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Marian Olah
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Learning, Leadership, and Organization Development executive and ICF certified PCC executive coach with extensive experience and passion for developing technical professionals from executive leaders to individual contributors across business units, cultures, and industries.

Learning, Leadership, and Organization Development executive and ICF certified PCC executive coach with extensive experience and passion for developing technical professionals from executive leaders to individual contributors across business units, cultures, and industries.

Marian Olah is not accepting new clients right now
Marian Olah is not accepting new clients right now
Bio

Marian is passionate about catalyzing personal, team, and organizational growth and empowering leaders to thrive in today's dynamic business landscape. She is a seasoned ICF-certified PPC-credentialed Executive and Leadership Coach with 4K+ coaching hours and a Learning, Leadership, and Organization Development Leader with cross-industry and cross-functional experiences and a global perspective. Having worked in diverse industries, including IT, finance, accounting, pharma, medicine, ad tech, architecture, healthcare, and academia, she specializes in leadership development, management training, coaching, assessments, learning strategy development, and workshop design and facilitation across diverse audiences.

Marian has coached clients in, and consulted for, Fortune 500 companies and held leadership roles in architecture, healthcare, education, and non-profit organizations, worked for the United Nations, and held tenured professor and adjunct instructor positions, teaching leadership skills to students in engineering, IT, bio-chemistry, and architecture. She has been developing, training, and coaching professionals in STEMM for over twenty years. It continues to be a gratifying experience for her.

Marian is an empathic, direct communicator with a light-spirited sense of humor who is able to both provide and receive immediate, targeted feedback. She is known for her perceptive and supportive coaching style, combining curiosity, transformational listening, and a commitment to her clients’ potential, values, and ambitions. She creates learning experiences in coaching sessions that transfer back to the work environment, resulting in behavior change, mindset shift, greater work effectiveness, and improved individual and team performance. Marian coaches senior executives, managers of managers, team leaders, high-potential employees, and individual contributors to raise their self- and system-awareness and develop their interpersonal skills to become more effective leaders and team members.


Notable Client Achievements

  • Coached a VP of Technology at a computer company to develop her team into a high-performing team.
  • Coached a Director of Product Management through creating a brand new business unit at an electronic company.
  • Coached a Director of Global Strategy at a pharma company to own her competence.
  • Coached an SVP of Engineering to earn her seat on the Executive Team in a music technology firm.
  • Coached a Country CEO of a global beverage company to motivate his team amidst an organizational restructuring.
  • Coached a Chief Diversity Officer on integrating DEI practices in a beverage company with a homogenous workforce.
  • Coached a Director of Engineering at an online payment company to design a personal brand strategy to get noticed by key stakeholders for career advancement purposes.
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Work History
Skillsoft
Executive Coach
Perkins Eastman
Global Head of Talent Development
NYC Health + Hospitals
Director of Leadership & Organization Development
+ more
Credentials
  • ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
  • MBA in International Business and Strategic Marketing
  • MA in Curriculum Development and Instructional Design
  • Certified Professional Coach (CPC)
  • MBTI® Steps I, II, & III
  • Leadership that Works (ACTP by ICF)
  • TypeCoach Master Certified Professional
  • The Hogan Assessments
  • ESCI 360 – Emotional and Social Competency Inventory
  • Licensed SLII® Trainer – Blanchard®
  • Certified Conflict Dynamics Profile® Administrator
  • Korn Ferry Leadership Architect™
  • Conversational Intelligence®
  • The Neuroscience of Personality
Industry Specialties
Accounting, Architecture Planning, Biotechnology, Financial Services and more
Functional Specialties
Human Resources, Management, Other, Consulting
Expertise
Mid Career, New People Manager, Experienced People Manager, Executive and more

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