Paolo Mottola
Marketing Leadership at REI
“He was also great at connecting my professional growth with my personal values.”
I worked with Tony in a professional coaching context and highly valued my time with him. He is clearly seasoned at working with high-level professionals and was effective in our remote call setting. He helped me think and work through some opportunities with his methodologies and challenged my perspectives in ways that helped me grow into more of the leader I was hoping to become during our time. He was also great at connecting my professional growth with my personal values. Thanks for everything, Tony!
Frank Keane
Head of Executive Protection, Guardian Life Insurance · Ret. NYPD
“Guided me on how to work with peers and develop my team.”
Tony was a great coach! Helped me understand my new leadership role. Gave me expert advice. Guided me on how to work with peers and develop my team. I highly recommend Tony as a coach and a leader! He was such a great help.
Joshua King
Lead with data, decide with discipline, and earn trust through transparency.
“With his support, I achieved a critical leadership milestone in my career.”
I had the pleasure of working with Tony as my career coach for almost six months. His impeccable ability to listen, understand, and provide insightful guidance made a significant impact on my professional journey. With his support, I achieved a critical leadership milestone in my career. Tony’s expertise and dedication are truly commendable, and I am grateful for the opportunity to have worked with him. I highly recommend Tony for his exceptional coaching skills and unwavering commitment to his clients.
Andrew Carlson
Investment Marketing & Workplace Retirement Strategy @ Franklin Templeton
“He’s ready to roll up his sleeves and work with you.”
Tony exemplifies great coaching—the ability to accelerate learning, development, and performance to help individuals reach their full potential. In his sessions, he’s ready to roll up his sleeves and work with you, building action plans for those seeking to create better career paths. He’s positive, enthusiastic, and supportive, offering clear, goal-oriented wisdom and insights. I cannot recommend him highly enough!
Taylor Gazzano
Director, Strategic Accounts and Growth at Intelligent Dispensing Solutions
“Tony is a great coach who not only challenged me but helped me practice delivery on things so I felt confident.”
Puneet Gupta
Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Squarespace
“He helped me build structures for prioritization, time management and communication, and prevent burnout.”
Coach Tony is an amazing cultivator and coach for up and coming leaders. During my experience as his client, he was very respectful, caring, considerate, empathetic and insightful. He helped me develop a great deal of introspection and self awareness that I’m already reaping benefits from in my professional and personal interactions. He helped me build structures for prioritization, time management and communication, and prevent burnout. I can’t recommend him enough.
Itumeleng Morule
Communications Lead, Southern Africa at TikTok
“Helping me gain confidence as a person and leader.”
Tony was an exceptional career coach. He helped me navigate my journey in a corporate and fast paced organization. He empowered me with all the necessary tools and resources which have shaped who I am today, helping me gain confidence as a person and leader. I highly recommend working with Tony if you are blessed with the opportunity.
Shane Carlson
Head of Consultative Sales @ Splunk
“I definitely came out of the process a better and more confident leader.”
Tony is a great coach with a very well rounded perspective on Leadership and growing oneself. I worked with him over the course of a few months and definitely came out of the process a better and more confident leader.I wholeheartedly recommend working with Tony should you get the chance.
Pablo Troccoli
Decision-Making, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, People Development
“Helped me to keep growing as a leader and as a person.”
We spent 6 months with Tony in a coaching, during very interesting times in my career. I would recommend Tony as a coach, he has a lot of experience and it was impressive the recommendations in books to read around the themes we were talking about. That alone was an asset. But also, with his experience he would share with me how he has handled similar situations in a way that you can picture yourself doing the same. Overall, it was a coaching that helped me through challenges and helped me to keep growing as a leader and as a person.
Matt Gonabe
Senior Advisor, FAA · Reserve Unit CO
“He asked me the right introspective questions, kept me accountable, and was a great sounding board.”
Tony is an outstanding coach! I was paired with him for several months and found his advice and encouragement beneficial for my personal and professional growth. He helped me explore my natural preferences through conversation and tools like Myers Briggs. He asked me the right introspective questions, kept me accountable, and was a great sounding board for whatever obstacles I was facing at the time. We found commonalities in our background and I found Tony very easy to talk story with. Highly recommend him as a coach and very grateful to have Tony as a part of my professional network.
Boris Shif
Director of Intelligence
“Military service provided that crucial link.”
Tony has done an outstanding job being my BetterUp coach. I chose Tony because of his military background with the hope that he would better understand the context of where I was at in my personal and professional job. Just like in the military we were able to establish a quick personal connection. Trust me when I say that when choosing the right coach for you, you can never underestimate having some sort of baseline that you can build the relationship on. Military service provided that crucial link. Tony was a great listener and helped guide and coach me toward the right choices that made sense to me. He was very adaptable to my way of doing business, my way of working through the process, and was a critical sounding board when I needed him. Again outstanding job by Tony!
Courtney Power
Director, Education & Workforce Systems · Military Child & Family Advocate
“It proved extremely helpful in allowing me to embrace my professional identity and capability.”
I had the pleasure of working with Tony for 4 months through the BetterUp program. This was the first time I worked with a coach and it proved extremely helpful in allowing me to embrace my professional identity and capability. His breadth of experience and knowledge led to key insights as well as helpful resources to assist me in navigating my own challenges and successes.
Emiliano Flores
Director Assistant and Chief of Staff, American Express
“Extremely helpful to navigate through a very complex time that included a promotion, and a lateral move into a new area.”
Tony is an amazing coach with whom I had the pleasure to work this past year.He’s a great listener, and always very receptive to the way I was approaching the situations, from the mindset I had, to the way I delivered messages to my team, my leader, or peers.Always making sure I was able to return and settle into a growth mindset, Tony’s messages were always positive and clear.I’m extremely thankful for the time I spent with Tony in our coaching journey, where his coaching was extremely helpful to navigate through a very complex time that included a promotion, and a lateral move into a new area.
Tommy Rayburn
Design Leader, Creator, and Boardgame Enthusiast
“I am a better worker, manager, and human being.”
Tony for the last 6 months has been both my life coach in addition to being my professional development coach. I can unequivocally say that I am a better worker, manager, and human being thanks to the coaching and advice Tony gave. Tony listened when needed and gave advice equally when needed. We worked through built action plans to build off of the advice given to put into the actions time needed to solidify the improvements I have been gaining to stride.From managing up, to better communication skills, to confidently representing my brand, we focused on incrementally moving the needle upwards.
Simone Thomas
Product Development & Marketing · Wharton MBA
“I found an authentic way to show up in a very competitive and fast paced company.”
Tony was an incredible career coach for me at a pivotal time! I really appreciated his ability to listen with empathy, personalize his coaching plan and materials, and flex in our sessions to meet me where I was each session. Through our time working together, I found an authentic way to show up in a very competitive and fast paced company and am well on my way to developing my leadership poise. I’ve seen tremendous growth in myself and would highly recommend Tony as a partner to anyone looking to better develop in their careers. My time with him was invaluable!
Ashley Prince Murphy
COO at &Then
“I feel re-energized to continue to grow and develop as a leader.”
Tony is an incredible executive coach. He asked excellent questions, provided thoughtful resources that helped me to deepen my learning beyond sessions, and even connected me to mentors who helped me explore potential career opportunities. Because of our time together, I feel re-energized to continue to grow and develop as a leader.
Krystina Culley
Creative Architect & Founder at Culley
“Tony is an amazing life coach who will help you organize, plan and prepare for real life.”
Peter Stainforth
Operations Manager at Rideau Transit Maintenance
“Tony is a great person to work with. He gave me great coaching advice through the BetterUp programme. I can’t thank him enough.”
Diego Pomareda
Senior Director, Core Business
“Totally recommended if you want to “fine-tune” your leadership and management capabilities.”
Tony is more than a coach! We create a team through empathy and confidence from the very beginning of our program! Totally recommended if you want to “fine-tune” your leadership and management capabilities.
Garrett Bantom
ICF ACC Executive Coach
“Tony’s capacity to empower is subtle and grounded in his keen ability to ask powerful questions.”
Quite simply, Tony is an excellent coach. Tony’s capacity to empower is subtle and grounded in his keen ability to ask powerful questions. Tony has a way of discovering the past to unearth paradigms that stifle progress. I came to Tony with a specific work related concern and ended our time together feeling better about my outlook on life. Tony’s preparation for our sessions really challenged my thinking and the ways in which I hold myself accountable. Context matters and Tony encouraged me to make connections to aspects of my skill set that I now celebrate. Tony started our first session asking me where I wanted to go. I left our final session in that place and excited for new challenges. Working with Tony is an experience that I highly recommend.
Julia Mansi
Associate General Counsel @ Meta
“This was my first experience being coached in a structured way and Tony put me at ease straight away.”
I appreciated his relaxed and thoughtful approach to our sessions, allowing me to feel completely at ease to ask and raise anything on my mind. During the sessions, Tony actively listened and asked insightful questions, challenging me to think in a completely different way. He also pointed me to some brilliant and interesting podcasts and resources, which have played a huge part in my renewed focus on my self-development. As a result of our time together, I have started to prioritise my wellbeing, I have become more self-aware, and now have the tools I need to keep working on my growth mindset, and positive self-talk. I highly recommend Tony as a coach, and I’m incredibly thankful for his help.
Raquel Helen Silva
ESG Leader · Corporate Responsibility · Yale ’19
“He allowed me to lead with what I needed most, while creating enough structure for me to move towards my objectives.”
Tony is an exceptional coach as well as a kind and empathetic human being. During the several weeks we worked together, he allowed me to lead with what I needed most, while creating enough structure for me to move towards my objectives. He created a safe space during our sessions, where I could be myself, bring my concerns, thoughts and feelings and process them in a productive manner. I highly recommend working with Tony if you are looking for an authentic, honest and engaging coaching experience.
Sally-Anne Amakye
Product Marketing Leader @ Meta
“Personally, working with Tony was one of the best decisions I have made.”
I sought out coaching when I found myself feeling stuck, confused and thinking about my longer term career goals. Through our interactions, Tony helped me see through the fog and provided me with clarity around my professional and personal goals. Tony has the remarkable ability to listen and follow up with the right questions that elicit a deeper sense of self-reflection; he was able to uncover what was important to me without it feeling intrusive.
Kenya Eldridge
SVP/GM, Luxury & Beauty Marketing · Brand & Growth Strategist
“I’d recommend him for any leader who is looking to go from great to MVP.”
Tony is top-notch in the area of executive coaching. He brings a wealth of real-world experience and years of observing and learning what it takes to be a successful leader. In working with him, I was amazed at how great he is at listening and his ability to quickly understand a situation and the opportunity. His talent is recognizing the areas where focus should be and providing the right tools needed to strengthen abilities. In just a short time working with him, I was able to finesse some powerful skills and get clarity around my leadership principles. He is also super resourceful and brings a mixture of coaching techniques to the table.
