DeBorah “Sunni” Smith is a certified Coaching Supervisor, an ICF Professional Certified Coach, and a consultant who specializes in facilitating the emergence, growth, and success of leaders and chief executive officers who seek to bring about systemic change. Her home base is in Los Angeles, California, and her client list is global in both origin and scope. Sunni’s executive coaching capabilities include areas of emergent leadership, organizational development, and numerous certifications that underscore her coaching competencies. Her clientele thrives in the corporate and public arenas. As an organizational strategist and thought partner, she is credited for successfully advancing values/vision/mission alignment, governance, organizational sustainability, and employee engagement. Her brand of transformational executive coaching includes expertise in positive leadership presence; change management; transparency and trust; along with strategic use of diversity, equity, and inclusion principles.

In addition to providing professional coaching services through her own company, Cassava Coaching & Consulting, Sunni serves as an affiliate and adjunct coach with several major business entities. Other organizations with which she is professionally affiliated include the Ariel Group, the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), Mindful Leadership Consulting, the Goldvarg Consulting Group, Leading Edge, National Arts Strategies, and Coaching for Justice. One of Sunni’s specialties is Coaching Supervision. She is certified in individual as well as Group Coaching Supervision while being recognized with the European Mentor Coaching Council Global Quality award. Group Supervision work is one for which she has a special affinity, and she is passionate about facilitating groups that empower participants and reinforce reflective practice. Her professional portfolio also includes certifications in Team Advantage Coaching®; Emotional Intelligence 2.0, and Anger Management assessment; and she is certified to administer, Leadership Management 360, Paradigm Personality Labs, Hogan, and Workplace Big 5. and Influence Style Indicator (ISI) Assessments. Her most recent certification work is in Creating Futures that Work (CFTW), an Arts-Based Experiential Learning (A.B.E.L.) component, and a Leadership and Innovation Skills Assessment (LISA) instrument.