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Molly Koscina spent more than twenty years as a U.S. diplomat operating at the intersection of geopolitics, culture, and high-stakes leadership — advising senior government officials, managing large and diverse teams, and navigating some of the world’s most complex operating environments. From Havana to Beijing, Seoul to Shanghai, Manila to Guadalajara, she learned firsthand what it takes to lead with clarity when the stakes are high, the context is unfamiliar, and the margin for error is small. Now she brings that same discipline to executive coaching, helping global leaders move from reactive urgency to grounded, confident authority. As Deputy Coordinator in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Molly advised senior decision-makers on sensitive policy in one of the most politically complex bilateral relationships in the Western Hemisphere. Across her diplomatic career, she led teams through organizational change, cross-cultural friction, and mission-critical pressure — developing a practical, proven understanding of how to align people, strategy, and purpose when the environment is anything but stable. Today, Molly partners with executives, senior leaders, and globally mobile professionals at growth-stage companies and multinational organizations to transform complexity into coherence. Her clients are high-performing leaders who are technically excellent but sense that something is misaligned — between how they lead and how they want to lead, between their teams’ potential and current performance, or between the demands of global scale and the clarity their organizations need to move well. Through her structured coaching engagements, they learn to lead with presence that stabilizes others, exercise authority with discernment rather than reactivity, and build the kind of team coherence that holds under pressure. Her approach draws on lived diplomatic experience and is enriched by leadership psychology, inclusive practice, and a deep understanding of cross-cultural dynamics. Clients describe working with Molly as rigorous and clarifying — the kind of thinking partnership that helps them see what they couldn’t see before and act on it with confidence. Molly holds a Master’s degree in National Security and Resource Strategy from the National Defense University’s Eisenhower School, a B.A. in Rhetoric and Communications from the University of California, Davis, an ICF accredited Leadership Coaching Certificate from Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership, and a Certificate in Human Resources from Cornell University. She coaches in English and Spanish.