I’m Keri Lyle, a Professional Certified Coach who works with people at pivotal moments in their leadership and career journeys. I specialize in working with leaders who want to level up and be even more effective as they step into their next stage of leadership, and with those who want to navigate a career move with more clarity, courage, and conviction.

My clients span functional areas and industries – from biotech, to financial services, to environmental and social impact. While I primarily work with emerging leaders and Directors and VPs, I also work with C-Suite leaders at smaller companies, individual contributors, people between positions, and those in non-corporate careers. I’m also a coach for Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) coaching certification students, Starboard Leadership Consulting serving Maine nonprofits, and Harvard Business School Executive Education programs.

Before leaving my corporate career to take my coaching practice full time, I spent 15 years in corporate HR – from managing the full employee lifecycle at a startup, to then joining Google where I was an HR business partner, ran the company’s best-in-class executive coaching program, and led global location strategy and the return to office PMO. It was during my time at Google that I completed my coaching certification and started building my coaching practice, while also volunteering my time within the company to coach top talent and facilitate career and leadership development programs. I also trained new managers in coaching skills and trained and onboarded peer-to-peer coaches.

I’m a PCC-level Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and completed my coach certification at the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI). After 15 years in the San Francisco Bay Area, I returned to my home state of Maine where I’m a mentor, member of the Leadership Maine program class of 2025, and serve on the Maine Outdoor Film Festival screening committee. Endurance challenges in the outdoors are an important way I foster my own growth and development, hence part of the inspiration for the name Birch Collaborative as birches are referred to as the “Lady of the Woods.”