The Oceans Coaching team
Executive experience. Coaching mastery. Independent perspective.
Our multidisciplinary team includes former executives, physicians, clinical leaders, PhDs, and ICF MCC and PCC coaches. They combine firsthand leadership experience with advanced skill in the coaching disciplines that create deeper awareness, challenge established thinking and convert reflection into intentional leadership choices.
What leaders and sponsors can expect
This breadth and depth of experience allow our coaches to serve as trusted, independent thought partners, creating a confidential space where leaders can examine decisions, relationships, impact, and uncertainty with candor.
Every Oceans engagement is grounded in clear ethical standards, professional boundaries, and disciplined confidentiality. Sponsors receive appropriate visibility into engagement goals and progress while the substance of coaching conversations remains protected.
- Relevant leadership perspective
- A coach who understands the complexity, accountability, and organizational dynamics surrounding senior roles
- Advanced coaching capability
- Skilled inquiry, observation, challenge, and reflection that move the conversation beyond mentoring or advice
- Confidential independence
- A trusted space outside internal reporting and political structures where leaders can think and speak candidly
- Ethical clarity
- Defined expectations for confidentiality, sponsor communication, professional boundaries, and potential conflicts of interest
The result is a relationship with the credibility of an experienced peer and the discipline of a highly trained coach.
Amanda ConnellyMCC · STC · Founder & CEOHelps executives rewire how they think, decide, and lead when the stakes are highest.Read full profile
Ben BeckhartExecutive CoachA former CEO who has sat in the seat the leaders he coaches are sitting in.Read full profile
Brady RossPCC · Leadership Coach & FacilitatorMoves leaders off directing and onto building ownership in their teams.Read full profile
Cheryl SivanRN · MCC · Executive Coach3,500 coaching hours with 300 clients, from critical care to the boardroom.Read full profile
Denise EdmondPCC · Executive CoachWorks with leaders in transition: new roles, new structures, new pressure.Read full profile
Dr. Cristine AdamsMD · PhD · PCC · Executive CoachA serving Chief Wellness Officer coaching the physician leaders around her.Read full profile
Dr. Miriam BayésMD · PhD · PCC · Executive CoachBrings 35 years as a physician and executive to leaders in healthcare and science.Read full profile
Dr. Susan MacLellan-TobertMD · PCC · Executive CoachA Mayo-trained cardiologist of 28 years, now developing physician leaders.Read full profile
Garry SennaMCC · Executive CoachLed $1.4B of enterprise transformation at Cisco before coaching those who run it.Read full profile
Kenneth LayExecutive CoachThirty years inside Fortune 150 companies, now coaching the C-suite.Read full profile
Marcela GenisPCC · Intercultural Executive CoachCoaches leaders who have to work, and be understood, across cultures.Read full profile
Rebecca GayPhD · PCC · Executive Coach & FacilitatorBuilds trust and psychological safety in teams that have to move fast.Read full profile
Rhonda EllisDBA · PCC · Executive CoachCloses the gap between where a leader is and where they intend to be.Read full profile
Finding the right coach starts with understanding the work
Tell us about the leadership context, the outcomes that matter, and the kind of partnership you are seeking. We will help identify the practitioner best suited to the engagement.