I Help Leaders Think Clearly When the Stakes Are High

I’ve spent my career at the intersection of science, strategy, and enterprise leadership—inside complex organizations where decisions carry real consequences.

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I Didn’t Set Out to Be a Coach.

I built my career inside complex systems where decisions carry consequences long after the meeting ends.

I started in neuroscience, studying how motivation, reward, and behavior shape action under pressure. When academia wasn’t the right arena, I moved into strategy consulting at McKinsey—where I learned to diagnose problems at scale.

The logic was strong. The strategies were sound.
And execution kept breaking—almost always where people, pressure, and power met.

That pattern pulled me inside organizations.

I moved into biopharma—first in medical roles, then leading global medical training, and eventually into executive leadership as Chief Learning Officer, Chief People Officer, and Head of Medical Affairs.

As my scope grew, one truth became unavoidable:
enterprise-level decisions were being made with functional-level thinking—and no one was teaching leaders how to adapt.

Angela Justice, PhD—Executive coach specializing in biotech and HR leadership, blending science-backed strategies with creativity to empower leaders to navigate complexity and achieve results.

Angela Justice, PhD
25+ years of navigating science, strategy, and senior leadership.

Coaching Became the Discipline That Made Complexity Thinkable

What finally changed how I lead wasn’t another framework.

It was coaching.

Not motivation.
Not performance tips.
But a disciplined way to slow down under pressure, surface patterns instead of noise, and make decisions that still hold after the moment passes.

At senior levels, the work isn’t about knowing more.
It’s about judgment—how you read situations, where you place attention, and which strengths you lean on when the context shifts.

That’s what most leaders never get help with.

Coaching gave me a way to work inside those moments—when the stakes are high, the information is incomplete, and the cost of getting it wrong shows up later.

That’s the work I do now.

I coach leaders who have earned their seat—but are operating with enterprise-level consequences and very little margin for error. Leaders whose confidence has to rest on sound judgment, not certainty.

Because when enterprise decisions are made without enterprise-level thinking, the cost shows up everywhere—just not always where you expect.

If this is the kind of thinking you’re looking for, we should talk.

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