I spent nearly twenty years leading people and culture inside organizations, most recently as a Chief People Officer. I’ve built people functions from scratch, led through growth and restructures, and sat with leaders and employees through the hardest moments of their working lives.
The through line across all of it is simple. Organizations move at the speed of the people inside them, and how people are treated at work matters. The HR Human is the practice I built to keep that at the center.
The HR Human exists to keep that truth at the center of the work.
I'm Presceia — coach, advisor, and the practitioner behind The HR Human.
The work, on two sides.
Unfold Coaching is one-on-one coaching for people in transition, and for anyone designing a career that actually fits. You don’t have to work in HR to work with me.
HR Human Advisory is ongoing thought partnership with executive teams and HR leaders on the people side of growth and change. Most engagements are retained or fractional, and the work takes the shape of what you’re actually navigating.
Unfold with Presceia O. Cooper is the podcast. Conversations about the moments when a career or a life starts to shift, and what it takes to move through them.
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A little more about my background.
I’m a professional coach trained through Blooming Willow in healing-centered coaching, an approach that starts with pausing, moving from doing to being, and centers each person as the expert of their own life and work. I hold a master’s degree in Leadership and Organizational Psychology from William James College where I also serve as adjunct faculty and a bachelor’s from Boston College.
I’ve held roles across diverse business contexts, including Commongood Careers and Panorama Education, and executive roles at Jobs for the Future and The Princeton Review & Tutor.com. I have experience leading people strategy during an organization’s most pivotal moments: building, rebuilding, growing, and transforming.
Outside of this work, I’m a parent. I know something about showing up fully for other people while learning to show up for myself. That’s a big part of why this work matters to me.