Claire Williams
Claire Williams is an executive coach, a team coach, and a compelling facilitator of development experiences. She is passionate about inspiring people to wake up to the richness and potential within themselves and partnering with them to create lives of intention, meaning and impact. Claire emanates warmth, wit, and a powerful curiosity, quickly creating trust, credibility, and a sense of possibility in relationships and groups. Clients say Claire infuses meaning and depth into every interaction, generating powerful dialogue, unlocking insight, and taking the conversation deeper to get to the heart of the issue. She knows when to challenge, and she seamlessly integrates business realities with human realities to inspire expansive thinking and transformational action in leaders and teams. Clients who work with Claire live and lead more authentically and effectively, with the positive impacts of their growth spanning both work and life.
After an early career providing client services in non-profits, Claire built a fulfilling career as a leadership development consultant and coach at Fortune 50 retailer Target Corporation while also building her private leadership development consultancy. In February 2019, she left Target to work full-time as an external coach and consultant, eventually founding In Depth Coaching & Development in 2021, which partners with mission aligned organizations such as Courageous Roots Development.
Claire has trained and coached hundreds of leaders, from managers to the C-Suite, in dozens of organizations across five continents, including Boeing, GE, United HealthCare, Mortenson, Post Consumer Brands, and Starkey. Claire served as Faculty of the Executive Coaching Certificate Program at the University of St. Thomas. She is a co-founder and faculty of the Center for Coaching in Organizations, a non-profit focused on coach education.
Originally from Memphis, TN, Claire now lives in Minneapolis, MN with her husband Rob, son Amos, daughter Mabel, and goldendoodle Webster. Rob founded and leads the non-profit Every Meal, which is devoted to fighting child hunger in Minnesota. Claire is a voracious learner and wisdom seeker, so she’s always deep in a good book or podcast episode or finding a new spiritual practice. Her current growth edge involves opening her heart more fully to experience more of her true emotions. In her free time, Claire loves woodsy hikes, writing poetry, not sweating at Pilates, ice cream shops, and avoiding household chores.