About High Performance Orgs
Developing Leaders and Enhancing Cultures
At High Performance Orgs, we believe that the right guidance transforms your potential into extraordinary achievements.
Leaders driving growth in a constantly changing environment requires the right mindset, specialized skills and a robust toolset. We equip you with all three.
Our Founder’s Journey
Michael O. “Coop” Cooper is our Founder & Head Coach.
From co-leading the team to develop the world’s first wireless web platform to pioneering online systems for global giants like Honda and Vodafone, Coop’s journey through leading software development, technology and innovation teams led him to a simple but profound realization: impactful organizations need exceptional leaders.
With 25 years of coaching experience across 37 countries and thousands of companies, Coop has dedicated his career to enhancing the capabilities of executives and their teams, turning big challenges and big visions into extraordinary results.
Coop provides 1:1 High Performance Executive Coaching to leaders who need to build high-performing teams and drive growth and innovation. He often advises and coaches startup teams to have the hard conversations required to deliver for customers and investors.
He leads our High Performance Leadership Accelerator with our amazing team of guest instructors below. He designed and leads our Culture Design Workshops and our Growth Alignment Sessions.
He’s a sought after Keynote Speaker and coaches executives to deliver impactful speeches, presentations and pitches that educate, engage and inspire audiences.
Mission
To equip mission-driven, growth-stage leaders with the proper mindset, specialized skillset and robust toolset for driving exponential growth.
Executives Coached
Companies Served
Countries
$1.3 Billion+
Fundraising Assistance
I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum capabilities.
Why Choose Us?
High Performance Orgs is more than a coaching company; we’re your strategic partner in leadership excellence.
Our bespoke programs focus on:
- Visioning and Strategic Planning: Crafting clear, compelling and actionable paths to your goals.
- Leadership Development: Equipping your leaders and employees with the skills they need to drive growth.
- Culture Crafting: Building a workplace that drives growth requires healthy, happy, productive and profitable teams.
- Execution and Innovation: Turning plans into actionable, successful results.
We offer personalized coaching, team workshops and off-site retreats that align with your unique challenges and aspirations, helping you and your organization not just meet but exceed all your stakeholders’ expectations.
Our Commitment
Your success is our success.
We commit to being your most trusted advisor, focusing on your needs and adapting our strategies to help you achieve remarkable results.
With High Performance Orgs, embark on a journey of transformation, where your vision for success becomes our blueprint for action.
Our Amazing Team
Camille Nisich
Coach & Investor
After 18 years leading Finance, Communications & Marketing teams at Dell, Camille now coaches founders and invests in game-changing companies. She brings her wisdom and decades of experience helping companies tackle their most pressing problems.
In the High Performance Leadership Accelerator, Camille co-teaches Alignment & Defining Problems & Prioritizing Problems to Solve.
Dr. Alexandra Arena
Communication & Neurodiversity Expert
Identified late in life as ADHD and dyslexic, Ali turned her professional focus to social cognition, language processing, executive functioning, and creating the skills for creating meaningful relationships.
Ali co-teaches Compassion, Emotional Acumen & Burnout and Building & Repairing Trust on our High Performance Leadership Accelerator.
Justin Phalichanh
SVP Talent Development
Justin has dedicated his career to helping others learn and grow. He manages a team of 21 serving over 4,000 employees.
A past student of the High Performance Leadership Accelerator, Justin joins us to co-teach Feedforward, Performance Conversations & Development Plans and Humble & Shared Leadership.
Dawn Andreas
Director of Marketing
With 15 years of experience leading teams at 2U, Eventbrite, Lululemon and Contrarian Thinking, Dawn co-leads Psychological Safety & NeuroEfficiencies modules in our High Performance Leadership Accelerator.
She invests deeply in her employees’ development — often using NeuroEfficiencies to set her teams up for success — and one of her favorite questions is “Which problem are we solving?”
Our Selected Client List
Over the past 25 years, it has been our honor to work with some of the best brands and most innovative leaders in the world:
- 11Sight
- Accuray
- Acxiom
- AgroClimate Innovation
- Alchemist Accelerator
- Altimeter Group
- Amateur Radio Digital Communications
- American Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- Arin Fishkin Graphic Design
- Attack! Marketing
- Auth0
- Avalara
- Axicom
- Bateman Group
- Baton Trucking
- BeachNow
- BetaBrand
- K G Bell Construction
- Big Valley Marketing
- Biking Billboards
- Bite Communications
- Blanc & Otus
- Boeing
- Burning Man
- BPM
- Brandshare
- BYND
- Cambioint
- CapGemini Invent
- Captricity
- Cellares Corporation
- Chez Space
- Cloud LIMS
- Cohn & Wolfe
- Contrast Design Works
- Convergint
- Cowbell Labs
- Creo Design
- Cruise
- Eastwick Communications
- eBay
- Echo Sound
- Engage PR
- Epic PR Group
- Firebrick Consulting
- Fleishman Hillard
- Fraenkel Gallery
- Franchetti Communications
- Friendster
- FrontRow Education
- Fuse Project
- EJ Gallo
- Genentech
- Glass
- Glu Mobile
- Grass Roots Gay Rights Foundation
- Grizzly Creek Management
- Hashi Corp
- Highwire Communications
- Hill & Knowlton
- Holo
- Honos
- Horn Group
- Hotwire Communications
- HrQ
- Human Protocol
- Hyperloop Transportation Technologies
- IfWe
- Imagine Zero
- Imperfect Foods
- Inner Circle Labs
- Interpublic Group
- Jackson Family Wines
- Kasada
- Kaya Energy
- Kicker Studio
- Kinesso
- Koski Research
- L Studio
- Lattice Engines
- Ralph Lauren
- Lithium Technologies
- Logica Research
- LucasFilm
- LumenVox
- The Mark Company
- Mars PetCare
- Marygold
- Matterkind
- Matternet
- Maven Recruiting
- Medal
- Mediabrands
- Meltwater
- Merrill Company
- MetaHuman
- Milroy Construction
- Mobiquity
- Gary Morganroth Architect
- Mphasis Corporation
- Next Insurance
- Nielsen
- North Bay Health Care
- Northern California Human Resources Association
- Novell
- O’Melveney & Myers
- Organic
- Oracle
- PayPal
- Pivot Bio
- Premier Biosoft
- Prerogatives
- Pure Storage
- Qubole
- Rainin Foundation
- RAPP
- Rina Corporation
- Run8 Patent Group
- Science Exchange
- Sega
- Seagate
- SEEDS
- Seventeen Magazine
- Severson & Werson
- Siemens
- Slap Company
- Smith AI
- Social Glass
- Solvay
- Sony Computer Entertainment America
- Strategic & Competitive Intelligence Professionals
- City of South San Francisco
- Southwest Airlines
- Solvay
- Spark Climate Solutions
- SparkPR
- Stamen Design
- Sterling Brands
- Strategic Consortium of Intelligence Professionals
- Sustainable Conservation
- Sutro Machine
- Syng
- Sweet Cruises and Resorts
- Tax Valet
- TeleNav
- Tides Foundation
- True Green Capital
- Trumark Homes
- Veme
- Virginia Hospitals and Healthcare Association
- Vium
- Washington DC Department of Health Care Finance
- Weber Shandwick
- Wells Fargo
- WE Worldwide
- Yahoo
- Yammer
- YMCA
- Zlot and Associates