Executive coaching for mission-driven leaders

Empowering CEOs, executives and their teams at the world’s most innovative companies.

Transformational results

Sierra Leadership’s clients become the fullest, most impactful versions of themselves. They experience deeper self-awareness and confidence, improved relationships, better communication, and new insights into their most challenging issues.

Eric Nitzberg, Sierra Leadership’s founder, brings 25 years of people development experience and a singular ability to bring out the greatest potential in CEOs and other senior leaders.

Personalized solutions

Our clients grapple with unique situations while operating in profoundly complex environments. They want expert support that meets them exactly where they are. That’s what we do: provide coaching and team development exquisitely tailored to our clients’ needs.

Eric is one of the few people in the world I can talk to about my biggest challenges—strategic and personal. He gets it, and knows how to bring out the best in me. An incredible person and coveted coach of senior executives, he has helped me through some of the toughest decisions and processes I’ve faced.

CEO, Fortune 100 Company

Trust through connection

We build high-trust collaborations with our clients. We start by listening, creating a safe container so we can get to know them almost as well as they know themselves. Then we grow the relationship by tackling their most important priorities together—as partners.

I’ve met, interviewed, and partnered with hundreds of coaches globally, and Eric is in the top 1% based on my experience working with so many coaching professionals.… Leaders in our organization request him by name because the good word has spread regarding his talent for helping leaders better themselves by bringing about necessary change.

RACHEL BARAK
MANAGER, EXECUTIVE COACHING PROGRAM
GOOGLE

Our latest insights

Should You Stay Or Should You Go?

It’s common for senior executives to think about leaving their jobs, more so than you might imagine. In 2022 a Deloitte survey found that 70% of C-suite executives were contemplating moving to a job that would allow them to have better well-being. So if you have been wondering if you should leave, you’re in good […]

To Create a Culture of Ownership, Teach Your Leaders These Three Things

It’s a dilemma every CEO faces: why doesn’t everyone take ownership of the whole company like I do? The longer you’re at the top of an organization, the easier it is to lose sight of how different the perspectives are at each level. Individual contributors want to do good work. Managers are learning how to […]

How to Communicate Your Vision So It Sticks

Communicating your vision is the single most important task of leadership. Done well, it provides your organization with an inspiring, enticing, motivating picture of what you can all achieve together.  Why is it, then, that in so many organizations the vision doesn’t reach into the hearts and minds of all employees? And how can you […]

Eric has given so much to our company that it’s hard to calculate his value. I’m so grateful for how he helped me grow, and how his deft engagement with our whole leadership team brought us closer and helped boost our performance.

CEO, $30B hyper growth company