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Shoma Chatterjee Hayden

Expert Partner
Los Angeles

Shoma is the firm’s expert in executive development and talent strategy and co-founder of ghSMART’s executive coaching practice. She brings nearly 30 years of experience in helping companies build the leadership capital needed to deliver on their strategies.  She is a sought-after coach for first-time and experienced CEOs as well as internal CEO successor candidates. Shoma has written a number of articles on her research areas of CEO transitions, the use of data in CEO-selection, and leading investment firms and partnership cultures.

Shoma is a member of Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches Initiative, and an Expert-in-Residence at Extraordinary Women on Boards (EWOB).

Career Highlights:

Goldman Sachs, Head of Pine Street Leadership Development Group

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Head of Talent Management

Deloitte Consulting, Senior Manager, Strategy & Human Capital Practice

United Nations, Consultant, Humanitarian Affairs 

Education:

Columbia Business School, MBA

Columbia School of International & Public Relations, MA

Northwestern University, BA in Economics & Math