About
Belinda L. Block, Ph.D.
Belinda Block brings a powerful blend of insight, authenticity, and hands-on business expertise to her work with leaders, helping them achieve greater success. With a unique combination of corporate insider knowledge and an objective outside perspective, she coaches with warmth, empathy, and candor-delivering practical, actionable strategies that improve business outcomes. Belinda has coached hundreds of executives across industries including pharmaceuticals, financial services, digital media, and insurance. Belinda specializes in areas such as executive presence, time management, leading change, work/life balance, assertiveness, and professional fulfillment. Her coaching helps leaders strengthen teams, lead through others, and elevate their impact—offering clear, concrete guidance that enhances results.
A Career Rooted in Leadership Impact
Belinda launched her coaching and consulting practice in 2011 and quickly became a go-to partner for senior executives. Prior to founding her firm, she served as Head of Coaching at UBS Wealth Management Americas, where she oversaw a national coaching program spanning 53 coaches across the U.S.
Her corporate leadership background includes roles such as:
Her corporate leadership background includes roles such as:
- Director of HR Strategy, Citigroup Global Wealth Management
- Director of Senior Manager Development, Citigroup (Global rollout across 103 countries in 17 languages)
- Director of Leadership and Professional Development, Prudential Securities
Earlier in her career, Belinda worked as a consultant designing executive development programs, leadership assessments, and coaching solutions for organizations nationwide, supporting senior managers both domestically and internationally.
Credentials That Drive Confidence
Belinda holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, and a B.A. in Political Science from Tufts University. Her academic foundation informs a coaching approach grounded in evidence-based practices and human-centered growth.
Real Life, Real Leadership
Today, Belinda lives in Manhattan and understands firsthand the challenge of work/life balance. Her work is designed for real leaders in real moments-navigating promotions, managing change, building teams, and striving for both performance and presence.
Testimonials
She [Belinda] has a lot of talents and her breadth is incredible. One of the things that I was most helped by is her ability to really distill some of the main coaching techniques to the point where they were very relevant for me. And what I always loved about her is that while I felt worked over to become a better version of myself, she always found a reason to be encouraging of progress. And I think that is the wind beneath the wings of anyone being coached is that they realize that their coach recognizes that there's improvement. Belinda, you’ve been wonderfully consistent with that and I appreciate it very much…I very much appreciated our time together.
VP of Finance,
Leading Global Biopharmaceutical Company
I had the pleasure of working with Dr. Belinda Block, whose expertise and guidance have been extremely valuable in my professional growth. Her insightful approach and coaching helped me transition seamlessly from my role as the head of sales of an insurance company to CEO of that company. Having only worked with salespeople in my career, learning about how others react to change and prefer to be managed was eye-opening. Belinda has a unique ability to build trust quickly and foster self-awareness with empathy, humor, and candor. I have continued to seek out guidance from Belinda since our original coaching work 10 years ago. I highly recommend Belinda to anyone looking to elevate their management and leadership.
CEO
Healthcare Industry
HIGHLY RECOMMEND! She provided me with invaluable professional coaching and development. Her coaching tools are not only practical, but also incredibly easy to implement. She is an amazing sounding board and truly invested in my success. I've been through a lot of corporate development activities but our time together stands out as some of the best. It is worth contacting her to learn more about her simple and effective tools that can be implemented very quickly.
Director, Account Relationships
Major US Bank
Results
- Coached CEO of a specialty insurance company to enhance executive presence, manage emotions more effectively, and upgrade talent of leadership team. Designed and facilitated strategy meetings to create vision and mission for organization resulting in a shared understanding of purpose. Designed and delivered change management training throughout the organization. Organizational results include limited resistance to change and an increase in premium from $600 Million to over $2 Billion.
- Designed and delivered rollout of positive psychology message across a financial services organization including development of video and meeting in a box designed to assist employees manage through and thrive in tumultuous times.
- Coached VP, Biopharmaceutical Company to balance her results-orientation style with her passionate delivery. Coaching focused on flexing style, increasing business partnering, enhancing strategic thinking, and balancing work with the demands of a young family.Results include promotion to Controller within one year.
- Facilitated Executive Offsite for digital media company that resulted in complete buy-in and consistent messaging of mission and vision among management.
- Led team of professionals and partnered with HR Business Partners across a major Financial Services organization to develop tools, resources, and research related to: talent management, culture and climate, employee engagement, change.
- Coached Regional Sales Officers to transition from individual contributor to manager, and from manager to manager of managers. Specific emphasis on communication, leadership presence, and team development. 90% of participants were promoted within one year.
- Designed and implemented a systematic approach to talent development for managers and executives at a retail brokerage focused on the full spectrum of activities from sourcing through succession planning. Results included significant improvements in engagement and alignment throughout the organization.