Executive Team & Board Alignment
Does your team have a clear, shared understanding of its vision, strategy, and critical priorities?
Are your team members comfortable with constructive conflict?
Does your team as a whole come to the best decisions?
Is your team spending time and energy on the right things?
Do your team offsites lead to meaningful, lasting change?
Teams are the fundamental building blocks of every organization, yet most leaders don’t invest enough time and effort in developing teams to reach their full potential. Effective team alignment goes beyond mere team building, addressing underlying dynamics to improve how team members think and work together to achieve business goals.
We help CEOs and senior executives align their teams with a shared strategic agenda that addresses critical governance and execution issues. We foster productive conversations that focus on what’s most important, clarify priorities, and make difficult tradeoffs. Teams come away with a shared understanding and deeper commitment to executing a focused plan: here’s where we’re going, how we’re going to get there, and why it matters.
We also work with boards to assess their performance, improve governance, and optimize board processes.
Management
Michael Palumbo
Executive Coach, Consultant, and Director of Coaching Practice
Michael Palumbo is an executive coach and consultant to senior leaders and new managers. He supports professionals to confidently take risks, find comfort in uncertainty, lead through crisis, and reignite passion in their careers. He oversees the Nevins Consulting coaching practice and speaks regularly on his areas of expertise.
Michael’s mission is to bring heart and soul to the corporate world. Anchored in two decades leading global teams and high-profile projects, he serves clients in these areas:
- Building confidence and managing inner critics: Michael helps leaders overcome impostor syndrome, cultivate executive presence, and lead through challenge with poise.
- Coaching senior leaders and first-time managers: Michael supports clients through upward transitions to maximize impact and build successful teams. Clients develop skills to influence, delegate, articulate vision, and align organizations.
- Leading through crisis: In times of global, organizational, or personal uncertainty, Michael coaches leaders to think and act strategically to reduce stress, make better decisions, and collaborate effectively.
- Difficult conversations: Michael offers individual coaching, webinars, and workshops on how to have effective conversations about topics that require extra care, such as delivering feedback and discussing DEI.
- Program and project management: Michael serves as a lead consultant and program manager on integration, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and Agile initiatives.
Michael’s coaching and consulting experience spans financial services, healthcare, insurance, legal, higher education, technology, and operations. In addition to being part of a startup core, he has served as a management consultant at global financial institutions.
Michael is credentialed with the International Coach Federation and certified in Hogan Assessments. He volunteered as an executive coach in the Pacesetters program at the Financial Women’s Association, developing the next generation of women leaders. He is also a certified Project Management Professional and a Certified Scrum Master.
After earning his bachelor’s degree at the College of the Holy Cross, Michael pursued a master’s of divinity at Harvard. Realizing that academia wasn’t his passion, he changed direction and discovered his three callings: leadership, coaching, and fatherhood. He enjoys cooking, hiking, photography, and playing t-ball with his son.
Michael Palumbo
Executive Coach, Consultant, and Director of Coaching Practice
Kathleen Tan
Head of Operations
Kathleen Tan is a seasoned business leader with a successful record in the technical, client service, and advisory aspects of business consulting. As head of operations for Nevins Consulting, she plays a vital role in overseeing all of the firm’s operations, finance, and client management functions.
Kathleen is also the director of operations and finance at Atlas Print Solutions, as well as the founder and CEO of Stream Entrance LLC, a boutique accounting and bookkeeping firm. Prior to her career in the US, Kathleen managed and expanded two businesses in the Philippines: Fruits of Life, Inc. (domestically and internationally) and Lipa Fresh Coconut Juice, a national coconut water brand that she founded.
Kathleen is committed to giving back to her community and making a positive impact in people’s lives. She serves on the boards of the Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Preservation Society and the Hudson Day Care Center, where she helps raise funds and plan events. She also volunteers with Entrepreneur for All (EforAll), a small business accelerator in Massachusetts, where she serves as a mentor and helps entrepreneurs bring their visions to life.
Kathleen earned her bachelor’s degree in business management and master’s degree in child and family psychology at Ateneo de Manila University. She holds an Executive Women in Leadership certification from Cornell University and is pursuing certification and credentials in executive coaching.
Kathleen’s passion for life is matched by her love of adventure. She loves to travel, explore, raise chickens, and share great food with great friends. She seeks to live life to the fullest, without regrets or what-ifs, and hopes to inspire others to do the same—not just for themselves, but also for those around them.
Kathleen Tan
Head
of Operations
Mark D. Nevins, PhD
President, Nevins Consulting
Mark is a trusted advisor to CEOs and CXOs, Managing Partners, and other enterprise leaders, especially at critical inflection points for their organizations or in their careers. He has spent two decades helping senior executives and their teams improve leadership and governance, drive performance, and lead critical change when the stakes are high.
His clients say Mark challenges their assumptions and prompts them to think differently about strategic direction and execution, with a focus on stakeholder and board engagement, talent development and succession planning, and organizational accountability.
Mark is president of Nevins Consulting, a firm that serves its clients in:
- Senior-level leadership development: Executive assessment and coaching, with special expertise in leadership transitions and large-scale change
- Executive team alignment: Enhancing the performance and productivity of senior teams and boards, including articulating strategy and priorities, improving team dynamics, and designing and facilitating strategic offsites
- Organizational development: Expert support on organizational strategy and design, including talent development, succession planning, communication, cultural change, and leadership development programs
The firm’s clients range from Fortune companies to smaller privately held high-growth firms. Selected clients include AB InBev, American Express, Black & Veatch, Boeing, Citibank, Google, MongoDB, Moody’s, NBCUniversal, Schlumberger, Sony, Thomson Reuters, Tory Burch, and Voya. Mark also has a particular passion for and expertise in working with the most senior leaders in private equity, management consulting, and higher education.
A contributor to The Harvard Business Review and Forbes, Mark is the author of What Happens Now? Reinvent Yourself as a Leader Before Your Business Outruns You and The Advice Business: Essential Tools and Models for Management Consulting. He is a long-time moderator for The Aspen Institute’s flagship seminars on values-based leadership and leading change, and he serves on the boards of Kaseya, Encore Community Services, Princeton Theological Seminary, and The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston.
Prior to founding Nevins Consulting, Mark served as the CHRO of Korn/Ferry, leading significant growth via acquisitions and the creation of new business lines. Prior, he was Global Head of People Development for Booz Allen Hamilton, where he designed and implemented the firm’s award-winning leadership and professional development programs, while also leading major change initiatives for key clients.
Earlier in his career, Mark taught at Harvard University for nearly a decade. He graduated with honors from the College of the Holy Cross and earned his PhD in English Literature from Harvard, receiving teaching awards as well as scholarships for study in the US and abroad. He has traveled, worked, and taught in more than 60 countries around the world. After many years in New York City, he and his family now reside in the country outside Boston.
Mark D. Nevins, PhD
President,
Nevins Consulting
Team
Jeanmarie Alessi
Executive Coach
Jeanmarie Alessi is an executive coach, facilitator, trainer, and organizational learning and development consultant. She partners with leaders to examine how they interact and lead to create a high-performance culture that delivers business results.
Jeanmarie is passionate about supporting her clients’ professional development. Her three main areas of expertise are:
- Leadership development: Jeanmarie works with Fortune 100 companies to create and facilitate leadership development initiatives that feature 360-degree assessments, blended learning approaches, and feedback practice sessions. She also designs and delivers programs on change management, coaching, resilience, and engagement.
- Executive coaching: Jeanmarie partners with senior leaders and managers to increase self-awareness and build competencies that help them achieve their professional goals. Areas of focus include leadership presence, people management, self-regulation, empathy, and other elements of emotional intelligence.
- Professional skills development: Jeanmarie designs and delivers workshops to help leaders improve a range of professional skills, including communication, conflict resolution, team building, motivation, performance management, giving feedback, and delegation.
Jeanmarie has more than 30 years of experience in corporate environments, including the financial, legal, and pharmaceutical industries. She has trained hundreds of professionals in New York City, nationally, and internationally.
A native of New York, Jeanmarie attended Fordham University, where she received her MS in training and development. She received her BA in psychology from Merrimack College. She is certified in several personality and style assessment tools, including MBTI, DiSC, the Emotional Competency Inventory, the Strength Deployment Inventory, the Hogan Assessments series, and a number of other 360-degree instruments.
Jeanmarie Alessi
Executive Coach
Alina Aronova
Executive Coach and Consultant
Alina Aronova is an executive coach, advisor, and facilitator. She helps her clients optimize their unique professional identity, hone their leadership skills, and adopt a winning mindset that brings out the best in themselves and others.
Alina typically works with executive, senior, and new leaders in tech or tech-centric roles, as well as women leaders in all business and technology roles. Her clients strive to excel and consider themselves industry disruptors.
Alina’s areas of expertise include:
- Turning organizational chaos into precise business and digital strategies with predictable outcomes and measurable results
- Creating organizational alignment in volatile environments
- Developing high-functioning leaders, teams, and cultures
- Leading through change and growing pains
- Transforming operational weaknesses into competitive differentiators
In her career in financial services, consumer goods, and educational technology, Alina has been a change leader in digital, strategic, and organizational transformation. Her career as a strategy and operations leader has centered on driving business value and record growth through advanced technology, operational maturity, and continuous improvement. In addition to leading meaningful disruption to deliver operational excellence, Alina is known as a trusted advisor, natural relationship builder, and a persuasive change agent.
Alina has been an industry speaker and lecturer on tech talent, culture, employee success, digital transformation, change management, high-functioning teams, and operational excellence. In addition to her coaching, consulting, and corporate leadership roles, she also taught digital transformation in the Babson College MBA program.
Alina is a member of the board of advisors for Studio B at Babson College, and she has served on the board of directors at SDI, a digital supply chain company. Alina earned her bachelor’s degree at Northeastern University, with a dual concentration in MIS and marketing, and her MBA at Babson College. She is credentialed with the International Coaching Federation and certified in the Predictive Index.
Alina Aronova
Executive Coach and Consultant
Edana Desatnick
Executive Coach and Consultant
Edana Desatnick is an executive coach, consultant, and educator who partners with senior leaders to craft and execute leadership strategies. She helps her clients challenge their assumptions as they navigate complex business issues and career decisions.
Edana understands the important relationship between individuals and organizations. Known for her integrity, wisdom, and candor, she aims to bring out the best in each client as they align, accelerate, and achieve their personal and organizational goals. Her areas of expertise include:
- Leadership and organization development
- Talent and succession planning
- Change management
Edana’s advising, consulting, and coaching integrate her experience leading this type of work globally for Fortune 500 companies and supporting executives in their leadership development. She has worked with notable clients across many industries, including healthcare, professional and financial services, and consumer, retail, and industrial products.
Edana has held senior organization development and human resources roles with several leading companies. As executive director of organization development at Merck, she had worldwide responsibility for OD and all talent management processes. Prior to joining Merck, Edana was vice president of organization development at Honeywell, where she led OD globally. She previously served as senior director of organization development at Nabisco Brands and senior manager of organizational capability at Pepsi. Earlier in her career, she worked in the global strategy consulting practice at Coopers & Lybrand.
Edana has served on the board of trustees for the Matheny Medical and Educational Center since 2003, including two terms as chair. She also served for eight years as vice chair of the Dean’s Advisory Council at Tulane University and now runs innovative career programs for Tulane students.
Edana earned her MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in economics from Tulane University. She and her family live in New Jersey.
Edana Desatnick
Executive Coach and Consultant
Kurt Elia
Executive Coach and Consultant
Kurt Elia is an executive coach and consultant who works with senior leaders to develop solutions that improve individual, team, and organizational performance and effectiveness. With extensive experience coaching C-suite and other senior executives on a wide range of challenges, he supports his clients to unleash the power of their leadership and take their organizations to the next level.
Kurt brings leadership depth, talent expertise, financial acumen, and strategic grounding to his client work. Representative engagements include helping clients:
- Develop the confidence and skills to lead at a higher level after a new promotion
- Adapt their style to be more effective in a new role or culture
- Design organizations that are aligned with business strategy
- Assess and develop key talent
- Build effective teams
- Navigate organizational change
- Work effectively with boards of directors
- Make tough decisions to reposition organizations for success
Kurt has more than 25 years of human capital and entrepreneurial business management experience in multiple industries. He has served as the chief human resources officer for two global, publicly traded companies—most recently for Argo Group International Holdings, a $2B company with over 30 offices in 10 countries. He has also held senior leadership positions in both small startups and large, established corporations, including Capital One Financial, Citigroup, and IBM.
Kurt is certified as a professional executive coach by Columbia Business School and Columbia Teachers College. He also holds a Hogan Assessments certification. He received his BS in industrial and labor relations at Cornell University.
Kurt Elia
Executive Coach and Consultant
Brian Evans
Executive Coach
Brian Evans is an executive coach to both highly experienced and emerging leaders in organizations of all sizes in multiple industries around the world. For nearly two decades, heads of state, CEOs, and business leaders have sought Brian out to serve as their trusted advisor, create breakthroughs, discover better ways to do and be, and implement solutions that make a difference in their lives and those around them.
Brian’s mission is to center humanity in the corporate world, cultivating leaders’ ability to understand, value, and trust themselves and others. This vision has set the course for his work for more than 25 years.
Brian’s expertise includes:
- Coaching senior leaders and first-time managers: Supporting professionals as they discover, develop, and optimize their individual gifts, talents, and experience—and those of others—to achieve the greatest possible impact in their organizations.
- Building authentic leadership and executive presence: Helping experienced and emerging leaders discover the power of their authentic voice and presence. Guiding his clients to lead from their authentic, centered self to foster connection and cohesion in their organizations.
- Expanding leadership intelligence (LQ): Collaborating with leaders to help them integrate essential 21st century leadership skills and new perspectives to reveal greater possibilities, inspire others, embrace change, and deliver results.
- Crisis leadership: Supporting leaders as they navigate ecosystemic, organizational, and personal crises. Integrating self-awareness, authenticity, and resilience to lead through the storm with confidence, clarity, collaboration, and peace of mind.
Brian has consulted and coached executives at Fortune 500 companies, trillion-dollar corporations, and market-leading firms in diverse industries. His clients include Apple, Bank of America, Boeing, Endeavor, Ford, Harvard Innovations Lab, and Pfizer. He has also served as vice president of operations for a multinational organization.
Brian graduated from UCLA with a BA in English. He holds an MBA in finance from The University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, as well as an MA in psychology from the University of Santa Monica. He is also a Board Certified Coach—one of only 4,000 worldwide.
Brian Evans
Executive Coach
Anika Gakovic
Executive Coach and Consultant
Anika Gakovic is an executive coach, consultant, and business psychologist who helps leaders, teams, and organizations meet strategic goals and achieve their mission. Known for building long-term relationships, navigating complexity, and adapting to ambiguity, Anika delivers impactful learning and change solutions that advance client priorities.
With two decades of experience developing leaders and creating culture change in high-performing enterprises, Anika serves her clients in these areas:
- Executive presence: Anika helps leaders cultivate their influence and authority. With self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and sound relationships, clients navigate complex environments and challenges with greater confidence and ease.
- New roles: Anika supports clients through upward and lateral transitions to maximize impact and build successful teams. Clients improve their ability to work with new stakeholders, communicate value proposition, and set direction.
- Effective decision making: Anika guides leaders to think, plan, and execute strategically under pressure. With a clear perspective, clients make wiser decisions, collaborate effectively, and reach better outcomes.
- Difficult conversations: Anika offers coaching and behavioral science best practices on how to have difficult conversations that align individuals, teams, and organizations on topics that require extra care, such as delivering feedback and discussing DEI.
Anika’s coaching and consulting experience is anchored in financial services and healthcare. She has coached executive leaders and high-potential employees, facilitated senior team offsites, led Salesforce and digital transformations, and designed and executed global management programs to drive culture and engagement.
Prior to her corporate experience, Anika worked as an independent consultant, developing candidate selection tools for Hess Oil and the Chicago Police Department. During this time, she also served as adjunct faculty at University of Houston.
Anika has served on the board of directors for the New York HR Planning Society, and she contributed as a coach for the Entrepreneurs Challenge competition at New York University’s Stern School of Business. She is certified in the Team Diagnostic Survey (Levels 1 and 2), as well as several other tools.
Annika earned her PhD and MA in industrial organizational psychology at the University of Houston. She enjoys exploring art events, cooking, and gardening.
Anika Gakovic
Executive Coach and Consultant
Tom Gosselin
Executive Coach and Consultant
Tom Gosselin is an executive coach, consultant, trainer, author, and lecturer who specializes in leadership coaching, organizational development, negotiation, and change management.
Tom helps leaders drive organizational performance. His areas of expertise include:
- Executive coaching and leadership development, including creating a coaching model for leaders in transition
- Emotional intelligence, with his own interventions and coaching techniques to build EI in executives
- Negotiation, as a consultant, trainer, and author
- Change management, having led large-scale, transformational change initiatives
Tom has more than 35 years of international experience working with clients in a range of industries, including financial and professional services, consulting, executive search, media, manufacturing, travel, and pharmaceutical, medical, and consumer products. His clients include Alliance Capital, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ingersoll Rand, JPMorgan Chase, Lincoln Financial, McKinsey & Company, Philips, Putnam Investments, Scripps Networks, and State Street Corporation.
Earlier in his career, Tom led organizational development projects at MCI Communications, Freddie Mac, and the US Department of Labor as a consultant with the Sterling Institute.
Tom is passionate about developing practical applications of negotiation theory. He has delivered workshops, consulted with major corporations, and written two books on negotiation: Practical Negotiating: Tools, Tactics, & Techniques and Dam It!: Negotiating at the River’s Edge. In addition, he often leverages his experience as a psychotherapist to explore organizational and interpersonal dynamics.
He is an active member of the Association for Talent Development, the Society for Human Resource Management, and the National Speakers Association. He has also been a guest lecturer on power and influence at Harvard Business School.
Tom received his bachelor’s degree in philosophy and psychology at St. John’s, followed by his MSW at Catholic University. He also studied organizational behavior at George Washington University and Boston College.
Tom Gosselin
Executive Coach and Consultant
Libby Halstead
Executive Coach and Consultant
Libby Halstead is an executive coach, consultant, and facilitator of executive development programs. She works with individuals and teams who want to improve their performance and increase their impact. With dual backgrounds in management consulting and human development, she combines a pragmatic focus on behaviors that drive business outcomes with genuine care for her clients as people, creating an environment where leaders feel comfortable, understood, and ready to explore new solutions that deliver results.
Libby creates and facilitates customized programs for executive teams. She draws on a range of approaches to deliver energizing events, from half-day meetings to multi-day off-sites. Areas of focus include:
- Operating as a high-performing team
- Implementing strategic change
- Delegating effectively
- Managing conflict constructively
- Improving cross-cultural awareness and dexterity
Libby’s clients include Iowa Credit Union League, Cengage, McNees Wallace & Nurick, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Radisson Hotels, Ironshore Insurance, Intel, Analog Devices, Moody’s, The New York Times, Reed Elsevier, American Express, and Booz & Company.
Earlier in her career, Libby spent six years as a management consultant, first for McKinsey & Company, and then for Katzenbach Partners. She served clients and led engagements in several industries and practice areas, including numerous projects helping companies align and motivate their talent base during times of organizational change.
Libby earned her MBA at the Yale School of Management and her BA at Wellesley College. She holds certifications in several areas, including executive coaching, MBTI, Hogan Assessments, AEM Cube, and Internal Family Systems. Libby lived in Belgium for 17 years, and she has traveled and worked in over 30 countries worldwide. She is bilingual in English and French, fluent in German, and conversant in Italian, Spanish, and Dutch.
Libby Halstead
Executive Coach and Consultant
Copie Harris
Consultant
Copie Harris is an expert communication skills coach. She works with individuals, teams, and organizations on several dimensions of communication, including:
- Listening, speaking, and writing
- Internal, client, and public audiences
- Interviews, sales, and the media
- One on one and group interaction
Copie’s expertise is identifying communication challenges, offering strategies to address them, and putting people at ease, so that they’re open to trying new approaches. She uses experiential learning and coaching to help clients become aware of how they come across, practice new skills, and become the best communicators they can be. Her principal areas of expertise include:
- Presenting in person, on video, and on the phone: Copie works with people at all levels to help them identify, hone, and deliver their message. She focuses on verbal and non-verbal skills and tools that support authentic, powerful presentations, including when and how to user PowerPoint effectively.
- Winning business: Copie helps teams uncover prospective clients’ needs and goals, craft a persuasive message, and ask for the business.
- Writing better emails: Copie trains professionals to write effective emails that recipients read and act on.
Copie has worked with a wide range of professionals, including CEOs, CFOs, and COOs; portfolio managers, analysts, wholesalers, and distributors; mathematicians, engineers, scientists, and consultants; and professors and administrators at universities such as Columbia, Yale, and University of Massachusetts/Amherst. Her clients include K2 Advisors, QS Investors, Berkshire Residential Investments, Royal Bank of Canada Global Asset Management, and several non-profit organizations.
Copie holds a BA in psychology from Cambridge College (Massachusetts).
Copie Harris
Consultant
Melanie Hughes
Executive Coach and Consultant
Melanie Hughes is a coach, consultant, and transformational leader who leverages her HR and operational leadership experience to support leaders through significant change. She helps clients improve their leadership effectiveness and build strong cultures, resilient structures, and thriving brands.
Melanie’s mission is to enable executives to create collegial, productive workplaces where everyone can thrive both personally and professionally. She specializes in:
- New executives: Helping leaders set the foundation for success in their first 100 days in the C-suite, including setting strategy, communicating effectively, developing relationships, creating high-functioning teams, and building their brand.
- CEOs at growing organizations: Supporting founders as they adapt their leadership style, build the right team, and scale their operation.
- Board advisory: Helping executives build and manage their board, set effective governance structures, and tap members’ skills and experience.
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion: Working with diverse leaders and populations to create proactive, measurable, and sustainable DEI plans that are integrated with organizational goals and rewards systems.
Melanie has held a variety of C-suite roles over the last 20 years and has worked in many business sectors, including technology, financial services, media, and retail. Most recently, she was chief human resource officer for Moody’s Corporation, overseeing the entire human capital function and driving organizational realignment to support a firmwide strategic change initiative. She helped lead the company through a successful CEO transition and culture change, earning a spot on Newsweek’s “Most Loved Workplaces” list.
Melanie is highly experienced in the boardroom, with 20 years of managing governance and HR committees to steer organizations through times of growth, change, and disruption. She currently serves on the advisory board of Security Scorecard.
Melanie holds a BSc Hons degree in psychology from Brunel University London and an MBA from INSEAD (France). A global citizen, Melanie has lived in six countries in Europe, North America, Asia, and Central and South America. Sailing is her passion, and she also enjoys playing competitive backgammon.
Melanie Hughes
Executive Coach and Consultant
Harry Hutson
Executive Coach and Consultant
Harry Hutson is a leadership development professional who serves leaders and teams as an executive coach, facilitator, consultant, and educator. With an approach based in curiosity and care, he applies concepts from social science and his own experience to help executives and organizations build cultures where trust and psychological safety lead to growth and productivity.
Harry frames his professional purpose as “helping people get out of their own way.” His areas of expertise are:
- Building resilience and self-awareness
- Managing conflict and improving listening skills
- Giving and receiving effective feedback
- Working inclusively and establishing a sense of belonging
As a coach and consultant, Harry has worked with organizations ranging from government to nonprofits, and multinational firms to start-ups. With 25 years in senior HR roles, Harry has led leadership development functions in several industries, including automotive (Cummins), office products and consumer packaging (Avery Dennison), information technology (Global Knowledge), and oil and gas (Devon Energy).
Harry’s work has appeared in journals including The Harvard Business Review, HR People + Strategy, and CEO Magazine. He has also published several books, including:
- Navigating an Organizational Crisis: When Leadership Matters Most
- Putting Hope to Work: Five Principles to Activate Your Organization’s Most Powerful Resource
- Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations
Harry serves on the board of directors for the New England Center for Children, a pioneering school for the treatment of autism. After graduating from Hamilton College, Harry earned advanced degrees at Harvard Divinity School and Stanford University School of Education, and then his PhD at Indiana University. He is certified in Hogan Assessments. Widely traveled, Harry has visited all 50 states and lived in twelve. His favorite activities include talking with friends, spending time with his grandchildren, and driving steam trains in Poland.
Harry Hutson
Executive Coach and Consultant
Craig McCall, PsyD
Executive Coach and Consultant
Dr. Craig McCall is an executive coach, management consultant, leadership assessor, and corporate advisor on talent and teams. He helps leaders understand and leverage their teams, meet business challenges, and execute their strategic priorities.
To develop outstanding leaders, teams, and organizations, Craig focuses primarily on:
- Executive coaching: Craig helps executives prepare for, transition to, and succeed in the C-suite and stretch roles, with emphases on honing leadership disciplines, building executive presence, creating high-performing teams, and driving change.
- Leadership assessment: Craig assesses leaders to select, develop, and promote top talent, building a strong bench and a solid succession plan.
- Team solutions: Craig assesses and coaches teams to create the alignment and cohesion required to execute business strategy and deliver results.
For more than 20 years, he has coached hundreds of senior leaders, assessed talent for selection and succession, and designed and delivered leadership programs at top companies. Client organizations range from startups through the Fortune 50, in industries including banking, financial services, information technology, engineering, manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, biotech, retail, and publishing. He has also worked with non-profits and a variety of investment banks, private equity, and M&A firms.
Craig has held professorships at Loyola University and Argosy University, as well as coaching faculty positions at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and Capella University. He has presented numerous times on talent assessment at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and at the Global Institute for Leadership Development.
Craig is a licensed psychologist in the State of North Carolina and a registered corporate coach with the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches. He is also certified in Hogan Assessments. He sits on the emeritus board at the Partnership to Educate and Advance Kids, a non-profit that provides mentorship and financial support for inner-city adolescents in Chicago.
Craig earned his BA in psychology and theology at Boston College, followed by his doctorate in psychology at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology. He lives in North Carolina with his family and enjoys world travel and mountain trekking.
Craig McCall, PsyD
Executive Coach and Consultant
Bill McCoy
Executive Coach and Consultant
Bill McCoy is an executive coach, consultant, and trusted advisor to senior leaders in the public and private sectors. He counsels and coaches his clients on strategic discipline, successful execution, and effective leadership that transforms enterprises and individuals.
Bill’s practice concentrates on these areas:
- Leadership development: Executive assessment and coaching focused on situational change (promotion, M&A, restructuring, onboarding), growth, performance improvement, professional impact, and personal fulfillment.
- Organization development: Working with boards and executives on team dynamics, organizational design, and aligning strategic, tactical, and individual performance outcomes.
- Management consulting: Strategy development and execution, performance and risk management, operational excellence, and technology strategy and deployment (including financial services technology).
Bill has worked with clients in both the private and public sectors, including ABN-AMRO, American Express, Bank of Montreal, Barclays, Cardinal Health, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, Mount Yale Capital Group, Northwestern Mutual, Novartis, Sabre, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, the State of California, TD Ameritrade, and Toronto Dominion. He has also served financial sponsor firms and individual growth companies as an operating partner.
Bill has been a strategic and leadership advisor throughout his career as a consultant and C-level executive. He has served large enterprise clients both as a consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton and independently in affiliation with other major consulting firms.
He has held senior executive and advisory board roles with industry-leading global financial institutions and technology firms, lectured at the USC Marshall School of Business and the University of St. Thomas MBA program, and been a keynote speaker and panelist at many industry forums and conferences.
Bill earned his MBA in strategic management from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and his BS with honors from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. He is completing his doctorate in organization and leadership at Columbia University. He holds certifications in executive coaching and Hogan Assessments. Bill is a father of three, musician, cyclist, and outdoor adventure enthusiast.
Bill McCoy
Executive Coach and Consultant
Adam Mirabella
Executive Coach and Consultant
Adam Mirabella is an executive coach and consultant who works with senior executives and rising managers at organizations that are committed to investing in their top leaders, A-players, and high-potential talent. He partners with professionals as they define their leadership style, own their impact, engage their teams, and deliver real business results.
Adam builds trust quickly to keep his clients moving forward. He creates an environment that challenges leaders to exceed their expectations and deliver for themselves, their teams, and the organization. He serves his clients in these areas:
- Leadership development: Adam works closely with clients to understand, define, and hone their leadership, with a focus on self-awareness, presence, and impact on direct reports, peers, clients, boards, and others.
- Coaching senior executives and emerging leaders: Adam supports clients as they rise through the organization, face fresh challenges, and build new teams. With vision, mission, values, and influence, clients generate engagement and alignment that drives results.
- Emotional intelligence: Adam is the rare executive coach who not only understands EQ but is certified in this important area of organizational development. He brings tools, insights, and experiences that help leaders build emotionally intelligent, high-performing, and resilient teams.
- Presenting with authority: An expert in presentation skills, Adam has presented at some of the most prestigious conferences around the world, including CES and SXSW. He helps his clients develop their confidence, authority, and audience connection.
Adam’s experience spans tech, media, financial services, and startups in several industries. His coaching clients include Amazon, Peloton, Dell, and TikTok. In his executive career, he developed and led teams at Coca-Cola, Time Warner, Sony, Nokia, Omnicom, Vitec Group, and Universal Music Group.
Adam is certified as an executive coach with both the Center for Credentialing and Education and the International Coach Federation, where he serves on the professional development and outreach committees. Adam is also certified in the Genos emotional intelligence model and the ProfileXT assessment.
Adam received his MBA at Binghamton University. He enjoys playing music, skiing, traveling, and experiencing new cultures and foods.
Adam Mirabella
Executive Coach and Consultant
Richard Nash
Executive Coach
Richard Nash is an executive coach who works at the intersection of culture, business, and society to help fulfill real human needs in efficient and effective ways. With a diverse career in theater, publishing, technology, consulting, marketing, speaking, and writing, he offers his clients a kaleidoscopic perspective on their leadership as they grow and excel.
An emotional and intellectual partner in listening and learning, Richard specializes in:
- Communication
- Pattern recognition
- Influencing others
- Deepening awareness
- Building trust
- Scaling leadership
Richard has coached leaders in finance, media, tech, consulting, healthcare, nonprofits, and government. His clients include Alliance Bernstein, Houlihan Lokey, Blackstone, YieldStreet, Klarna, Chime, Bloomberg, Netflix, Mozilla, and Wikimedia, Ancestry, and Cloudera.
Richard came to the US from Ireland to attend Harvard. He planned to return to Ireland to run a 100-year-old family business, but instead, he pivoted briefly to an academic career in political science before embarking on a decade directing theater in downtown Manhattan, followed by another decade running a book publishing company.
His decade in theater taught Richard how to build teams and get highly creative individuals on the same page. In publishing, he worked one on one with best-selling, award-winning writers in many genres and countries, helping them find their true voice, tap into the power of the story they were telling, and connect with their audience as fellow humans.
Ever curious, Richard then turned to the startup world as a founder, cofounder, senior leader, and advisor, focused mainly on business development and partnerships, with companies in publishing, media, and biotech. He has also consulted with Fortune 500 companies.
A thought leader on social and economic models of knowledge, culture, and technology, Richard has traveled throughout Europe, Asia, and South America, giving talks on the future of media at numerous conferences and universities.
Richard earned his bachelor’s degree with honors in government at Harvard and studied political economy at Freie Universität in Berlin. He is credentialed as a Certified Professional Coactive Coach with the Coactive Training Institute. He is also a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation.
Richard Nash
Executive Coach
Basav Ray Chaudhuri
Executive Coach and Consultant
Basav Ray Chaudhuri is an executive coach and strategic partner who works with senior leaders to develop solutions that improve individual, team, and organizational performance. With expertise in finance, strategy, and working interculturally, he coaches multinational corporate leaders, company founders, and startup CEOs on a range of leadership and business challenges.
Basav understands the importance of cultural diversity and political sensitivity in a truly global enterprise. He brings a unique combination of talent expertise, leadership depth, financial acumen, and strategic grounding to his clients as he partners with them to reimagine their leadership and fulfill their potential. Representative engagements include helping leaders:
- Develop cultural understanding in a new country
- Deepen leadership skills and confidence
- Collaborate with their teams
- Manage conflict
- Navigate organizational change
- Make tough decisions
- Work effectively with private equity partners
Basav’s clients include leaders in the pharmaceutical, energy, consulting, and consumer products industries, at companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Novo Nordisk, EY, TGS, Magseis Fairfield, The Honest Company, and Metro AG.
Basav has 30 years of corporate experience that includes living and working in seven countries. He has served in general management, strategy, change, and finance positions for Schlumberger, a global oilfield services giant that operates in more than 85 countries, with 120,000 people of 140 nationalities.
Basav is a chartered accountant with a bachelor of commerce degree from Saint Xavier’s College (Kolkata). He is credentialed as a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation.
Basav Ray Chaudhuri
Executive Coach and Consultant
Frank Rouault
Executive Coach and Consultant
Frank Rouault is an executive coach, consultant, and facilitator. His principal focus is consulting on strategy formulation and execution in a boundaryless world. He works primarily with executives, managers, and teams at small to mid-size dynamic organizations, creating paths for individual development and intrapreneurship.
Frank helps leaders and teams:
- Articulate and align their strategies
- Optimize execution and performance
- Deliver business results in a world without boundaries
For over 20 years, Frank has been the principal at Practical Learning, a Paris-based boutique consulting firm. He has worked in more than 30 countries, and his clients include Parfums Christian Dior, Khuene & Nagel, Edwards Life Sciences, Benetton, Caterpillar Finance, Deutsche Bank, Federal Express, Orange, General Electric, Kenzo Parfums, Givenchy, Sandvik, Tiffany & Co., Swissport, Virgin Atlantic, Allianz, Generali, and Le Point.
Prior to founding Practical Learning, Frank held various sales and talent development roles in North America for Goëmar International, in Europe for Herman Miller, and in France for Learning International/AchieveGlobal.
Frank is a French Foreign Trade Advisor (CCE) with Les Conseillers du Commerce Extérieur de la France. He teaches at Grenoble Ecole de Management, CentraleSupélec Executive Education, and ESSEC Business School. He has also written extensively on professional development, with more than 20 books and many articles to his name.
Frank holds a BBA in international business from ESSEC, as well as an MSE in entrepreneurship and a doctorate in business administration, both from Grenoble Ecole de Management.
Frank Rouault
Executive Coach and Consultant
Ankur Saraiya, MD
Executive Coach
Dr. Ankur Saraiya is an executive coach, medical doctor, and practicing psychiatrist. His coaching centers on optimizing performance, with a dual focus on work/life/health balance and relationship management.
Ankur believes true success comes from peak performance at work, fulfillment at home, and a healthy mind and body. Clients often approach him with a problem in one of these areas but then find that optimizing all three is what leads to lasting change and long-term success.
Ankur maintains coaching and psychiatry practices in New York City and Charlotte, NC. His clients include corporate executives, professional athletes, artists, and others whose careers demand peak performance.
Ankur’s interest in helping people maintain their physical health drew him to the practice of medicine. In medical school, the undeniable mind-body connection led him to psychiatry. He began his professional career treating people with basic psychological complaints, such as depression and anxiety, and integrated his personal interest in fitness and nutrition into the treatment.
As his clients’ initial health complaints were resolved, Ankur noticed something interesting: his clients continued coming to see him. This was notable because in the traditional medical model, people come in when they’re sick and leave when they feel better. Realizing that this model was obsolete, he built his practice on the integration of physical health, career advancement, and personal relationships, in a method he calls comprehensive coaching.
In 2021, New York Magazine listed him as one of the “Best Therapists in New York,” and he has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal and Men’s Health. He is a recognized expert witness and speaker, and he has worked with the New York Police Department, as well as the state court.
Ankur received his BA from Harvard College and his MD from Columbia University. He studied forensic psychology at NYU and Bellevue Hospital, and he is board certified in both general and forensic psychiatry.
Ankur Saraiya, MD
Executive Coach
Naami Schorr
Executive Coach
Naami Schorr is an executive coach and leadership consultant who works with executives and leadership teams to strengthen organizational health, with a focus on culture, cohesion, and competitive advantage.
Naami’s philosophy is grounded in putting people first. To develop authentic leaders and healthy teams that increase engagement, productivity, and retention, she strives to help her clients develop:
- Healthy executives: Naami helps senior executives and managers understand and align motivations, skills, and personal genius to create cohesive goals, strategy, and culture.
- Healthy leaders: Naami helps people managers develop their leadership presence and create loyal, engaged, and productive teams. To support a culture of accountability and feedback, she focuses on communication skills, difficult conversations, and effective meetings.
- Healthy teams: Naami works with teams to build psychological safety and trust. She helps her clients communicate effectively, navigate conflict, build commitment, and cultivate resilient relationships that improve productivity and deliver business results.
- Healthy cultures: Naami assesses the health of organizations, with a focus on aligning vision, business goals, strategy, and culture.
Naami has worked with clients in a range of industries, including IT, real estate, medicine, education, startups, and nonprofits. In addition to coaching, she runs business mastermind groups for executives and speaks for many organizations.
Naami began her career in nonprofit work, curating leadership development opportunities for college students and young professionals in Los Angeles, New York, New Jersey, and Israel. Then, as the program director for Na’aleh: The Hub for Leadership Learning, she created and facilitated cohort-based leadership learning for board presidents and executive directors.
Naami earned both her master’s degree in leadership and an executive certificate in leadership coaching from Georgetown University. She lives in Maryland with her family.
Naami Schorr
Executive Coach
Sana Shah
Executive Coach
Sana Shah is an executive coach to senior leaders and new managers. She partners with her clients to achieve their professional goals, challenging them to stretch their thinking and expand their potential, so they can lead their teams and organizations to the next level.
Sana is particularly passionate about working with women, especially internationally trained professionals. She helps women gain confidence, occupy more space, and grow both personally and professionally.
Sana’s coaching focuses on the whole person. She encourages each client to explore their personal and professional values, strengths, vision, and goals. Sana frequently partners with clients in these areas:
- Building confidence and shedding limiting beliefs
- Aligning personal and organizational vision and goals
- Navigating change
- Having difficult conversations
- Prioritizing, delegating, and managing workload
Sana has worked primarily with clients in tech, startups, finance, and government. Her clients include leaders at the Metropolitan Transport Authority, Go Motive, Habib Bank, and National Geographic.
Before becoming a coach, Sana managed a leading couture fashion house. She has also worked in executive education, running programs for women in business at the prestigious Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.
Sana is certified as a professional executive coach by New York University. She is a member of the International Coaching Federation, dedicated to following the ICF code of ethics with the utmost discretion and professionalism. She also holds a Hogan Assessments certification.
Sana earner her BA (Hons) in political science at the University of Toronto and her MSc in psychology at Birkbeck, University of London. She lives in New York with her family. She enjoys long walks in Central Park and baking with her children.
Sana Shah
Executive Coach
Doug Sundheim
Executive Coach and Consultant
Doug Sundheim is an executive coach, consultant, and advisor with over 20 years of experience growing businesses and helping others do the same. He works with leaders and teams at Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurial firms to help them maximize their effectiveness.
Doug draws on his experience as a leader and entrepreneur to help clients find practical solutions in complex situations. He works with his clients to craft each engagement and align with organizational goals. Common areas of focus include:
- Stepping into a bigger role that’s more politically complex
- Driving challenging initiatives that are critical to growth
- Aligning a senior team that isn’t on the same page
- Optimizing a team that isn’t performing well
Doug helps leaders and teams break through the barriers that stifle their performance. His clients include American Express, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Apollo Management, Swiss Re, Chubb, Spectrum, University of Chicago, Harvard Management Company, Weill Cornell Medicine, Publicis Group, and the United States Federal Reserve.
Early in his career, Doug started and ran a 100-person catering company. He then spent several years in the marketing consulting field, where his clients included Sony, M&M/Mars, Mattel, and Motorola.
Doug is a frequent speaker on a variety of business topics, such as leadership, organizational culture, and strategy. He has delivered talks at Columbia University, New York University, The Society for Human Resources, and The World Research Group conference. He is also the author of Taking Smart Risks, co-author of The 25 Best Time Management Tools & Techniques, and a contributing writer at Harvard Business Review and Forbes.
Doug holds a BS in environmental psychology from Cornell University and an MA in adult learning and leadership from Columbia University. He is certified in MBTI, Team Diagnostic Survey (Levels 1 and 2), and Hogan Assessments.
Doug Sundheim
Executive Coach and Consultant
Taran Swan
Executive Coach and Consultant
Taran Swan is an executive coach, consultant, and advisor who helps her clients achieve their strategic, operational, and financial goals. She works primarily with executives, teams, and organizations in media, education, and healthcare.
With decades of experience starting, running, and expanding businesses, Taran’s areas of expertise include:
- Executive development and coaching
- Business strategy and planning
- Organizational development
- Brand management
Taran’s media and organizational background informs her work with a range of companies and universities. Her coaching and consulting clients include Time Warner, Harvard Business School, BET/Viacom, Yahoo Studios, USA Today Network, the Brooklyn Public Library, New York Public Radio, Foursquare, Relay Graduate School of Education, Guardian Insurance, and athenahealth.
A general management executive with a record of driving media businesses to award-winning creative performance and financial success, Taran has built and run several businesses, managed hundreds of people, and carried full P&L responsibility. Her experience running and launching Nickelodeon Latin America was chronicled in the Harvard Business School case study, Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America, which is taught at nearly 200 business schools and universities worldwide.
Taran speaks on media, international business, leadership, and general management, delivering talks at forums such as Columbia University/West Point, New York University, Radcliffe College, and the Harvard Business School Club of New York.
Taran is on the coaching faculty at Harvard Business School, where she coaches senior executives in the leadership development program. She has served on the boards of a venture capital fund and an early-stage multicultural multimedia business backed by Goldman Sachs.
Taran received her BA in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, attended NYU’s Courant Graduate School of Mathematics as a Bell Laboratories Fellow, and received her MBA at Harvard Business School. She is certified in Hogan Assessments.
Taran Swan
Executive Coach and Consultant
Jamie Telegadis
Executive Coach and Consultant
Jamie Telegadis is an executive consultant, facilitator, and coach who focuses on developing positive change in individuals and groups to help them become more effective leaders and teams. She works with organizations that are committed to developing people and cultivating positive working relationships that deliver business results and drive growth.
Jamie partners with clients to help them develop insights, tools, skills, and processes that optimize individual and team performance. Her passions and expertise include:
- Working with new managers
- Helping her clients develop practical coaching skills
- Improving team accountability and performance
With more than 20 years of coaching and consulting experience in leadership and human capital management, Jamie has served clients in several industries, including telecommunications, accounting, pharmaceuticals, financial services, manufacturing, government, education, and publishing. Among her key clients are Deloitte, Pfizer, ABN AMRO/La Salle Bank, First Marblehead Corporation, Stop & Shop, Hunter Douglas, Thomas Publishing, and NYU.
Earlier in her career, Jamie was vice president of management development at National Westminster Bank, where she created and implemented the management training and leadership development program, overhauled the performance appraisal system, and led career development initiatives. Before that, she implemented efficiency and leadership development programs as a training manager in the retail industry.
Jamie received her MBA in organizational behavior from Adelphi University and her BA from SUNY Oneonta. She holds an executive coaching certificate from NYU. She is also certified in MBTI, DiSC, the Conflict Dynamics Profile, Situational Leadership, Leadership Development (DDI), and LIFO (Stuart Atkins).
Jamie Telegadis
Executive Coach and Consultant
Karen Watai
Executive Coach and Consultant
Karen Watai is an executive coach, consultant, facilitator, and trainer who works closely with leaders and organizations to help them perform at the highest level. She focuses on personal and organizational leadership challenges, especially in environments characterized by a diversity of cultures, genders, and work styles.
Karen is a trusted thought partner with expertise in these areas:
- Leadership development
- Career management
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Critical conversations
Karen has coached and trained executives and senior leaders in corporations, professional service firms, hedge funds, and non-profits. Her clients include Goldman Sachs, McKinsey & Company, New York Life, Viacom, BET Networks, Comcast, New York Public Radio, Kapor Capital, HSBC, Prudential, IBM, DLA Piper, and Harlem RBI/DREAM. She has also been a coach for Harvard Business School’s executive education program and the Global Institute for Leadership Development.
Karen spent the first 20 years of her career in investment banking and private equity. As a vice president at Goldman Sachs, she executed transactions in the private finance department and was a relationship manager in the capital markets department. She also worked in management development, where she led significant mentoring, diversity, and compliance initiatives. She left Goldman Sachs to become a partner at the Exeter Group of Funds, a private mezzanine and equity investment firm.
Karen is the author of Lead Your Way: Practical Coaching for Advice for Creating the Career You Want. She has collaborated with Harvard Business School professor and author Dr. David A. Thomas on diversity and inclusion programs, including one that won an Innovations in Diversity Award from Profiles in Diversity Journal.
Karen earned her AB in economics at Harvard University, followed by her MBA and JD at the University of Chicago. She is credentialed as a Master Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation. She is certified in Hogan Assessments, MBTI, Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument, EQ-i 2.0, EQ 360, Strengthscope, Strengthscope Leader, and other tools.
Karen Watai
Executive Coach and Consultant
