Sonia Jeantet, Executive Coach Thought Partner

Meet Sonia, “your whole brain thought partner”

Author of The Integrative Leader and creator of The Integrative Leader Model.

“We need a new type of leader who is able to use both sides of his or her brain to meet existential challenges with both competence and creativity, courage and empathy. Sonia Jeantet’s The integrative Leader is a pioneering work in identifying the new type of leader we need to take us through this era of profound and relentless change.” Michael S. Malone, Silicon Valley author of 14 books, ABC News columnist, and PBS television producer.

Sonia Jeantet is the founder of Cima Executive Development (cima is Spanish for peak), a coaching and consulting firm in Southern California. She has been an international master personal and executive coach for twenty years, primarily with Fortune 500 companies, and a Fortune 100 sales executive with Hewlett-Packard and Digital Equipment Corporation.

She has coached more than 400 senior executives to grow and sustain profitable results.

Sonia is bilingual in Spanish and English, with strong experience and understanding of cultural differences.

A partial list of Sonia’s coaching clients during the past twenty years includes Toyota, ADP, Paychex, Raytheon, Johnson & Johnson, Edwards Life Sciences, Equity Residential, Mattel, City National Bank, Warner Bros, Disney, Time Warner, Unified Grocers, Viacom, Gilead Sciences, TK1SC, Cedars Sinai, and American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.

Her clients’ experience includes director through CEO levels in the following disciplines: finance, operations, sales and marketing, human resources, engineering, corporate communications, quality and continuous improvement, and information technology

Education and Certifications

  • MBA, Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University
  • BS, Business, University of Denver
  • MPEC (Master Personal & Executive Coach), College of Executive Coaching

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Thought Partner & Executive Coach Sonia Jeantet has been featured in Press-Telegram, Google News, International Business Times, Wall Street Select, and Street Insider

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