Coach
Sofía Delgado-Reyes
The people chief who has no one to talk to
Sofía was a Chief People Officer for seven years, which means she has been on both ends of this work: the sponsor commissioning a coach, and the executive who badly needed one and could not admit it to her own function.
She coaches C-suite leaders and, often, other HR leaders — a group that spends its life holding everyone else's confidence and rarely gets a room of its own.
She works in English and Spanish, and she is the coach most likely to tell a sponsor that the problem they have described is not the problem they have.
Perceptive and kind, with a very low tolerance for organisational theatre.
What Sofía is most often asked for
- I am in the top seat for the first time
- Feedback landed badly and I need to move
- My leadership team is not working
- I need a bench behind me
Sectors Sofía has worked inside
Consumer & CPG · Professional services · Healthcare & life sciences · Public sector & nonprofit
Written by Sofía
- How to choose a coach, and what a chemistry call is for — 19 March 2026
How Sofía works
Perceptive and kind, with a very low tolerance for organisational theatre.
Typical shape
Nine months, eighteen sessions, a twelve-interview Stakeholder Read and two sponsor reviews.
Where you would meet
The North Loop rooms, on video, or a mix — about half of Sofía’s engagements run entirely remotely.
Before you commit
A free thirty-minute chemistry call, without your sponsor. Use it to disagree with Sofía 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
Coleman Wright
Senior coach
Before coachingGeneral Manager, consumer packaged goods — fourteen years of P&L
Chemistry call
Meet Sofía, 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.