Cecilie Everly is the founder of C Everly LLC, an executive coach and leadership consultant who collaborates with other coaches who specialize in helping mid-level managers make the leap from expert contributor to strategic leader.

Born and raised in Norway, Cecilie has spent most of her adult life in San Francisco and Boston. She brings a straightforward, grounded approach to leadership development—one that values shared responsibility, clear thinking, and getting to what actually matters.

With an MBA and over 25 years of experience leading teams and driving change in global education and technology, she knows firsthand what it's like to be a capable mid-level manager who's excellent at the work—and then realize that expertise alone won't carry you forward. She has lived with the tension of being great at execution while struggling to step into broader leadership. She understands how easy it is to stay in your lane, over-function, and keep proving your worth through doing rather than leading.

That's precisely where her sprint coaching comes in, and why CHROs find it so valuable across their talent strategy for their mid-level managers. (Sr. Managers and up)

Cecilie is an ICF-certified coach (ACC) with coach education that meets the requirements for the PCC level. She draws on research-based frameworks, including Immunity to Change, Kegan's Adult Development Theory, Positive Intelligence, and stakeholder-centered coaching, to help clients uncover blind spots, shift limiting patterns, and build the capacities that distinguish great managers from great leaders.

Her approach is practical, human, and results-oriented—designed to create visible shifts in leadership presence and performance within a focused timeframe.