When you are
internally aligned,
you lead with
Clarity and Impact.

I work with executives, founders, and high-performing leaders who want to understand what drives their reactions, decisions, and patterns under pressure so they can lead with confidence, presence, and authority.

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Jamie Goodman
30+ years at the intersection of psychology and leadership
NYU trained Executive Coach
Certified, IFS Level III
Former Executive Coach, MetLife
Hogan Assessment Certified
Columbia Internal Coach Intensive Certification
MSCEIT: Emotional Intelligence Certification

Is This You?

You already know the suface-level fixes aren't working.
You want to understand what is actually driving the pattern.

You Lead at the Highest Stakes

  • Executives, founders, and high-achieving leaders
  • Operating where the stakes are real
  • Navigating significant complexity
  • Knowing how you show up internally shapes everything externally

Something is Getting in the Way

  • Internal conflict or decision paralysis
  • A gap between your values and how you're operating
  • Reactivity, self-doubt, or patterns you can't seem to break
  • Team dynamics and communication challenges

You're Ready for Real Work

  • Aware surface level fixes don't last
  • Willing to go deeper than strategy and skillset
  • Focused on lasting, meaningful change
  • Ready to lead from a more grounded, self-aware place

You're Navigating a Transition

  • New roles or expanded scope
  • Increase visibility and responsibility
  • Navigating burnout or isolation
  • Carrying the weight of significant change

Engagements are selective. A preliminary conversation determines fit, for both parties.

"Breakthroughs happen when we listen beyond the words, uncovering what is actually driving behavior."
– Jamie Goodman

My Approach

Evidence-based.
Deeply personal.

The Listening Difference

  • Hear what's beneath the surface, not just what's said
  • Identify what's driving reactions and decisions
  • Uncover the hidden patterns influencing your behavior

Result: Faster insight. More precise action.

Neuroscience & Behavioral Science

  • Understand how you actually function under pressure
  • Work with, not against, your brain's stress responses
  • Translate awareness into consistent behavioral change

Result: More control in high-stakes moments.

Self-Led Leadership

  • Stay clear and grounded when the pressure is highest
  • Reduce internal noise that clouds judgment
  • Lead from a steady, internally aligned position

Result: Consistent, confident leadership.

Understanding What Drives You

  • Identify the "why" behind reactions and patterns
  • Reduce reactivity without forcing change
  • Respond instead of react in real time

Result: Better decisions. Stronger presence.

Calm. Clarity. Curiosity. Compassion. Confidence. Courage. Creativity. Connectedness.

These are not aspirational qualities. They are the natural outcome of internal alignment.

What I Believe

Inner Alignment.
Clarity. Impact.

Senior leadership is complicated. External pressures from stakeholders, boards, and markets are constant. And beneath those there is internal noise: competing drives, unexamined patterns, subtle misalignment that quietly shapes how you think, decide, and lead.

Respond, Don't React

The most powerful place to lead from is deliberate response, not automatic reaction. We work at the neurological level where that distinction actually lives.

Listen Beyond the Words

What is being said is rarely the whole story. My ability to hear what is beneath the narrative, to sense what is actually present, is where the real work begins.

Work at the Root

Surface behavior is a symptom. We go to the source, because that is the only level at which meaningful, lasting change actually happens.

The Work

Private Executive Coaching

Sustained 1:1 coaching for executives. This work is confidential, tailored, and focused to meet your individual needs.

  • Up to 4 meetings per month
  • 3-6 month engagements available
  • Virtually via secure video conference

Intensive Sessions

Sometimes the situation calls for depth, not a calendar. The Intensive is a concentrated engagement designed for a leader facing a specific challenge, transition or decision that requires more than a standard session can hold.

  • 3–6 hour deep dive
  • Pre-session intake
  • Post-session integration summary

Hogan Leadership Assessment

The Hogan is one of the most rigorously validated leadership assessments available. It gives you a clear, objective picture of how you show up as a leader; your strengths, your blind spots, and the patterns that quietly derail effectiveness when the pressure is highest.

I am Hogan Certified and use the full suite (HPI, HDS, and MVPI) to build a complete picture. The debrief session is where the real insight happens: results are interpreted directly in the context of your role, your patterns, and the focus of our work together.

  • Comprehensive assessment (HPI, HDS, MVPI)
  • In-depth feedback session
  • Integrated into ongoing coaching or as a standalone

I work with a limited number of clients to maintain depth and focus.
All engagements begin with a private consultation.

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About Jamie

Thirty years at the intersection of human behavior and leadership.

Jamie Goodman brings three decades as a therapist working with adults (many of them executives and organizational leaders) into the practice of executive coaching. That foundation is not incidental. It is the source of a depth of insight that a traditional coaching background rarely offers.

Her approach is evidence based drawing from cutting edge modalities including neuroscience, solution-focused, and cognitive behavioral approaches.

Her four years as an executive coach at MetLife, combined with extensive work alongside C-suite leaders, entrepreneurs, and high-stakes decision-makers gives her an unusually complete picture: how people operate under pressure, how neurobiological responses to stress quietly shape organizations, and how the patterns we carry shape culture whether we know it or not.

She has mentored extensively in her specialty, assisting at over twenty IFS trainings, retreats, and workshops at institutions including Esalen, Kripalu, and The Omega Institute. That depth is what clients encounter from the first session.

Jamie is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and certified by the IFS Institute, upholding the highest standards of ethics, confidentiality, and professionalism.

Behind this work is lived experience. Jamie built a successful therapy and coaching practice while raising three sons on her own, navigating sustained pressure, responsibility, and high-stakes decision making in real time. That experience informs how she works: grounded, direct, and deeply attuned to what it actually takes to lead when there is no margin for collapse. Clients benefit not only from her clinical and executive background, but from a level of resilience and clarity that has been lived, not just studied.

30 Years working with executives
20+ IFS trainings/retreats assisted
4 Years, executive coach at MetLife

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A single conversation
is where it starts.

If what you've read resonates, the next step is a direct conversation. No commitment required, only a willingness to be honest about where you are and where you want to lead from.

Available virtually. Engagements by application.