Senior coach
Coleman Wright
Leaders being watched for the next seat
Coleman ran three business units across fourteen years in consumer goods, two of them turnarounds. He was also, for six of those years, the person the company kept telling was "on the list" without ever explaining what the list required.
He coaches high-potential directors and VPs through the gap between being excellent at the job and being obviously ready for the next one — which are not, as most organisations pretend, the same thing.
He is a Board Certified Coach through the Center for Credentialing & Education as well as ICF-credentialled.
Warm and specific. Strong on visibility, sponsorship and the political literacy nobody writes down.
What Coleman is most often asked for
- I have just stepped up a level
- I need a bench behind me
- Feedback landed badly and I need to move
- I have to hold a room of directors
Sectors Coleman has worked inside
Consumer & CPG · Manufacturing & industrial · Professional services · Logistics & distribution
How Coleman works
Warm and specific. Strong on visibility, sponsorship and the political literacy nobody writes down.
Typical shape
Six months, twelve sessions, an eight-interview Stakeholder Read and a mid-point review.
Where you would meet
The North Loop rooms, on video, or a mix — about half of Coleman’s engagements run entirely remotely.
Before you commit
A free thirty-minute chemistry call, without your sponsor. Use it to disagree with Coleman and see what happens.
The rest of the roster
You will meet up to three of them before anything is signed. Chemistry is real, and it is not a euphemism for liking someone.
ICF MCC
Marguerite Okonjo-Fell
Founding partner & head of coaching
Before coachingSVP Operations, an 11,000-staff Midwest health system
ICF PCC
David Ferrante
Partner
Before coachingCFO of a public industrial distributor; led two post-deal integrations
ICF PCC
Priya Raghunathan
Senior coach · lead, team practice
Before coachingVP Engineering at a logistics software company (140 engineers)
ICF PCC
Sofía Delgado-Reyes
Coach
Before coachingChief People Officer, a 4,000-room hospitality group
Chemistry call
Meet Coleman, and two others
Thirty minutes each, free, with no sponsor in the room. Use the call to find out how this person handles the moment you disagree with them.