credentials enable him to create complete but tailored job search campaigns for his clients who either want to remain within their discipline/industry as well as those desiring some type of career change.

E-mail: [email protected]

Sandra is an Executive, Leadership and Wellness Coach with extensive experience working with MBA students and alumni, entrepreneurs, career changers, parents, and anyone seeking a balanced and fulfilled life.  

Sandra has spent a decade of her career working in higher education with MBA students and alumni, which is where she initially began serving as a coach.  As former Senior Associate Director of the Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center at Columbia Business School, she was responsible for the Center’s programming and events in addition to working with entrepreneurs one-on-one, coaching them to achieve their goals.  Before joining Columbia Business School, she was part of the Academic Affairs team at NYU Stern School of Business and also managed the Ross Leadership Initiative at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. With a background in public relations, Sandra has always been an advocate for her clients’ success.  This dedication has translated into her coaching practice, where she supports individuals from all backgrounds in living their best lives.

Sandra received her Bachelor’s degree in Communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a member of the International Coaching Federation, and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach trained by the Coaches Training Institute.  With a passion for well-being, Sandra is also a certified yoga and meditation instructor. Sandra lives in New York City with her husband and two girls.

Phone: 973-868-8847
E-mail: [email protected]

Buddy Moran is President of Elston Associates, a professional services firm offering coaching services to executives in numerous industries and across multiple functions including Finance, Consulting, CD / Strategy, HR, Marketing, IT, and BD / Sales. Elston Associates’ market-driven and customized strategies address a range of professional challenges including accelerating individual performance / growth, developing “high” potentials, on-boarding executives into new roles / organizations, compensation and promotion positioning, navigating job / career transitions, job crisis management, and fast-tracking leadership / management development.

Previously, Buddy was a Vice President, M&A, and a member of the Executive Committee of Siemens Corporation ($21 billion revenue). He is also a former Board member of Siemens Building Technologies and Siemens Financial Services, as well as a former member of the Siemens Investment Committee ($8 billion pension plan). In addition to an MBA from Columbia he has an AB degree from Princeton.

Phone: 917-628-9959
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ignitecareeradvancement.com

Colleen Overlock is a Columbia University Certified Coach, specializing in executive coaching and career transitions. She partners with mid-career to senior level professionals looking to develop capabilities to maximize their impact and value Colleen’s approach is customized to individual objectives and challenges. She partners with the leader to set goals, identify measure of success and develop an action plan for getting there. Her clients build greater awareness of their strengths and weaknesses and develop new approaches to be more effective leaders. Colleen is certified in the Neething Brain Inventory (NBI) and Hogan assessment tools.

Colleen has deep understanding of individual and organizational dynamics. She leverages her 15 years of experience in the financial services sector where she implemented business plans and executed communication strategies. Colleen’s experience as a Chief Operating Officer in Global Capital Markets enables her to work with professionals across industries and titles to develop quantifiable and measurable steps that ensure goals are met and expectations exceeded.

Website: www.brightevolutioncoach.com 
Email: [email protected]

An Executive Coach and career management expert, Bryn Panee Burkhart has successfully guided over 2,000 mid-career professionals and senior business leaders, from startups to Fortune 100 firms, helping them navigate critical career transition points and leadership challenges.

As Founder of Bright Evolution Leadership Coaching, Bryn’s philosophy is that we are all works-in-progress and should seek to evolve in ways that leverage our natural strengths and give us a sense of purpose. She coaches her clients to be intentional about their leadership strategy and authentic to who they are. They can then move forward with confidence and cultivate more meaningful lives and careers.

Bryn’s coaching style is positive, direct, and practical. She follows a “clear is kind” ethos and comes to each coaching session ready to have real conversations, deliver honest and productive feedback, provide structure to the process, and hold clients accountable for taking action. She specializes in working with women, those who have been historically minoritized and those who are seeking to return to work following a career break. Bryn holds a B.A. in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an Ed.M from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. She completed her Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) training through the Co-Active Training Institute and is a PCC with the International Coaching Federation. She is certified in Gallup Clifton Strengths, MBTI, and is completing her certification in Positive Intelligence.

Phone: 917.940.6680
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.resumemama.com

Janet Raiffa is a former coach and career adviser for full-time MBAs at Columbia Business School, and current featured external resume writer for CBS alumni and Wharton MBA students. She also served as an external resume reviewer for Yale SOM. During her six years working at Columbia Business School she advised students across industry targets, but specialized in working with those seeking careers in finance, including investment banking, sales & trading, and asset and wealth management. She also introduced a new standardized resume template and training. Beyond academia, Janet has 15 years experience as a campus, lateral, and diversity recruiter and manager, including stints in consulting (PWC, BCG), law (Orrick Herrington) and banking (Goldman Sachs).  During nine years at Goldman she hired talent for the firm's offices in New York, London, and Bangalore, and began many gender focused diversity initiatives and Wall Street's first GLBT recruiting series.  Now. as a dedicated resume writer, her specialties include "Americanizing" international resumes, "youthening" Boomer resumes, and working with both women and men who are on-ramping after years out of the workplace and/or seeking entry into returnship programs. On the global front, she has worked with MBA graduates and other high achieving professionals in countries including Russia, Kenya, Brazil, South Africa, Japan, France, and Australia. Janet holds a degree in English Literature from Dartmouth College, and an MA in American Studies from Columbia's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Website: https://joshuaspodek.com/bio

E-mail: [email protected]

Joshua Spodek PhD MBA (CBS ’06), award-winning Professor of leadership and entrepreneurship at NYU, 3-time TEDx speaker, bestselling author of Leadership Step by Step and Initiative, and host of the award-winning This Sustainable Life podcast, coaches executives, entrepreneurs, and rising leaders, with over a decade of experience coaching and over two decades of leadership experience.

Joshua is a world leader in environmental/sustainability leadership executive training.

He is also a professor at NYU and leadership coach for Columbia Business School. He leads keynote talks, seminars, and workshops in leadership, entrepreneurship, creativity, and sales.

He holds five Ivy League degrees, including an MBA and PhD in Astrophysics, and studied under a Nobel Prize winner. He helped build an X-ray observational satellite as part of a multi-billion dollar multi-decade NASA mission, co-founded and led as CEO or COO several ventures, and holds six patents. He has been quoted and profiled by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Inc., ABC, CBS, NBC, and most major media outlets.

Phone: 212-206-9929
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.stamboulieconsulting.com

Sarah Stamboulie ’93 of Stamboulie Career Consulting helps her clients conduct a more efficient and effective job search by better accessing the hidden job market. Sarah advises clients on job targeting, résumés, LinkedIn, exploratory meetings, interviews and negotiation. She also offers executive coaching, career assessment consultation (including Myers-Briggs assessment) and weekly executive transition groups.

Phone: 917-488-3972
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.clearstrategycoaching.com

Claire Steichen is the founder and President of Clear Strategy Coaching, an executive coaching firm in New York City. She coaches mid-level and senior professionals in leadership development focused on executive presence, employee motivation, and influence. Claire works with leading organizations across industries, with a focus on multi-nationals.

In addition to her private practice, Claire is a coach and trainer in the Executive MPA program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and has coached and trained in Columbia Essentials of Management, General Management Leadership Program and the FDNY Officers Management Institute (FOMI) Program. She is also a coach with the Columbia Business School Leadership Lab Program, where she has worked one-on-one with hundreds of full-time and executive education students.

Claire received her training and certification through Coach Training Institute and is a Certified Professional Coach with the International Coach Federation. Claire is certified in Tracom’s Social Style and the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory.

Prior to founding Clear Strategy Coaching and working at Columbia, Claire was an Account Manager in sales at Givaudan fragrances. In that capacity, she managed on-going client relationships with Avon, Estee Lauder, La Prairie and Victoria’s Secret. She also worked as a Marketing Manager for L’Oreal and Christian Dior fragrance, where she oversaw the US launches of major skincare and fragrance brands.

Claire graduated Cum Laude from Boston University and received her MBA from Columbia Business School. The SIPA course that Claire supports has received numerous recognition awards and has been rated in the top five out of nearly 200 courses for four years in a row.

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E-mail: [email protected]

Sandi coaches senior-level government, corporate and nonprofit leaders and has experience in working with senior executives from billion-dollar organizations to small nonprofits.  She supports her clients to build awareness of their strengths and find opportunities and choices in resolving their professional and personal challenges and stress points.  Her work with teams builds stronger rapport, greater strategic focus and accelerates change in their organizations.

Recent clients include senior executives at Ernst & Young, the Federal Reserve Board, Minitab, Petco, Commonwealth Fund, and the Brookings Institution. 

Phone: 212-996-7206
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.beyondboardroom.com

Ferne Traeger is an executive coach, psychoanalyst, and the Founder and President of Beyond the Boardroom, a consultancy that works with individuals and organizations to facilitate career transitions, including the transition to working parent. With expertise in human behavior in both private practice and organizational settings, Ferne combines more than twenty-five years' experience in business management as well as over fifteen years' clinical practice experience to assist individuals in career management, leadership development and making career/life decisions. Her approach merges goal-oriented pragmatism with an ability to listen for, identify and address obstacles to professional success.

Prior to founding Beyond the Boardroom, Ferne was the US Managing Director of a UK-based consultancy focused on female talent management and retention.

Ferne is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University Graduate School of Business and New York University Silver School of Social Work. She is a Member and Director of multiple professional organizations.

Ferne is a frequently cited resource and guest speaker on career transitions and how they can positively impact both professional and personal development.

Website: www.NailahWagner.com
Email: [email protected]

Nailah Wagner is an Executive Coach, Leadership Development Facilitator, Advisor and Consultant. A lifelong optimist, Nailah instinctively recognizes and nurtures the potential in those around her. She empowers her clients to navigate difficult leadership and career challenges, turn setbacks into successes and achieve aspirational levels of professional fulfillment and personal growth. As an Executive Coach, Nailah has a reputation for establishing lasting relationships as a trusted advisor, confidante, and masterful motivator; driving her clients to unexpected breakthroughs and impact. As an L&D facilitator and consultant, Nailah brings a global perspective, having designed and delivered leadership development sessions across four continents that transformed her clients into highly effective and attuned leaders. Some of Nailah’s clients have included Genentech Kraft Heinz, Mailchimp, and Delta Airlines.

Prior to leaping into entrepreneurship, Nailah was a Senior Director, Executive Coach and Faculty at Mentora Institute for Life and Leadership.  She also worked in academia, as an Executive MBA Coach at Emory University and guest lecturer at Columbia Business School, co-teaching the award-winning "Personal Leadership & Success" course and brings Fortune 500 global brand experience.

Phone: 516-423-9905
E-mail: [email protected]

Alana Waisbrot is an experienced career coach who has been a part of the Career Management Center at CBS for the past eight years. In her most recent role as Associate Director of Career Education & Advising, she counseled MBA students on a range of career topics including self assessment, strategy planning, resume and cover letter review, interview preparation, and negotiation. She also delivered workshops and group sessions on interviewing skills, resume writing and networking. Before joining Columbia, Alana was at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, where she led the school's recruiting relationships with many leading organizations and oversaw the on-campus interview program. Prior to her roles in higher education, Alana spent several years on Wall Street as a Campus Recruiter at Lehman Brothers and as a Human Resources Representative for Citigroup's Global Banking Division.

Currently, Alana has her own coaching practice, helping clients with all aspects of the job search. In addition she teaches interview preparation courses at Columbia Business School and volunteers her time at the JCC's Career Center and as a resume reviewer for Hiring our Heroes.

Alana graduated with a B.A. in psychology with honors from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and completed Masters level coursework in Career Management and Counseling at Teachers College-Columbia University.

Phone: 914-584-4966
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.juliaharriswexler.com

Julia Harris Wexler, MA is a Columbia University Certified Executive Coach focused on all areas of career navigation, including identifying professional identity, mid-career shifts, career re-entry, skill assessment, interview skills, resume overhaul, and personal marketing plans. Her clients span the gamut from CEOs to entry level professionals at the individual and organizational level.

For the past two decades, she has advised senior managers on how to motivate, retain, and compensate their human capital. She has completed the Columbia External Coach Certification, taken PhD classes in organizational leadership, and received her MA from Teacher’s College in developmental psychology. She is a Certified 5 o’clock club coach, and Certified to administer the Hogan Assessments. She helps her clients identify their true skills, and provides the expertise and accountability necessary for them to maximize their professional potential.

Phone: 914-874-4834
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.talentdevelopmentstrategies.com

Sabrina Zook ’94 of Talent Development Strategies is a business-oriented coach with 25 years of human resources experience including 14+ years at JPMorgan Chase. She provides structured guidance to focus career transition efforts and prepare clients for every aspect of the job search.