Mitra Gholam
About Mitra
Business Insight. Systemic Perspective.
Mitra Gholam founded Alira Consulting to help CEOs, founders, and senior leaders work through consequential decisions and organizational change. Leaders turn to her when a decision keeps coming back to the executive team, when functions disagree about who owns the next move, or when a merger asks teams that worked separately to deliver together.
Working with Mitra
Executive Advisory helps leaders weigh business trade-offs and decide where to act. Executive & Leadership Coaching gives executives space to think through difficult decisions and conversations. Systemic Team Coaching helps leadership teams clarify their shared priorities, decision ownership, and how they work across functions. Mitra’s private coaching clients have included professionals from Accenture and the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
She brings more than 25 years across finance, operations, strategy, and change. Her experience includes serving on an executive leadership team supporting approximately 300 team members and managing strategic stakeholder relationships involving more than $450 million in assets. That background shapes the questions she asks about what is at stake, who needs to act, and how leaders will know whether their decisions are working.
Credentials and professional service
Mitra is an AoEC London Licensed Executive & Leadership Coach, an International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach (ACC), and a Prosci® Certified Change Practitioner. She also holds EMCC Global Individual Accreditation (EIA). She leads the EMCC Global Team Coaching Centre for Excellence in a volunteer capacity, separate from her independent work through Alira Consulting.
Professional affiliations and community support
Alira Consulting LLC is a Small Business Member of the British-American Business Association (BABA) in Washington, D.C. Mitra is a member of The Financial Executives Networking Group (The FENG), the Virginia Society of CPAs (VSCPA), ICF Global, ICF Metro DC, EMCC USA, and EMCC Global.
She serves on the host committee for the VSCPA’s annual flagship leadership conference and on its scholarship committee. She is also a proud supporter of Didlake, Inc. and The Didlake Foundation.
Who Mitra works with
CEOs, founders and senior leaders accountable for decisions, team performance and change.
How Mitra works
Mitra starts with a private conversation about one consequential decision or recurring business challenge.
Client Evidence Through Change
A leader navigating organizational change reported greater resilience, confidence and self-awareness, along with stronger connections across her team. Team members supported one another across projects and spoke up more readily. She valued the anonymized insights from the work, requested continuation and referred a colleague.
