
Helping Leaders and Teams
Do Their Best Work
“I help leaders build their capacity to deliver results sustainably. When things get tough, my clients know that I will be there for them—supporting, challenging, and helping them keep perspective.”
Today’s leaders and executives face increasing complexity in a time of rapid technical, environmental, and social change. Their organizations and teams need them to provide stability and guidance while adapting to changing conditions. They must think creatively and strategically, build a strong team, communicate effectively, make hard choices, and take responsibility. At the same time, leaders experience their own internal challenges—stress, frustration, uncertainty, and fear. Working with the system as a whole or with key individuals, I help my clients become more self-aware and effective and also find more fulfillment in their work.
Services
Executive Leadership &
Development Coaching
Facilitation &
Team Coaching
Career Transition &
Advancement

Hanna Hart, JD, CPCC
Hanna Hart brings a pragmatic and inspired approach to leadership, talent development, team-building, and facilitation as she supports executives, individuals and teams in developing bold initiatives and sustainable practices. Hanna creates powerful alliances with clients through an open but rigorous process. She persistently challenges the status quo, while encouraging creativity and meaningful goal-setting.
Hanna encourages clients to try new approaches and behaviors and invites them to look “under the hood” at the beliefs and assumptions that drive their behaviors. The result is sustainable improvement in performance and satisfaction. Clients include: Google, Ripple, Coursera, Nest, Verily, Twitter, Gilead, The Natural Resources Defense Council, Clorox, Farallon Capital Management, numerous law firms, including Davis Polk, and various major foundations.
Hanna has coached leaders and facilitated teams
at many leading companies and organizations, including:
Tech
- Coinbase
- Coursera
- DocuSign
- Hellosign
- Nest
- Ripple
- Roblox
- Scoop
- YouTube
Nonprofits
- Berkeley Humane Society
- FERC
(Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) - Natural Resources Defense Council
- Stanford Graduate School of Business
- UC Berkeley College of Engineering
- Wharton Executive MBA
Foundations
- Chan Zuckerberg Institute
- ClimateWorks Foundation
- Energy Foundation
- Simon Cowell Foundation
Life Sciences and Biotech
- Gilead Sciences
- Kaiser Permanente
- Roche
- Verily
- Vitrisa Therapeutics
Law
- Allen & Overy
- Davis Polk & Wardwell
- Gunderson Dettmer
- Morrison & Foerster
- Nixon Peabody
- Orrick
Finance, Real Estate
and Consumer
- Bivium Capital Partners
- Brookfield
- Clorox
- Farallon Capital Management
- Landed
- Sunrun
- TSG Consumer Partners
Blog
How To Stay Motivated And Be Happier At Work
This post first appeared on Forbes.com “That’s why they call it work,” as dads and managers have quipped for years in response to the complaints of young workers. Meaning: don’t expect it to be fun or easy (and quit your whining!) But when work feels like a slog...
The Trap Of Being A Hard Worker
This post first appeared on Forbes. Even good qualities can be limiting. Darius (not his real name), a VP in engineering in a Bay Area fintech company, read the first page of his 360 feedback review. “Hard-working. Trustworthy. Reliable. Even-keeled. Loyal....
Giving Feedback: 5 Elements of a More Inclusive Approach
This post first appeared on Forbes.com A client recently asked me to provide workshops to all employees on how to give and receive feedback. There is nothing unusual about that—I do it frequently. What was newer was the growing imperative to cultivate inclusive...


