Executive Coaching &
Strategic Advisory
FOUNDERS
& STARTUPS
CAREER
COACHING
ORG
DESIGN
Coaching & Consulting with
Nicole Gill, ICF Professional Certified Coach
I partner with founders and technical and creative leaders as a strategic coach, advisor, and builder to recognize infinite patterns: habits, behaviors, and systems that shape how you work, lead, relate, and make decisions.
With a background in psychology and experience coaching technical, creative, and business leaders navigating career growth, transitions, and entrepreneurship, I’m quick to read dynamics, surface unspoken tensions, and name what’s getting in the way. Together, we identify blind spots, clarify priorities, and design structures that improve confidence, leadership skills, and accelerate decision making.
I work best with people who want honest feedback, fast traction, and tangible outcomes.
SERVICES
Clear leadership.
Better organization.
Through customized sessions, I help you clarify priorities, pressure-test ideas, and identify blind spots and recurring patterns early, whether in your leadership approach, team design, or product strategy, so you can get out of the weeds and lead with impact. I also coach rising leaders stepping into new roles, transitioning careers, and launching new ventures.
For founders, product and engineering leads, managers, creatives, and operators navigating growth and change.
- 1:1 coaching for founders, executives, and growing leaders.
- Strategic thought partnership on investor updates, messaging, hiring, and product direction.
- Focused working sessions to test thinking, improve communication, and resolve performance blockers.
- Navigate delegation, team design, influence, decision making, and culture.
Typical Outcomes: Less founder bottlenecking, stronger leadership, sharper decisions, and teams that grow with you.
Career Coaching
- Get unstuck and figure out what’s next in your life.
- Navigate job searches with a compelling story, strategy, and more confidence.
- Step into leadership with clarity and stronger communication.
- Overcome imposter syndrome and make value aligned decisions.
- Redesign relationship with work to support wellbeing and motivation.
Typical Outcomes: Clarity, momentum, and leadership development.
Organizational Design & Strategy
- Design culture with strategies that support performance and accountability.
- Restructure teams for clarity, alignment, and growth.
- Build career paths, feedback systems, and leadership development tied to business goals.
- Coach managers to lead effectively and grow your leadership bench.
- Create career frameworks, leveling systems, and role clarity.
Typical Outcomes: High performing teams, scalable structures, and leaders who actually lead.
HOW IT WORKS
Every organization and individual's needs are different.
I scope based on impact and complexity.
Strategic + Executional: I don’t just advise, I can lead initiatives, coach teams, and drive change.
Project Based or Fractional Partner: I build trust and operate as an internal strategic partner.
Clear and Direct: I speak candidly, no wasted time. Results driven.
I Work With...
Founders, managers, SMEs and leaders across product, design, engineering, and operations navigating growth, change, and complexity.
GET STARTED
With 15+ years of experience in psychology, organizational development, and startup growth, I’ve worked with both large organizations and zero-to-one startups. I partner with early and growth stage startups as a coach, strategic advisor, and fast thinking sparring partner. I support technical leaders, founders, and executives through coaching, team alignment, and organizational design offering direct, honest guidance.
Schedule an Initial Session.
This focused 30 minute conversation is designed to clarify your goals, explore current challenges, and define what success looks like. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of your leadership landscape, initial insights into key growth areas, and a customized coaching or consulting plan tailored to your needs.
This session is ideal for professionals looking to:
Frequently Asked Questions
Coaching & Organizational Consulting
What is coaching?
Coaching is a structured partnership. Coaching is not about giving answers. It’s about asking powerful questions and offering frameworks that empower the client to find their own path. The coach acts as a thinking and accountability partner, helping clients clarify goals, explore blind spots, test assumptions, and design actions that move them forward. In executive and career coaching, we focus on enhancing leadership effectiveness, decision making, communication, and performance that supports professional goals and growth. Sometimes this extends into life coaching, recognizing that similar patterns around boundaries, relationship dynamics, and decision-making affect the whole person.
What is organizational consulting?
Organizational consulting focuses on advising on solutions to systemic challenges within a company, such as team alignment, culture change, strategy execution, or leadership development framework. Consulting benefits teams, departments, or entire organizations seeking clarity, alignment, and performance improvements. In an organization, both coaching and consulting strengthen leadership capacity, enhance communication, improve decision making, and foster a culture of trust and performance, ultimately impacting retention, engagement, and organizational effectiveness. Coaching is foundational and integrated to achieve both individual and collective transformation.
Why should you get coaching and/or consulting (with me)?
I’m a direct communicator. I say it how I see it. I meet people where they’re at. I know the behind the scenes answers to many of your career questions (why am I not getting promoted, someone else is taking credit for my work, I am not sure if I want to work in this role, I feel stuck). Add life (parenting, social life, etc), and now there may be patterns you haven’t yet explored.
As a coach, I shine light and ask thought provoking questions that partner with you to break out of limiting patterns or at least acknowledge them and have the choice to do so. As a consultant, I can share what’s working for many in navigating careers, managers, or balancing work and life (often the things that block us at work have similar patterns to life).
How does the coaching process begin?
Coaching starts with an intake conversation to understand goals, context, and challenges. From there, we decide on the best cadence and structure.
What does a typical coaching engagement look like?
Coaching engagements typically last anywhere from 3–12 months and can be weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly sessions tailored to your goals. Interim check-ins, tools, and progress reviews can be included.
How do consulting engagements work?
Consulting projects vary in scope and may include diagnostics, facilitation, strategic planning, leadership development, and team interventions. We start with discovery, followed by a proposal and phased implementation with key milestones.
“I don’t believe in overcomplicating things or letting emotions drive logic. I want to fix the problem that’s responsible for the emotion. I focus on what’s actionable, changeable, and realistic.”
NICOLE GILL