Li-Ming has sat at the senior leadership table. Now she sits beside you as an executive coach. With 20+ years across Wall Street, tech and startups, 17 at Google, she helps leaders build the confidence to lead themselves, their teams and others, and to lead in complexity, with rigor, results and heart.
Li-Ming Pu
Career history
Li-Ming began her career in finance at Goldman Sachs, Gap Inc. and the Human Services Management Corporation, managing finances for nonprofits and NGOs, which showed her how organizations of different structures work. She then spent 17 years at Google through 40x growth, taking on increasing responsibility to lead global teams across Europe and Asia. Her roles included Head of HR for a business unit, partnering with Legal, and leader of the separate Executive, Talent and Manager Development teams, with a mission to build leaders for the world. She oversaw the internal coaching programs and launched Google’s first executive women’s leadership program, board-recognized for excellence. As a founding partner of its first Organizational Development practice, she advised senior leaders on organizational health and succession and shaped Google’s point of view on change through its mobile-first and AI-first pivots. Having lived and worked in New York, DC, San Francisco, Atlanta, China and Australia, she brings a global view.
Coach expertise
Li-Ming works with leaders across every kind of organization, in a moment where technology is reshaping how organizations work. She partners with founders, CEOs, senior leaders and their teams, bringing an organization development lens to both the individual and the system around them. Beyond coaching, she offers HR consultation and leadership development. Her global clients, from hyper-growth startups to established institutions, bring the challenges leaders face most: leading themselves, their teams and others, and the business through complexity. She helps them see the bigger picture, decide with confidence and build trust. Trained by Bill Campbell, the “Trillion Dollar Coach,” and Fred Kofman, bestselling author of Conscious Business, she is a highly regarded executive coach, consistently receiving exceptional feedback from her clients.
What people are saying about Li-Ming Pu at Turningpoint
Warm, candid and calm under pressure, Li-Ming is known for impeccable judgment and integrity. She helps leaders find a path through change and complexity, with practical tools that turn insight into action.
Coach experience
- Certified Coach, International Coaching Federation (2019)
- Hudson Institute Certified Coach
Career history
- Head of People Development, Google
- Director of HR, Google
- Founding Partner, Organizational Development, Google
- Analyst and Finance Manager, Goldman Sachs, Gap, HSMC
Academic qualifications
- MS Organization Development, University of San Francisco
- BA, Brown University
Other commitments
- Advisor, Atlanta Tech Village
- ICF Mentor Coach to fellow coaches
Media & publications
- Speaker on change at ICF, SHRM
- Google re:Work: Changing the Change Rules
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