LEADER SUPPORT - Key Persons


Dr. Nancy B. Sobel

Job Titles:
  • Career Advisor, Executive
Dr. Nancy B. Sobel is a career advisor, executive, and peer coach, consultant, mentor and group facilitator working with clients at all levels, from those first entering the job market to senior physicians and executive leaders. Her businesses, LeaderSupport and Physician LeaderSupport, are established on a model of self-sustaining leadership, qualities she sees as inherent in everyone. LS-PLS's mission is that each client distinguish success at each step along their paths to leadership and obtain rewarding employment in organizations that share his/her core values. She works with clients to help them hone their senses of clarity, purpose, and authentic self-expression in order to develop her/his own full potential and that of their respective teams and organizations. She believes that true leadership is the ultimate in flexibility and succession planning. Dr. Sobel holds an MD and PhD from the University of Chicago, completed her Ob/Gyn training at Yale New Haven Hospital, and has been board-certified since 1991. After nearly a decade of clinical practice concentrating in women's healthcare and biochemical endocrinology, she earned her MBA from the Simmons College School of Management in 1997 and completed her Advanced Physician Development certification from the Physician Coaching Institute in 2010. Before adding executive coaching to her entrepreneurial repertoire, she held academic appointments in Ob/Gyn and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School, Northeastern University, and Tufts University School of Medicine.