10 executive coaches
Executive coaches with very different starting points make up this group: three have held corporate executive titles, as CEO of MATRIX Resources, Senior Vice President at Moody's Ratings and Vice President at Google, while others coach or facilitate at Stanford GSB, Harvard Business School Executive Education and the Center for Creative Leadership. They are worth a call when choosing a coach for a CEO or senior leader and deciding how the engagement should be set up.
Professionals to explore
Fred Kofman
LinkedInExperience: Executive Coach President at Conscious Business Center International - CBC · Conscious Business Center International- CBC
Executive development inside a company like Google or LinkedIn is the fit for Fred Kofman, who held Vice President at Google (2018–2020) and VP of Executive Development at LinkedIn (2013–2018) and has been Executive Coach President at Conscious Business Center International - CBC since 2013. Fred has also been Advisor, Leadership Development at Google since 2018 and a BetterUp Advisory Board Member since 2016, and wrote Conscious Business.
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Helena Hlavenkova, MA, PCC
LinkedInExperience: Former Founder & Principal Executive Coach, Facilitator and Mediator · Helena Coaching
Since 2015 Helena Hlavenkova has been Founder & Principal Executive Coach, Facilitator and Mediator at Helena Coaching, and was Founder & Principal Organizational Development Consultant at OD&HR Base (2005–2015). Helena works on leadership, conflict and change with leaders and teams across corporate, public and Indigenous community contexts, a fit when a senior leader's issue is conflict inside a team.
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Hilary Parkes
LinkedInExperience: Founder and Executive Coach · Leadership Presence Consulting Inc.
Executive presence is the coaching goal Hilary Parkes fits best, supporting leaders at all career stages on using their strengths and showing executive presence. Hilary was Senior Vice President, Relationship Management at Moody's Ratings (1993–2018), and has been Founder and Executive Coach at Leadership Presence Consulting Inc. since 2018 and an Executive Coach at Impact Coaches Inc. since 2019.
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Jim Huling
LinkedInExperience: Executive Coach · The Jim Huling Group
Co-author of The 4 Disciplines of Execution, Jim Huling was Chief Executive Officer of MATRIX Resources (1997–2008) and has been an Executive Coach at The Jim Huling Group since 2008, with Executive Coach (2008–2024) and Global Managing Consultant (4DX) (2008–2021) roles at FranklinCovey. As a coach to senior leaders, Jim suits questions on turning a strategy into goals a team actually executes.
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Luis Velasquez MBA, PhD.
LinkedInExperience: Founder, Managing Partner, Executive Coach · Velas Coaching LLC
Founder, Managing Partner, Executive Coach at Velas Coaching LLC since 2012, Luis Velasquez is also an Experiential Facilitator at Stanford University Graduate School of Business (since 2017) and a contributor to Harvard Business Review (since 2021) and Fast Company (since 2022). Luis coaches CEOs and C-suite leaders on power, influence and organizational dynamics and is the author of Ordinary Resilience.
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Michael Cooper
LinkedInExperience: Founder & Head Executive Coach · High Performance Orgs
Michael Cooper has been Founder & Head Executive Coach at High Performance Orgs since 1999, and a Business Mentor and Startup Mentor at Stanford University Graduate School of Business since 2022. Michael coaches founders, CEOs and senior leaders and cites 27 years and 3,000+ executives in 37 countries, a fit for questions on coaching a CEO through board pressure and shrinking headcount.
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Nancy Yahanda
LinkedInExperience: Executive Coach · Center for Creative Leadership
Global executive, team and organizational coaching for Fortune 500 companies, emerging companies, government agencies and non-profits over 25+ years is how Nancy Yahanda describes the work. Nancy has been an Executive Coach at the Center for Creative Leadership since 2005 and a Facilitator and Executive Coach at Harvard Business School Executive Education since 2013, and is President of YAHANDA group and a Harnisch Scholar Researcher Coach at the Institute of Coaching.
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Nick Egan, PhD
LinkedInExperience: Leadership Advisor Executive Coach Managing Partner · Shift Leadership Group
A leader who wants direct feedback fits Nick Egan, who says they won't tell executives what they want to hear and is the author of Shift: The Art of Transforming Limitations. Nick is Leadership Advisor Executive Coach Managing Partner at Shift Leadership Group and Executive Coach Team Effectiveness Strategist at the Advanced Leadership Development Institute, both since 2021, and Executive Coach Regional Partner at Level 52 Inc. since 2018.
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Praveen Mantena
LinkedInExperience: Executive Coach & Advisor · CEO²
A systems-level approach that starts with the system a leader operates in is how Praveen Mantena describes the coaching, now as Executive Coach & Advisor at CEO² (since 2024), Executive Coach at The Human Dash (since 2025) and Executive Coach & Faculty at Stagen Leadership Academy (since 2026). Praveen was Exec Team Coach & OKR Specialist at 15Five (2018–2024), a fit for executive team and OKR questions.
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Rachel Monteverdi, PhD
LinkedInExperience: Senior Consultant and Executive Coach · CorporateDNA Consulting
Leadership development, employee engagement and culture transformation are Rachel Monteverdi's work at NextLevelNextStep (since 2019), alongside Senior Consultant and Executive Coach at CorporateDNA Consulting since 2021. Rachel held Facilitation, Training & Development Instructional Design at Duke University (2015–2018) and field faculty roles at NC State University, and cites Fortune 100 leadership development and high-trust teams.
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Choose the right perspective
For a CEO who wants a coach with operating experience, Jim Huling, Hilary Parkes and Fred Kofman have held CEO, Senior Vice President and VP titles. Praveen Mantena and Nick Egan list exec team or team effectiveness work for leadership-team questions, Helena Hlavenkova adds mediation when conflict is the problem, and Luis Velasquez and Michael Cooper describe coaching CEOs and C-suite leaders directly.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you structure a coaching engagement with a CEO, including length, meeting cadence and what the board or CHRO hears about progress?
- 02What should a company ask a prospective executive coach in a first conversation to tell whether the fit is right?
- 03How do you measure whether coaching a senior leader worked, and when do you recommend ending the engagement?
About this directory
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