Vanessa Williams

Vanessa Williams is a globally minded advisor with an international background and vast experience. Her signature style is how she combines her results focus with deep trust. Using an holistic approach with her clients, she identifies success enablers and roadblocks, and creates metric-driven action plans and goals.  Her exceptional ability to point clients to practical action steps comes from her direct experience and success in similar roles as her clients’.

Vanessa brings a unique combination of Fortune 500 executive success and credentials with CEOs and senior leaders. Vanessa's deep and broad operational, financial, and cross-functional credentials bring an enterprise-wide view and high business acumen to deliberations and decisions facing any board of directors. For the prior 25+ years, Vanessa led service, relationship management, productivity, and talent development at major financial services institutions for large client segments in the US and internationally. She led collaboration across Prudential Retirement functions, implementing holistic solutions to improve the customer experience. Vanessa worked across Sun Life Financial worldwide to embed the enterprise customer loyalty program.

Earlier in her career, she led financial and operational teams at Aetna, Kaiser Permanente, and the University of Connecticut Health Center. She is currently a Director for the following CEO Trust Advisory Boards – Virginia Industries, Inc., and First State Bank of Texas. She was Board Chair of Easter Seals Capital Region & Eastern Connecticut. Vanessa holds an MS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a BS from Virginia State University. She has the Professional Certified Coach designation, granted by the International Coach Federation, and received corporate board of directors certification by CEO Trust's BoardTrust.