Featured in Forbes, Farah Hussain coaches executives to adapt their leadership approach to meet the pace, pressure, and complexity of change. She spent nearly 20 years in global leadership roles through significant periods of disruption, including a decade at PayPal through its spin-off from eBay, IPO, hypergrowth, and multiple restructurings.

With her extensive coach training, and more than six years of coaching directors to CEOs, Farah actively guides leaders to make step changes in their leadership approach quickly. Leaders build awareness of themselves in-context, become more discerning, and make specific shifts in their mindset and leadership behaviors to be more effective. Her proprietary approach emphasizes clear objectives, custom tools, and targeted action with accountability.

Farah has supported leaders across industries in the private and public sectors, with clients spanning tech, healthcare, education, media, telecommunications, consulting, and government, to name a few.

Farah’s leader development engagements include:

The skills Farah emphasizes for leader development include:

Farah has been featured in Forbes as an expert on the topic of navigating nuance, and has spoken at industry-leading conferences organized by Money 20/20, Forrester Research, and Startup Boston. She is the author of The Pivotal Leader on Substack, a publication serving as a thought partner for leaders in pivotal moments.

Farah is certified by the International Coaching Federation, Co-Active Training Institute, and Leadership Circle, and has deep training in Positive Intelligence, and Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching. Her MBA is from Babson College, and BA from Wellesley College.

Farah is the daughter of immigrants to the US, and one of four siblings to be born and raised in the US. She brings multi-cultural understanding to her work.

She is also a painter.