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.
ā¦ Skilled in large-scale planning and driving direction across global teams.
ā¦ A love and knack for architecting the "connective tissue" across distributed teams and between execs and on-the-ground employees.
ā¦ Ability to distill organizational complexity into actionable insights, vision, and clear next steps.
ā¦ 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.
ā¦ Certified Executive Coach through Hudson Institute.
ā¦ Partnering with high-performing leaders, founders, and academic administrators.
ā¦ Helping clients regain their footing, find strategic clarity, and lead with deep agency.
Organizational Fluency
Deep understanding of corporate dynamics and leadership pressures
ā¦ Over a decade acting as a strategic bridge for executive teams at Google.
ā¦ Expertise in diagnosing organizational friction and aligning cross-functional goals.
ā¦ Driving organizational change through strategic alignment, offsite facilitation, and cohesive narrative design.
I'm excited about
ā¦ Engaging with communities focused on organizational effectiveness and leadership.
ā¦ Collaborating with innovators and other exec coaches to support leaders and teams in new ways and at greater scale.
ā¦ Working with high-performing leaders as they navigate stretch moments in their careers.
ā¦ Leaning into creative partnership, experimentation, and community-building!
I can help with
ā¦ Regaining strategic clarity, agency, and self-trust through 1:1 exec coaching and team facilitation/advisory.
ā¦ Translating complex organizational challenges and goals into actionable solutions and digestible, resonant messaging.
ā¦ Providing you with partnership and steadiness as you navigate something big or high-pressure in your work.
I would love your help on
ā¦ Connections with leaders navigating sudden increases in scope, creating something new, or building out a new function.
ā¦ Introductions to HR/L&D leaders who are building external coaching benches for their executives.
ā¦ Connecting with scaling startup founders who are looking to define an intentional leadership stance for themselves/their exec team.
ā¦ Insights into emerging trends in org development, future of work, and "burning platforms" for leaders right now.
ā¦ Opportunities to help leaders/scaling founders who want to build greater "connective tissue" across teams or between exec vision and on-the-ground operations.