MONICA TANASE-COLES
Leadership Coach & Transformation Guide
Transformation in Action
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From global corporations to public sector agencies and mission-driven nonprofits, I’ve partnered with leadership teams to navigate complexity, strengthen culture, and unlock breakthrough performance.
Here are a few selected stories of how our work has helped organizations evolve - with clarity, courage, and measurable results.
Enterprise Culture & Performance Transformation | Global Life Science Org (100,000+ employees)
Co-led a multi-year transformation across North America and EMEA to evolve leadership, culture, and networked teams’ agility and performance. • Led shift from compliance-based to holistic impact-led culture, by embedding adaptable systems, agile operating models, leadership mindset work, and inclusive practices across R&D, manufacturing, sustainability and commercial functions. • Designed and scaled a coaching capability strategy; directly trained and mentored 20+ internal facilitators to drive long-term mindset and behavior change and capacity to self-transform. • Facilitated leadership development experiences and team journeys for 1,000+ employees, building new norms of trust, adaptability, collaborative co-creation, and purpose-aligned accountability.
Inclusive Leadership & Talent Development | $40B+ Global Tech Manufacturer (40,000+ employees)
Supported enterprise transformation by designing and delivering inclusive leadership programs for top 2,000 global leaders during rapid growth. • Co-led immersive learning, directly teaching 100+ senior leaders across North America and EMEA. • Built leadership capacity in psychological safety, inclusive behavior, and allyship to enable a more diverse, globally distributed workforce. • Program helped prepare leadership culture for accelerated hiring beyond core regional markets, ensuring scale with cohesion, purpose, belonging, enabling innovation and value-capture.
Organizational Culture & Performance Overhaul | Mission-Critical Civic Division (300+ employees)
Led 3-year transformation of a high-stress, public-facing division into a more empowered, collaborative, and performance-aligned culture. • Launched “frontline innovation teams”, to drive ownership of P&L, and culture-shaping initiatives. • Deployed proprietary Org Health Survey; achieved 20–30% improvements in key metrics, 42% drop in complaints, and 2–5x increase in internal transfers. • Ran Human-Centered Design (HCD) workshops with customers and employees to surface shared purpose and intrinsic motivation, fueling co-led initiatives that strengthened ownership and engagement. • Developed a human-centered performance system grounded in clarity, and psychological safety.
Finance Leadership Mindset Shift | $80B+ Global Professional Services Firm
Led transformation of a VP-level finance leadership team from task-oriented to strategic partner mindset. • Facilitated field-and-forum learning and peer-based coaching for ~20 senior leaders. • Built capabilities in agile, cross-functional leadership and empowered decision-making. • Guided transition from “executing finance tasks” to “partnering in enterprise problem-solving,” including mindset, behavior, and systems shifts.
Strategic Advisory | National Youth Nonprofit (150,000+ crisis contacts/year)
Partnered with C-suite of rapidly scaling youth mental health nonprofit to reset strategy and align the senior team. • Led multi-month journey to strengthen trust, strategic clarity, and team collaboration amid 40–50% YoY growth. • Designed leadership interventions that grounded operational complexity in human connection and shared purpose