Clients

Supporting visionaries and
leaders across industries.

We form long-term partnerships with our clients and provide strategic support as they reach milestones and develop new goals. The opportunity to follow our clients' growth and evolution is a privilege that continuously inspires the Simier Partners team.

Sample engagements

Below is a sampling of the firm’s coaching and advisory work. 

Global Private Investment Firm

Engaged by the leadership team to provide individualized executive coaching to managing directors and principals in European and U.S. offices to ensure successful transition to new leadership roles and facilitate effective alignment of team dynamics.

Leading European Private Investment Firm

Engaged by the North America private equity team to assess Managing Directors’ performance and team dynamics, conduct executive assessments and deliver a tailored development plan to strengthen leadership skills, improve team culture, and elevate individual and office performance.

Top-tier Global Law Firm (among world’s top 10 law firms by revenue)

Engaged by the Chair to provide executive coaching on leadership skillset, executive communication, personal branding (internally and externally), and to deliver strategic consulting for a key European office as part of an ongoing firmwide cross-selling and business-development initiative.

U.S. Private Equity Firm

Engaged by Management Committee to assess team dynamics and organizational culture, and to provide ongoing executive coaching support to managing directors of flagship fund, including consulting with senior managers responsible for the firm’s growth strategy in critical verticals.

Global Fintech Company 

Engaged by Board, executive management team and equity sponsor to conduct an assessment of Board, management interactions and decision-making process to maximize performance and implement Company’s strategic growth plan.

Global Maritime Infrastructure Company

Engaged by the company to provide leadership coaching to its new CEO, supporting his transition from Europe to the U.S. and into a new sector, strengthening internal visibility and credibility, deepening relationships with the Board and executive team, and accelerating execution of key strategic initiatives.

Luxury Fashion House 

Engaged by the U.S. CEO regarding a potential transition to a Global CEO role at a competitive luxury brand—clarifying strategic options, aligning on the desired mandate and role scope, and providing coaching throughout the move, including managing the U.S.-to-Europe transition.

Large International Law Firm (among world’s top 50 law firms by revenue)

Engaged by the newly appointed CEO to provide executive leadership coaching during his transition, focusing on leadership presence and attributes, executive communication and cultural agility, and advising on potential merger partners and lateral integration.

Hedge Fund

Engaged by the Founder and Chief Investment Officer to conduct an organizational assessment, consult on organizational design and management structure, and provide ongoing executive coaching to the management team to help strengthen team dynamics and performance.

American Power and Utility Company

Engaged by the Vice President and CFO to provide executive coaching on inter-office dynamics, cross-cultural agility and leadership skills, executive communications, and board performance as part of an ongoing effort to raise profile internally and execute on performance goals.

Global Litigation Law Firm (among world’s top 20 law firms by revenue)

Engaged by the firm to provide individualized executive coaching and ongoing advisory services to prominent lateral litigation partners in support of their efforts to establish their leadership profile, navigate the firm’s internal politics, and build their international book of business.

Luxury Retail Brand

Engaged by the CEO and Board of Directors to conduct an assessment of the Board and provide ongoing executive leadership coaching and advisory services to help strengthen Board dynamics in an effort to conduct meetings and implement business objectives more effectively.

Representative industries

Private Equity & Hedge Funds

Legal & Professional Services

Finance & Banking

Technology

Energy & Utilities

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Retail & Consumer Goods

Real Estate

Media & Entertainment

Food & Beverage

Cultural Institutions

Leisure and Travel

Client testimonials

No matter how good you are at your job you can always do better. I hired a coach at Simier Partners to help my team get them where I wanted to go. I needed a catalyst for change and I found it at Simier Partners.”

MANAGING DIRECTOR,

FINANCIAL INSTITUTION

My coach at Simier Partners is helping me confidently step into a leadership role through practical guidance and strategic planning. In this defining moment of my career, having a coach help create a clear path towards accomplishing my goals has been invaluable.”

CHAIRWOMAN,

GLOBAL LAW FIRM

Simier Partners Consultants are my trusted advisers. When I encounter roadblocks I know I can pick up the phone and talk through whatever obstacle I am facing. I attribute a lot of my success in navigating difficult situations to Simier Partners.”

BOARD MEMBER,

INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION

The company’s Board of Directors was focused on high stakes issues that would take the company to its next level of growth. Having an executive coach at Simier Partners during this critical time largely contributed to the Board’s enhanced performance.”

CEO & BOARD MEMBER,

GLOBAL FINTECH COMPANY

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Lee Woodruff

Media Coach

New York

lee@simierpartners.com

Lee Woodruff is a best-selling author, public speaker, journalist and trusted advisor with 30 years of experience. She trains executives in media and communications skills, helping them to sharpen their message and connect with their audience. Lee uses a hands-on approach, employing role-playing with real-time interview and speaking scenarios to help executives improve their delivery. She has worked with clients in a wide range of industries, from technology, financial services, healthcare, automotive and travel to consumer products, fashion and beauty.

Background

Lee regularly conducts Executive Communications Programs for Firms and Corporations whereby they serve as a component of professional development and client engagement initiatives. Programs are tailored to address larger market demands and weave in client objectives, such as unifying client teams around a corporate mission.

Lee founded her own PR company 25 years ago. She is a renowned public speaker and the author of three best-selling books, as well as a successful journalist. Woodruff was a contributing reporter for ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS This Morning.

After her journalist husband Bob recovered from roadside bomb injuries while covering the Iraq war, the Woodruffs founded the Bob Woodruff Foundation, a national non-profit organization that assists injured service members and their families with the transition to the home front.

Lee is a trustee and alumnus of Colgate University.

  • Media Strategy
  • Messaging and Branding
  • Public Speaking
  • Speech Writing
  • Legal and Professional Services
  • Finance and Banking
  • Healthcare and Life Sciences
  • Manufacturing
  • Media and Entertainment
  • Technology
  • Fashion
  • Travel and Hospitality
  • BA, Colgate University
  • Colgate University – Trustee, Hamilton NY
  • Musicians Treatment Center – Board Member, Austin TX
  • Women in Communications – Member
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Claire Simier

Managing Principal

New York

claire@simierpartners.com

Claire Simier is the Founder and Managing Principal of Simier Partners. She is an executive consultant and coach with two decades of talent management and operations experience, having served as a thought partner, principal advisor and crisis manager to senior private equity, legal and banking executives in the luxury and consumer goods, healthcare and life science industries. Claire specializes in designing strategies for organizations and executives working in a multicultural setting responding to international competition and environmental, social and governance challenges. Claire regularly speaks on expert panels about leadership, cross cultural challenges and women’s career development. Claire is a contributing author to Forbes Coaches Council, having published articles on sustainability and leadership

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Claire is a member of the fashion brand Chloe’s Sustainability Advisory Board as a Client Expert. Claire also serves as the Chair of the Board of Edukate NYC, a non-for-profit organization that helps students with dyslexia meet their academic potential, and a Trustee of the Board of the Albertine Foundation, an American nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting French-American relations through cultural and educational projects. She served as a senior advisor and executive mentor for the Women Initiative Foundation’s Mentorship Program, helping women executives and entrepreneurs navigate the transatlantic economy. Claire also served on the board of directors of Eleven James, a luxury watch company. She is a former president council member of the American Chamber of Commerce in France.

Prior to Simier Partners, Claire was the Managing Director to the Global Chairman and Corporate Secretary of the Global Board of the law firm DLA Piper, where she was deeply involved in organizational development and growth, crisis management, business development, corporate governance, executive communications, and partner recruiting and performance. Prior to DLA Piper, Claire worked as a Marketing Leader at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP. Claire also served as Deputy Director of Communications to the NYC Housing Commissioner and Press Attaché to the French Consul General and Ambassador in NY.

Claire graduated from the Teacher College’s Executive Coaching Program at Columbia University and is a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) certified practitioner. She received her BA from Marymount College. She graduated from the Ecole Française des Attachés de Presse, attended the University of Bordeaux, School of Law. Claire is French American, speaks English and French fluently and is proficient in Spanish.

  • Board Dynamics
  • Cross-Cultural Coaching
  • Talent Management and Executive Presence
  • Transition Coaching
  • Strategic Planning
  • Crisis Management and Communication
  • Private Equity and Banking
  • Luxury and Consumer Goods
  • Legal
  • Healthcare and Life Sciences
  • Chloe –Member of the Sustainability Advisory Board, Client Expert
  • Edukate NYC – Chair of the Board
  • Albertine Foundation – Board of Trustees
  • Forbes Coaches Council – Member and Contributing Author
  • Women Initiative Foundation – Former Senior Advisor and Executive Mentor
  • Eleven James – Former Director
  • DLA Piper – Former Corporate Secretary to the Global Board
  • American Chamber of Commerce France – Former President Council Member
  • Stanford University, BNP Paribas Women Entrepreneurs Certification Program
  • Columbia University Teachers College – Executive Coaching Certification Program
  • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) – Certified Practitioner
  • Marymount College, BA in Communications and Journalism
  • Ecole Française des Attachés de Presse
  • University of Bordeaux, School of Law