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Reneé Cooper

Senior Executive Coach
Goodstone Group LLC
Boston, MA and San Francisco/Bay Area
Email: RC*****@************up.com
Phone: (617) 283-3713

Education and Professional Affiliations
  • B.A., Harvard Business School, Boston, MA
  • B., Applied Mathematics and Economics, Brown University, Providence, RI
  • ICF-accredited Certified Professional Coach (CPC), College of Executive Coaching
  • Certified in a range of contemporary assessment and typing tools including The Leadership Versatility Index, The Hogan Inventory, CCL suite of assessments (Benchmarks, Executive Dimensions, Skillscope), MBTI Step II, EQinAction, and The Emotional and Social Competency Index

Professional Experience

Renée Cooper brings over 20 years of coaching, consulting and business experience to her executive client engagements. With a style that is warm, direct and insightful, she coaches executives and senior teams to enhance leadership skills, produce results and achieve personal and organizational objectives. She has worked with client industries such as financial services, hi tech, telecommunications, life sciences, bio-tech, non-profits, and executive education.

Whether working one-on-one in an executive coaching relationship, or “team-coaching” a senior management group, Renée works with her clients to produce insight, clarity, and action.

Recent Coaching Assignments

  • CEO of technology manufacturing company, newly appointed to position, to develop strategy, build leadership team, and drive culture change
  • CEO of wealth management firm, to build followership and strengthen team beneath him
  • CEO of outsourced sales firm, to build facilitative leadership and emotional intelligence skills
  • CEO of enterprise network security firm, to strengthen strategic mindset and build leadership team
  • President, high tech sales organization ($4Bil revenue), to develop moderated leadership style balancing inspirational leadership with results orientation
  • Operating Partner, premier private equity firm, to enhance executive presence and advocacy skills
  • Chief Strategy Officer, major health insurance firm, to prepare for expanded scope; balance strategic thinking with executional strength
  • Chief HR Officer, wealth management firm, to prepare for broader scope, improve political savvy
  • Chief Strategy Officer, Fortune 100 high tech firm, to build followership and strengthen cross-functional collaboration
  • Chief Risk Officer (reporting to CEO) at major financial institution, to help him be successful with expanded scope and visibility of role, improve delegation and work/life balance, improve working relationships with peers and presence with Board
  • EVP, private equity firm, to improve executive presence
  • VP/GM of $4bn health care business, to enhance organizational savvy and leadership skills
  • EVP of Sales, national lending institution, to develop enterprise-level perspective, communication skills, and presence. Created tools and processes to help him look beyond this sales organization allowing him to become more strategic.
  • SVP of Business Development (reporting to CEO) of international NGO (2500 employees worldwide), to improve relationships with peers and executive presence
  • CFO of technology manufacturing firm, to develop facilitative management style and improve interpersonal skills
  • VP, Assistant Corporate Controller of global technology firm to prepare for succession to SVP Finance. Focused on: gaining broader visibility in the business; developing and advocating a point of view on topics outside of the accounting space; and building his bench.
  • Executive participants at Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program and Program for Leadership Development
  • Executive participants at Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program and Program for Leadership Development
  • Executive participants at Harvard’s International Women’s Forum

Career History

Executive Coach and Leadership Consultant (2008-present)
Provide executive coaching, leadership development, and team coaching services to banking, biotech, professional services and manufacturing firms. Client engagements also include organizational assessment and workshop design and delivery.

  • Co-designed and lead Manager Development Series for major bank
  • Co-designed and taught Leadership: The Inner Journey, at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

Center for Authentic Leadership, Adjunct Coach (2000-2007)
Coached and mentored participants enrolled in the Center’s 3-year Leadership Development Program Future Thinking. CFAL is a leadership development organization committed to assisting leaders in designing lives consistent with their talents and purpose.

Executive Perspectives, Inc., Executive Coach and Leadership Consultant (1996-2000)

  • Led the leadership practice for boutique management development consultancy. Designed and delivered leadership development initiatives for major US firms including BellSouth, General Electric, United Airlines, Lockheed, PricewaterhouseCoopers, First Data Corp, and GTE.

Norton Company, Manager (1988-1995)
Created and led management development and sales training organization for North America (5000+ employees). Led organization-wide re-engineering project of 30 professionals and $6mm budget. Managed Bonded Abrasives Customer Service, Western Region (approx. $200mm sales).