#25 - Marissa Fernandez on Overcoming the Fear of Failure & Building Confidence through Action

Marissa Fernandez is an Executive Coach, Performance Strategist, Speaker, Advisor and Consultant. Marissa brings into her practice a wealth of experience from her successful 15-year corporate career. She previously held senior marketing roles on iconic brands like the NFL, Gillette, and Tide, managed multi-million-dollar budgets, developed and led high-performing, diverse cross-functional teams, and ultimately climbed up the ranks to Chief Marketing Officer.

Through that time, she honed her greatest gift, the ability to maximize the talent within those around her.  Marissa brings the same leadership qualities that fueled her corporate success to the table with clients: a combination of strategy, perspective, relationship building, authenticity, optimism, and humor. As a coach, she specializes in working with ambitious leaders to harness their unique value proposition, enabling clarity, confidence, and momentum towards their goals.

 

She commonly coaches clients on a variety of topics including leadership development, personal value proposition/branding, interpersonal and team dynamics, career transitions, navigating corporate bureaucracy, increasing confidence, and emotional intelligence. Clients appreciate her creative, thought-provoking, collaborative process and empathetic yet direct approach, with a dose of humor that allows them to move out of their comfort zone and have fun doing it! 

 

Marissa supplements her life-long, innate coaching and leadership skills with formal training through the ICF-accredited program at the College of Executive Coaching, a specialization in Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania via Coursera, and a Bachelor of Science in Communication from Cornell University. She is certified in the Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i 2.0), the world’s leading measure of emotional intelligence. 

 

Select areas of expertise: Leadership, Communication & Collaboration, Managing Teams, Career Navigation, Confidence Building, Mindset Mastery, Emotional Intelligence, Networking Strategies, Time Management, Positive Psychology 

 

Marissa's client roster includes senior leaders at a variety of companies from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, including: Amazon, TikTok, Bloomingdale's, NFL, LinkedIn, TJX, and more.

Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the charity is Planned Parenthood. Any and all donations make a difference!

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Resources/People Mentioned:

• Dare to Lead - Brené Brown
• Designing Your Life - Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
• The Coaching Habit - Michael Bungay Steiner
• The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership - Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman and Kaley Warner Klemp
• Quiet - Susan Cain
• The Go-Giver - Bob Burg
• The Soul of Money - Lynne Twist
• The Happiness Advantage - Shawn Achor
• The Prosperous Coach - Steve Chandler