Yael C. Sivi

Yael C. Sivi, LCSW, is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Collaborative Coaching, www.collaborative-coaching.com. As an executive coach, psychotherapist, consultant, and keynote speaker with twenty years experience working in Fortune 1000 companies, non-profit organizations, and government agencies, Yael’s focus is on supporting leaders and teams to be more conscious, collaborative, and emotionally mature.

Yael has worked on numerous global and domestic assignments— in the role of executive coach, team coach, workshop facilitator, curriculum designer, and presenter. Her clients come from a variety of industries and include: American Jewish World Service, Bank of America, Boehringer Ingelheim, Charles Schwab, Coca-Cola, Faherty Brand, Fidelity Investments, Genentech, Goldman Sachs, John Hancock Investments, JPMorgan Chase, NASA, NYSE/Euronext, New York Department of Education, Securities Industry Institute, United Nations, US Forest Service, Wells Fargo, World Bank, Y7 Studio, among others.

Yael’s area of expertise centers upon the psychological dimensions of leadership and improving human dynamics in the workplace. She consults on topics such: emotional intelligence, conscious leadership, psychological safety, team collaboration, conflict management, and generational intelligence, a leader’s ability to motivate and inspire across generations. In 2021, Influence Digest named Yael among the top 10 executive coaches of New York City.

Yael is a regular faculty member at SIFMA’s annual Securities Industry Institute, held each spring at Wharton Business School, where she teaches classes on generations in the workplace and cultivating collaboration. For nine years she served as the lead facilitator for Princeton AlumniCorps’ Emerging Leaders Program, an eight-month leadership development program for non-profit managers/leaders in New York City, during which she trained over 150 social sector leaders from the NYC area.

Yael is also a licensed Gestalt psychotherapist. In that role she supports individuals and couples to build self-awareness, versatility, emotional maturity, and meaning in their personal and professional lives.

Yael is the author of Growing Up at Work: How to Transform Personally, Evolve Professionally, and Lead Authentically, published by Greenleaf Books. In it, Yael draws upon her executive coaching and psychotherapy experience to bring adult development, Gestalt, and other theories to life: our work life. By presenting real-life case studies, she examines how work-related dilemmas for professionals often lead to an equally personal journey of growth and evolution. By presenting real-life case studies, she examines how work-related dilemmas for professionals often lead to an equally personal journey of growth and evolution, and how leadership is underpinned and heightened by our emotional maturity.

Formerly based out of the NYC area for over two decades, Yael currently lives in Portland, Maine with her family.