I believe in your potential and

your capacity to

transform challenges

into breakthroughs

Why work with me

Thirty-five years in corporate, including 18 years in formal leadership and more than a decade as a senior strategic advisor in technology. I led teams through uncertainty, performed as an individual contributor under pressure, and navigated transitions that challenged my confidence, priorities and identity.

I understand what it means to remain capable and accomplished while privately questioning whether the path you are on is still the one you want.

About Me

For 35 years, I built a successful corporate career across small businesses, global enterprises, mergers, acquisitions, rapid growth, and reinvention.

I also experienced what happens when the definition of success that once motivated you no longer reflects who you are or what matters most. That experience now shapes how I help accomplished professionals examine where they are, redefine success, and decide what comes next.

Odilia McLeod
Executive & Transformation Coach

More Than Corporate Experience

Corporate professionals are rewarded for adapting, achieving, and continuing to perform, sometimes at considerable personal cost. Over time, title, compensation, recognition, and security can become deeply intertwined with identity, making it difficult to question the success you worked so hard to achieve, even when it no longer feels aligned.

My experience allows me to meet clients within the realities of corporate life, the expectations, politics, responsibilities, financial considerations, and deeply personal questions that accompany meaningful change so they can decide whether to stay, go, or lead differently.

Why My Background Matters

Credentials provide an important foundation. My distinct perspective comes from combining that education with decades of lived corporate experience. I understand both the systems in which professionals operate and the human impact of trying to succeed within them.

Living the Transition I Coach

I do not ask my clients to examine questions I have been unwilling to face myself.

After 35 years in corporate America, I realized the success I had built no longer reflected the life I wanted. I had to separate who I was from what I had achieved, honor what my career had given me, and intentionally choose what came next.

Now I help accomplished corporate professionals - like yourself - do the same: stop living by an outdated definition of success and create one that reflects who you are and what you want now.

Education

BA Psychology, San Diego State University · MS Psychology, Purdue University
Coaching

Certified Executive Coach and Certified Career Coach, Center for Executive Coaching
Emotional intelligence

Social and Emotional Intelligence Certified Coach, Institute for Social and Emotional Intelligence
Professional body

Associate Certified Coach, International Coaching Federation
Authorship

Contributing author to Jim Britt’s “Cracking the Rich Code” an anthology endorsed by Tony Robbins