Marianne Lepre-Nolan

Marianne is a highly experienced executive coach who offers her clients a unique combination of technical acumen and pragmatic insight. She specializes in a customized coaching approach that helps leaders decode and re-invent themselves at senior-most levels of multi-national corporations. She has over 20 years of experience in coaching following a noteworthy technical and leadership career at IBM. Executives value working with Marianne for her business acumen, impact, bottom-line orientation, and warmth.

Background and Experience

Marianne serves a variety of industries ranging from leaders at hedge funds, private equity, Big 4 accounting firm partners, attorneys, and entrepreneurial thinkers, to an orthopaedic surgeon and through him advising the Duke Medical School leadership program. During Marianne’s 20 years with IBM, she was chosen to coach and spearhead instruction and curriculum development for many technological projects, but none more important than the pivotal Executive Workgroup Computing program, commissioned by CEO Lou Gerstner to bring the first executive computing platform to IBM’s senior-most executives. This transformational program influenced the way many of IBM’s executives incorporated technology into their daily practices. Marianne was chosen to personally coach Mr. Gerstner and 100 of his senior-most, direct report executives on the use and integration of that era’s foremost technology. Subsequently, she was asked to relay her experiences with IBM’s first executive computing platform to a variety of major corporations.

Co-author: “Lessons from Executive Coaches: Why you Need One” 2023, Clinics in Sports Medicine with Leah D. Houde, Ph.D.

Businesses and Engagements

  • Financial Services
  • Technology
  • Information Services
  • Professional Services

Areas of Specialization

  • Career Planning
  • Communication: Executive Presence
  • Whole Person Development
  • Emotional Intelligence

Education and Training

  • B. Mus. Ed., Ithaca College
  • M.M., Ithaca College
  • Columbia University: Principles and Practices of Organizational Development
  • Steven’s Institute of Technology: Collaborative Leadership

Qualifications

  • Certification: Professional Certified Coach, International Coaching Federation
  • Assessments: EQ-i 2.0, MBTI: Basics
  • Certification: Hay/McBer Human Motivation, Managerial Styles, Learning Styles, Resilience Factors

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