Hi, I'm Grace Martinez Leff - Executive Coach at Grace Leff Coaching & Advisory
I coach leaders who thrive on tackling complex challenges, drawing on my decade in Google's StratOps to bring clarity and grounded purpose to career transitions. I love helping high-performers find their confident next steps.
At a glance
Curated signals on strengths, focus areas, and how they can help.
Led Finance Strategy & Operations for global teams at Google.
Certified Executive Coach guiding professionals through career transitions.
Helps leaders translate complexity into actionable strategies for clarity and momentum.
š Career trajectory
Corporate Strategist
Spent over a decade at Google in Finance Strategy & Operations, advising executives and driving large-scale planning.
ā¦ Google
ā¦ Strategy
ā¦ Operations
Certified Coach
Transitioned to professional coaching, certified by Hudson Institute of Coaching.
ā¦ Coaching
ā¦ Hudson Institute
Executive Coach & Advisor
Currently partnering with high-performing leaders, founders, and academic administrators to navigate sudden stretch moments and organizational ambiguity.
ā¦ Executive Coaching
ā¦ Leadership Development
ā¦ Strategic vision
šŖš» Superpowers
Strategic Navigator
Translating complex organizational swirl into clear, actionable strategy.
Skilled in large-scale planning and driving direction across global teams.
A love and knack for architecting the "connective tissue" across distributed teams and between execs and on-the-ground employees.
Ability to distill organizational complexity into actionable insights, vision, and clear next steps.
A decade of experience in Finance Strategy & Operations at Google.
Leadership Catalyst
Serving as a steadying force and strategic partner for leaders in high-stakes stretch moments.
Certified Executive Coach through Hudson Institute.
Partnering with high-performing leaders, founders, and academic administrators.
Helping clients regain their footing, find strategic clarity, and lead with deep agency.
Organizational Fluency
Deep understanding of corporate dynamics and leadership pressures
Over a decade acting as a strategic bridge for executive teams at Google.
Expertise in diagnosing organizational friction and aligning cross-functional goals.
Driving organizational change through strategic alignment, offsite facilitation, and cohesive narrative design.
I'm excited about
Engaging with communities focused on organizational effectiveness and leadership.
Collaborating with innovators and other exec coaches to support leaders and teams in new ways and at greater scale.
Working with high-performing leaders as they navigate stretch moments in their careers.
Leaning into creative partnership, experimentation, and community-building!
I can help with
Regaining strategic clarity, agency, and self-trust through 1:1 exec coaching and team facilitation/advisory.
Translating complex organizational challenges and goals into actionable solutions and digestible, resonant messaging.
Providing you with partnership and steadiness as you navigate something big or high-pressure in your work.
I would love your help on
Connections with leaders navigating sudden increases in scope, creating something new, or building out a new function.
Introductions to HR/L&D leaders who are building external coaching benches for their executives.
Connecting with scaling startup founders who are looking to define an intentional leadership stance for themselves/their exec team.
Insights into emerging trends in org development, future of work, and "burning platforms" for leaders right now.
Opportunities to help leaders/scaling founders who want to build greater "connective tissue" across teams or between exec vision and on-the-ground operations.