Suzi Pomerantz, MT, MCC

CEO, Executive Leadership Coach, Bestselling Author

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Suzi Pomerantz is an award-winning elite executive leadership coach, international bestselling author, and global thought leader in the top 1% of the coaching profession, specializing in highly customized strategic support for clients navigating high-stakes, complex systems; corporate c-suite and senior leaders in $10B-$100B+ enterprises and public institutions, mission-driven nonprofits, founders, scientists, and attorneys. For 32 years she has been amplifying the impact of thousands of leaders in over 300 organizations across the globe. 

 

Frequently retained for multi-year strategic relationships, Suzi helps leaders and organizations create clarity from chaos through strategic executive coaching, leadership innovation, and organizational transformation. 

• For CEOs across industries and sectors, Pomerantz stops “lonely at the top”.™  

• Senior leaders value her as a sounding board who understands the systems and unique reality in which they operate.

• C-suite executives trust her to untangle and elevate their thinking.

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She provides strategic thought partnership as leaders navigate multiple, often competing layers of complexity, uncertainty, and high-stakes decision-making. She integrates pattern-level insights with strategic depth for impact beyond standard coaching approaches. Her no-nonsense approach is direct, conversational, strategic, analytical and results oriented.

 

Engagements are selective, bespoke, primarily one-to-one, and have spanned North America, Europe, West Africa, India and Hong Kong.

 

Top of Coaching Profession

A pioneer in the coaching industry, she helped start up the International Coaching Federation (ICF), served on several initial committees as it evolved, was among the first 35 coaches in the world to earn the Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential when ICF first granted them in 1998 and has sustained it for 28 years. Now she is one of 2,500 MCCs, putting her in the top 1% of all coaches globally.

 

Industry Expertise 

Suzi has rare breadth across extremes of scale where leadership complexity is highest; Founder-led companies under $10M and large enterprises over $10B, bringing uncommon perspective across the full spectrum of organizational scale. Deep industry expertise includes: high level leaders within Legal, Healthcare/Life Sciences, Global Professional Services/Consulting firms, Financial Services, Federal/Public Sector, Associations, Nonprofits, and Technology/IT.  She’s also coached world-changing visionary Founders in the prestigious TED Fellows program, Sundance Institute, Visible Connect Fellows, and StartingBloc Fellows. 

 

Elite Client Portfolio

Select clients include: Accenture, Deloitte, Pfizer, Lockheed Martin, Goldman Sachs, Federal Reserve Board, FBI, Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, Marriott, Allstate, USAA, American Express, Google, IBM, DuPont, Sears, Thomson Reuters, Petco, MedImmune, PwC, Toyota, BMC Software, Condé Nast, and others across Fortune100 corporations, AmLaw100 law firms, and federal agencies. Going deep in consecutive multi-year engagements in large enterprises demonstrates her grasp of layered cultures and nuanced leadership complexity; she has coached over 100 senior leaders during 17 years at NIH (2009-2026), and over 60 senior leaders in 18 years at Accenture (2005-2023).

 

Measurable Impact

Pomerantz blends strategic insight with deep interpersonal acumen to elevate clients and transform cultures using practical wisdom. Select examples:

• Her coaching of executives at DuPont supported the development and growth of the nationally acclaimed DuPont Legal Model, which cut outside legal expenses by 48% producing bottom-line savings in excess of $50 million. 

• Her coaching supported enhanced communication between the owners, partners and staff of a professional services firm. The former command-control style of leadership of the firm transformed to a more collaborative, facilitative leadership model which improved employee and partner engagement by 89%. 

• Her presentation coaching with a team of leaders in a large healthcare construction company helped them to win an $80 million contract to build a hospital. 

• She designed a multi-tiered solution that provided coaching services to the top 65 leaders in a large federal agency, resulting in a reported 90% increase in trust, communication, collaboration, and leadership competencies. 

• Her executive clients advance in their careers, earning promotions during and immediately after their coaching work.

• Her entrepreneur clients report direct sales impact; one documented a 300% increase in business revenues attributed to her business development coaching.

 

Biomedical, Healthcare, Life Sciences Industry: 

Pomerantz has coached leaders at 51 organizations in related industries including Pharmaceutical, Health Research, and Biotechnology. Since 2009, her work across 38 of the institutes, centers, and offices of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with over 100 scientist leaders, researchers, operational and administrative leaders results in expanded awareness, emotional intelligence, leadership acumen and skills to succeed in a high-pressure, high-growth environment. PhD scientists cite results including increased confidence, improved strategic visibility, an ability to successfully navigate the political landscape, leadership influence, and an improved capacity to handle the demands and stresses of work. Most clients advance professionally as a result, many renew coaching with Suzi through multiple promotions into retirement. Including healthcare and life sciences enterprises to this count adds another 145 senior leaders Suzi has supported across this industry (Pfizer, MedImmune, Emergent BioSolutions, Aptevo Therapeutics, CEPI, Genomatica, Zogenix, Keystone Symposia, IBA Proton Therapy, John Umstead Hospital, Central Brooklyn Medical Group, StaffingPlus, St.Anne's Medical Support Services, etc.).

 

Legal & Justice Ecosystem

Pomerantz has deep expertise in the world of Law, including AmLaw 100 firms, corporate legal leadership, legal-adjacent advisory services, professional associations, and judicial institutions; specifically 145 lawyers in over 40 law-related entities. Suzi has coached judges, board members, general counsels, deputy and associate general counsels, executives, managing partners, equity partners, senior attorneys, practice group leaders and marketing directors. She provided executive coaching services in 16 law firms (eight of which are AmLaw100 firms),15 corporate law departments including DuPont, Accenture, Goldman Sachs, Toyota, Welch’s, and the FBI, and nine industry organizations such as NAWL, the Supreme Court of Virginia, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), LMA and FTI Consulting. As an executive coach to the management of the legal department at DuPont for over six years, Suzi contributed to the development and growth of the nationally acclaimed DuPont Legal Model. She coached the founding leaders of the DuPont Legal Model and coordinated the strategic design and implementation of the annual and mid-year meetings of the law firms representing DuPont. She was integrally involved in the planning, implementation, and facilitation of the annual Conference for Women and the Practice of Law for DuPont as well as the DuPont Minority Counsel Conference with the Minority Corporate Counsel Association. She facilitated law firm retreats and designed development sessions in leadership, mentoring, communication, executive presence, and business development. She onboarded association leadership and provided strategic support for the first year.

 

Global Professional Services Consulting Firms

Suzi coached 100+ senior leaders across Accenture, Deloitte, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. In Accenture’s post-engagement evaluations from 60 executives Suzi coached 6-9 months or more, 95% of senior leaders gave Suzi the highest possible ratings across all dimensions, including coaching effectiveness, leadership impact, and business value. Sponsors consistently noted re-energized, re-committed leaders and cited clear return on the company’s investment and increased leader value to the firm. Executives describe working with Suzi as a rare opportunity to be fully candid in a safe, confidential environment. They consistently say she helped them focus on what was important, increase self-awareness, and identify behaviors that were limiting their success, often in ways internal feedback could not achieve. Leaders report breakthroughs, increased confidence, clearer priorities, improved communication upward, and being seen differently by senior leadership, sponsors, and internal career counselors. Many cite concrete tools and strategies they continue to use and share with their teams, greater engagement, stronger leadership impact, and being of greater value to Accenture. 

 

Financial Industry

Pomerantz has coached leaders at 21 financial companies (29 senior leaders including 13 CFOs)

 

Technology/ IT 

Pomerantz has coached leaders at16 tech companies 16 senior leaders including CTOs, CIOs

 

Nonprofits

Pomerantz has coached leaders at 23 not for profit orgs (52 senior leaders including 30 Executive Director/CEOs and 8 Board Chairs)

 

Federal Agencies

Pomerantz has coached leaders at 38 agencies, 340 leaders (SES, GS 15, Directors, Deputy Directors, Chiefs, and Agency Heads) 

 

Corporate / Enterprise leaders she coached at large and mega multibillion dollar companies 

• $100B–$500B organizations: 75 senior executives

• $25B–$100B organizations: 60 senior executives

• $1B–$25B organizations: 45 senior executives

• $500M–$1B organizations: 20 senior executives

 

Founders and senior leaders she coached at mission-driven small organizations

• Under $10M: 72 leaders

• $10M–$50M: 25 leaders

 

Industry Founder 

An industry founder, she’s designed and built several global organizations for coaches and brings her differentiated thinking to many international boards of directors and advisory boards. Suzi helped build and evolve the global coaching profession through various industry founder roles: In 2007 she founded the Leading Coaches' Center, The Leader’s Clubhouse, and Village Fair, providing content and community online to a global membership of coaches. In 2009 she co-founded and launched the Library of Professional Coaching (the world’s first and largest free digital coaching library) and stewarded its growth until it sold to ICF in 2024. She co-founded ICCO (International Consortium of Coaching in Organizations) and IJCO (International Journal for Coaching in Organizations) and served on both boards for many years. She co-created and co-founded the acclaimed ECMBA Program (Executive Coach Master Business Accelerator) in 2014. She co-founded and served on the Executive Board of the IPCPA (International Professional Coaching Publications Association). She is the designer of the LEAP Tiered Coaching Program, the Custom Executive Reinvention Lab, and the Private CEO Strategy Council, which is a selective, curated, co-thinking space for c-suite executives.

 

Suzi was a visible steward, advancing the profession of coaching in organizations. She’s been a member several coaching organizations including ICF (International Coach Federation) and IAC (International Association of Coaches), and EMCC Global (European Mentoring and Coaching Council), and served on the initial credentialing committee for ICF in the early years. Suzi chaired the first ICCO Symposium in Washington, DC on The Global Implications of Organizational Coaching. Suzi facilitated as well as co-chaired the International Executive Coaching Summit, an invitation-only annual gathering of worldwide senior executive development experts which she attended for 10 years. Suzi annually attended the exclusive Conversation Among Masters (CAM) invitation-only gathering for master coaches for 5 years. 

 

Thought Leader

Suzi presented at the Annual International Coaching Federation Conference and the Capitol Coaches’ Conference, as well as The World Business and Executive Coaching Summit, and taught executive coaches for 12 years as facultyat the Executive Coach Academy and the College of Executive Coaching and as Resource Faculty Member at Advantara Global Coach Training Institute. Suzi was guest faculty and a featured speaker to industry leaders in over a dozen coaching schools and programs including: Association of Coach Training Organizations, Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara, Newfield Network, Gestalt Center for Organization and Systems Development International Gestalt Coaching Program, and the Purdue University Organizational Leadership Development Lab. She was invited as a panelist at the inaugural World Business and Executive Coaching Summit (WBECS) in 2011 and a featured speaker at the same event in 2012. In 2014, she was also asked to be the Director of Training for the Leadership Coaching and Organizational Performance program at both George Mason University and Rutgers University and served one term in that role. 

 

She delivered guest lectures at George Washington University, Loyola University, and the University of Virginia, and has coached executives in the MBA for Executives Program at Darden. Suzi presented, coached, and led team meetings at the prestigious Linkage Best of Organizational Development Summit in 2008. 

 

Published Works

Her published writing shares insights on leadership, executive coaching, ethics and business development in more than 100 articles, and she has authored, co-authored, or contributed to 11 books including the bestselling Seal the Deal: The Essential Mindsets for Growing Your Professional Services Business (HRD Press, 2006) and the number one international bestseller Ready, Aim, Captivate (with Deepak Chopra and other luminaries). She has been quoted in the Washington Post and Washington Business Journal, contributed frequently to Forbes and co-authors a regular column in choice, the magazine of professional coaching, where she has been a contributor for over two decades. She serves on the Advisory Board of the international journal: Philosophy of Coaching. She currently serves as the Strategic Advisor to the Editorial Board of choice, the magazine of professional coaching.

 

Awards and Honors

Recognized with numerous industry distinctions, Suzi received the 2007 Woman of Achievement Award from Business and Professional Women (BPW) with the Commission for Women. In 2008 the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations (ICCO) Board of Directors established and gave her a legacy award in her name: the Suzi Pomerantz Award for Stewardship. In 2009, Suzi was named the #1 Most Influential Executive Coach on Twitter, and in 2010 she was invited as a Founding Coach in Keith Ferrazzi’s Relationship Masters Academy. She was also named a coaching hero by SupporTED for her work with the TED Fellows program. In 2012 she was invited to join the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council to help shape the content they develop on management and leadership. In 2013, Suzi was inducted into Bestselling Authors International Organization and became a Founding Member of the Mentors Guild. In 2015, Suzi was invited to join the Association for Coaching Excellence. In 2016, she was invited to join the Forbes Coaches Council, and invitation-only community for leading coaches. Recipient of the 2017 ICF Global Board Chair’s Award and was named in Corporate Vision magazine’s Coaching Top 50 as well as Six Figure Coach magazine’s Top 200 Coaches to Follow Online. Her company was selected as Most Outstanding Executive Coaching Company of the year 2018 by Global Business Insight. Also in 2018 she was awarded the Platinum Coach designation at the Association for Coaching Excellence. In 2021 Suzi was awarded Silver in the category of Best Americas Coach. Suzi earned her EMCC Global Accreditation as Certified Senior Practitioner 2022-2027. In 2024 she was presented with the Gordon Lee Salmon Sustainable Leadership Award by colleagues and peers. In 2025 she was recognized as a Top Executive Coach in America. 

 

Education

Suzi holds two degrees from the University of Virginia; a Bachelor of Arts and a Master’s from the Curry School of Education. Collegiate honors include Kappa Delta Pi International Education Honor Society, Dean’s List, and Lawn Resident (Thomas Jefferson’s Academic Village).

 

At a Glance:

 

• #1 International Bestselling Author/ Co-Author of 11 books

• CEO, Innovative Leadership International LLC

• Advisor, Harvard Business Review's Advisory Council

• Internationally credentialed Master Certified Coach since 1998

• Advisory Board Member, Founding Vice President and Executive Board Member of the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations (ICCO)

• Founding Editorial Board Member of the International Journal for Coaching in Organizations (IJCO)

• Co-Founder of the Library of Professional Coaching

• Founder of the Leading Coaches’ Center

• Executive Board Member, Past Co-Chairman of the International Executive Coaching Summit

• Member, Forbes Coaches Council

• SupporTED coach for TED Fellows

• Executive Board Member, International Professional Coaching Publications Association

• Advisory Board Member, Philosophy of Coaching

• Advisory Board Member, WordSmithRapport

• Named Top 200 Small Business Coaches by The Six Figure Coach Magazine

• Named Coaching Top 50 by Corporate Vision Magazine

• Recipient of the 2017 ICF Global Board Chair’s Award

• Strategic Advisor to the Editorial Board of choice, the magazine of professional coaching

 

As Your Executive Coach:

 

I am highly committed to my clients’ success and sustainable transformation. I inspire trust and bring a subtle integration of warmth and wisdom to your growth work. My strength lies in helping leaders and organizations find clarity within chaos. I work best with highly intelligent, dedicated professionals who want to get to the next level and craft a memorable brand legacy in their organization and the world. I love my work and serving leaders who influence and impact the world. I help mission-driven leaders who want to make an impact to both accelerate and amplify that impact.  I believe in your greatest success.

 

When I work with you I:

 

• Develop a trusting relationship with you and listen – carefully and objectively -- to what is happening in your business, in your world, and in you.

• Tailor my business model and coaching approach to reflect your particular situation.

• Connect the dots you may not have seen yet and help you make sense out of chaos/complexity and get clear (or see things through new eyes).

• Move the boxes that are obstructing your path and preventing you from getting where you want to go.

• Challenge old assumptions and blend fresh, new approaches with tried and true ones to maximize your particular agenda, challenge or goal.

• Create a direct path to your maximum impact.

• Customize ways to add value to your ultimate success.

• Leverage proven strategies to customize your coaching as you grow.

• Help you to untangle and elevate your thinking, particularly for complex leadership situations.

• Support your increasing awareness around internal politics and navigating high stakes contexts.

• For top leaders, whether CEOs or Founders who feel isolated since they can't think aloud with anyone in their orbit, I provide a safe space for thought partnership.  

• I stop "lonely at the top".™