EXECUTIVE COACHING

Internationally recognized executive coach and senior HR leader with over 35 years of experience. Transformed Fortune 100 organizations across six continents — including Blue Chip companies Unilever, BlackRock, Johnson & Johnson, and Pfizer.

As the CEO of Ideas Global, I help transform personal and group performance and satisfaction into forward momentum.

Our work together will focus on identifying and prioritizing your core values and integrating them into the basis for decision making. We’ll ask powerful questions that allow you to explore your beliefs and observe your behavior, questioning the assumptions you hold about yourself and filtering through negative self-talk and the ways in which it impedes your path forward. 

Our goal will be to unleash the source of your personal power to operate from a place of authenticity and self determination.  As your trusted thought partner with a seasoned external perspective, I'll be with you to map new terrains or help you see existing issues with a new mindset.  

Our thought partnering service, tailored for individuals and teams, fosters an environment for challenging assumptions, cultivating innovation, and enhancing strategic thinking. Our coaching sessions have proven to elevate our clients' leadership, business strategies, retention, and personal growth.

  • The ability to thought partner with a seasoned external perspective is invaluable at every stage of your career. Coaching creates a secure space for reflection and idea exploration to propel you forward.

  • As a trusted advisor to executive boards, I co-create strategies that maximize operational effectiveness to obtain sustainable results.

  • As an architect of global change initiatives at the top tiers of corporate leadership, I offer proven strategies and transformation programs that deliver measurable improvements in engagement and performance

  • The Ideas Global approach cultivates a positive and incentivizing environment recognized for empowering groups to leverage their strengths, achieve goals, and enhance outcomes.  We offer creative and innovative strategies that address critical business challenges. 

Executive Coaches

Aleah W.

Brian D.

Lana N.

Empowering Leaders for the Future of Work

Client Reviews

Evelyn is an exceptional executive coach whose presence, discernment, and strategic depth are immediately evident to senior leaders. She has a rare ability to bring clarity to complexity and to guide clients through high-stakes moments with a quiet authority that is both nuanced and deeply effective.

Grounded in her own distinguished leadership journey, Evelyn understands the pressures, blind spots, and pivotal inflection points that emerge over decades at the helm. She helps senior executives release what no longer serves them, reimagine how they lead, and navigate transitions with conviction, integrity, and purpose. Her impact is especially powerful with CEOs, CMOs, and seasoned leaders who seek a true thought partner. She matches their pace, speaks their language, and challenges them with insight, rigor, and care.

Sylvia B, Executive Leader | Organizational Systems & Leadership Expert | C-Suite Media Executive | Columbia-Credentialed

When I think of the powerful combination of a team-builder, a motivator, and a creative-thinker, I think of Evelyn Espinal.  Evelyn is especially talented at bringing out the best in individuals, teams and organizations.  She is an exceptional leader with an uncanny ability to help large groups form unifying visions.  Through strong, yet careful, facilitation, she also never fails to ensure the follow-through needed to give these teams the tools and plans necessary to achieve their goals.

Sue M, Director, Project and Program Management

Evelyn is unlike any other coach I’ve ever worked with. Every session I walk in with ideas of what I want to do, and every session I go so much further than I ever expected. She digs under the surface, helps me challenge my assumptions, and get precise about what I need to do next. Our conversations are a container for delightful paradoxes: creative but safe, empathy but with an outside perspective, pushing but always with kindness.

She treats you as a whole person, helping discover and articulate the best parts of yourself you didn’t know existed, and then find ways to bring them into work with confidence. After a year of coaching, I walk into this year feeling so different, and I know that I’m only at the beginning. I’m so lucky to have her as a coach and in my life.

Ria P, Associate Partner - EY wavespace London Bridge

A 30 minute consultation with Evelyn is worth its weight in gold!  She is expert in talent management and has a variety of experiences to draw from to help in creating a strong organization.  Its a pleasure to work with Evelyn.

May Y, Chief Executive Officer at Maypro - Improving Health, and therefore, Happiness of Human Beings and their Pets

Evelyn is an inspiring, inclusive and authentic leader. She has a 'super power' of being able to connect meaningfully with people, in a way that leaves one feeling  seen and valued for their unique strengths. This ability to authentically connect with people accelerates psychological safety and trust, and unlocks their true potential.

Another strength of Evelyn's is coaching, which as a beneficiary of, has been invaluable as I navigated some key decisions. Evelyn is a leader who provides challenge with care when it is needed, boldly fronting into the moments that matter.

Thank you Evelyn, for being an aspirational leader.

Jade W, Leading People Strategy with Cross-functional Collaboration and Project Management

I have worked with Evelyn in Unilever, where my role as leading the global Talent Attraction and Employer Brand expertise intersected with Evelyn's responsibility to lead the Equity, Diversity & Inclusion agenda globally. Evelyn brought real expertise on ED&I to the table, utilizing the extensive experience she has in HR and being part of the business before coming into this role. She has united a wide variety of stakeholders around her agenda, and shows up as a trusted partner. It was a pleasure having Evelyn as a colleague.

Louise N, Fractional/Interim HR Lead/Director | Leadership | Executive & Team Coach | Facilitator