Anjali Joshi
Studied at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Works at Echelon Coaching
Available Monday at 5:00 PM UTC
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About Anjali
I’m a Professional Certified Executive Leadership Coach with over 20 years of corporate experience and 10+ years coaching senior leaders across global organizations. I specialize in leadership development, transition coaching, and supporting purpose-driven executives through high impact change. My approach combines deep corporate insight built from leadership roles at companies like Nike, Salesforce, Ancestry and HP, with personalized, results-oriented coaching. I've helped leaders successfully navigate high growth environments, career inflection points, and personal transitions while staying grounded in their values. As an ICF certified coach, I partner with corporate leaders to: ✔️ Lead effectively through change, uncertainty, and expansion ✔️ Rediscover purpose and motivation during career or life transitions ✔️ Build sustainable leadership capacity and team performance My coaching style is honest, compassionate, and focused on real outcomes. I create a safe space for reflection, accountability, and strategic action tailored to each individual client. I’ve worked with clients across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia, and bring a culturally informed, human-centered approach to every engagement. If you're looking for a coach to support you or your leadership team through growth, transition, or reinvention, let’s connect.
Why do I coach?
I became a coach because I’m deeply passionate about helping people grow and realize their full potential. Through my experience, I’ve seen how challenging it can be to navigate a succesful career while also trying to build a meaningful, balanced life. At Echelon Coaching, my goal is to guide individuals not just toward success, but also toward sustainable success that is grounded in purpose, aligned with their values, and supported by committed action. I believe that long-term fulfillment comes from more than achievement alone, and I’m committed to helping others create careers and lives that feel both successful and impactful.
Work Experience
Founder & Head Coach
Echelon Coaching
2022 - Present
•Coached over 150 leaders and professionals worldwide in both English and Spanish, supporting clients across North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia •Partnered with executives and leaders at global organizations including Microsoft, Adobe, GE, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, Unilever International, Amgen, Kraft Heinz among others •Delivered leadership and career coaching to professionals across diverse sectors including technology, healthcare, energy, education, pharmaceuticals and financial services •Supported clients through high-impact career transitions including promotions, organizational restructuring, global expansions, and role reinvention •Guided corporate leaders, balancing high-pressure roles, through deep personal transitions including burnout, grief, serious illness, loss of motivation, career disillusionment, and major life crossroads helping them reconnect with their values, rediscover purpose and take meaningful steps forward •Coached healthcare professionals, educators and veterans across the United States •Brought a culturally informed and values-driven approach to coaching, enabling clients to gain greater self-awareness, confidence and measurable leadership impact
Senior Manager/ Agile Coach
Ancestry
2018 - 2021
•Head coach for Ancestry Health Product teams that delivered a completely new product to market in 2019 and released cutting-edge NGS technology to customers in 2020 •Streamlined new employee on-boarding process, by creating an onboarding program, for new hires within Product & Technology organization, enabling them to contribute to the company more quickly •Drove, ran and created content for 3 Business Operations team offsite meetings for Coaches, Program Managers and Strategic Planning team, focused on creating a results driven team •Coached various leaders, teams, and individuals around Agile practices to drive towards business results and improve employee satisfaction •Developed and ran trainings on numerous topics including Agile software development and building cultures of trust
Digital Program Manager
Nike
2018 - 2018
•Running Program Increment (PI) planning for seven teams across several programs, managing dependencies and driving PI objectives •Driving the Monthly Business Update presentation to senior leadership, creating a unified template and message across teams in the program •Delivering communication, including weekly status reports, to key stakeholders •Managing risks and dependencies and escalating issues to remove blockers that would affect delivery timelines •Collaborating with engineering and product leadership to define roadmap and strategy
Manager, Security Architecture
Nike
2017 - 2018
•Drove portfolio planning processes for the Nike Digital Architecture organization •Built and operationalized financial management process within Architecture •Created and standardized monthly roadmap review process •Partnered with HR, Finance and leadership team to establish workforce plan for fiscal year •Tracked and managed resource allocation, ensuring overall optimization for strategic initiatives •Managed communication with stakeholders, including sending weekly status reports •Part of the leadership team for the Nike Digital Community Service committee, organizing a monthly volunteer event as well a bi-annual Day of Service for the digital organization
Scrum Master
Nike
2015 - 2017
•Ran Scrum and Kanban processes for 3 cloud engineering teams, continuously improving processes •Created boards, workflows and dashboards in Jira to systemize and optimize for agility •Sent out weekly status reports to stakeholders to communicate status and risks of ongoing projects •Managed customer communications through email and blog posts •Created and delivered key training classes to educate customers on the team’s cloud services •Part of the leadership team for the Nike Digital Community Service committee, organizing a monthly volunteer event
Agile Coach
Salesforce
2013 - 2015
•Coached numerous individuals, at all levels, throughout the Technology and Products organization on Agile best practices and methodologies to create more transparency, visibility and accountability across the organization •Hands-on coaching and Scrum Master work for Infrastructure Security Teams to enable a newly created team to run effectively and deliver their mission critical work •Delivered Agile training to new hires to on-board them quickly and enable them to start using Agile at scale quickly and effectively •Gave numerous presentations about Enterprise Agility for a wide range of people from Salesforce customers to attendees of the Scrum Alliance Rio De Janiero Conference •Taught Kanban, Product Owner and Scrum Master training classes several times a year •Created customized workshops for specific teams and groups based on their team structure, product and role •Delivered monthly on-boarding presentation to new hires about agility, innovation and creativity to empower employees to create a culture of Innovation
Scrum Master
Salesforce
2011 - 2013
•Drove teams to incorporate Agile best practices to improve efficiency and throughput •Managed the Customer Support organization’s Scrum Teams in order to deliver end-to-end technical solutions to variety of business problems •Delivered successful releases monthly to meet the business needs of a fast moving business unit •Partnered with executives in IT and Sales/Support Business Unit to improve the efficiency of teams, streamline processes and prepare company to scale for growth •Mentored other team members to develop their own Project Management and Scrum Master skills
Project Manager / Scrum Master
Salesforce
2009 - 2011
•Managed 5 projects simultaneously across various departments at Salesforce.com with off-shore development teams •Delivered over 15 successful releases of code by off-shore teams, in a fast paced, agile environment •Drove 3 successful releases of the Salesforce for Social Media Application with remote development team •Increased efficiency of development teams by implementing agile development methodology across all off-shore teams •Gathered requirements from business users and communicated them in a clear way to team’s abroad to ensure an efficient development and delivery cycle •Managed the software release process and communications between developers, testers, business users and stakeholders •Delivered quality software, using the force.com platform, improving reputation of company, landing more development work for off-shore development teams
Anjali was also given offers to work at
Atlassian
Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Math
2000 - 2005