Eric Bacolas
Consultant
Meet Eric Bacolas
Eric is an executive coach and leadership consultant who has spent 25+ years building and scaling growth-stage companies in media, marketing, tech, healthcare, and education. He specializes in supporting newly hired executives or leaders, recently promoted leaders, or those on path to take on more expansive roles. His work is focused on driving profound business impact while improving the personal and professional satisfaction of the leaders he partners with.
As a former Chief People Officer/Chief Human Resources Officer, Eric couples his hands-on experience delivering measurable and lasting organization change with the tenets of neuroscience. Together this helps inspire leaders to reach new heights, enhance organizational culture, build greater emotional intelligence, and to lead with empathy, authenticity and courage.
Eric has partnered with CEOs, Boards of Directors, VPs, SVPs, EVPs, and Management Team Members to drive:
increases in organizational productivity,
greater cross-functional alignment,
improvements in employee satisfaction, engagement and retention,
marked shifts in diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB)
His work spans the following:
1:1 and group coaching,
organizational changes and change management initiatives,
employee communications,
culture initiatives that have helped companies receive “Best Places To Work” recognition,
development and delivery of leadership training programs for executives, leadership, and next-level managers,
programs designed to improve diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging,
mergers, acquisitions, and integrations
Professional Experience & Training
Neuroleadership Institute, Brain Based Certification
Positive Intelligence Training
DiSC Training
Chief People Officer, supporting growth to $1B valuation for fast-growth education technology
Chief People Officer, supporting the merger, integration and expansion of global healthcare marketing and technology firm
Chief People Officer, supporting the #1 social and digital communications agency in the US
Vice President, People & Performance, supporting a top 50 fast-growth marketing technology as they re-engineered their leadership team
Recent Experience
Coached a newly promoted Chief Marketing Officer who, in under 9-months, developed the a level of confidence needed to lead a large-scale organizational change that put her in the position to take on an even larger role
Coached a newly hired C-Suite executive as they onboarded to accelerate their ability to drive sales through organizational alignment
Coached a high-potential regional VP in operations that was being groomed for promotion to SVP. Eric’s work here set this person up for success in driving operational strategy more globally
Provided leadership training and group coaching for a tech company looking to achieve greater organizational alignment with their 2nd-level leadership team that had doubled in size in under a year and was tasked with driving 25% YoY growth
Coached a product and engineering leader in reorganizing their teams with the goal of improving speed and innovation
Coached sales and customer success executives as they focused on improving diversity, equity and belonging on their teams