Leave a Legacy as a Leader
Our Executive Coaches Can Help You
Are you looking to work with a leadership coach who brings not only a deep well of experience but also a whole lot of heart and even some humor along the way?
If so, it would be our honor to support your unique leadership journey.
Who we are
Cindy Marteney
Executive Coach and Founder of The Marteney Group
Cindy Marteney is known for rapidly creating trust and momentum with high-profile clients, who value her practical wisdom and deeply relational approach to leadership. They feel deeply seen and enjoy the sense of humor Cindy brings to navigating the many tangles in life as well as leadership.
Cindy’s work has an alchemical quality. Her signature specialty? Helping leaders extend their own work to others and in ways that deepen relationships while supporting transformation. Cindy’s clients frequently bring what they learn into their personal lives, sharing touching stories of including friends, parents, and even children in their journeys. With decades of experience, Cindy has worked across industries that span academic medicine, healthcare, high tech, aerospace, construction, and non-profits. She specializes in working with university leaders and has enjoyed a strong, referral-based business for the past twenty-five years.
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Her career began in the U.S. Navy as a Russian linguist and intelligence analyst, where she earned the Navy Achievement Medal for discovering a “change to the order of battle.” Her knack for seeing beyond the obvious has been a defining feature of her career. She worked as a total quality management facilitator at Hanscom Airforce base, in marketing services while supporting rapid growth at Synetics and at Lotus/IBM. She also grew and sold a successful family business.
She holds an M.A. in Political Science from Claremont Graduate University and certified as an Integral Coach through New Ventures West, where she has served as faculty and mentored coaches in the U.S., U.K., and Denmark. She is certified as a Somatic Leadership Coach through the Strozzi Institute. She has studied the Enneagram extensively, which informs each of the modules in her year-long programs. She created her Three Pillars of Leadership model, which frames explorations of competencies that support a leader’s journey.
A long-time Zen student, Cindy hosts drop-in meditation circles for friends and clients, inviting explorations of paradoxical teaching stories. Living in Sonoma County, California, she enjoys hosting friends from around the world, taking her talkative Siamese cats out on hikes in a special backpack, playing tennis (and Scrabble when she can find people who still play), and hearing stories from people she meets while traveling.
Jessica Ivey-Thomas
Executive Coach
Jessica Ivey-Thomas is known for transforming the difficult to playful. She brings an interactive approach to building emotional intelligence in her clients, emphasizing personal and relational practices that support greater empathy, compassion, and connection, even in times of conflict. Trained extensively in the Enneagram as well as the somatic elements of leadership, Jessica is creative in not only helping clients notice and begin to work with the ways they get “off center" and show signs of stress, but also to observe others’ non-verbal cues more sensitively. She helps clients infuse an element of playfulness into their strategy, believing that life is meant to be lived to its fullest.
Her Enneagram and leadership training allow her to help clients recognize signs of stress and non-verbal cues--so they can respond in more attuned ways.
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Jessica has worked with physician leaders in academic medicine, researchers in epidemiology, software architects in healthcare data companies, and directors of leadership development, operations, and marketing in high tech companies. She has conducted in-depth Leadership 360 surveys for top executives and leaders in medicine, high tech, construction, and aerospace.
In business, she has been responsible for teams of executive leadership coaches, instructors and managers in private firms and tech start-ups, overseeing operations, recruitment, hiring, performance feedback, and conflict management issues across a broad geography. As a Coaching Operations Manager, she has managed top leadership coaches supporting C-Suite coaching engagements for clients ranging from Sephora, LinkedIn, Lululemon, and Steph Curry’s non-profit.
Jessica has been engaged in competitive sports throughout her life, both as an award-winning soccer and lacrosse player and as a coach for challenging inner-city teams, where building trust is an essential and ongoing practice. She naturally understands team dynamics and the interplay of different personalities under pressure and has learned creative ways to bring out each individual’s best efforts and to create team cohesion.
Jessica has a B.S. in public health and psychology, is certified as an Integral Coach through New Ventures West and has studied extensively the Enneagram Institute's methodology. She also is on the faculty with New Ventures West mentoring coaching students through their certification process and training. Jessica practices what she empowers others to learn by continuing to grow. Her repertoire includes meditation, yoga, CrossFit, traveling, exploring nature, and other mindfulness-based practices.
She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her wife and two dogs.
Vivian Groman
Executive Coach
With 25 years of experience in finance and technology leadership, Vivian Groman brings a thoughtful, down-to-earth approach to executive coaching. She specializes in working with senior leaders and C-suite executives in financial services, high tech, sales and marketing, and healthcare. Vivian will help you understand yourself and the ambitious, complex personalities you work with.
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Vivian is passionate about guiding her clients toward discovering their own authentic and sustainable leadership style. She draws on her hands-on experience leading innovation projects as a Senior Vice President at Charles Schwab & Company, where she developed national systems for brokers and implemented financial software rollouts that integrated both national and international offices. Vivian knows firsthand how to manage technically challenging projects, meet big deadlines, work with geographically diverse stakeholders, and lead technical teams.
Clients love working with Vivian because of her exceptional emotional intelligence and her ability to help them navigate the most difficult challenges at work and in life. She brings humor, compassion, and deep insight to every session, creating a space where leaders feel inspired to grow, learn, and gain a deeper appreciation for their people and the world around them.
As a lifelong student of human potential, Vivian brings a range of tools that support individual coaching sessions as well as when delivering rigorous assessments for executives at large institutions. She holds a degree from the Haas Business School at the University of California, Berkeley. She is certified as an Integral Coach through New Ventures West, a Somatic Leadership Coach through the Strozzi Institute, a We-I Profile Practitioner, a Hogan Assessments Practitioner, and an Integrative Enneagram Solutions iEQ9 Practitioner.
Born in Cuba and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Vivian speaks Spanish. She now lives in the Hudson River Valley in Beacon, New York, where she enjoys spending time with friends, walking her two dogs, doing Pilates, and attending theater performances in New York City. She frequently visits California to see her kids and meet with clients on the West Coast.
Kristina Vinson
Executive Coach
Kristina Vinson’s journey into coaching evolved naturally as she consistently stood out as a change agent in her various corporate roles. Kristina has developed people with her experience leading HR and marketing functions at a fast-paced regional construction company and managing employee communications at a Fortune 500 enterprise software firm.
Kristina has created executive leadership development programs. She has taught the Enneagram, facilitated team effectiveness and peer coaching workshops, and offered transformative leadership coaching to individuals across all levels. Her mission is unwavering: to enrich company culture while nurturing individual growth, believing these two are deeply interconnected.
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Kristina’s background in HR and people operations taught her the power of patience and empathy in navigating the complexities of leadership. She’s been at the helm of handling tough personalities, resolving C-suite disputes, and managing intense board and external pressures. These experiences have sharpened her diplomatic skills and given her the insight to form strong, trust-based partnerships with executives. Kristina’s clients view her not only as an effective coach but also as a trusted advisor and confidante to senior leaders.
Throughout her career, Kristina has empowered leaders in sales, engineering, finance, marketing, and HR to develop emotional intelligence, build stronger relationships, and make confident, strategic decisions. Her focus on tangible, visible outcomes has inspired a demand for her work.
She led the creation of an Emerging Leaders Program, which accelerated the growth of high-potential employees through coaching, executive mentoring, and peer communities, resulting in promotions for 85% of participants in a highly competitive environment. Her Team Effectiveness Workshops have transformed company cultures by fostering open communication, constructive feedback, and healthy conflict resolution, driving higher satisfaction and resilience among team members. These workshops became so impactful, they are now highly sought after across the organization.
As a coach, Kristina strikes a balance between internal ambitions and external perceptions, helping leaders effectively engage a wide range of stakeholders. She has a unique ability to amplify success by guiding leaders toward greater emotional intelligence, clearer decision-making, and stronger alliances.
Outside of her professional life, Kristina’s greatest joy is being a devoted parent to Kayla and Kai. Parenthood has taught her to cherish the present, set healthy boundaries, and release control over the uncontrollable—lessons that deeply influence her coaching style, bringing authenticity and balance into both leadership and life.