WIIIN Virtual Event: The Why and How of Executive Coaching

Join us for a virtual lunch hour with
your WIIIN Network and
 Susan Lerner, Founder of Libra Coaching

Thursday, January 26 from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

WIIIN has tapped Susan Lerner, investment industry veteran with more than two decades’ experience as a retained executive search professional and founder of Libra Coaching, to share insights about the value and benefit of working with an Executive Coach. Susan has been a Certified Professional Coach for ten years and will share cases for maximizing one’s potential in an existing role or firm, navigating challenging conversations as well as charting a development path during a time of job transition. She is certified in the Hogan Personality Assessment and will discuss how the Hogan can be utilized in the context of an Executive Coaching relationship.

Join us to learn how Executive Coaching engagements typically work, when may be the right time to consider working with a coach and how best to identify the right coaching partner.

The session will feature shared content and facilitated, open discussion.

Susan Lerner:
Susan founded Libra Coaching in 2021 to offer a differentiated approach to talent advisory services for the investment management community. She brings significant experience emanating from her 20+ years in retained search, including over 14 years at Jamesbeck, and during her time leading Libra Coaching. Her decades long education of the investment management industry started during her ten years as an investment banker while working with asset managers and she remains a student today.

Susan has been a long-time member of the Advisory Board of First Step, a job readiness program for low income and formerly homeless women under the umbrella of the Coalition for the Homeless in New York City. She is a Board Member of the Friends of JCC Krakow and spent over five years on the Libraries National Council at Washington University in St. Louis. 

Susan earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BA from Washington University in St. Louis. She earned the CPC designation from iPEC in 2012 and the Hogan certification in 2021.