Empowering durable leadership.

Creating generative organizations.

how can you transform yourself and your organization
and hold onto what makes you special?

What is your case for change?

  • Are you a senior leader with a vision for your organization’s present and future, but the potential feels out of reach?

  • Are you new to your leadership role and eager to unleash the unique value only you can create?

  • Are you burnt out and see your team and your organization spiraling down the same path and see that you need to change course, yesterday?

  • Are the old ways of leading and working now ineffective in your organization, but you’re not sure what needs to change?

  • Does your teams’ impact fall short of what they’re capable of and you’re not sure how to unlock the full potential of your organization?

evolve yourself and your organization in the way that sticks
with an expert coach and advisor by your side.

By partnering with an expert coach and consultative advisor:

  • You—and leadership team— will become more durable and consistent, leading from an aligned and genuine place.

  • You and your organization will foster expansive spaces by enabling others to show up from their own aligned and genuine spaces.

  • Your teams will channel their newfound energy toward generative effort—productive and innovative energy—that serves your customer and your business.

As your trusted coach and consultative advisor, I’ll help you unlock the transformative potential already inside you and your organization.

why work with formations consulting?

Executive coaching, leadership development, and organizational investments enable you to grow with clarity and confidence. At formations consulting, I see coaching as an intentional and deep investment* in business and not-for-profit leaders. I help you steward high-impact, high-innovating, and stakeholder-centric organizations with endurance and wisdom. 

I bring to every partnership my

  • bias to data

  • grounding in systemic thinking

  • human-centered approach, and

  • 15+ years of experience transforming organizations and leaders as a talent executive and coach.

Through our work together, you will lead from a place of wisdom and strategic vision, alignment and impact, and purpose and resilience. Through our partnership, you will you embrace the innate potential of yourself and your organization to realize a future that is durable, generative, and expansive.

*According to the International Coaching Federation (ICF) executive coaching clients report an average ROI of 788% and Harvard Business Review (HBR) reports at least 44% improvement in the productivity for executive coaching clients. Read more here

unlock yourself as a leader
unlock your organization’s potential

I’m Rachel Nelms. I’m an executive coach and leadership and organizational development consultant. I’m the coach and consultative advisor you’ve been looking for (to be read in your best Obi Wan Kenobi voice).

I’m passionate about helping executives lead from an aligned, wise place. I’m passionate about building and scaling durable leaders and leadership cultures that reverberate through teams to create generative and expansive organizations.

I’ve built my point of view through 15+ years of leading and developing business leaders as an executive and coach and designing and optimizing talent systems in hypergrowth tech, big tech, and not-for-profit organizations, including Mailchimp, Intuit, and Emory University. Now, I’m excited to lead my own practice and share my expertise with inspiring clients like you.

At formations consulting, I partner with executives to uncover and expand their innate leadership potential, cultivate purpose, and drive results for those they serve. From this aligned place, my clients enhance their ability to navigate complexity with genuineness and impact, ignite their transformative vision, and tap into their team's full ingenuity.

Whether you’re looking for coaching and facilitation experiences for you or you and your team, leadership transformation programs for your managers or executives, or organizational development consultation to evolve your organization, our work together will equip your organization to thrive and inspire strategic and sustainable impact.

Empowering durable leadership. Creating generative organizations.

are you ready to tap into the innate potential for yourself and your organization?

What would it look like if a leader truly understood and embraced their authentic self? Could they do what they can uniquely do and be who they uniquely are and expanded decisions about experimentation and execution deeper in their organization so others could do the same? Could both the leader and their teams have generated and innovated from a more sustainable place?

What might durable leadership look like?

  • “The way Rachel approaches coaching is unlike any other executive coach I’ve worked with. Instead of dispensing advice, Rachel is a deeply intuitive, empathetic listener. Working with her felt like an invitation to a dignifying work-space where all voices are heard, where creative collaboration is natural and consistent, all with a north star of high-impact business results."

    John, Music Industry Executive & Marketer

  • “Rachel has the right balance of experience, deep listening skills, and intuition that led to impactful unlocks of both my leadership capabilities and personal growth. 10 out of 10 experience!”

    Erika, Global Education & Enablement Executive

  • "Rachel has helped me identify root causes to issues that I felt were holding me back from my full potential personally and professionally. She does this by asking thoughtful questions, offering concise reflections on our conversations, and providing me with resources I found very helpful. I feel more in control of my time, more personally satisfied with how I am using my time, and more professionally productive than I have ever felt thanks to the outcomes of Rachel's coaching."

    Shauna, Senior Program Manager

  • "I've been wrestling with how to rally my team without coming off as uncaring for a long time. rachel distilled what i was feeling and gave me actionable, real words I can use. her reframe was truly helpful, and she did it instantly. that's what i want in a coach."

    Matt, Founder & CEO