Amanda Connelly

Amanda Connelly is the CEO of Oceans Coaching, a Master Certified Executive & Leadership Coach (MCC), the highest credential awarded by the International Coaching Federation and a Certified Master Cognitive Behavioral Practitioner known for catalyzing bold leadership and enterprise-wide behavior change.

Why I Founded Oceans Coaching

I founded Oceans Coaching with a conviction that has only grown stronger: exceptional leaders create greater impact when development extends beyond the individual to the relationships, conditions, and systems shaping their ability to lead.

Throughout my corporate career, including work shaping people strategy within one of the nation’s largest healthcare companies. I experienced leadership from inside large, interconnected organizations. Alongside other accomplished executives, I navigated competing priorities, cross-functional relationships, shifting expectations, and decisions whose impact reached far beyond a single role or team.

That experience showed me what becomes possible when leadership growth and the surrounding system evolve together.

Leaders gain greater clarity about how they want to lead. Teams develop stronger ways of working together. Conversations become more candid and productive. Decisions move forward with greater alignment, and the organization’s most important priorities gain momentum.

That possibility became the foundation of Oceans Coaching.

I created the firm to offer a more complete approach, one that develops the leader while helping them understand and influence the system they lead. Our work connects personal growth to organizational priorities, strengthening the conversations, relationships, and decisions that move performance forward.

This belief shaped our See → Design → Move → Sustain framework: see what is truly influencing performance, design a purposeful path forward, move insight into action, and sustain the changes that matter.

It also informs the Oceans Systemic Team Coaching Model™ and SOHA™, our Systemic Organizational Health Assessment. Together, these approaches help leaders and teams make essential dynamics visible, identify meaningful points of leverage, and build the collective capacity to create sustainable results.

The impact reaches beyond the individual. Leaders grow. Teams work differently. Organizations become stronger.

That is why I founded Oceans Coaching, and it remains the standard behind every engagement we lead.

Experience That Strengthens the Coaching

Before founding Oceans Coaching, Amanda spent more than two decades leading and shaping leadership, talent, and people strategy within national organizations, including CVS Health and Raising Cane’s. Her experience gives her an inside understanding of executive leadership and the relationships, enterprise priorities, and organizational dynamics that influence success.

Today, Amanda partners with executives, physicians, and leadership teams across healthcare, financial services, energy, technology, hospitality, professional services, and other industries. Her work includes executive coaching, executive assimilation, systemic team coaching, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness.

Amanda is particularly effective during defining leadership moments, including executive transitions, enterprise transformation, team realignment, and shifts in organizational culture. She helps leaders make the essential visible, engage in the conversations that matter, and create aligned movement around their most important priorities.

Her client partnerships include CHRISTUS Health, CVS Health, INTEGRIS Health, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, PRISM Health, Pioneer Natural Resources, Discover, Mr. Cooper, and Valley Forge Fabrics.