Iris Gelt Warner - Executive Leadership & Career Coaching

Iris Gelt Warner is an Executive and Career Coach with an extensive track record helping hundreds of clients strategically achieve their development goals.

Business leaders want a coach who has experienced the same rigors and challenges they face. Having worked, consulted, and coached in just about every business sector, Iris knows first-hand what it takes to inspire excellence in leadership.

Iris’s strengths-based coaching approach combines her extensive “walked in your shoes” experience, deep emotional intelligence, strategic insight, and high-level communications expertise to help her clients achieve the best results.

Strengths.
Strategies.
Communications.

Here’s How to Begin Maximizing Your Potential

Working with Iris You Will

Build a highly effective leadership style
Elevate your impact
Reach the next level of growth
Show up more powerfully
Master communication skills to effectively deliver your message
Eliminate blind spots
Cultivate your team to unlock their potential
Increase productivity through time management and delegation strategies
Tackle and overcome challenges with confidence
Strategize your next career move
Stay inspired

Navigate the changes in your career.

Five Core Principles Graphic Iris takes a strengths-based approach to creating uniquely customized programs based on six core principles.

Her unique framework offers leaders and their teams a creative context to identify and explore development opportunities they may not have recognized before.

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Client Portfolio

Iris has successfully coached hundreds of individuals and teams at numerous complex organizations in a wide variety of business sectors, including:

Technology

Media & Entertainment

Viacom CBS · Sony Pictures Entertainment · PBS Kids · TV Academy Foundation · The Refinery (Agency) · Rose Bowl · Pluto TV

Finance & Business Development

Accenture · Crescent Capital · Kelly Services · Alsace Development Agency (France)

Energy & Utilities

Rio Tinto · El Paso Electric · Hydrogen Energy California

Design, Manufacturing & Retail

Helen of Troy · OXO · Hydro Flask · Osprey · MaCher

Health & Health-Tech

CSL Seqirus (Novartis) · University of Pittsburgh Medical Center · Locum Tenens · CVS Minute Clinics

Government & Community

Education

Inroads · Culver City Unified School District

Professional Associations & Non-Profit

Travel

Client Testimonials

“At my level, I’m always thinking about growth, development and driving the business, but Iris helped me pause and think about it in different ways. This process really challenged me to think about what I’m doing and how I’m doing it. I’m getting the results I wanted and I’ve learned that progress is not just about the numbers we’re getting, it’s how we’re getting them.”

– Kash I., GVP, GM, ACS North America, Oracle

“I really enjoyed the process. It was an excellent six months, and an experience that will stay with me for a long time. Despite all my years of leadership experience, it’s always good to reflect again. Leadership is a continual process of renewal and re-establishing the base-line. I’m always working on myself and there’s always more to learn. As soon as you think you’re ‘there,’ you’re not.”

– Jim C., VP, Projects, Avangrid

“This has been a very happy time for me. Without having done the work with Iris, I wouldn’t have been prepared to make a decision about anything, and I wouldn’t be where I am now, moving my life forward. I have a feeling of possibility and excitement every day. I can’t wait to get this new thing going. I wish I would have done this and had support like Iris earlier in my career. Nobody should wait till they’re in middle age or mid-career to do this. I would say to any company that this should be a built-in service because the return on investment is infinite.”

– Shawn K., EVP & COO, California Resources Corporation

“Iris was the perfect guide for my transition from corporate executive to happy consultant. We were connected through an executive coaching company and to be honest, I chose the company specifically because of Iris. Coaching is a calling for Iris and she is truly gifted. She provided insights and guidance that prepared me for my next steps and future opportunities. She is well-informed, intuitive, creative, and responsive to each unique circumstance. I so appreciate the positive influence she has had on my journey.”

– Charissa G., SVP, Corporate Communications, Disney Global Entertainment

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How To Get Started

Complimentary Consultation

A comprehensive 1:1 conversation with Iris where you’ll get to know each other, discuss your goals, and explore a coaching approach that works for you.

Customized Coaching Proposal

A thoughtful summary of the goals, process, and envisioned outcomes that you discussed – all within a scope and timeline that best fits your needs.

Agreement and Contract

A final alignment conversation and commitment to pave the way for scheduling your sessions and launching your coaching experience with Iris.

Implementation

A series of meaningful conversations, working together as thought partners to develop your action plan, test your results, document your progress and experience the permanent mindset shifts to keep going and growing.

Services

Iris draws from her depth of business, consulting, and coaching experience to design customized plans for individuals and teams.

Build on your strengths. Open up blind spots. Elevate your impact.
Approach every conversation with a growth mindset.

Career Coaching

Wherever you are in your journey – whether you are just starting out in your first job, seeking the next rung on your ladder, or are already an established leader seeking meaningful growth – career coaching with Iris can help you identify your next steps based on your innate strengths, quantifiable ambitions, and marketable skills. Working together in confidential, one-on-one coaching sessions, you and Iris will clarify your goals and develop a strategic approach to create the change or growth you seek.

Personal Coaching

Major work and life shifts — such as a career change or retirement — are opportunities to re-examine goals, seek new experiences, or even re-invent your vision for the future after decades of success.

Executive Coaching

Leaders who engage in coaching bring exponential value back to their organizations. Executive coaching can help leaders deliver measurably enhanced performance for themselves and their teams.

Leadership Development

A commitment to leadership development within organizations can invaluably increase company performance, improve operational efficiency, boost retention and team morale, and measurably increase ROI.

Communication Skills

Once your growth or development plan is in place, how do you influence others to hire, support, collaborate, or engage with you? The answer is through delivering effective communications that are targeted to get results.

Meet Iris

Long, diverse career as a senior executive and consultant, with unique expertise in strategic communications.
Wealth of direct, first-hand experience navigating both personal and professional change.
Coached hundreds of executive and private clients, both inside organizations and individually.

Experience

Iris has served as a senior level executive at complex national and global organizations across a wide range of business sectors. She transitioned to leadership coaching with first-hand experience of the rigors and demands of the constantly changing business environment. She brings an in-depth understanding of leadership behavior, and a keen understanding of what it takes to cultivate talent.
With decades of of corporate work as a foundation, Iris has an “I’ve been in your shoes” approach to coaching high-level leadership challenges – everything from managing organizational change and achieving strategic objectives to managing shrinking resources, guiding brand and reputation management, overcoming competitive rivalries, and many more.

Education & Certifications

Expert coaching practitioner with advanced credentials:

Certification in Individual and Organizational Coaching from the renowned Hudson Institute of Coaching in Santa Barbara, one of the profession’s premier coaching organizations.
International Coaching Federation PCC accreditation
Bachelor of Arts, University of New York at Albany
Diplôme d’Etudes, Centre Bachaumont, Paris, France
Certificat d’Etudes, University of Nice, France
Certificate in Corporate Community Relations, Boston College
Certified EQ Practitioner, Learning in Action

Affiliations

Board Member and Strategic Advisor, International Coach Federation, Los Angeles Chapter
Member, International Coach Federation (Global)
Founding LA Executive Coach/Facilitator, CHIEF
Member, TV Academy