LEADERSHIP COACH - Key Persons


Ajay Ramakrishnan

Job Titles:
  • Coach
  • Executive
Colonel Ajay is a synergetic blend of diverse experiences. A professional Certified Coach by the ICF, certified by Marshall Goldsmith as well as by the Leadership Coach Group as a Global Leadership Coach, Colonel Ajay is a much sought after Executive & Leadership Coach.

Angela Farmer

Job Titles:
  • CEO Matching Expert
  • Client Matching Expert
My passion is matching people with the exact right coach that can help them fulfill their personal and professional goals. The first step is to meet with you personally to understand the challenges you are facing, your aspirations, and your preferences for a coach. You can schedule a meeting with me by clicking the button below. Once we talk, I will recommend 1-2 coaches for you to meet with in a free coaching discovery session so we can ensure a perfect fit. After you meet with the coach(es), I will check in with you to discuss next steps.

Carl Ramos

Job Titles:
  • Virtual Assistant

Dr. Joi Brown

Job Titles:
  • Career & Executive Coach
  • Career Strategist & Coach
Dr. Joi Brown, is a Career Strategist & Coach, International Bestselling Author, Empowerment Speaker, and Entrepreneur known as the "Positive Energizer." Dr. Brown continues to educate, equip, and empower people through coaching, conversations, and workshops in career and entrepreneur development, conflict resolution, goal setting, health and wellness, leadership development, and personal and professional branding. Over the past 25 years, she has worked with numerous federal employees to achieve personal and professional goals through coaching and workshops such as Career Planning-Explore and Execute, Level Up Your Career, etc. Dr. Brown's expertise is working with clients to identify their strengths and skill sets and elevating their professional brand on their resumes. After working with Dr. Brown, her clients are more confident in the job application process, have increased job referrals and interviews, and received promotions. Dr. Brown is fulfilling her purpose to educate, equip, and empower others to achieve greatness.

Janaki Bakshi

Job Titles:
  • Coach
  • Executive
Janaki is a results-oriented Executive Coach with 15 years of deep experience. She has supported senior executives, other organizational leaders, and groups, within corporations, startups, tech firms, financial and legal services, HR, government agencies, and non-profits. Janaki combines her leadership experience and coaching abilities to guide her clients to reach their highest potential, as they navigate the known and unknown to achieve their goals. Janaki's coaching style is warm, holistic, and direct. Her passion is to coach and empower leaders to leverage their strengths and competitive edge to be more effective in challenging and fast-paced environments. Whether they are navigating change, transitioning to different roles or positions, building successful teams, transforming the culture of their organization, or at a crossroads. She focuses on helping executives thrive. She truly believes every human being has a hidden potential within them, and when that is tapped amazing things happen! Watch this video to learn more about Janaki's coaching style, techniques, tools, and background. Discover what challenges she most enjoys in her work with clients, and what she is passionate about.

John Weng

Job Titles:
  • Coach
  • Executive
John is a leadership coach and facilitator who is excited about helping people understand themselves better, break through roadblocks, and achieve their goals. John utilizes a holistic approach to help clients figure out what's going on, and how they can get to where they want to go. John has worked with individuals across public and private sectors and professionals ranging from middle managers to senior executives. John's experience spans across working in a 1:1 setting, intact teams, and groups to develop individual leadership capacity as well as collective leadership capacity. John started his career in higher education where he managed programs and services for universities. By the age of 25, he stepped into his first middle management role, managing managers, a vertical of over 100 employees, and an annual budget of $7M. Within a few short years, his portfolio expanded to 200+ employees and a budget in excess of $10M. He has held leadership roles and taught leadership and group dynamics courses to undergraduate and graduate students. John received his doctorate in Leadership Studies from the University of San Diego. He received his Bachelor's degree in Psychology from UC San Diego and his Master's degree in Postsecondary Educational Leadership with a specialization in Student Affairs from San Diego State University. He completed his Leadership Coaching certificate at the University of San Diego. He holds active credentials as a credentialed coach (PCC) by the International Coaching Federation, Gallup as a Certified Strengths coach, and the Myers-Briggs Foundation as a MBTI Master Practitioner. The combined formal education experience, certifications, and professional affiliations supports and informs his utilization of experiential learning in his leadership development practice. He has authored articles and chapters around leadership education and leadership development. Watch this video to learn more about John's coaching style, techniques, tools, and background. Discover what challenges he most enjoys in his work with clients, and what he is passionate about.

Kristin Hoover

Job Titles:
  • Coach
  • Executive
For decades, Kristin led 10-600 person teams with $2-3B portfolios for high-intensity missions in the military and she thrives on growing leaders and optimizing teams around the globe. She practiced the "art" of coaching in her 20-year career, and ultimately went on to train in the "science" of coaching. She's worked with hundreds of clients from across the military, as a strategic consultant, and now as a Leadership Coach, and she's inspired by how much people universally want to make the world a better place, live a more meaningful life, and be the best version of themselves. The highest honor for her is serving people as their confidante and trusted agent. Whether transitioning into senior and executive leadership positions, undertaking new ventures and seeking a fresh perspective, or genuinely feeling stuck at one of the crossroads of life, she's savvy at working with clients to craft their lives with clarity, purpose, and intention.

Marshall Goldsmith

Job Titles:
  • Executive & Team Coach

Michael Seelman

Job Titles:
  • CEO Executive Coach
Welcome to the Leadership Coach Group! We founded this organization to support you, your team, and your leadership development needs. I encourage you to click on the pictures of our executive coaches (including mine), read our bios, and select one that resonates with you. If you are looking for coaching for yourself and paying out of pocket, feel free to go ahead and book a free "discovery session" with one of us right from our bio page. If you aren't sure who to select, or your company will be paying for the coaching, or want to have a conversation about your company's leadership development needs, then click on the "Let's Talk!" button below so we can chat about your goals in a free consultation. We hope to have the honor of serving you and advancing your leadership journey!

Micheal Seelman

Job Titles:
  • CEO & Executive Coach

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

Job Titles:
  • Master Practitioner

Neelima Chakara

Job Titles:
  • Coach
  • Executive
Neelima is an ICF-certified coach and a certified facilitator for Google's global initiative ‘I am Remarkable' to empower everyone to speak confidently about their work. The World HRD Congress listed her among India's top 100 most influential coaching leaders (2023). Neelima works with executives globally to increase their impact and fast-track their careers. She helps them enhance their capacity and effectiveness by managing themselves and others better. She believes that leaders are made, not born, and she loves to combine her corporate experience and coaching expertise to help her clients be the leaders they want to become. Before becoming a coach, she worked in various roles for 23+ years with global organizations like KPMG, EY GDS, Infosys, etc. She led large teams, represented her organization in global transformation projects, and coached and mentored many. In addition to coaching, she serves on the Board of the North India Chapter of the Project Management Institute. She likes to meditate, do yoga, and enjoys nature walks and climbing hills. Watch this video to learn more about Neelima's coaching style, techniques, tools, and background. Discover what challenges she most enjoys in her work with clients, and what she is passionate about.

Rob Followell

Job Titles:
  • Coach
  • Executive
Rob is an Executive Coach, Mentor, Leadership Development Architect, and Speaker. As a former hospital CEO and executive for over 25 years, Rob combines his extensive leadership experience and coaching skills to help elevate even the most successful leaders. Rob has developed and coached dozens of talented people who have since advanced to become CEOs, COOs, CNO, VPs, Senior Directors, Presidents, and Owners. Rob is following his passion for helping equip others to be more effective leaders. His clients say he has an intuition that leads him to ask the right questions or reframe the issue in a way to help bring forth new personal insights and breakthroughs. He understands the need to generate a return on investment and believes nothing generates the level of ROI as coaching and leadership development. Watch this video to learn more about Rob's coaching style, techniques, tools, and background. Discover what challenges he most enjoys in her work with clients, and what he is passionate about.

Sarah Sutton

Job Titles:
  • Coach
  • Executive
Sarah is a seasoned, integrative executive coach, singularly focused on your unbeatable Confidence. She looks forward to meeting you. Just like a tennis coach trains a player to fix their foibles and deeply know their uniquely personal potential - both before excelling their sport, Sarah is experienced in helping leaders, such as you, to stop fighting yourself and trust your greatness again. Since what you believe drives how you act, you will learn to see your problem AS the solution-that is, halt the faulty thinking getting in your way and find your winning strategy from within. Her business tagline is "change your mind, free your life." Sarah's coaching career started after 10 years directing in communications and corporate wellness roles. With 3,500+ client coaching hours to her grateful credit, she now empowers established and rising C-suite leaders, especially women, to bridge your career success with your self-care-so you start deeply exhaling and living each day with energy and purpose. After her own 70-pound weight loss 20 years ago, as well as her evolution from a wellness coach and fitness trainer TO an executive coach and corporate team trainer, Sarah remains a passionate advocate of: well-being, role reinventions, lifelong learning (with recent studies in Positive Intelligence, the Enneagram, and psychological safety), and inclusion and belonging. Watch this video to learn more about Sarah's coaching style, techniques, tools, and background. Discover what challenges she most enjoys in her work with clients, and what she is passionate about.

Tushar Vakil

Job Titles:
  • Coach
  • Executive
Tushar brings 25+ years of experience both working in industry and as an executive coach. He has served as head of learning and organizational development for organizations with 2k to 6k employees AND as an executive coach, leadership facilitator, and keynote speaker with clients across US, Europe, Asia and Africa. He is humbled and honored to be in the top 100 most influential thought leader's list by People-Hum that includes his teachers and mentors like Marshall Goldsmith, Dave Ulrich, and many more. Leadership development impacts all kinds of organizations - profit, non-profit, social, or political. Tushar is passionate about leadership development and he believes that it is the best lever available to make a positive impact on organizations and society at large. Watch this short video to learn more about Tushar's coaching style, techniques, tools, and background. Discover what challenges that he enjoys to help out clients with and find out what are the things Tushar is passionate about.

Zarir Shroff

Job Titles:
  • Coach
  • Executive
Zarir is a leadership coach and mentor with a progressive and innovative outlook. He has over 30 years of professional experience. He is highly valued for expertise in interpreting vision & strategy and translating it into objectives and actionable plans to attain corporate goals. As an ICF-certified PCC coach, he positively impacts people and brings transformation to their lives. Zarir is a certified practitioner of the Leadership Circle Profile, the most comprehensive 360 degree Leadership assessment globally. The inaugural Mentor of MakeMyTrip (NASDAQ: MMYT), Zarir has held various roles shouldering diverse responsibilities. At present he is an entrepreneur based in London running a successful international enterprise. He is also a mentor to the London & Partner's Business Growth Programme and The Mayor's International Business Programme where he acts as the vital catalyst assisting CXOs in delivering their corporate vision, value, and growth with an unwavering focus on EQ - the emotional intelligence quotient. Zarir has coached over 300 leaders globally. Having worked in senior corporate roles and as an entrepreneur, he shares pragmatic real-world strategies and perspectives to leadership challenges. He understands the intensity of leading complex businesses in a rapidly changing global business environment. After achieving great success in fields as diverse as business, sports and travel he uses his extensive first-hand knowledge and shares his unique experiences to coach leaders as their confidential thought partner.