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Miroslav Anicin

Freelance Executive Coach

SerbiaToptal Member Since July 4, 2018

Miroslav has led teams and departments with 50+ members through Agile transformation at telcos, banks, and other organizations. He's also managed up to five concurrent teams with as many as 35 developers on their path out of troubled eCommerce projects and on their way to becoming great Scrum teams. Miroslav loves a challenge and looks forward to working with new clients and projects at Toptal.

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Richard Nyman

Freelance Executive Coach

United StatesToptal Member Since April 20, 2020

Rich is a senior agile project manager and agile coach. He has led teams to deliver the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Veteran's Affairs (VA) electronic health records modernization, and served as innovation and agile team lead for the US Marshal Service within the Department of Justice. Rich has a breadth of experience working with large federal and Fortune 500 clients engaged in complex digital transformation efforts.

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Roxana-Maria Grigore

Freelance Executive Coach

RomaniaToptal Member Since June 25, 2018

Roxana has extensive experience with founders and new software product kick-off initiatives. She has 17 years of expertise in the software development industry, including technical leadership and management roles, leading new product initiatives, and programming. In a previous Toptal engagement, Roxana supported a startup founder to launch a new product, assess the business viability, minimize risk, build the team, get excellent customer feedback, and secure a significant investment budget.

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Geza Molnar

Freelance Executive Coach

GermanyToptal Member Since July 19, 2019

Designing products and supporting projects are challenges that Geza takes on every day—the incubation of an industry 4.0 startup, business development of a geophysicist company, or product development of a mailbox manufacturer. Geza's experience ranges from business process management to organizational development, from application specification to risk management and financial planning. Hard data and human intuition are equally important in Geza's workflow.

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Shil Sondagar

Freelance Executive Coach

CanadaToptal Member Since October 28, 2020

Shil's journey in project management—over 15 years long—has provided him with in-depth and hands-on experience around all aspects of delivering quality projects, products, and services. From project and product management, delivery processes, and coaching, Shil is your well-rounded "get it done" professional. Shil's engagement style is collaborative and open while driving alignment to deliver high quality, valued projects that mesmerize the user.

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William Willis

Freelance Executive Coach

United StatesToptal Member Since August 26, 2020

William is a project manager and entrepreneur with 30 years of experience building high performing teams and innovative software products by using his expertise in Lean, Agile, and DevOps principles. His engineering and development background makes him uniquely suited for challenging technology efforts with remote teams. He has worked with startups and larger companies like Aura, Capital One, FINRA, and Fannie Mae across banking, fintech, eCommerce, privacy, transportation, and media domains.

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Inder Ahluwalia

Freelance Executive Coach

CanadaToptal Member Since October 10, 2019

Inder is a trusted advisor of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) system and a Jira Align solution architect. He has spent his twenty-eight-year career enabling organizations to "work differently," accelerate time-to-market, and manage digital disruption.

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Simon Kanani

Freelance Executive Coach

United KingdomToptal Member Since December 19, 2019

A seasoned delivery manager, experienced in creating order from chaos at the inception of projects. Simon combines senior experience as a head of change in investment banking, versatility to get into hands-on delivery, plus education and practice in the field of executive coaching and leadership development. Excellence in communication to bring home business value, through strong organizing skills and a passion for adaptive ways of working.

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Abi Olatunde

Freelance Executive Coach

United KingdomToptal Member Since October 28, 2019

Abi's unique blend of expertise across enterprise architecture, business analysis, and program delivery has seen him lead and support large enterprise programs across education, entertainment, defense, and government organizations. He has provided leadership and delivery assurance to teams delivering programs in excess of £50 million through excellent C-level stakeholder management and hands-on delivery coaching.

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Mike Jansen

Freelance Executive Coach

South AfricaToptal Member Since April 9, 2019

Mike has more than 25 years' experience managing large software programs and technology projects for multi-nationals like SAP, GTech, and Standard Bank. In addition, he's managed PMOs, numerous smaller software projects and rollouts. He's fluent in both traditional (Waterfall, SDLC) and modern (Agile, Scrum, Kanban) project methodologies and favors freelancing for the variety of projects and the personal freedom it gives him.

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Kamran Khan

Freelance Executive Coach

United StatesToptal Member Since July 31, 2019

Kamran is a results-oriented agile project manager who's led projects in IT, networking, mobile, adtech, streaming, big data/analytics, and privacy/compliance domains. He has 20+ years of experience working with globally distributed teams for organizations of all sizes to create, inspire, and innovate products. He's a passionate craftsman who applies the right tools such as Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, Agile, and lean thinking to attain business goals.

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Crucial Life Sciences Data Solutions

What attracted us to Toptal was that Toptal is sourcing its talent from a global pool. The selection process is very stringent. They’re sourcing the talent not only based on capabilities -- sourcing the best 3% -- but also based on cultural fit, which is really important to us. We had an amazing experience working with Toptal. Toptal helped us achieve our goals by bringing us very high-quality resources, on very short notice.

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I can't say enough about how happy and confident I am in working with Enrique. He brings an enthusiasm to his profession that is very refreshing, constantly surprising us with his depth of knowledge and his capability to not only complete the task, but to surpass our expectations. He presents us with solutions that we would not have thought about ourselves, and sees the problem better than we can explain it.

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How to Hire Executive Coaches through Toptal

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Talk to One of Our Industry Experts

A Toptal director of project management will work with you to understand your goals, technical needs, and team dynamics.
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Within days, we'll introduce you to the right Executive Coach for your project. Average time to match is under 24 hours.
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The Right Fit, Guaranteed

Work with your new Executive Coach for a trial period (pay only if satisfied), ensuring they're the right fit before starting the engagement.

FAQs

  • How are Toptal Executive Coaches different?

    At Toptal, we thoroughly screen our Executive Coaches to ensure we only match you with talent of the highest caliber. Of the more than 200,000 people who apply to join the Toptal network each year, fewer than 3% make the cut. You'll work with project management experts (never generalized recruiters or HR reps) to understand your goals, technical needs, and team dynamics. The end result: expert vetted talent from our network, custom matched to fit your business needs.

  • Can I hire Executive Coaches in less than 48 hours through Toptal?

    Depending on availability and how fast you can progress, you could start working with an Executive Coach within 48 hours of signing up.

  • What is the no-risk trial period for Toptal Executive Coaches?

    We make sure that each engagement between you and your Executive Coach begins with a trial period of up to two weeks. This means that you have time to confirm the engagement will be successful. If you're completely satisfied with the results, we'll bill you for the time and continue the engagement for as long as you'd like. If you're not completely satisfied, you won't be billed. From there, we can either part ways, or we can provide you with another expert who may be a better fit and with whom we will begin a second, no-risk trial.

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    Hire in under 2 weeks and scale your team up or down as needed, no strings attached.

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    We handle all aspects of billing, payments, and NDA’s. Let us take care of the overhead while you focus on building great products.

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    Choose the engagement type that suits your needs — hourly, part-time, or full-time — with the ability to change anytime.

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