Andrew McHugh
Executive Leadership Coach & Team Consultant

Andrew McHugh is an executive leadership coach and organizational effectiveness consultant who helps leaders and teams improve performance by addressing root causes that sit upstream of behavioral execution.

Andrew’s approach integrates organizational psychology and behavioral science to uncover where cultural barriers, competing priorities, and unconscious assumptions are limiting growth.

Andrew partners with clients to translate insights into practical, sustainable change, helping leaders surface critical feedback, navigate complexity, and build environments grounded in psychological safety and accountability.

Representative assignments include:

  • Executive coaching for C-suite and senior leaders across multinational organizations
  • Team effectiveness and engagement strategy consulting for leadership teams navigating change
  • Design and facilitation of leadership development programs across product, sales, engineering, HR, and operations
  • Creation and delivery of workshops including Immunity to Change, Navigating Polarities, and Psychological Safety

Business And Organizational Leadership Experience

Andrew specializes in executive leadership coaching and team effectiveness consulting, with over a decade of experience at Google designing and facilitating leadership development programs for global teams. He brings deep expertise in optimizing large-scale organizational systems, including deal fulfillment infrastructure exceeding $2 billion, and has led cross-functional change and transformation initiatives such as organizational restructuring and team effectiveness programs.

Andrew’s work is shaped by a long-standing focus on capturing and refining insights about how people think, behave, and lead. Over time, this has evolved into a structured approach that helps individuals and teams identify what truly matters, ask better questions, and build new behaviors. He brings this perspective into his work with leaders, helping them cut through noise, challenge default ways of operating, and focus their attention on the few shifts that will create the greatest impact.

He is particularly effective at helping leaders move from insight to execution. Whether working with individuals navigating complexity or teams experiencing misalignment, Andrew helps translate ideas into clear, actionable steps. Clients often come in feeling overwhelmed or stuck and leave with greater clarity, confidence, and follow-through. His work emphasizes not just understanding challenges but consistently applying new behaviors in ways that lead to measurable, lasting change.

Industry Coaching Experience

  • Technology
  • Financial Services
  • Government & Public Sectors
  • Nonprofits
  • Startups
  • Fortune 500 Organizations

Functional Coaching Experience

  • Executive Leadership & Strategy
  • Organizational Development
  • Team Effectiveness & Culture
  • Immunity to Change, Navigating Polarities, Psychological Safety, ADHD
  • Cross-functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Alignment

Leader levels

  • C-suite Executives
  • Senior Leaders & Directors
  • Mid-level Managers
  • Emerging Leaders

Assessments & Certifications

  • Associate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coaching Federation
  • Hogan Assessments
  • Leadership Circle Profile (360)
  • Global Leadership Profile (GLP)
  • Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)
  • CliftonStrengths
  • MBTI
  • Enneagram (iEQ9)

Education

  • M.S. Organizational Psychology - Harvard University Extension School
  • Executive Certificate in Leadership Coaching – Georgetown University
  • B.S., Social Psychology – Tufts University

Languages

  • English