Leadership advisory & executive coaching
Leadership that strengthens everything around it
We partner with executives and leadership teams to sharpen judgment, deepen alignment, and build the systemic capacity that turns individual growth into sustained organizational progress.
- Experienced practitioners
- Former executives, physicians, and clinical leaders
- Distinguished credentials
- MD · MCC · PCC · PhD
- Cross-industry reach
- Leadership and coaching expertise in every industry
- Proprietary approach
- See · Design · Move · Sustain · SOHA · Oceans 360°
Why choose us
Where leadership experience meets coaching mastery
Our coaches bring firsthand experience as executives, physicians, clinical leaders, and organizational experts. They pair that experience with advanced training in coaching, human behavior, and systems change.
They understand the realities leaders face while bringing the independence, discipline, and skill to help them see what those closest to the situation may not see.
Leadership experience from the inside
Former executives, physicians, clinicians, and senior leaders who understand complex decisions, organizational dynamics, and the responsibility of leading through others.
Advanced coaching expertise
A multidisciplinary team that includes ICF MCC and PCC coaches, PhDs, and deeply trained practitioners skilled in creating insight, challenging assumptions, and turning reflection into action.
Proprietary, evidence-informed insight
Oceans 360°, the Systemic Organizational Health Assessment (SOHA), and a broad portfolio of validated assessments reveal the patterns, relationships, and organizational conditions influencing results.
One integrated framework
Our See, Design, Move, Sustain model carries development from deeper understanding through deliberate action and sustained progress.
Leaders gain the rare combination of an informed peer perspective and a confidential, independent coaching relationship.
Experience gives us context. Coaching mastery is what makes that context actionable.
How we work with leaders and teams
Each engagement combines firsthand leadership experience, evidence-informed insight, and a systemic perspective. We tailor the work to the client's context, priorities, and desired outcomes.
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Executive & leadership coaching
Each leader is matched with a coach who combines relevant leadership experience with advanced coaching expertise. Together, they clarify the outcomes that matter, uncover the patterns influencing effectiveness, and apply new ways of leading to the real decisions, relationships, and organizational dynamics shaping their work.
Includes
- One-to-one executive and leadership coaching
- Healthcare executive, physician, and clinical leadership coaching
- Executive assimilation for executive teams or individual leaders
- Executive legacy and transition coaching
- Oceans 360° and a broad portfolio of leadership assessments to deepen self-awareness and focus development
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Systemic team coaching
Coaching the team as an unit, including the relationships it holds with the stakeholders around it. We work with teams as interconnected systems, examining the relationships, patterns, and organizational conditions shaping collective performance. Real priorities, decisions, and challenges become the setting for strengthening alignment, collaboration, accountability, and enterprise leadership.
Includes
- Departmental and cross-functional team coaching
- Executive team alignment and development
- Systemic Organizational Health Assessment (SOHA)
- Strategic facilitation and development programs shaped by assessment findings
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Leadership workshops & events
Facilitated sessions that provide a cohort the shared language and set of practices. We build each experience around the organization's priorities, the needs of the audience, and the outcomes the client wants to advance. Our workshops bring together relevant insight, facilitated dialogue, real leadership scenarios, and active practice.
Includes
- Custom leadership workshops and development programs
- Executive and leadership team offsites
- Keynotes and strategic speaking engagements
Whether the need is one leader, one team, or an entire organization: the instrument changes, the systemic lens does not.
Our framework
SOHA™
The Systemic Organizational Health Assessment (SOHA™) is Oceans Coaching's proprietary diagnostic tool. It surfaces the invisible dynamics across a leadership system, measuring how a team functions emotionally, relationally, and strategically, so change starts from evidence rather than assumption.
Proprietary assessment
Oceans 360°
The Oceans 360° Leadership Assessment is a confidential snapshot of how a leader is currently experienced by the people they work with regularly. The goal is actionable awareness that enables focused leadership adjustments.
Why this work matters
Research signals
- ROI from enterprise coachingEstimated through the organizational ripple effects of a Microsoft coaching initiative¹¹ Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions coaching initiative, cited by the International Coaching Federation, 2026.
- 670%
- Greater shareholder returnsAmong organizations in the top quartile for organizational health²² McKinsey organizational health research, 2024.
- 3×
- Of work is cross-functionalMaking team effectiveness central to organizational performance³³ Deloitte team-based performance research, 2023.
- 65%
Leadership experience. Coaching mastery.
The Oceans Coaching team
Our carefully selected team includes former executives, physicians, clinical leaders, PhDs, and ICF MCC and PCC coaches. Each brings firsthand leadership perspective, advanced coaching expertise, and the judgment to challenge and support leaders at the level their roles demand.
Meet the whole team- Amanda Connelly, MCC, STC, Founder & CEO
- Ben Beckhart, Executive Coach
- Brady Ross, PCC, Leadership Coach & Facilitator
- Cheryl Sivan, RN, MCC, Executive Coach
- Denise Edmond, PCC, Executive Coach
- Dr. Cristine Adams, MD, PhD, PCC, Executive Coach
- Dr. Miriam Bayés, MD, PhD, PCC, Executive Coach
- Dr. Susan MacLellan-Tobert, MD, PCC, Executive Coach
- Garry Senna, MCC, Executive Coach
- Kenneth Lay, Executive Coach
- Marcela Genis, PCC, Intercultural Executive Coach
- Rebecca Gay, PhD, PCC, Executive Coach & Facilitator
- Rhonda Ellis, DBA, PCC, Executive Coach
What every leader can expect
Each Oceans coach brings a distinct background, perspective, and coaching style. Across every engagement, leaders experience the same standard of presence, discernment, partnership, systems awareness, and integrity.
- Presencewith purpose
- Curiositywith discernment
- Partnershipwith accountability
- Systems awarenesswith foresight
- Sustainable growthwith integrity
Distinct expertise. One consistent Oceans standard.
Who we work with
Our ICF-certified coaching cadre includes former executives, physicians, and healthcare leaders with leadership experience spanning healthcare, retail, technology, financial services, manufacturing, and nonprofit organizations. Collectively, our coaches have partnered with organizations including:
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Start with a conversation
In a 30-minute discovery conversation, we’ll explore the outcomes that matter most, the leadership dynamics shaping them, and where focused support could create broader organizational value.