Manuelle Charbonneau, Ph.D.

Background and Experience

Manuelle’s clients value her blend of international experience, expertise, multi-disciplinary approach, and pragmatism. Her approach to executive coaching stems from her 13 years with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the $1.6 billion water wholesaler for the region, where she designed and oversaw the full leadership development pipeline from frontline managers to senior leaders. As an external coach, she can see challenges from multiple perspectives and help her clients navigate organizational and external dynamics with presence and finesse. Her clients consistently report a sharp acceleration in their ability to engage and influence stakeholders up, down, and across through boundaries of all kinds, including personality styles, functions, organizations, and national cultures.

Manuelle has coached leaders through a variety of significant organizational changes including disruptive change, mergers and acquisitions and restructuring, accelerated growth, transformation from products to solutions and consulting, objectives and key results implementation, rollout of Cloud solutions, culture transformation, AI integration, and digital transformation.

She has coached executives ranging from CEOs and the C-suite to high-potential vice presidents of Fortune 500, Global 500, mid-market companies, top universities, and global startup unicorns in North America, Europe, Asia, and South America.

Education and Training

Ph.D., Organizational Psychology, Alliant International University
M.A., Clinical Psychology, Antioch University
B.A., Business Administration, Audencia Business School (France)

Qualifications

Assessments: Coaching Mindset Index, Hogan Suite, Everything DiSC: All Types, Leadership Versatility Index 360 Certified, MBTI: Basics, II, III, Profilor 360, Team Effectiveness Survey

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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

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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

When your senior leaders work together to take your organization to the next level, we both succeed.

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

Manuelle Charbonneau, Ph.D.

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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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