Empowering women to advance their entrepreneurial and corporate leadership journeys through targeted learning, strategic networking, personalized coaching and mentorship. Every woman's journey to leadership is unique. We strive to empower women to rise boldly and reach the top by achieving their personal and professional best. C-Suite Readiness ensures its members transform their leadership narrative by embracing new knowledge and relationships, strength and vulnerability, success and failure, ambition and balance.
We created a platform that brings women together to find solutions that they cannot find alone. Through the power of mentorship, strategic coaching, skill-building, focused learning, mentoring, and collaboration, we help accelerate women's advancement toward the C-suite and help them achieve career and entrepreneurial success. Whether you want to be a founder of your own company or rise to the top of your organizational ladder, C-Suite readiness will meet their members where they are!
Over 35 years of combined coaching experience in international corporations, and over 10 years of International Coach Training Experience. Trained in Top Leadership Assessments: Hogan, MBTI and TMP. All team members have International Coaching Credentials and Advanced Degrees: PCC, PhD, or Masters.
Yana Blackwelder
MA, PCC - Co-Founder and Chief Learning Officer, CLO
Yana Blackwelder is an award-winning Learning and Development executive with 15+ years of international experience and expertise in executive coaching, training design, and culture change interventions. She is also an entrepreneur and director of coaching programs. She has worked with 500+ senior leaders and teams in diverse global corporations and sectors, including financial services, consumer products, pharma, technology, NGOs, and academia. Yana is known for her cross-cultural communication skills in delivering leadership coaching programs, training curricula, and blended online learning solutions. She is an expert in developing senior and high-potential leaders, increasing employee engagement, and delivering high-performance outcomes. A result-oriented, mission-driven self-starter, she is a strategic business partner with leadership experience, organizational skills, business acumen, an entrepreneurial mindset, and strategic thinking in program delivery, design, content creation, and program management. Yana has a B.S. in Business from the Carlson School of Management and a Master in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University. She is a Professional Certified Coach and is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Executive Education. Yana’s most recent roles are SVP and Executive Coach at Bank of America, Coaching Program Director for Coca-Cola Hellenic, INSEAD Executive Coach, and NYU Adjunct Faculty.
Helen Vaysman
JD - Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer
Helen Vaysman is an attorney, entrepreneur, board director, and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) since 2020. Helen Vaysman works with professional individuals to navigate their career needs and charter new strategic paths for them and their teams. Helen Vaysman is a graduate of New York University (B.A. ‘99 with a major in Political Science and Minors in Sociology and English, Brooklyn Law School - J.D. ‘03). Helen is also the Founder of Law Offices of Helen Vaysman PLLC and is Attorney admitted to practice law in NY and NJ. She is a Member of the International Coaching Federation NYC Chapter. Helen served as an active committee member of Camp Good Grief, a tuition-free bereavement camp for grieving children and teenagers, as well as active in several other non-profit organizations and is currently working with the Waxman Cancer Research Foundation.