Twenty years spent proving that performance is, in the end, human. Jodie Charlop started in business, built her career in business, and coaches in business. The study of human behavior came later — not to leave that world, but to understand what actually decides its outcomes.
One-page executive bio — for CHROs and the teams deciding whether to bring Jodie in.
Jodie spent two decades inside companies as they rose, collapsed, merged, and transformed — including the front lines of the dot-com collapse in Silicon Valley. She watched a merger that looked clean on paper come apart in the room, and a strong strategy undone by the conversations no one was having. Different companies, different decades — the same pattern underneath. Not strategy. Human.
One observation changed the trajectory: behavior, not events, drives outcomes. So Jodie went and studied it — formally, rigorously — the behavioral science underneath how leaders think, decide, and hold pressure. Not to become a therapist. She brought it back to the boardroom: a business leader’s instincts and a clinician’s precision, trained on the one thing that actually decides whether an organization succeeds or fails.
Since 2004, Jodie has worked on one specific problem: the moment a leader’s next level asks for something the last one never did — and the beliefs that made them successful become the ceiling they can’t get past.
That is The Great Unlearning. Not a program. Not a product. The philosophy underneath everything — the reason the work goes to identity before it ever touches behavior. Revealed in the real-world stories: the ones shared in session, in the learning, and on the stage.
Most leadership coaching works on what you do. Jodie starts underneath it — with who you are, and whether how you lead actually matches it. People follow leaders they trust, and they trust the ones who are the same person underneath as the one standing in the room.
The work isn’t turning you into someone else. It’s becoming more of who you already are — with the range the next level asks for. And she builds it to last: leaders walk away able to do this themselves, not depending on her.
The best leaders don’t pick one. They carry both at once — and that’s what people actually trust.
Jodie is Managing Partner and co-founder of Exceleration Partners — a human-centered leadership firm built on a single belief: performance is ultimately human. It’s where her programs are delivered, and where the assessment science, structure, and enterprise bench live — the things that let the work scale from one leader to a whole organization.
Within the firm, Jodie leads the strategic lift: leadership identity and enterprise altitude — helping leaders elevate to lead at scale, without chaos.
M.S., Professional Counseling
Georgia State University · Advanced REBT, Albert Ellis Institute
Managing Partner, Exceleration Partners
Leadership advisory & assessment
Forbes Contributor
Thought leadership on identity & enterprise leadership
Two decades in the room
Fortune 500 boardrooms, C-suite transitions, senior women leaders
Two decades coaching the people who run companies — across industries, at the level where the decisions are biggest. A sample of the seats:
The argument beneath the practice: women are not broken, they are constrained — and the work is freeing, not fixing. Women are wired for leadership. Be the first to receive it.
