Executive Coach in Newport Beach

Samira Saberi is an ICF Professional Certified Coach serving executives and business owners in Newport Beach and across Orange County. Sessions available in person or over Zoom, in English and Farsi.

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Newport Beach runs on wealth management, real estate, private investment, and closely held businesses, much of it concentrated around Fashion Island and Newport Center. A high proportion of the leadership here owns the business outright, which changes both the pressures and what coaching is useful for.

Who I am

I’m Samira Saberi, an ICF PCC coach with 15+ years of business experience — including six years in banking at JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo — and a Leadership Principles Certificate from Harvard Business School.

I help Newport Beach and Orange County leaders strengthen their leadership presence, improve team performance, and make clearer decisions.

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How coaching works in Newport Beach

Who I work with in Orange County

In Newport Beach and across the OC, my clients lean toward financial services, real estate, and established family businesses. Most are Managing Directors, broker/owners, or next-generation leaders getting ready to take over a family business.

Owner-led firms and succession

In advisory and professional firms built around one or two principals, the business and the person are hard to separate. Clients are loyal to an individual, the principal makes every meaningful decision, and the value of the firm is quietly tied to someone who will eventually want to stop.

Succession work starts long before anyone plans to leave, and it looks a lot like delegation done seriously over several years. Family business coaching covers the version where the successor is a relative.

Leading in relationship-driven businesses

Wealth management and real estate run on trust built over years, which makes handing a relationship to a colleague genuinely risky rather than just uncomfortable. Firms that grow past the founder do it by making the transition gradual and visible rather than clean.

Building trust internally is the precondition, and it is frequently the weaker half in firms that are excellent at it externally.

What sessions cover

Executive coaching for principals and senior leaders, business coaching for owners, and scaling and succession strategy. Free ROI calculator available.

Family business and the conversation nobody starts

A meaningful share of Newport firms are family-held. Succession, competence and fairness are all live questions and all uncomfortable, so they get deferred until an external event forces them. Starting early is the entire advantage.

Wealth management leadership: producers who now manage producers

Advisory firms promote the biggest producer and then wonder why the team underperforms. Production and development are different skills, and the promotion usually costs the firm its best producer without gaining a leader.

Growth that outpaces your compliance and operations

Financial and professional services here scale front-office faster than back-office. The leadership failure is treating operations as overhead rather than as the constraint it becomes at the next revenue tier.

What clients say

“Samira is an amazing business coach. She has a high EQ, genuinely cares about her clients…”Leili T. · Google review

“…Every session delivers immediate value… I recommend her without hesitation.”Behnam S. · Google review

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Practical notes

Sessions run 60 minutes, usually every two weeks. The first thirty minutes are free and are a working session rather than a sales call. Regular sessions run over Zoom, with in-person meetings in Newport Beach or Irvine for the first session and quarterly deep-dives. Sessions are available in English and Farsi.

Common questions

Is there an executive coach near me in Newport Beach?

Yes. Novator Coaching works with executives and managers across Newport Beach, over Zoom or in person at your workplace. Samira Saberi is an ICF PCC-certified executive coach based in Marina del Rey. Proximity matters less than it used to — video carries the fortnightly conversation without loss — so weigh the credential and the fit ahead of the commute.

Is there an executive coach in Newport Beach?

Yes. Novator Coaching works with principals and business owners in Newport Beach and Orange County. Samira Saberi is ICF PCC certified with 15+ years of business experience. Sessions are usually held over Zoom.

How does coaching help with succession planning?

Coaching does not replace legal or financial succession work. It addresses the part those cannot: whether the owner can actually let go of decisions, and whether the next generation of leadership has been given real responsibility or only the title.

Is coaching available in Farsi?

Yes. Sessions are offered in both English and Farsi.

What does coaching cost?

Pricing depends on the length and format of the engagement. Contact us through the form for current pricing and promotions, or start with the free 30-minute discovery call.

Getting here

Honestly, the 405 decides a lot of this. Our day-to-day sessions happen almost entirely on Zoom. But I’m just up the coast, so I usually do our first chemistry session in person, and we meet face to face for quarterly strategy deep-dives, often in Newport Beach or Irvine. That in-person time matters.