Sally Ourieff, MD

Background and Experience

Sally partners with executives seeking to expand their leadership impact, take on a new role, or manage complex and emerging risks and opportunities. She also works directly with teams to help develop alignment, high performance, and productive team culture. Sally is a leadership coach and facilitator in multiple programs in executive education at Harvard Business School, including their advanced management program. She is on the faculty at The Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University where she helped launch their executive MBA for mid-career physicians. She currently co-directs the leadership-coaching program and teaches the MBA capstone course, in which each physician must lead and implement a major, data-driven change initiative. Previously, Sally was associate medical director of Merit Behavioral Healthcare of BCBS and medical director of addictions and child psychiatry at Deaconess Waltham Hospital.

Sally is a founding fellow and advisor of the Institute of Coaching at Harvard Medical School and co-founded The Boston Executive Coaching Round Table (Boston’s leading executive coaches). She is on the board of directors of two healthcare nonprofits: Care 2 Communities and The EDI Institute. Sally is co-founder of Hatun Runa, a nonprofit doing medical development and training in the Peruvian Andes.

Coaching Certifications:

MD
25 plus years in practice as a psychiatrist trained in group process and dynamics
CBT
behavior change
interpersonal dynamics
theories of change. Guest Lecturer and former faculty of Brandeis University teaching change management
team performance
communication and leadership development.

Qualifications

Assessments: Hogan Suite, Everything DiSC: All Types, MBTI: Basics, MBTI: Type II or III, Strengths Profile, Whole Brain Thinking (Herrmann), WorkPlace Big Five Profile

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Sally Ourieff, MD

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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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