Alexis Feringa, PCC

Alexis Feringa

Consultant, Coach & Facilitator

Alexis Feringa provides executive coaching, facilitation, and leadership development services to public and private organizations. In coaching, her passion is to partner with clients to help them transform into happy, authentic, successful leaders. She accomplishes this by engaging in deliberate, intentional conversations with clients to identify and overcome obstacles that are interfering with their ability to perform at their potential.

Alexis is an experienced facilitator who excels in designing, developing, and facilitating gatherings—from half-day to multi-day retreats, with particular focus on strategy & team effectiveness as well as leadership development. With her clients, she co-creates agendas and approaches to ensure the events are engaging while achieving the desired business outcomes. In her work, she has helped teams hold difficult yet critical conversations— getting the “unspoken” into the room. Clients have noted that, after these meetings, the team dynamics and team performance have improved significantly.

She provides consulting and team coaching services to successful businesses facing challenges associated with growth. In this capacity, she has assisted leaders of growing businesses establish more formal organizational capabilities and processes that are critical to their continued growth and success. These capabilities include decision-making, conflict resolution, and effective meeting management. In addition, she works with the leadership team to establish and/or clarify roles and responsibilities, decision rights, accountability, and performance goals/expectations.

She spent more than 20 years at Booz Allen Hamilton, the last six as a Vice President. She had P&L responsibility for professional services businesses across Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, and Civil Agency clients. The consulting services Alexis and her staff provided included strategic planning, business planning, policy development, strategic communications, training and development, and program management. She was also involved in leadership development programs. Alexis contributed to the development of the Leadership Excellence program, including a module focused on women leaders.

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Professional Highlights

  • Former Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton

  • Responsible for $70M+ business and 300+ staff 

  • Champion for leadership and diversity training among senior staff. Selected to participate in design for a leadership excellence program for high performing senior women.

  • Led multi-contractor team supporting stand up of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (now National Geospatial- Intelligence Agency - NGA)

Industry Experience

  • Management consulting

  • Communications

  • Finance & Banking

  • Government

  • Non-profits

Certifications & Education

  • Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation (ICF)

  • Certificate in Leadership Coaching, Executive Coaching, Georgetown University

  • Bachelor's, Political Science and Government, Kalamazoo College

  • Master’s, International Relations and Affairs, The Fletcher School at Tufts University