Paulette Rao is a leadership coach and trainer at major corporations around the world. As founder of True North Resources, her coaching consultancy, Paulette helps leaders enhance their own performance as well the performance of their teams while achieving organizational objectives.
As a Board Certified and Master Certified coach, Paulette works with senior executives, and high potentials at Fortune 500 and smaller organizations to help them hone the skills they need to improve their performance and develop others in their organization to create positive and profitable change. While she works predominantly with senior male executives, she has gained special notoriety working with female leaders to grow their confidence, mindsets, and skillsets to reach their unique potential as a leader.
Paulette has expertise in an evidence-based coaching approach that helps leaders transform the way they think, communicate, manage, and lead. She brings the benefits of coaching into corporate settings to transform conversational skills, develop and retain talent, and improve performance and leadership. Her coaching model is a solution-focused, self-directed learning model heavily informed by leadership theory, models and principles, systems science, psychology, change principles, learning theory, and contemporary neuroscience.
Paulette works within a wide scope of industries to help incorporate coaching into their business relationships and communication skills to enhance their management capabilities. Clients run the gamut from Fortune 500 to mid-size entities including Amazon, WHO, Merck & Co., GSK, EDS, AIG, Apollo Management, McKay Shields, Texas State, Memorial Sloan Kettering, and Newell Rubbermaid, to name a few.
Certifications
- International Coach Federation Master Certified Coach (MCC)
- NYU Certified Executive and Organizational Coach
- International Coach Federation Registered Mentor Coach
- Board Certified Coach (BCC) by the Center for Credentialing and Education, Inc.
- Certified Brain-Based Coach by NeuroLeadership Group
Bio Highlights
- Author of Transformational Coaching: Shifting Mindsets for Sustainable Change.
- Past President, International Coach Federation NYC Chapter
- Founding Fellow, Harvard Institute of Coaching (IOC)
- 2014 Award for Teaching Excellence at NYU
- NYU Adjunct Professor in the Graduate and Diploma in Coaching Programs
- Developed the curriculum for the Diploma in Coaching at NYU
- Keynote Speaker at Global International Coach Federation Conference on “Coaching in the Workplace”
- Former President of the National Association of Insurance Women, NYC Chapter
- Inducted into New York City’s YWCA Academy of Women Achievers
- Certified in DiSC, Lominger 360 Voices Assessment, Booth 360 Degree and Clark Wilson’s Task Cycle Survey