Rena Harper

Rena Harper is an Executive Coach and Talent Advisor with a track record of enabling senior leaders to realize their most complex business, human capital, and leadership goals. Rena has held several senior level People roles. She has advised leaders up through the C-suite, most recently at Peloton Interactive during their period of hyper growth where she was VP of Executive Coaching and VP of Corporate and International People Business Partners. Prior to this, Rena spent 10 years at Eli Lilly and Company where, in addition to her HR leadership roles in IT, Commercial, and Talent Acquisition, she supported all physician and scientific talent on the East and West Coasts. In addition to corporate roles, Rena also served at the World Bank in Ethics/Fraud and Corruption and Diligence, Inc. as Head of Corporate Affairs. 

Rena has coached top executives and led programs at companies at various stages across a variety of industries, including financial services, tech/biotech, healthcare, higher ed, and consumer packaged goods.  

As a female executive of color with a thinking style often in the minority of her orgs, she learned that being, and truly feeling, seen and heard, are essential to thriving in any environment. She pairs deep empathy with a rapid understanding of organizational systems to find the hidden patterns that her clients must shift.  Because her clients feel deeply cared for and understood, they are more primed to accept direct feedback and challenge on the toughest topics, enabling them to make internal operating system level adjustments. 

She holds degrees from Georgetown University, the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and coaching certification from the Columbia Coaching Certification Program (3CP) at Columbia University.