About Coach Anush | Anush Gagua, MCC

Anush Gagua in a white suit, arms crossed, in front of a city window — Anush Gagua, MCC — Executive Coach & Speaker

Anush Hovsepyan Gagua is an executive coach, speaker, and leadership facilitator who has touched the lives of 700+ leaders and high-potentials across Fortune 500 companies, helping them achieve transformative career growth. A former CNN World Reporter and PR executive, she has been an invited speaker at the UPLIFT Executive Summit and the Gather NORAM Coach Conference. She has trained teams and led cohorts to enhance productivity, performance, and promotion readiness. Her mission is to help humble leaders break the generational cycle of scarcity, creating individual, organizational, and enterprise-level impact. Today, she helps exceptional leaders become the obvious choice for promotion — before burnout, politics, or AI stalls their career.

Trusted by leaders and high-potentials at Google

With a warm, direct, and evidence-based style, she helps bold, brilliant leaders navigate the AI revolution by optimizing the human side of transformation. She empowers them to hold impactful, high-stakes conversations, secure easier buy-in, elevate executive presence, and achieve lasting success without burnout.

With a Master’s from UNC-Chapel Hill, Anush brings deep communication and leadership expertise to her coaching. She is a speaker on performance growth, burnout prevention, and change leadership as organizations innovate, restructure, and adapt through AI-driven transformation, mergers, and reorgs.

Her Executive Yoga: 7 Leadership Master Steps in 7 Yoga Poses™ debuted at the UPLIFT Executive Summit and is certified by the International Coaching Federation. Her Authentic Executive Presence Accelerator™ has been piloted as an effective promotion-readiness and leadership-pipeline development tool inside a global food company with 50,000 employees.

MCC

Held by 4% of coaches globally

12 Years

Executive coaching practice

5,780+

Coaching hours delivered

700+

Leaders & high-potentials coached

Session and client totals drawn from Anush's own practice records across her 12-year coaching career. MCC credential independently verifiable via Credly.

Client Results

… I have had 2 promotions … and become a manager of 7 people at Google. Anush is my secret to success. …
—Sam Mintz, Global Head of Industry at Google

… What sets her apart is her rare ability to translate abstract coaching concepts into practical, immediately applicable strategies. … Her coaching delivers real, measurable results. …
—Ziad Amr, Account Manager at Synopsys

Coach Anush has been instrumental to my career. … She understands how to get to the root cause of an issue, teach you how to address complex--and often vague--scenarios, and to flourish as an authentic leader. …
—Jane Di Leo, Vice President of Corporate Communications, Marketing & Brand

Coach Anush has distilled decade-long coaching experience and research into proven, practical, evidence-based tools, helping clients get life-changing results faster.

Credentials

Master Certified Coach (MCC), International Coaching Federation — held by 4% of coaches globally
Future Ready Coach in the Age of AI
Master's Degree in Communication, UNC-Chapel Hill
Certified Conscious Business & Communication Effectiveness Coach
Tony Robbins Mastery University Graduate

Marquis Who's Who Honored Listee (2024)

Independently listed by Marquis Who's Who, publishing biographical reference since 1898. Verify listing →

That's the résumé. The real story is how it was built →

Hello,My name is Anush. Clients call me Coach Anush.

"Do you want my mom to coach you?" is what my daughter Gigi tells her friends — with pride. I am so proud of this.

Anush Gagua with Daughter Gigi — With my daughter, Gigi

I dared.

I dared to be a mom as a career woman… and with that embrace the full version of me, not just the achiever part of me!
I dared to leave my corporate job to be an executive coach.
I dared to move up from no money for next month's rent, food, car…
- to buying a place in LA,
- to building a 6-Figure Coaching Business,
- to coaching leaders within Fortune 500 companies with "life-changing" reviews…
I dared to recreate success as a first-generation immigrant.
I dared to move from Armenia to LA with only $400 USD.
I dared to interview celebrities and thought leaders, appear on the stages of Nokia, the Alex Theater, host shows broadcast worldwide with multi-million audience views.

I dared to be a CNN World Reporter.
I dared to take care of my 85+-year-old mom who came to LA with a big heart, no English, no money, and unable to work.
I dared to leave an abusive relationship.
I dared to coach and lead with faith over fear using the best tools in personal and professional development.
Most importantly, I dared to break the generational cycle of scarcity in my family, with a mission to help thousands of self-made high-achievers within Fortune 500 companies experience transformative career growth and with that break the generational cycles of scarcity.

Coaching changed my life more than a decade ago and I have been paying it forward since. I feel blessed to have the training, the skills, the experience, the heart, and the gift to create life-changing results with the power of coaching.

I dare YOU to dare — with the power of coaching.

Family Picture — Three generations — breaking the cycle, finally

Break the generational cycle of scarcity.
Get the role, the title, the pay you deserve and desire.

I have coached CLIENTS to make bold, life-changing, million-dollar moves. I've coached clients to DARE…

To 17X their book of business
To dare to become a parent and get promoted
To move from trauma/toxic environment into a dream job
To triple their team
To move companies after 23 years and stop the burnout

To make million-dollar decisions
To have high-stakes conversations impacting billions of users
To present with confidence in front of the board/the execs
To "get their life back!"
To "look forward to the evening, because there's an evening beyond work" along with professional success.

WOULD YOU LOVE SIMILAR RESULTS?

I've been exposed to the hidden challenges of ultra-successful clients, from brilliant individual contributors to mid-level leaders to CTOs, CEOs, and CMOs to multi-millionaire entrepreneurs. (The truth is: they have fears just like the rest of us!)

A honeybee working at the center of a bright pink rose in full bloom

Where my two passions converge

I love flowers in full bloom. And that is exactly what coaching does — it helps people fully bloom into their careers, and into their lives.

“The flower had to go through a lot of dirt before it blooms. I am honored to facilitate that growth — from seed to full bloom — with the power of coaching.”— Coach Anush

In Clients’ Words

… The best way I can describe it is this: she makes me feel like I can move mountains. … She listens with intention, challenges with compassion, and guides with clarity. …
—Alma Kazic, MBA, Senior Manager, Business Operations Management at Lam Research

Anush is a thoughtful, insightful professional with such a kind, positive heart and approach. She brings a wonderful balance of academic and framework based approach with empathy and excellent listening skills. I recommend her so highly!
—Alissa Gordon Heinerscheid, SVP Team Business Operations and New Business Strategy

… Beyond her outstanding professional capabilities, Anush is an amazing human being. She brings a rare combination of empathy, encouragement, and genuine care to the coaching journey. …
—Humberto Siúves, Senior Global Trade Counsel

My clients inspire me.

They are gladiators. They are successful, brave, stylish, smart, and kind — and are always seeking the next level of excellence.

If you can relate, let’s talk.

Here is to living with high income, impact, and integrity!

To your success + fulfillment,

Coach Anush

Client Results

Credentials

I dared.

Where my two passions converge

In Clients’ Words

Ways to work together

1:1 Executive Coaching

Authentic Executive Presence Accelerator™

Speaking & Workshops

Ready to become the obvious choice?