About Bryan Powell

Professional Overview

Bryan Powell is a leadership coach, advisor, and author who works with senior leaders and teams operating under sustained pressure. His work focuses on helping teams improve how they think, decide, and execute together, particularly in environments where performance depends less on strategy and more on daily interaction. Bryan is known for helping capable teams close the gap between intention and execution by strengthening trust, clarity, and accountability at the same time.

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Bryan is the author of The Efficient Frontier of Teaming™, a practical framework that reframes team performance as a relationship between results and the energy required to achieve them. His work challenges the idea that teams need more motivation, more meetings, or more process to perform better. Instead, he helps leaders see how everyday behaviors such as communication patterns, decision rights, and ownership either create friction or enable sustained performance. His coaching emphasizes engagement and authenticity not as cultural ideals, but as operating conditions that directly influence outcomes.

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With a background in organizational leadership and performance psychology, Bryan brings a practitioner scholar perspective to his work. He holds a master’s degree in Organizational Leadership and is actively engaged in doctoral research focused on team performance and psychological safety. This research lens informs his ability to connect real world team challenges with evidence based insights, while keeping his work grounded, practical, and immediately applicable.

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Bryan works extensively with executive teams, wealth advisory firms, and cross functional leadership groups navigating growth, complexity, and elevated expectations. His clients value his ability to ask the questions others avoid, surface unspoken dynamics, and help teams build shared operating habits that hold up under pressure. Rather than offering one time interventions, Bryan partners with leaders to design repeatable ways of working that support clarity, ownership, and consistent execution over time.

In addition to his coaching and advisory work, Bryan is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council, where he writes on leadership, team performance, and the human side of execution. Across his work, his focus remains consistent: helping teams reduce friction, improve how they work together, and perform at a level that is sustainable rather than exhausting.