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Meet Deandra
When organizations and leaders face high-stakes moments such as brand crises, executive transitions, or the need for total reinvention, they turn to Deandra Coleman. Recognized as the industry’s answer to Olivia Pope, Deandra is renowned for her strategic clarity, discretion, and ability to deliver results when it matters most.
With over a decade of experience advising C-suite executives, boards, and high-achieving professionals, Deandra brings a rare blend of business acumen, cultural fluency, and human-centered leadership. She holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Branding, a Women’s Entrepreneurship Certification from Cornell University, and a Marketing Graduate Certification from The Wharton School. Her academic foundation is matched by a proven track record. Deandra has led multi-layered reputation recoveries for major organizations, guided executive teams through successful brand transformations, and helped founders and boards navigate moments of disruption with confidence and precision.
As a trauma-informed, certified professional coach, Deandra brings a rare depth of understanding to leadership development and change management. She partners with clients to create safe, supportive spaces where leaders can overcome setbacks, embrace reinvention, and drive sustained impact—no matter the challenge.
Deandra’s approach is as rigorous as it is empathetic. She partners discreetly and decisively with clients, offering elite counsel on brand strategy, executive visibility, crisis communication, and leadership development. Her frameworks have restored market trust, rebuilt internal alignment, and positioned leaders as authoritative voices in their fields. Whether she is recalibrating messaging for a nonprofit under scrutiny, architecting a go-to-market strategy for a mission-driven startup, or coaching executives to turn adversity into advantage, Deandra’s impact is unmistakable.
Clients describe Deandra as an elite strategist, a trusted confidante, and the partner you want in the room when everything is on the line. If you are ready to elevate your brand, empower your leadership, and create a legacy of lasting success, Deandra Coleman is the expert you call.
Awards & Recognitions
MarCom Gold
2025
Strategic Brand Strategy
and Repositioning
Recognizes excellence in marketing and communications, including strategic brand work like repositioning. Winning entries showcase creativity, impact, and effectiveness.
MarCom Gold
2025
Team’s Body of Work Achievement
Acknowledges the small team's high-level work in marketing and communications for the tech community.
Empowering
Women Honoree
2023
Recognizes companies and organizations that have shown a strong commitment to supporting and elevating women.
World’s
Innovative Business Leaders Making a
Difference
2023
Leaders who drive progress by integrating technology, fostering creative cultures, solving global problems, and transforming industries with disruptive products. They're known for strategic vision, adaptability, and creating lasting impact beyond profit, shaping new ways of work and life.
Leading Women
Award
2018
These women are extremely accomplished while still juggling family commitments, community service, mentoring, education and a host of other priorities.
Very Important Professionals
Award
2018
Selected on the basis of professional accomplishments, community service and commitment to inspiring change.