Cathy Nunnally
Senior Executive Coach
Goodstone Group LLC
Houston, TX
Email: cn*******@************up.com
Phone: (713) 933-9906
Education and Professional Affiliations
- BBA, Eastern New Mexico University
- Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coach Foundation (ICF)
- Completed the Newfield Coaching programs
- CPA (Inactive)
- Certified in MBTI, Birkman, Hogan, Harrison, EQ-Learning and Action
Professional Experience
Cathy has coached successful executives and emerging leaders since 2005, improving their effectiveness in their current roles and preparing for their next set of challenges.
As an executive coach, facilitator and speaker, Cathy’s practice has been built upon an extensive career as a senior officer with JPMorgan Chase. She brings to the table real world understanding of organizational challenges from leading large-scale organizational challenges to personal effectiveness in the boardroom. Her breadth and depth of coaching and consulting experience coupled with her seasoned judgment and comfort with senior executives makes her a trusted advisor in numerous organizations.
Her unique talent is her ability to help her clients gain clarity about themselves, their team and their organization and to provide spot-on coaching to enhance their unique leadership.
Of particular note is Cathy’s ability to work with highly successful technical executives who have elevated to broad leadership roles. Because of her own background as a CPA and senior executive of a money center bank, she can expertly guide others through this important transition.
Recent Coaching Experience
- New CEO of a high growth oilfield services company to move from operational leadership to organizational leadership
- President of a major investment services company to prepare for CEO succession, focusing on leading multiple business lines, strategy and his own succession
- EVP of Trading for a power company to enhance internal communication and relational qualities to prepare for CEO succession
- Newly promoted President preparing for CEO succession in a Fortune 500 energy company transitioning from a CFO-role to line management
- CFO of a privately held pipeline services firm preparing for CEO succession focusing on executive presence and collaborative skills
- GC of PE-backed environmental services firm to clarify his role and broaden his impact as company scaled rapidly and prepared for a CEO transition
- VP/Treasurer for a national funeral services provider to develop executive management skills over an expanded group
- Newly promoted HIPO VP of a major utility to jumpstart leadership growth over a new operations group. In line for CEO succession
- New CFO of a publicly traded oilfield manufacturing company to hone presence, internal and external communications expertise
- CEO of a consulting organization to turn focus from external client expansion/relations to building internal capability
- GC of a major international oilfield company to hone his management of a large in-house staff
- CEO and the senior management team of a $40 billion endowment to clarity operating principles and build a different culture
- SVP of Operations for a privately held chemical refining company and his leadership team to improve team effectiveness during major change and growth
- Multiple year assignments with a Fortune 500 energy company’s officer-level leadership initiative providing 360 feedback, development planning and associated coaching
Career History
JPMorgan Chase – 1984-2004
Senior Vice President, Communications Executive – 3 years
Working in the company’s New York headquarters, Cathy initiated a sophisticated communications effort to support the newly created Regional Bank, a $3 billion revenue business serving a customer base of retail, affluent and small business customers. She managed disaster communications during 9/11, chaired an extensive customer satisfaction initiative and built a company-wide intranet to support the communications programs. Reporting directly to the head of the business, Cathy sat on the management committee and supported the EVP with strategic projects.
Senior Vice President, Head of Texas Retail Banking – 6 years
Cathy served as the head of the Texas Retail Banking group, which comprised 128 branches, 2800 employees and a $400 million revenue base. During her tenure, she initiated a profitability program which included selling geographic markets, building new branches, redefining customer segments and building a strong sales and service culture. After managing a systems technology merger that allowed the Texas bank to integrate with the New York organization, she oversaw the merging of functional areas that culminated in the geographical management of a matrixed organization with segment and product businesses.
Cathy served on the Texas bank’s executive committee and chaired the statewide diversity committee.
Senior Vice President, Learning and Development-Texas – 4 years
Other Chase Roles – 7 years
Previous Experience
Earlier in her career, Cathy was a CPA in public accounting with an audit focus