Better leadership starts with understanding what’s really needed.
Sunburst Leadership Consulting helps organizations diagnose leadership and team effectiveness challenges, and design interventions that build leadership capacity, strengthen teams, and improve performance.
Executive Coaching | Leadership Assessment | Team Effectiveness | Leadership Development
Effective development starts with the right diagnosis.
Organizations often know when something isn’t working. A talented leader is struggling in expanded scope. A leadership team isn’t operating effectively. A critical transition has exposed new capability gaps. Or performance is falling short, but the reason isn’t entirely clear.
The temptation is to jump straight to a solution: They need a coach. The team needs an off-site. We need leadership training.
But development works best when we first understand the problem we’re trying to solve.
Sunburst partners with senior leaders, HR, and Talent teams to assess what’s happening at the individual up to the organizational level, then determine the intervention most likely to make a difference.
That could mean executive coaching, team facilitation, or building a culture of development.
Diagnose first. Develop second.
A strategic approach to leading yourself and others
Sunburst Leadership Consulting’s work is based on our Embody, Evolve, Amplify framework, created from working with hundreds of leaders across industries and organization size. Embody, Evolve, Amplify is a simple yet powerful approach designed for leaders like you to meet the needs of the moment:
Embody your strengths, values, and purpose to enhance your confidence and ground your actions.
Evolve your leadership capabilities to meet the moment with agility and skill.
Amplify your impact so your influence reaches farther without burning out.
Every engagement is tailored to your reality, your team, and your goals.
Coaching and facilitation for senior leaders and their teams
We work with Directors, VPs, and C-suite leaders in high-growth companies, mission-driven organizations, and global enterprises.
Over the past 15 years, Nacie Pereira, owner and principal consultant at Sunburst Leadership Consulting, has coached more than 700 leaders across four continents, from Fortune 500 executives to startup founders. The challenges change, but the goal is always the same: helping leaders show up as their best selves in the moments that matter most.
What our clients say
“Nacie quickly understands the dynamics of a situation. She thought partners to come up with different ideas and approaches to meet challenges and achieve one's goals. We worked together on important competencies needed to advance such as navigating challenging senior stakeholders, exuding executive presence, and carving out space to have more share of voice in leadership meetings.”
- Stephanie B, Senior Director at top 3 management consulting firm
“Nacie had material impact on my growth as a leader. She helped me gain insight into my own behavior and how to work more effectively with others. Since we worked together, I was able to take on even more senior leadership positions.”
- Kurt H, Senior Director at a leading AI organization
How we help
Leadership & Talent Assessment
Clarify what’s really driving a leadership or performance challenge. Through stakeholder input, leadership interviews, behavioral and 360 assessments, and organizational context, we identify strengths, gaps, and the development priorities that matter most.
Executive Coaching
Targeted 1:1 development for senior leaders navigating expanded scope, transition, organizational complexity, or specific leadership challenges. Coaching builds capacity against clearly defined development goals, it isn’t a substitute for determining what those goals should be.
Leadership Team Effectiveness
Diagnose and address the dynamics affecting how senior teams operate together. Engagements may focus on alignment, roles, working norms, communication, trust, decision-making, or navigating organizational change.
Leadership Development
Bespoke development experiences designed around an organization’s actual needs, from facilitated leadership sessions and off-sites to targeted workshops and multi-session development programs.
Meet Nacie
Nacie Pereira is an organizational psychologist, ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), and leadership development practitioner with more than 18 years of experience helping leaders and organizations improve how they lead and work together.
Her background spans executive coaching, organizational effectiveness, talent development, leadership assessment, and team effectiveness, giving her a broad lens for understanding leadership challenges and determining the right development approach.
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