Sophia Toh, PCC

Sophia Toh

Coach Overview:

Sophia Toh is an ICF Professional Certified Executive Coach (PCC) who has spent 20 years in finance and strategy leadership roles at Fortune 200 companies. Before her coaching career, Sophia was the Chief Financial Officer of Walker and Company Brands, a P&G subsidiary, the Chief Financial Officer of a $5 billion business unit, and Vice President of Financial Transformation at Kraft Heinz.

Sophia was born and raised in Malaysia and moved to Atlanta in 1989. She is now based in Atlanta after residing in seven other states. She coaches and facilitates in English or Mandarin.

Sophia actively volunteers in nonprofit organizations and alumni networks. She is a founding board member of the global Purdue Asian Alumni Network, a global board director for the International Coaching Federation Professional Coaches organization, and the treasurer and Finance Committee Chair of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Sophia was featured on the P&G Alumni Network Learning from Leaders podcast and in the Institute of Management Accountants’ flagship magazine, Strategic Finance, among other media outlets.

Statement of Coaching Philosophy:

Sophia’s coaching style is positive and compassionate. She believes that trust means providing consistency over time, and she works to earn and maintain her clients’ trust to best support their leadership journeys in a psychologically safe environment. This enables them to learn, reflect, grow, and thrive.

Past clients have described Sophia as an objective and candid trusted partner who can create space with her clients to co-create practical and effective solutions, leveraging her business experience and vast knowledge in many leadership and management topics.

Coaching Expertise:

  • individual coaching, team facilitation, and team coaching
  • helping leaders identify blind spots and build self-awareness to lead more effectively
  • helping leaders to transition into their next leadership levels (Directors, VPs, C-levels)
  • assessments: Hogan, Gallup CliftonStrengths, 16-Types (MBTI), Enneagram, and DiSC, Team Psychological Safety

Experience with Higher Education and/or Academic Medical Centers:

  • Mentor-coached Baltimore City public school leadership individual team members and a Georgia Tech administration leader
  • Consulted with Baptist Health Hospital in Miami, FL
  • Mentor-coached undergraduate and MBA students at Clayton State University and Georgia State University
  • Purdue for Life Foundation – founding member of the Purdue Global Asian Alumni Network

Representative Coaching Engagements:

  • Coached a nonprofit CEO in enhancing the effectiveness of his leadership in dealing with the rapid growth of his organization
  • Coached the Chief People Office of a global nonprofit organization as she dealt with transformation and drastic changes in her organization

Certifications and Trainings:

  • Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation
  • Certified Professional Diversity Coach (CPDC), Coach Diversity Institute
  • Advanced Team Coaching Certificate, Team Coaching Global Alliance
  • Hogan Assessment, MetaSkills Inc.
  • Gallup CliftonStrengths, Gallup
  • Enneagram, 16-Types (MBTI) and DISC, Cloverleaf
  • The Four Stages ™ of Psychological Safety, LeaderFactor
  • Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder-Centered Coaching Certification

Education:

  • MBA, Purdue University
  • BBA in Accounting, Clayton State University
  • Nonprofit Leadership Executive Certificate, Havard Kennedy School
  • Diversity & Inclusion Executive Leadership Certificate, Cornell University
  • Executive Certificate in Coaching, Howard University