Don Angelo Bivens
Executive Leadership Coach & Facilitator
Don’Angelo’s profound understanding of what drives human behavior and performance helps leaders examine internal conversations so that they recalibrate to be in alignment with their people and leadership aspirations. As a trusted partner, his engaging, direct, truthful, fun, and compassionate style allows leaders to stretch, trust in themselves and increase impact by exploring the unknown to produce unexpected results.
Don’Angelo coaches founders, teams, emerging executives and directors to CEOs of hyper-growth start-ups, middle-market and Fortune 500 companies on five of seven continents. The leaders that he has had the fortunate opportunity to walk alongside as a thought-partner can correlate the importance of self-awareness, leadership, and managing more than $16B P&Ls. His clients are often expanding their leadership and facing challenges in the areas of building, inspiring, and leading teams; establishing psychological safety and trust across the organization, transitioning roles, increasing emotional intelligence, adaptable leadership, and influence, organizational savvy, race, equity, inclusion, and valuing others, and more.
Don’Angelo is a seasoned, professional certified coach (PCC), facilitator, and speaker with 20 years of service—coaching and training 1000s of leaders in numerous industries to include but not limited to healthcare, oil & gas, utilities, finance, insurance, technology, consumer packaging and goods, media, and entertainment, NGOs, government, mining, food and beverage, pharmaceutical and biotech, retail, legal, private equity, higher education, real estate development, and more.
Before his career as an executive coach, speaker and facilitator, Don’Angelo held leadership roles in an NYC healthcare company, public school system, real estate firm, and gaming and hospitality. He was responsible for launching a division and creating service lines that led to a partnership with Mayor Bloomberg’s Office of Economic Development and the training and development of leaders and founders of small businesses in NYC. He is a former adjunct lecturer in higher education and currently serves as faculty for the Co-Active Training Institute, world-renowned coaching and leadership training company.
Recent Coaching Assignments
∙ Chief of Medicine of a healthcare system transitioning to the C-Suite; coaching focused on transition, executive presence, and managing a billion-dollar campaign to build a new wing.
∙ VP, Construction with $16B P&L of Fortunate 400 construction company increased vulnerability with his team, improving trust, performance, and safety within his division.
∙ Director, Engineering, world-renowned theme park; coaching centered on enhancing understanding and implementing social awareness to effectively lead teams.
∙ SVP of large insurance technology, subsidiary of a Fortune 500; coaching focused on managing impact and effective communication with staff and fellow C-Suite leaders.
∙ SVP of a middle-market, clean energy company; coaching focused on understanding and implementation of emotional intelligence.
∙ Commissioner of NYC government; coaching centered on developing leadership strategy, managing partnerships, and inherited staff and team development.
∙ Senior Director, Sales for an information security technology firm with a $75M sales target received two promotions within a year; coaching centered on influence and bringing people along.
∙ VP Risk of a Fortune 100 oil and gas conglomerate; coaching focused on flexible leadership and influence.
∙ SVP Banking and Compliance of Fortune 500 cloud-based company; coaching established psychological safety and trust.
∙ CEO and President of commercial technologies and software company, Fortune 200 subsidiary; coaching centered on emotional intelligence: self-awareness and self-management.
∙ VP, IT of a Fortune 500 insurance firm to enhance self-confidence and ability to work with and manage difficult people.
∙ Senior leader/lawyer of $5B cloud security technology firm: coaching improved leader’s confidence, management of difficult conversations, and influencing senior leadership to meet the needs/wants of his division.
∙ VP Engineering of a Fortune 500 aerospace company; coaching focused on self-care and managing difficult conversations and inspiration in a time of crisis.
∙ SVP, General Manager of Fortune 500 real estate development firm; coaching helped to discover and define influence in achieving increased responsibility and impact. Promoted to SVP.
∙ A two-member founding executive team of a Series A-funded social media technology firm; coaching facilitated difficult conversations, strategic alignment, and onboarding of other executive team members.
∙ Director, Strategy of Fortune 500 pharmaceutical brand; coaching assisted leader to own his voice, leading to an increase of staff and promotion.
∙ CEO of a $20 million nonprofit; coaching assisted executives in the areas of inclusion, slowing down to notice, and valuing others.
∙ Head of the innovation of a hyper-growth, billion-dollar transportation technology company; coaching focused on leader coaching and influencing staff and peers.
∙ Founder and CEO of a $13M electronic components firm; coaching focused on strengthening relationships with the C-Suite team and organization restructuring.
∙ Division Chief of Medicine of a major healthcare system, coaching centered on transforming organizational culture, managing conflict, and establishing trust.
∙ Regional VP, Operations of Fortune 500 utility company; coaching revolved around a leader shifting to a new role and managing internal imposter syndrome dialogue. Created $37M in savings within a six-month period.
∙ COO of an agriculture firm; coaching involved the development and implementation of self-care and growth mindsets.
∙ Chief Architect of Fortune 500 consumer technology company; coaching required improving self-awareness and empowering language to improve relations with peers and senior management.
∙ Senior Director, Partnership of $600M pharma company, improved thought leadership, engagement with senior leadership, and delegation. Leader promoted to VP.
∙ EVP, Digital of multi-billion-dollar music entertainment company; coaching supported leader in emotional intelligence and demonstrating respect and value in others.
∙ SVP of Fortune 300 customer relationship management technology organization to develop a capacity to become a "leader as coach" and create development opportunities for his team.
∙ CMO of Fortune 500 financial management company to refine her ability to inspire and self-manage impact on peers and staff.
∙ VP of statewide healthcare system engaged coaching to assist in managing new roles, expectations, and conflict within his organization and with community partners.
∙ Head of Channel Development for Fortune 500 consumer products company developed an adaptable leadership approach, allowing him to empower his staff to step into leadership and take ownership of their respective departments.
∙ SVP, Global Strategy of Fortune 200 company sought a coach to assist in self-awareness, owning impact on others to improve capacity to lead from empowerment and empathy.
∙ President, $9B private equity firm; coaching centered on transitioning to a new role and influencing staff to accept and move forward with new business model.
∙ Manager, Software Engineering for global electronic agreements company: coaching assisted leader in enhancing ability to manage and lead teams.
Education
B.A., Psychology, Tuskegee University
M.S. Industrial/ Organizational Psychology, Missouri State University
Coaching Credentials/Certifications
Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), Co-Active Training Institute
Certified Professional Coach (PCC), International Coach Federation
Certified in Leadership Development, Co-Active Training Institute
Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching (Executives & Teams)
Human Synergistics Leadership Workstyles & Inventory w/ Item-Level Feedback
Korn Ferry Emotional & Social Compentency Inventory (ESCI)
Emotional Intelligence Certified Coach, Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence
Myers-Briggs Type-Indicator (MBTI), Step I & II
Hogan Assessments: Leadership Forecasts Series, Team and Judgment
Korn Ferry 360 and Leadership Architect
Board Director Experience
VP, Talent Development, National Association of African American in Human Resources (2017 – 2020)
Board Member, African-American Partnership, United Way – Greater Atlanta (2024 – Present)
Volunteer Experience
Volunteer Coach, Innocence Project (2019 – Present)
The Innocence Project, founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck at Cardozo School of Law, exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. The Work: Serving as a coach to leaders that have been exonerated and given the opportunity to start again.
Volunteer Coach, United World of Coaches (2019 – Present)
The United World Coaches is a group of coaches who desire to use coaching to bring something greater to the world – especially the Humanitarian and NGO Sectors. UWC's aim is to reach people with coaching on a pro-bono basis who otherwise may never have had the opportunity to be coached and to experience the transformative change that coaching can bring to their lives and careers.
