We Love What We Do
Why Us
Our passion for helping people thrive in their professional lives gets us up in the morning.
We truly love what we do — and our clients can tell. We help them confront change, leverage its momentum, and tailor sustainable strategies that get results. Over the years, we’ve gotten really good at helping leaders shape company cultures that inspire engagement, transformation, and growth.
Meet the Team
Jim Catalano, PhD
CEO and Executive Coach
Jim Catalano is a nationally-recognized executive coach with more than two decades of experience helping leaders and teams reach new heights of achievement. Jim’s passion for his work is contagious, and clients around the world consider him their secret weapon.
Jim brings a unique blend of scientific expertise and business experience to his work optimizing the performance of diverse organizations. From coaching CEOs to leading team workshops to assessing organizational culture and practices — Jim is adept at helping leaders identify hidden opportunities, and partnering with clients to pursue lasting growth and impact.
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Jim’s clients currently include senior executives from the financial services, engineering consulting, healthcare, luxury goods, technology, and nonprofit sectors, as well as entrepreneurs from a variety of industries.
Before launching The Catalano Group in 2013, Jim spent more than a decade at Tiffany & Co. culminating his career there as Vice President of Organizational Effectiveness & Internal Communications. Before Tiffany, he was a leading executive coach and organizational effectiveness consultant with a client roster of Fortune 500 companies, and worked as a clinical psychologist. He holds a PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University at Buffalo and a BA in Psychology and Marketing from Manhattan College. A proud New York City native, Jim has volunteered to improve leadership of nonprofits, and their Boards, in and around the city. When he’s not coaching, he’s often making and enjoying music. He has been a lead vocalist in several working bands over the years, and will sometimes sing if you ask him to.
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Will Welch, MS
Chief Strategy Officer & Executive Coach
Will Welch is a seasoned executive coach with decades of experience in the science and practice of leadership and organizational development at top universities and Fortune 1000 companies. He is a trusted advisor to executives seeking to enhance their leadership skills and drive organizational success.
With a career that began in stress management research and has spanned various global companies, Will has developed a wealth of expertise in improving organizations through measuring and enhancing critical components such as leadership, company culture, employee engagement, and wellbeing. This expertise is complemented by his experience leading functions and serving on top management teams, allowing him to offer a unique and comprehensive perspective to his executive coaching clients.
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Supriti Bhandary, MA
Executive Coach
Supriti is an experienced leadership coach and talent advisor with over 25 years of partnering with successful global executives and companies. She has been very effective in helping clients develop and improve areas such as their executive presence, emotional intelligence, leadership effectiveness, managing transitions, and scaling high growth organizations.
Prior to becoming a coach, Supriti held leadership roles in her global career in Human Resources. She served as Vice President, HR at Wipro Limited, helping the company grow to a multibillion-dollar global technology consulting organization, scaling to 150,000 employees. She had overall responsibility for assessment, hi-potential accelerator programs, talent management, organization effectiveness and M&A. She has also served as an independent director on the boards of Meritor HVSIL and Automotive Axles Ltd.
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Her coaching clients include leaders in diverse industries including technology, start-ups, manufacturing, retail/consumer, healthcare/pharma, retail/consumer and PE/financial services.
Supriti holds a Master’s degree in HR. She is a certified executive coach and proficient in numerous assessment tools like the Hogan suite, MBTI and LVI 360.
Supriti has a lifelong fascination with travel and is an avid student of world history.
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Eric J. Dammann, PhD
Executive Coach
Dr. Eric Dammann is a coach who brings out the creative problem-solver in every client.
Over more than two decades, he has helped CEOs, managers, artists, and countless others elevate their professional performance and overcome personal hurdles. A licensed clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst with extensive training in executive coaching and financial therapy, Eric brings a depth psychology approach to every engagement — partnering with clients to uncover the causes of their challenges and guiding them on the path to transformation.
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Eric maintains an active coaching and psychotherapy practice in addition to supervising doctoral students at Columbia University and the William Alanson White Institute, while also serving as an associate editor at the Journal of Financial Therapy and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Previously he has also been a consultant helping graduate students at the City University of New York Graduate Center complete their dissertations, and served as a partner at a financial health startup.
He graduated Magna Cum Laude and was Phi Beta Kappa at Bucknell University, and then received an M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Michigan State University. He has completed psychoanalytic training at the William Alanson White Institute and coach training at The College of Executive Coaching.
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