“There are very few people we encounter on our journey and consider “life altering”. For me personally, Lesly has been the one to give me “Tough Love” at the exact right moments in my career and set me in a direction I did not believe was possible. Above all, Lesly has the natural ability to enable us to believe in something greater than ourselves.”
Lesly Higgins, M.S. holds a masters degree in Organizational Behavior and Development, and is a certified professional coach. She has provided executive coaching and organizational development consulting services to both early stage and established companies since 1999. Her experience includes executive positions with Commerce One and Charles Schwab, and management positions with Sun Microsystems and Sybase. Her clients include Agile Software, Peoplesoft and Taleo (now Oracle), AAA, Apple, Autodesk, BloomReach, Castlight Health, Cisco, CNET, Coupa Software, Dolby, Google, Gracenote, Harmonic, Hotchalk, Jive Software, Liftoff, LiveRamp/Acxiom, MuleSoft, Ooyala, Pixar, Qubole, Realtor.com, RocketFuel, Roivant, SAP, SolarCity, TeeSpring, and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati. Non-profit clients include California Charter School Association, Kiva and Room to Read.
Specialties: Executive coaching, leadership development, emotional intelligence, organizational and team effectiveness, organizational assessment, facilitation. Very experienced with high tech companies (early stage and established).
Coaching certifications from New Ventures West, the Professional School of Psychology and CCE (Center for Credentialing and Education). Assessments and tools include: Birkman, CCL, Enneagram, HBDI, Lominger, MBTI, NLP (master level), PDI, the Leadership Circle Profile, and True Colors.
What Clients Are Saying:
“Embarking on coaching, or any self-improvement process, can be a frightening proposition—especially two-thirds of the way into your career. Lesly’s methods and practices enabled me to make some fundamental shifts and improvements in my skills and to be true to my longer term goals.
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