Megan Prentiss
CAREER DEVELOPMENT | LEADERSHIP COACH & PRACTICE LEAD
Oakland, CA
SUMMARY
Megan is a certified professional coach, team effectiveness facilitator and mindfulness trainer who specializes in working with mid-level, emerging talent to develop their leadership skill for greater impact, effectiveness, purpose and fulfillment. With a passion for helping people live and lead on purpose, she’s earned a reputation for notable areas of expertise:
Achieving goals through conscious choice
Developing leadership competency that unleashes performance effectiveness and impact
Undoing unskilled behavior and mindset through neuroscience, evolutionary psychology & mindfulness instruction
Navigating times of change, volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity
Building high-performance teams
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE & BACKGROUND
Megan offers more than 20 years executive experience as the former head of marketing, employee engagement, customer service and sales teams for startup and mid sized tech firms, including Akamai Technologies, Visio Corp (acquired by Microsoft), CREDO Mobile and Lively. She also has been a consultant to Fortune 500 companies across varied industries (e.g. technology, biotech, consumer packaged goods and financial services) to guide them through massive change and achieve organizational alignment, and team health. She’s exceptionally skilled in helping clients create what they want and accelerated action to achieve their big vision.
In addition to working with diverse leaders and across varied industries, Megan has led pro bono client engagements for more than three years at the Taproot Foundation, which aims to build the infrastructure of social change organizations and nonprofits. Megan also co-leads a mastermind group for Bay Area nonprofit executives and is a former mindfulness instructor for the San Francisco Education Fund
CLIENT TESTIMONIALS
Megan is motivational, empowering, and pragmatic in her approach. She dug into what exactly I needed and provide a structure for me to be effective and accountable. Though I still have a lot to learn as an entrepreneur, Megan's coaching has brought me so much closer to realizing success.
– Shannon Smith-Bernardin, PhD. And Fellow, California Health Care Foundation
RECENT CLIENTS
Facebook
Google
iBiology
Merrill Lynch
Sutter Health
Vaxcyte
EDUCATION
University of California,
Santa Barbara
ASSESSMENTS & CERTIFICATIONS
The Coaches Institute (CTI)
Center for Creative Leadership International Coaching Federation
ACC Integrative Enneagram (iEQ9)
U.C. Berkeley Certificate Program: Leadership & Management
University of Washington: Nonprofit Management Instructor
INSPIRATIONS
Nature
Adventure travel
Mindfulness
Community