Evelyn Rodstein

Evelyn Rodstein applies her unique combination of pragmatic psychological insight and seasoned business acumen to help CEOs and C-Suite executives achieve their full potential. She coaches executives in Fortune 500, PE and VC (investors as well as operating companies), healthcare, professional services, and nonprofits. She guides them with deep insights into their interpersonal leadership dilemmas and provides execution-driven perspectives on leadership and organizational issues. Clients describe Evelyn’s coaching as maximizing their interpersonal wisdom in work and life while helping them achieve exceptional business results.

Here's what some of Evelyn's clients say about working with her:

• Tremendous Listener & Thought Partner: “Evelyn has an extremely unique combination of real-world wisdom, proven mental models and an unmatched ability to understand You (and human behavior in general) that make her the ultimate coach for high growth company leaders. She’s a tremendous listener and thought partner. She asks the right questions and knows when to offer clear, kind and direct feedback that sticks. At the top of Maslow’s hierarchy is ‘self-actualization’ in work and in life. You’ll be hard pressed to find a coach that will help you accelerate towards that goal more than Evelyn.” -CEO of major insuretech

• Kindness, Candor & Support: “Evelyn is a gifted, empathetic and experienced coach. With her trade-mark kindness, candor and support, she is able to help executives identify the most impactful areas of professional development, and demystify the steps that are necessary to take on the journey of growth. When an executive works with Evelyn, it is a privilege and a joy. She walks alongside the executive while they undertake the hard work. She brings unwavering support and an open mind to both challenge and inspire, making sure they are using tools and insights they can draw on for the rest of their professional careers.” - CMO of Fortune 500 real estate company

• Transform Company Culture: “Evelyn’s courageous efforts built organizational confidence to transform company culture by unlocking human potential, push through divisional boundaries and embrace challenges to activate growth and drive change at all levels of the organization.” - CEO, 4,000-employee in-patient medical institution

Evelyn’s coaching experience extends from companies in the Fortune 100 –telecom, logistics, manufacturing, consumer goods, healthcare, financial services – to startups and unicorns – consumer goods, fintech, healthcare, insurtech – to middle market and PE companies across many industries. Evelyn has coached their CEOs, C-Suite executives and high-potentials through the challenges they face – managing growth, scaling, mergers, and more (company specifics provided upon request). She has an exceptional background that combines experience as Global Managing Director of Leadership & Talent at four Fortune-100 companies and an earlier career as a supervising individual/family therapist who co-authored a seminal textbook.

She was Chief Talent & Development Officer of KPMG, where she managed a matrixed team of over 100 people with a $100+ million budget and won the #2 national Best Company for Training. She was Managing Director of Leadership at JP Morgan, JP Morgan Chase, and Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank. She currently runs four C-Suite multi-industry women’s groups at Chief. She is a recognized authority in Leadership, Executive & Team Coaching, and Organizational Change. She has done groundbreaking work and led cultural integrations in several Fortune-100 mergers, as well as Leadership & Succession Programs for CEO succession and the top 200 executives. In addition, she has led complex cultural transformations and ethics initiatives at scale. She has taught at the graduate school level and been a member of the Wharton Advisory Board for Executive Education, The Conference Board Executive Development Council, and the New York City Leadership Academy.