Noah Kaye smiling, in glasses and a light blue shirt

Noah Kaye | Leadership & Coaching

Executive Coach · Leadership Advisor · Speaker · Author

Lead Well. Love Well. Live Well.

I help executives, business owners and organizational leaders—and their teams—navigate their internal growth. The external growth results always follow.

Services

Executive & Leadership Coaching

One-on-one coaching for executives, business owners and senior leaders navigating growth, transition, complexity and the weight of leadership.

Team Health Guidance

Coaching and facilitation for leadership teams ready to build deeper trust, communicate for connection, navigate conflict well and become healthier and more effective together.

Transition Coaching

Long-term succession guidance for leaders preparing for significant transition—helping the organization prepare for what comes next while helping the leader build toward legacy, identity and purpose beyond the role.

Coaching Intensives

One or two days of focused coaching, designed for clarity and action—for when you need movement fast.

Keynote Speaking & Training

Virtual and in-person speaking, workshops and training experiences centered around leadership, communication, relationships, team health and personal growth.

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Leadership is deeply human.

  • You are the expert on you.

    You know your life, role and organization better than I ever will. I don’t show up with your answers. I help you discover your own.

  • I dig. You discover.

    The heart of a person is deep water (Proverbs 20:5). Coaching is a bit like archaeology: we dig until we uncover the wisdom and potential already there. Self-discovery beats outside prescription.

  • People come first. Always.

    You will always matter more to me than your company. Sorry. Take extraordinary care of the humans and you’ll be amazed by what they build. Healthy people build healthy companies.

  • Love is the secret sauce.

    Yep, I said love. At work. People do their best work where they are known, valued and cared for. Happy people = higher profits.

  • Clarity creates movement.

    Insight is great. Progress is better. We put the tangled mess on the table and figure out what actually matters. Name it. Simplify it. Decide. Move.

  • Honesty and kindness.

    I won’t just tell you what you want to hear. The best coaching holds both: honesty to say what needs saying, and compassion to help it land.

  • The person comes to work.

    Wherever you go, there you are. Your identity, fears and strengths show up in how you lead, and work shows up at home. So we talk about all of it. Hence, “business kinda-therapist.”

Where I work

I coach across industries and organizational contexts, both independently and through three distinct leadership and coaching organizations. Each serves a different kind of client and context.

  • NoviEdge

    Executive Coach & Chief Relational Officer

    A coaching and consulting company focused primarily on small businesses, blending business strategy with personal coaching to grow both the people and the business.

  • Epic Rivers Leadership

    Partner & Executive Coach

    A leadership transformation firm serving larger organizations through executive coaching, team effectiveness, leadership development and high-stakes organizational work.

  • Integer Network

    Founder & Coach

    An international nonprofit coaching network I founded in 2018, developing coaches and providing individual and team coaching to clients and organizations around the world.

  • Real estate

    Maryland Realtor · Generations Home Group

    I come from a real estate family, and I remain an active Maryland Realtor with the Generations Home Group of Coldwell Banker, founded by sister Harmony Campbell. Everything you need to know is on one page.

Construction · Healthcare · Higher ed · Nonprofits · Professional services · Small business

The common denominator is people and leadership, not industry.

Recent engagements

Client names kept confidential.

Noah Kaye laughing, seated at a table in a loft office

My story

ICF-certified executive coach
MA in Leadership
Washington, DC area

I sometimes joke that I’m a business therapist—minus the therapist part.

Ten years as a pastor. Seven years living and working in South Africa and Tanzania. Seven more building a real estate business with my sister. Graduate research on insecurity, and a coaching nonprofit that grew into an international organization. It’s not the usual road to executive coaching—and it’s exactly why I start with the human beings behind every business problem.

Read my story

What are you navigating right now?

The quickest way to start is a short call.

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Would you rather write first? Tell me a little about it. I’ll get back to you as soon as I can, and we’ll find a time to talk.

You can also find me on LinkedIn.

Executive & Leadership Coaching

One-on-one coaching for executives, business owners and senior leaders navigating growth, transition, complexity and the weight of leadership.

How it works

Sessions
One-hour calls
Rhythm
Weekly, biweekly or monthly
Commitment
3 months, 6 months or 1 year

Two ways to work

  • Pure Professional Coaching

    My questions. Your topics, discoveries, decisions and actions.

  • Consultative Coaching

    A blend of questions and direction.

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Team Health Guidance

Healthy teams don’t happen by accident. Trust, communication and connection can be strengthened—and sometimes a team just needs the right conversation.

Team experiences

I coach and facilitate leadership teams through experiences designed to surface what matters, strengthen relationships, navigate what’s hard and help people work better together.

  • Every Conversation Matters (ECM)

    A powerful, highly interactive experience that helps teams build healthier communication habits and stronger relationships. Participants learn practical tools for listening, understanding and navigating difficult conversations in ways that create connection rather than disconnection.

  • Coaching Cohorts & Masterminds

    A six-month coaching experience for small groups of 3–4 leaders—either within one organization for greater alignment or across industries for fresh perspective and inspiration. Leaders bring real challenges to the table and gain the benefit of both professional coaching and the wisdom, questions and encouragement of their peers.

    Six months · 3–4 leaders

    How a cohort works (PDF)
  • Executive Team Retreats

    Custom-designed and facilitated retreats that create space for the conversations your leadership team doesn’t have time—or sometimes courage—to have in the normal rhythm of work. We’ll clarify what matters, strengthen relationships, wrestle with challenges and leave with greater alignment.

  • Organizational Listening Sessions

    A structured process for getting the real voice of your people into the room. Through carefully designed prompts, small-group conversations and facilitated synthesis, we surface themes, tensions, hopes and insights that leaders need to hear.

  • Introduction to a Coach Approach

    Help your leaders become better listeners, ask better questions and resist the urge to always provide the answer. This practical experience introduces coaching skills that can quickly become part of how people lead, develop others and relate across the organization.

  • Custom Team Experiences

    Every team is different. Additional facilitated experiences can be built around conflict, appreciation, fast-tracking trust, the Five Ingredients of a Healthy Team, mission/vision/values development or refresh, and more—designed around what your team needs most.

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Transition Coaching

Leaving a business you’ve built or led is one of the hardest things a leader will ever do. How do you get out without hurting what you built—and who are you when it’s no longer yours to lead?

Succession & transition packages

I help owners and leaders plan the transition, prepare the people, protect what matters, and build a healthy future on both sides of the exit.

  • Succession Advisor

    You execute. I help you figure out how.

    I serve as your thinking and planning partner—helping you clarify the transition, build the blueprint, navigate major decisions, and identify the actions required to execute it well. You and your team own the implementation.

    12-month minimum

  • Comprehensive Succession Partnership

    We walk through it together.

    A deeper engagement that can include stakeholder listening sessions, coaching key leaders, site visits, transition planning, legacy work, and hands-on guidance before, during, and beyond the transition. We work toward two outcomes: a business that can thrive without you—and a meaningful next chapter for you.

    12-month minimum · Longer engagements recommended

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Coaching Intensives

Sometimes you don’t need months of coaching. You need to clear the calendar, get in a room, and go after something that matters.

Three intensives

Intensives are 1–2 days of focused coaching designed for clarity and action. We can get a lot done fast. Of course, time makes things wiser. But sometimes you need movement fast. That’s what these are for.

  • Personal Identity Intensive

    A guided process through the evidence of your life to answer one big question: Who am I? You’ll leave with four clear pillars of your personal identity—and a better sense of what becomes possible when you live and lead from them.

  • Leadership Transition Intensive

    Your role is changing or ending, and you want to navigate what’s next well. We’ll dig deep, survey the landscape, face the emotions, clarify what matters, and build a plan that moves you forward. And we will get it done fast.

    1–2 days · Individual · Virtual or in person

  • Leadership Partnership Intensive

    For two business partners or co-leaders who want their partnership to be stronger. We’ll assess five necessities of a healthy partnership, celebrate what’s working, uncover what isn’t, work through difficult conversations, and build a healthier way forward.

    1–2 days · Two leaders · In person only

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Keynote Speaking & Training

Keynotes and talks for conferences, retreats, leadership teams, company events, and anywhere else people gather to learn, grow, and think differently.

Signature talks

  • The Heart of the Deal

    Sales is more emotional than we admit. A practical look at the human dynamics behind trust, influence, decision-making, and closing the deal.

    The one-pager and free ebook
  • Letting Go Well

    The inner work of a meaningful exit.

    Leadership transitions are rarely just strategic—they’re deeply emotional. How to navigate succession, exit, and change without losing yourself or damaging what you built.

    My notes from the talk (PDF)
  • Six Affirmations Every Business Owner Needs

    Six things business owners desperately need to hear—and rarely tell themselves—about leadership, pressure, success, failure, and being human.

    The six affirmations, free to print (PDF)
  • The Four Insecurities Every Leader Faces

    A candid look at four common insecurities hiding underneath leadership—and what changes when we stop letting them quietly run the show.

  • Building a Coaching Culture

    How to move from leaders who give answers to leaders who ask better questions—and build people who can think, grow, and lead for themselves.

  • Happy People, Higher Profits

    Loving your people isn’t soft leadership. It impacts retention, performance, trust, culture—and ultimately the bottom line.

  • Something else?

    Pick a topic. Any topic. I can yap about all manner of things. Leadership. Relationships. Communication. Culture. Emotional intelligence. Something completely different. Tell me what your people need, and let’s build something for them.

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