The career you've built deserves a coach who's been there.
Heywood Smith Consulting partners with senior leaders to navigate pivotal career moments — with clarity, conviction, and hard-won insight.
About Heywood Smith consulting
Decades of leadership experience, now in your corner.
After years at the executive level, I founded Heywood Smith Consulting with a single conviction: the best coaching comes from having someone on your side who has sat in your chair.
Working with directors, VPs, and C-suite leaders across industries, I bring a rare combination of strategic perspective and genuine human insight to every engagement.
Coaching Services
Grounded in Experience. Built for What’s Possible. Centered on You.
Leadership Coaching
Develop the presence, decision-making, and influence that define exceptional leaders. We work on the real challenges — not the textbook ones.
Career Transition
Whether you're stepping into a new role or navigating a major pivot, we build the mindset, strategy and confidence to move with intention.
Executive Presence
How you show up in the room matters. We sharpen the communication, gravitas, and authenticity that earn trust at the highest levels.
Client Voices
What senior leaders are saying.
Nathalie is the kind of coach who thinks with you, not for you. She listens closely, asks the questions that help you see the situation differently, and then helps you turn that clarity into a real plan. She offers more than encouragement. She helps me prepare, think through the possibilities, anticipate challenges, and develop a strategy I can actually use. I always leave our conversations feeling clearer, more confident, and better equipped to move forward.
Alam A
VP Engineering, Fortune 500
Working with Nathalie has changed the way I think about myself, my career, and what is possible for me. She has a way of identifying the belief underneath the problem. The things that kept me stuck, second-guessing myself, or playing smaller than I should. She challenges my thinking without ever making me feel judged. Nathalie has helped me recognize my value, trust my own judgment, and make decisions from a place of confidence rather than fear. The strategy matters, but the mindset shift is what stays with you.
Nik R.
Sr Director, Global Advertising Agency
One of the things I appreciate most about Nathalie is that I never feel like I’m being handed a list of things to do and sent on my way. She walks through the process with me. She helps me think through decisions, prepare for conversations, work through setbacks, and adjust the strategy when something changes. She never takes over. She helps me strengthen my own thinking so that I become more confident making decisions for myself. It feels like having a trusted advisor beside me while I figure out what my best next move should be.
Stephen A.
VP Business Affairs, Big Tech on an Entreprenural Journey
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