About Emily Bermes
As the CEO of Emily Bermes + Associates, an executive coaching firm, Emily has devoted her career to helping executives—from Fortune 100 companies to industry-shifting startups—successfully assimilate into new roles, create strong teams and develop cultures that attract and retain the best talent.
Combining more than 25 years of experience as a partner-level management consultant and executive coach with her background as a quantitative researcher, Emily is a master at creating customized, high-touch, elegant solutions for the toughest organizational challenges.
Emily specializes in working with VP through C-level onboarding, primarily privately-held through Fortune 25 companies. She’s successfully coached executives across multiple industries, including Bio-tech, Pharma, CPG, Banking (all in Fortune 500 environments), as well as Venture Capital, Life-sciences, Healthcare, AI and Advanced Manufacturing.
Prior to her consulting work, Emily worked as a research scientist and brings a unique level of rigor, systems thinking, and data-informed expertise to her collaborations with EB+A clients. She tied all that expertise together in an approachable format in Bombproof: A Field Proven Guide for the New-to-Role Executive, her 2021 book.
When she’s not leading her team of experienced coaches in supporting our clients, you’ll find Emily in a horse stable as a dedicated equestrian and a student of dressage.
Bomb Proof:
A Field Proven Guide for the New to Role Executive
Being a new executive is hard.
In fact, more than 50% of new executives fail within 18 months. A lack of contextual knowledge, chronic corporate misalignment, and early costly missteps can doom new leaders before they really have a chance to lead. But it doesn't have to be this way. With the right information, new executives can thrive.
In Bombproof, executive coach Emily Bermes distills the insights she's gleaned from over a decade of helping hundreds of new leaders succeed in challenging roles to help you thrive in yours.
You'll learn:
Why the 50% failure rate is likely to remain consistent
Why 100-day plans don't work
The three critical factors new executives must understand to lead well
A framework to uncover each factor and remove friction in your new initiatives
How to overcome the anxiety and fear of being a new executive
Based on years of battle-tested strategies that have been verified in the trenches of executive leadership, Bombproof will transform how you approach your executive onboarding period.
Learn how to drastically reduce the risk of failure and successfully navigate your new executive role.
