Celeste Robledo, MCC
Consultant
"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." — C.S. Lewis
Meet Celeste Robledo
Celeste Robledo, MCC, is an executive coach and leadership advisor who helps senior leaders create clarity, strengthen presence, and lead with confidence at pivotal moments. She partners with leaders, teams, and organizations to navigate complexity, transition, and expanded responsibility, translating insight into focused, sustained action.
With two decades of experience across coaching, leadership development, and human capital advisory, Celeste brings a grounded, presence-oriented approach that creates space for real reflection and meaningful change. Her coaching is shaped by deep organizational context. She spent nearly two decades at PwC, most recently as National Executive Coach and Career Advisor Leader, partnering with Managing Directors, C-suite leaders, and senior professionals across consulting, financial services, technology, and healthcare.
Celeste coaches and facilitates in English and Spanish, working with leaders, teams, and organizations across the United States and globally. Her facilitation work brings the same grounded, reflective approach as her coaching, creating sessions where leaders practice and internalize rather than simply listen. She brings a multicultural, bilingual lens to every engagement and is rooted in the ICF Core Competencies, with a practice centered on deep listening, powerful questioning, and an unwavering commitment to the client's own agenda.
MEMBERSHIPS, ASSOCIATIONS,
+ CERTIFICATIONS
International Coaching Federation (ICF) — Master Certified Coach (MCC)
ICF Connecticut Chapter (inaugural speaker at their 2026 CT Conference)
ICF New York Chapter (member from 2017 until 2026)
ICF South Florida Chapter ( new member from 2026)
Leadership Circle Profile — Certified Practitioner
HBDI (Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument) — Certified Practitioner
MBTI and Strong Interest Inventory — Certified Practitioner
ELI-MP | CPC | GTCI | NLP Practitioner
Positive Psychology and Well-Being Coaching
Honors + Awards
ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC)
The highest credential awarded by the International Coaching Federation, held by fewer than 4% of ICF-credentialed coaches worldwide.
EducatioN
M.S., Counseling and Human Resources Development — University of Bridgeport
Major in Psychology — Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Executive Coaching
Leadership Development
Career Coaching and Transitions
Women in Leadership
Multicultural and Cross-Cultural Coaching
Well-being and Sustainable Performance
Group and Cohort Coaching
PRESENTATIONS + PUBLICATIONS
ICF Connecticut Inaugural Conference — Presenter: 'Cultivating Sustainable Presence in Coaching Practice' (ICF-CT, 2025)
ATD NYC Micro-Conference 4.0 — Speaker: Career Conversations in the AI Era (October - 2026)
Webinar: Energy and Presence: Leading Without Burning Out — co-facilitated with Daniela Dragomir ( November - 2026)
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Financial Services
Issue: A Managing Director at a global financial services firm struggled to establish executive presence and credibility after a significant promotion.
Approach: Used a structured coaching engagement combining 360 feedback, behavioral assessment, and reflective dialogue to help the leader identify blind spots and develop a more intentional leadership presence.
Outcome: The leader successfully transitioned into the expanded role, received strong performance reviews, and was identified as a high-potential candidate for further advancement within 12 months.
Consulting
Issue: A senior leader at a professional services firm was navigating a high-stakes career transition after a significant organizational restructuring.
Approach: Partnered with the leader over six months to clarify values, rebuild confidence, and develop a strategic vision for the next chapter of their career.
Outcome: The leader secured a C-suite role aligned with their strengths and launched the transition with clarity, groundedness, and a strong sense of purpose.
Q&A WITH SHANEIREE DAMES
What unique perspective do you bring to your practice?
I bring two things that rarely sit together in one coach. The first is nearly two decades inside one of the most complex professional services organizations in the world, which means I understand the actual texture of senior leadership: the politics, the pressure, and the moments of doubt that never make it into a performance review. The second is a coaching and facilitation approach that goes beyond strategy and behavior into how leaders actually experience themselves when they lead. That combination of organizational realism and deep human attentiveness is what I bring to every engagement.
Describe major career/life decisions that led you to your current role. How have these experiences shaped the way you engage with clients?
I began my career in HR and human capital, working alongside senior leaders at PwC for nearly two decades. Over time I realized that the most meaningful work I was doing was not the programs or the processes. It was the conversations. The moments when a leader stopped performing and started thinking. That recognition led me to pursue the ICF MCC credential and to deepen my commitment to coaching and facilitation as a profession. Being Argentine, bilingual, and having worked across cultures also shaped how I hold difference in the room, not as a variable to manage, but as a source of richness.
What are a couple of your biggest successes?
Developing and leading PwC's national career advisory practice remains one of my proudest professional achievements. I built it into a firm-wide resource that supported hundreds of senior leaders through some of the most consequential career moments of their lives, earning trust at the highest levels of a complex, demanding organization.
The second is the depth and breadth of work I have accumulated over two decades as both a coach and a facilitator. Whether working one on one with a leader navigating a pivotal transition or facilitating a room full of senior professionals toward greater clarity and alignment, the through line has always been the same: creating the conditions for people to think better, lead better, and act with greater intention. That is the work I am most proud of.
