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Our Team

We use psychological insights, business experience, and leadership expertise to accelerate the impact of executives and their teams.

about

Our Team

We use psychological insights, business experience, and leadership expertise to accelerate the impact of executives and their teams.

Collaborative, Trusted, and Context-Driven

We are a global team of organizational psychologists, business leaders, and coaching supervisors who provide the highest caliber development services for individuals, teams, and organizations. Our seasoned executive coaches are world-class practitioners as well as thought leaders, and our leadership consultants have worked at the highest levels of their business sectors. They have decades of experience at the VP/MD level and above in multiple industries and regions.

Our coaches have advanced degrees (MBA, Ph.D., MD), advanced coach certification, and deep business experience. In addition, our coaches contribute to the academic and popular literature on coaching and leadership. We have written books and articles, and regularly present to industry conferences, publications such as Forbes.com, and many other outlets. We have a positive influence in our communities.

The Berman Leadership Team

Bill Berman

Ph.D., ABPP, Managing Partner and CEO

Bill is a seasoned consultant with more than 30 years’ experience as an executive coach, senior line manager, clinician, and academic. He has been assessing individuals since 1983, delivered organizational consulting and executive coaching since 1993, and consulted to executives and C-suite business leaders since returning to full-time consulting in 2004.

Scott Serviss

Psy.D., BCC, Partner and COO

Scott is a board-certified executive coach and organizational consultant with over 20 years of experience in helping leaders and organizations achieve their goals. He has advised executives and teams across a range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, education, and professional services.

Hy Pomerance

Psy.D., Senior Partner

Hy is a senior executive consultant with a broad range of business and change leadership experience. He leverages his experience as an executive coach, clinical psychologist, and chief people officer at financial services, banking, and insurance companies. As a leader of people strategy and culture, Hy combines his work with executive teams and boards to empower his clients to have leadership impact in their businesses.

Michael Molinaro

Partner

Michael is a globally recognized, award-winning leadership development expert. His work creates tools, systems, and practices which build leadership capability across organizations.

Suzie Joseph

Senior Consultant

Suzie is an executive coach, senior human resources consultant and enterprise change-maker with over 15 years of experience driving successful outcomes for top executives and Fortune 500 companies. Her engaging approach is driven by a passion for helping others achieve previously inconceivable outcomes and grounded in a breadth of evidence-based tools and techniques.

Donna Cirillo

Head of Client Services

Donna has over 30 years of experience in professional services roles. As the administrative assistant for 11 years to the CEO of Berman Leadership Development, she handles various responsibilities with precision and efficiency.

Shazana Kayume

Bookkeeper

Shazana is a dedicated bookkeeper with seven years of experience in the administrative and financial fields. She holds an associate’s degree in accounting and is pursuing her bachelor’s degree to enhance her knowledge and expertise.

Holly Poney

Senior Executive Assistant

Holly serves as the senior executive assistant at Berman Leadership Development. She brings two decades of proven experience across various industries.

Your Success is Our Reward

When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

The best athletes have coaches. As a CEO, I work with an executive coach from Berman Leadership to help me stay focused, help my team stay focused, help me communicate better, and help my team communicate better. I appreciate being able to bounce ideas off of them when I’m seeing issues from personnel to strategy. Their psychology based approach combined with business experience helps me navigate new problems and gives me great guidance for how to get from point A to point B when you don’t have a map.

CEO,
FinTech Software

When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

Berman Leadership coaches make sure our leaders have a safe place to work through issues. Their coaches are highly intelligent, wonderful partners, who quickly get into a rhythm. I appreciate their flexible style and willingness to meet us in a place that works well for the organization.

Senior VP Human Resources,
Private Investment Firm

When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

The coaches at Berman Leadership start with intelligence. I appreciate their ability to rapidly diagnose, then offer sets of solutions to choose from that are situationally appropriate for my organization. Their psychological insight and business experience across industry and across different levels of the organization is invaluable.

SVP Global Clinical R&D,
Pharmaceutical

When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

Berman Leadership coaches are good at being able to strategize, manage a situation, and provide really good solutions. I appreciate their flexibility and the thoughtful, creative way that they bring insight into their advice. They find the right balance between what works for the individual and what the firm needs, and then marry them together.

Managing Director of HR,
Global Investment Bank

When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

I trust the team at Berman Leadership to coach consistently with the organizational culture and business climate, and contextually with deep appreciation for the coache’s environmental challenges. Their incredibly deep approach, rooted in psychology, enables them to navigate incredibly complex and sensitive situations with our most senior folks.

Chief Talent Officer,
Vault50 Law Firm

When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

I trust Berman Leadership to operate at the highest level. Their process starts off with clear goals and focuses on what we are trying to achieve from a business perspective. I appreciate their balance between business focus and a strong research mindset.

Chief Talent Officer,
Pharmaceutical Manufacturer

When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

Every engagement I source, I look at the executive, the personality, the leadership, and the coach’s style, cadence, and approach to make sure they’re going to be the best fit. If I have a very senior executive in a critical, important role, I call on Berman Leadership for the high stakes assignment because the individual and the outcome are so important. I trust them to provide impact and seamlessly support cultural assimilation with their executive onboarding work because they understand our company so well.

VP HR,
Financial Services

about

Our Team

about

Our Team

Collaborative, Trusted, and Context-Driven

The Berman Leadership Team

Bill Berman

Scott Serviss

Hy Pomerance

Michael Molinaro

Suzie Joseph

Donna Cirillo

Shazana Kayume

Holly Poney

Your Success is Our Reward

Your Success is Our Reward

When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

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