Nadya Ichinomiya is an executive coach, author, and leadership catalyst who helps individuals and teams rise with clarity, courage, and purpose. She is Vice President of Agile Transformation, Enablement, and Operations at Sony Pictures Entertainment, where she also serves as an internal coach as part of her leadership role. With extensive experience in the technology and entertainment industries, Nadya brings firsthand insight into the challenges of high-pressure, fast-moving environments. She works with clients ranging from writers, directors, actors, and producers to corporate leaders. Nadya coaches individuals at all stages, from recent college graduates to senior executives seeking to expand influence and multiply impact. Her style is both compassionate and direct, helping clients align values with actions, embrace a growth mindset, step beyond comfort zones, and take concrete steps toward their goals.

A Fellow at the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, Nadya integrates evidence-based practices into her work. She is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation, teaches Agile Methodologies on the faculty of UCLA Extension, and holds a business degree from the University of Southern California. Across her work, she emphasizes that leadership is a practice requiring continuous growth, reflection, courage, and deliberate action.

Nadya’s coaching is shaped by her experience in Hollywood and technology, as well as her multicultural upbringing. The product of a German mother and Japanese father, she spent formative years growing up in Japan, Germany, the UK, and the US. These experiences instilled a global perspective, adaptability, and appreciation for diverse viewpoints, qualities she brings into her coaching to help clients navigate complex interpersonal and organizational dynamics.

Her work spans a wide spectrum of clients:

• Early-career professionals. Nadya helps recent graduates and those with five or fewer years of experience clarify values, identify strengths, and understand market demand. She coaches on resume building, creating a compelling online brand, and adopting practices that make clients impactful contributors. Investing in coaching early provides tools and self-awareness that last a lifetime. Whether helping a screenwriter pitch a first project or a new analyst land a corporate role, she encourages clients to embrace challenges, step beyond comfort zones, and take deliberate action toward their goals.
• Rising and established leaders. Nadya works with executives seeking to multiply influence across teams and organizations. Her coaching helps leaders refine vision, develop presence, and build relational capital to lead with inspiration and empathy.
• Communication and visibility. She helps clients become more influential through public speaking and interpersonal skills. Whether negotiating with a studio, aligning a creative team, or presenting to a corporate board, clients learn to communicate with clarity, confidence, and authenticity.
• Team dynamics and innovation. Nadya guides leaders in fostering high-performing teams through psychological safety checks and team working agreements that build trust, accountability, and shared purpose. These practices support creativity in writers’ rooms and innovation in corporate teams.
• Conflict resolution. She coaches individuals and teams experiencing tension, transforming discord into dialogue, understanding, and stronger relationships.

Clients describe Nadya as a trusted thought partner and catalyst for action. She listens deeply, asks incisive questions, and challenges assumptions while creating a safe, supportive environment. She helps clients expand their capacity to adapt, innovate, and lead with integrity while consistently taking meaningful action.

Beyond one-on-one coaching, Nadya has created accessible culture change at scale, designing programs with cohorts of up to 600 participants. These programs focus on leadership, trust, and helping participants become invaluable contributors. She is also a community builder and advocate for women in leadership, having co-founded Women in Technology: Hollywood (WiTH) in 2014 and serving as Chairwoman. WiTH has grown into a professional community of more than 8,000 members and a platform for mentorship, development, and recognition, including the annual Women in Technology Hollywood Leadership Awards celebrating industry impact.

Nadya serves on the board of Warrior Films, a nonprofit production company that produced Hoop Dreams, and is a founding board member of Global Accessibility Awareness Day. She also reaches a wider audience through her writing. She is the author of Nadya’s Career Catalyst, a weekly newsletter offering bold ideas, honest insights, and practical strategies for career growth. Nadya is currently writing her first book, Plot Twist: Script Your Career, Direct Your Purpose, Live Life as a Cinematic Adventure, which draws on her coaching philosophy to help readers create careers and lives that are intentional, bold, and fulfilling.

At the heart of her work are three core principles: lead from authenticity, build resilience through awareness, and experiment boldly while taking action. Drawing on her background in Agile methodologies, Nadya encourages clients to test, iterate, and learn, treating careers as living laboratories for growth.

Outside of coaching, Nadya cultivates beauty and resilience in her life. She is an avid gardener and practices barre exercise. She is a mother of two teenage sons, and her husband is an artist. Nadya brings the compassion, patience, and understanding cultivated in her family life into her coaching, reflecting the qualities she brings to her professional work.

Through her blend of executive experience, industry expertise, multicultural perspective, and heartfelt authenticity, Nadya Ichinomiya helps individuals and teams, whether in Hollywood or the boardroom, script their next act with intention. She believes that with clarity, courage, and the right support, every person can lead a life and career that is not only successful but deeply meaningful.