Cherie is an award-winning leadership development consultant and coach with a twenty-five-year track record of successful engagements with senior executives, and technical leaders in Fortune 500 companies, medium sized businesses and fast-growing start-ups. Leveraging her real-world executive experience and degree, she is widely recognized as a leadership coach who delivers extraordinary results. Cherie’s clients describe her as a careful listener, a no-nonsense truth teller, and as a trusted partner who offers valuable, practical guidance. Cherie challenges her clients to leverage their existing strengths and address blind spots that may be curtailing their organizational impact. Cherie’s ability to develop trust quickly, her organizational savvy, and her commitment to client growth and development are hallmarks of her many successful coaching and consulting engagements.

Cherie’s coaching specialties include helping clients shift from technical leadership to enterprise leadership, communicate authentically and compellingly, devise and cascade strategy, lead organizational change, enhance influence skills, and build relationships with key stakeholder groups. Leadership Development Custom Workshops/Team Effectiveness In addition to her one-on-one work with leaders, Cherie also creates custom leadership development programs and coaches teams to help identify and address issues and challenges hindering their effectiveness. Focus areas in this work include, creating high-performing teams/team dynamics, MBTI team building, culture development, and strategic partnerships, managing conflict, and establishing mutual accountability. Cherie has deep coaching and consulting experience in many industries, including biotechnology, medical devices, financial services, manufacturing, non-profit, etc.

Cherie earned her M.S. from Colorado State Global in Organizational Leadership and Strategy and a B.A in Communication from UCSB. She has held several board positions and provided adjunct faculty for Cal State Fullerton and UCSB. She is a frequent keynote speaker on a variety of contemporary leadership topics. Certified in DDI, multiple Korn Ferry assessments, MBTI, Covey, Five Behaviors, and the like.

Notable Client Achievements

• Coaching work with this client centered on changing her “leadership brand” by building her awareness of how the style that worked well for her in the past was counter-productive here. The client worked very hard to understand the scenarios that triggered the behaviors that were perceived negatively by colleagues. While still ‘being herself,’ she was able to operate from a more appropriate emotional range, control her non-verbal signals, and present herself to the organization in way that was more consistent with the company’s culture. The client credits coaching for making her a more self-aware leader and building her brand as a respected, trusted leader who gets things done.

• Led a proficiency coach academy for 2000 loan servicing leaders moving to support a new operational model for Bank of America

• Designed a global leadership framework for a Fortune 100 med device enterprise