My clients regard me as a unique, highly effective partner and asset to their professional and personal development. · I work with a proven eclectic set of tools to fully support my client’s life work, transformations, and development. · Leading provider of deep transformational expertise and skilled at integrating transformational experiences. · Proven master communicator – whether you are negotiating, having a difficult conversation, or developing teams, my proven methodologies can help you reach your goals quickly and without polarization. It can be lonely at the top. Executives often do not have a safe place to turn for help. As your partner, I draw upon broad and deep modalities to break barriers, solve complex problems, and create new outcomes.My coaching comes from a place of compassion and non-attachment . I am vested in no particular outcome other than to fully support executives and their specific objectives for achieving tangible business results—this is the thought partnership. In any senior role, communication is one of the pillars to your success. By partnering we will develop conversation that is emotional intelligent, strategic, and aligned with your values. A little about me… I’m a 20-year executive who left the corporate world to become an entrepreneur. After successfully selling one business, I found my passion – helping others reach their professional and personal goals/visions.Originally from British Columbia – Then, the East Coast, and now in the Bay Area for nearly 20 years.Here’s whom I help: - Directors to CEO’s and teams – As executives develop new ways to advance their complicated agenda’s and create more effective teams - Medium to large sized companies – primarily technology, retail, pharmaceutical, biotech, and financial institutions. - Ecosystems that are out of balance and not operating optimally.

With years of specialized training and decades of experience as and executive myself, I facilitate meaningful conversations that pull back layers and go beyond surface level, revealing truths and insights that lead to as-yet undiscovered and unexplored possibilities for improved teamwork and vast growth. I work closely with my clients to transform conflict situations into opportunities for learning and innovation. By utilizing a number of highly effective qualitative and quantitative assessment tools, I assist executives and their organizations in understanding why things are the way they are, and help them tune their future effectiveness. Through a specific set of tools and processes, I help clients address and manage conflict, with the goal of reducing the high cost of poor communications, resulting lack of innovation and productivity within and across their teams. Change agent. I specialize in improving communication to assist leaders to better navigate conflict, develop honest rapport, and effectively lead and inspire their teams. I use my natural ability to digest volumes of data and complex situations involving multiple people, to get clear on the critically important pieces. My custom developed and proven process involves knowing what questions to ask and how to interpret reflections, while being mindful of internal discord.Frustrations I often hear: - I need help becoming a better communicato- I’m having trouble working with a colleague(s) or another team- I don’t know how to overcome a roadblock- Work life balance is an issue- Need a thought share partner to check my thinking and come up with creative ways to solve complicated problems- One of my team members needs help - As a HR Business Partner I need to support the professional development of my partners- Need help innovating my business to stay relevant--> If you want help with any of these topics reach out to me directly at tramirez@evokeleadership.com

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Toma Ramirez is the Co-founder of Evoke Leadership and an Executive Leadership Coach for Mariposa Leadership, Inc. Having co-founded three businesses, sold one, and consulted to more than twenty Fortune 500 companies spanning a twenty-year entrepreneurial career, Toma knows the challenges senior level executives face daily in their super charged, highly competitive environments—challenges that often distract them, complicate their vision, and clutter their paths to effective leadership, performance, and productivity. Communicating with corporate leaders and building trust comes naturally to Toma—and he takes these abilities seriously. This thought partnership leads to more effective leadership and business success. A passionate and learned student of human behavior, Toma works with both individuals and teams to help clients:· Focus and build on their natural strengths, and integrate and leverage those strengths for maximum performance and productivity.· Align their personal values with work life, work relationships, and decision-making.· Address discord and dysfunction by working within the conflict to spark awareness and healthy learning, find common ground, and move forward as cohesive and united teams.· Tap into and build emotional intelligence to enhance self-confidence, strengthen relationships, spur innovation, and master leadership competencies. His most recent clients include Directors to CEOs at:· GoPro· Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence · California Clean Technologies· CareerNav· T. Rowe Price· Washington Mutual People describe Toma as intuitive, easy going, and compassionate, with razor sharp insight and an ability to connect naturally with people.