Hilary Weber
Senior Executive Coach
Goodstone Group LLC
San Francisco, CA
Email: hw****@************up.com
Phone: +1 (415) 755-7266
Education and Professional Affiliations
- Graduate, Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching Certification Program (CPC)
- Industry Fellow, SCET, U.C. Berkeley, College of Engineering
- Gold Certified Global Faculty, Presentations & Content, SNP
- Certified as Master Practitioner, Energy Leadership Index
- Proficient in StrengthsFinder 2.0
- Adjunct Coach, U.C. Berkeley-Haas School of Business
- MBA, U.C. Berkeley-Haas School of Business
- MBA Exchange Program, Rotterdam School of Management
- BFA, Ohio State University
Professional Experience
Hilary Weber is a tech-savvy executive coach with a background as an entrepreneur and business consultant. She works with senior executives, emerging leaders and executive teams in fast-paced, technology-driven companies to develop leadership capabilities, meet new challenges, and create conditions for optimal performance, communication and innovation.
Clients say that Hilary “has a talent for laser-focused interpersonal skill-building” and “helps them to see situations from multiple perspectives in an objective and thoughtful manner, by posing tough questions that are strategic and results-oriented.”
Hilary has worked extensively with C-level executives in early stage, high growth companies as well as leaders in large enterprises. Hilary provides a combination of business acumen and deep coaching experience and development tools/techniques to help leaders maximize their impact both externally and internally. She partners with leaders to integrate feedback with strategic skill development so that they can build productive teams, delegate effectively, drive innovation and optimize their communication.
Before working with Goodstone, Hilary held leadership roles at Kaiser Permanente, IDG Macworld and Thomson Gale, spearheading marketing initiatives and consulting to senior executives and industry peers on innovation, strategy, and digital marketing technology. Before that, she had P&L responsibility in a leadership role in New York City.
Recent Coaching Experience
- CEO and COO of an enterprise technology company to build their team’s leadership capabilities, improve business results and refine their strategic focus
- Head of Engineering for leading sales technology company on executive presence, identifying development opportunities, team building/leadership and improved communication with peer execs
- Senior IT executive of Fortune 50 global enterprise cloud computing company on preparing for increased responsibility, developing executive presence and improving team management skills
- CEO of a music tech company to build the success of the core team, improve leadership capabilities, develop a multiple-pronged business model and develop a mission-driven culture
- CEO of mobile health company to strengthen executive team engagement and communication strategy/execution (team is located across U.S. and Asia)
- Several top executives of leading $400MM global architecture firm to prepare for election to the Board, turn around a poorly performing division, and handle personnel and business environment challenges
- CEO and COO of alternative energy company to work on strategic direction, executive presence and external communications
- CEO of financial services company to assess and work on development areas including conflict resolution, handling rapid business growth, and improving communication skills
- CEO/Founder of behavioral health consultancy to develop clear vision, increase leadership capabilities and drive strategic partnership development
- CEO/Founder of real estate development company on assessing, identifying and executing areas for development including strategic leadership and visioning
- Executive in Fortune 500 healthcare/pharmaceutical company on assessing and identifying areas for leadership development including presence and improved communication skills
Career History
Independent Consultant (2010-Present)
Hilary focuses on one-on-one executive coaching, group facilitation, leadership development (execution and content design), strategic business consulting, partnerships, writing and public speaking.
Kaiser Permanente (2003-2010)
Director of Internet Marketing
Hilary led national teams (local and remote); she led nationwide strategy and execution for social networking, digital media, search marketing, online advertising and email for all regions and business lines, targeting nine million members as well as millions of prospective members and other key audiences. Recognized as an industry leader by multiple professional associations and other organizations.
IDG Macworld (2000-2002)
Director of Marketing
As member of the Steering Committee, Hilary ran marketing and sales support for Macworld magazine and all web presence (U.S.) and set brand standard for all international sister publications; held key role in Macworld Expo. Garnered top tier TV coverage, revamped brand and developed disruptive, high-impact integrated campaigns.
Thomson Gale (Gale Group) (1998-2000)
Senior Manager, Strategic Marketing
Hilary successfully managed engineers and relaunched a flagging product line (became primary product offering of the company). Spearheaded innovative integrated campaigns. Co-directed development of new B2B e-commerce software product.
Additional: Hilary had executive leadership and P&L responsibility for a privately held firm in Soho, New York.