Vetted Coaching Professionals

“HR leader who joined Polished as Head of HR days before the entire C-suite resigned, then partnered with new executives to restructure a $500M e-commerce organization using rapid internal promotions and manager development. More recently at Coforge, supported a North America population and used exit-interview and compensation data to address call-center turnover in Charleston, WV, alongside deep experience running sensitive ER investigations.”

“People/HR-focused change leader with experience driving a company-wide payroll/PEO provider transition through executive alignment, cross-functional facilitation, vendor coordination, and employee-focused communication/training. Uses systems thinking to diagnose drivers of turnover (e.g., gaps in post-onboarding training) and coaches leaders via 360-style feedback, real-time coaching, and structured behavior experiments to improve delegation and team effectiveness.”

“Partnerships leader (Director of Partnerships at Frontify; previously supported Founder/CEO/President at Modicum) known for driving cross-functional alignment and executive productivity. Built U.S. market presence and expanded agency partnerships while implementing practical operating rhythms (trackers, leadership syncs, streamlined reporting) to keep senior teams aligned and moving quickly.”

Angelo Bianchi

Screened

Senior HR Business Partner specializing in organizational design, labor relations, and people analytics

New York, NY16y exp

“HR/people analytics and transformation leader with experience at Royal Caribbean and Baptist Hospital, combining a graduate degree in business analytics with hands-on org design and change execution. Built HR analytics capabilities (predictive/causal approaches, data quality, storytelling) and partnered directly with a CFO to run a 2+ year finance reorg across a 26,000-employee, 14-hospital system, including writing 124 job descriptions and implementing a CoE/business partnering model.”

STEFANIE BARTRA

Screened

Senior Retail Buyer specializing in apparel and footwear merchandising

Fullerton, CA17y exp

“Senior-level fashion buyer specializing in seasonal footwear, with demonstrated results driving +22% YoY growth (700K+ pairs; $16.8M revenue) through assortment, pricing, and inventory strategy across store and e-commerce. Experienced in vendor cost negotiations at SKU level, OTB/line planning, and executing cross-functional brand repositioning initiatives while coaching junior buyers into promotions.”

“Org design and change-management leader with experience running globally distributed teams across North America, Europe, and Asia. Has built and managed product/design/analytics functions and partnered with executives on restructures and product rollouts by clarifying decision rights, implementing structured communication rhythms, and using analytics to guide resourcing and planning.”

“HR Manager with multi-site experience supporting four Florida branches, specializing in employee relations and investigations. Known for building standardized ER playbooks, SLAs, and leadership cadences that materially improved compliance and speed (cut investigation cycle time from 21 to ~14–15 days and raised on-time escalation responses to 92%). Previously supported 1,500+ employees at Amazon, partnering with specialized technical teams on org structure, role clarity, and hiring strategy using people and safety metrics.”

“Talent/Recruiting Operations leader who has managed a 7-person team and owned end-to-end talent planning, succession planning, performance management, and broader HR operations. Known for redesigning intern recruiting/onboarding by partnering deeply with business units, resulting in stronger intern cohorts and higher engagement scores, and for leading ATS changes as the project manager while building Workday recruiting analytics dashboards with HRIS.”

“Senior Membership Manager at Chief who operated in a player/coach leadership role across US/UK teams. Partnered with CRO and RevOps to shift the business from a city-by-city model to a national GTM, scaling membership from 3,400 to 20,000+ and lifting conversion 10% through revamped workflows, enablement, and data-driven KPI dashboards.”

“Cornell master’s student (CS/Stats) focused on research-heavy ML projects: implemented a sparsity-driven RL approach (DAPD + Soft Actor-Critic) that maintained stable learning even with ~95% of weights removed in OpenAI Gym continuous-control tasks. Also worked on diffusion-based computer vision with conditioning and latency-focused U-Net choices, and scaled unsupervised community detection on a 50k-node/800k-edge Reddit graph via BFS subgraph sampling.”

Christi Lind

Screened

Senior HR Business Partner specializing in employee relations and organizational change

New York, NY10y exp

“People/HR partner with experience supporting globally distributed teams at Justworks, Flatiron School, and WeWork (including greenfield operations in APAC). Has partnered closely with engineering/product/design/analytics leaders on job architecture, leveling criteria, and change rollouts, including coaching senior technical leaders on communication and engagement during mergers and restructuring.”

“Full-desk recruiter who has owned urgent, high-bar senior consulting searches (e.g., senior process safety consultant) requiring both deep technical screening and client-facing soft-skill evaluation. Operates with a structured cadence and uses pipeline analytics (time-in-stage, drop-off, time-to-fill) to manage throughput, drive hiring manager accountability, and close candidates through offer and onboarding.”

Raymon Bledsoe

Screened

Executive sales leader specializing in EdTech, SaaS, and real estate solutions

Dallas, TX10y exp

“Public-sector sales leader in K-12 education currently leading an inside sales team at Edmentum across a large Midwest territory. Brings a disciplined, metrics-driven approach to district acquisition, expansion, forecasting, and manager coaching, with early-year performance at 110% of Q1 goal and clear experience navigating complex multi-stakeholder school district deals.”

“Recruiting leader and player-coach who has managed teams (3 direct, 2–3 indirect) and stays hands-on with executive search, sourcing, and screening. Known for data-driven recruiting lifecycle improvements (time-in-stage/pipeline leakage) and for partnering closely with HRBPs on compensation benchmarking, confidential searches, and succession planning; has influenced CEO-level decisions to address hiring process and comp challenges at Precision Value & Health and improved technical interview outcomes at CVS.”

“Talent acquisition leader who has managed recruiting orgs of up to 25 direct reports and can also jump in hands-on for SLT/ELT executive searches. Built end-to-end recruiting operations from a blank slate at Lumos (SOPs, KPIs, rubrics, ATS workflows) to enable rapid scaling, and partnered with ELT/Finance on a global contractor/freelancer platform rollout with cost, compliance, and worker-classification risk considerations.”

“CTO who ties technology strategy directly to business outcomes, building multi-year roadmaps with measurable ROI. Led major modernization (cloud, data platform, unified API, microservices + CI/CD) delivering 5x faster releases/deployments, 99.8% uptime, and 40% user growth without headcount increases, while scaling engineering from 15 to 80+ in ~18 months.”

Mike Martin

Screened

Executive Services & Operations Leader specializing in managed services, M&A integration, and growth

28y exp

“COO/operator who helped scale a PE-backed Managed Services Provider from ~$20M to ~$120M in 30 months while acquiring 3–4 MSPs per year. Drove post-merger integration and standardized service delivery using ITIL, unified systems onto NetSuite and a unified delivery platform, and built a data warehouse to rapidly integrate legacy data for operational insights (including early ML/AI use).”

Daniel Riskey

Screened

Director-level Talent Acquisition leader specializing in pathway programs and high-volume hiring

20y exp

“Talent Acquisition/Recruiting Operations leader with experience across aviation, technology, corporate/finance, and education. Led a 12-person TA org and drove major operational transformations, including a Southwest Airlines pilot pipeline program cutting time-to-cockpit from ~10 years to ~4 and forecasting 400–600 pilots annually at peak. Recently served as primary TA stakeholder for an iCIMS-to-ADP RM ATS migration, simplifying workflows and reducing recruiter administrative work by ~70%.”

Mohammed Ahmed

Screened

Senior Media Performance Manager specializing in programmatic advertising

Hyderabad, India10y exp

“Performance marketer with 10 years of experience managing large US media budgets for global brands including Ford, Toyota, Nestle, Daimler, and Mondelez. Brings strong programmatic and measurement expertise across DV360, The Trade Desk, StackAdapt, Yahoo DSP, Google Ads, Innovid, IAS, and CM360, with hands-on examples of improving e-commerce sales and restoring lost attribution through pixel diagnostics.”

“Gameplay QA professional with hands-on experience testing and iterating on live production changes for 2XKO, including move/frame adjustments and system interactions. Known for structured ISTQB-based test planning, video-backed documentation, and strong defect isolation (e.g., tracing knockdown roll issues to collision capsule sizing) to speed up developer triage and resolution.”