About BrillianceInc.
The founders of Brilliance Inc are experienced professional coaches, managers, facilitators, and global business consultants. They have combined their passion for coaching with their expertise in business, management, instructional design, and adult learning to create services that give managers the tools to evoke truly brilliant results.
As certified executive coaches, they know how to develop business professionals into top performers. As facilitators, they know how to create an environment where profound change occurs.
Managing Partners

Denise Green
Denise is an executive coach, facilitator, and writer with deep experience in leadership and organizational development. Denise works with clients to help them lead teams more effectively, better influence others, and address conflict with confidence, grace, and skill. She helps her clients inspire commitment and high performance.
Denise has worked in large, multi-national firms in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1993 as a manager and Learning & Development professional. She has facilitated and designed hundreds of learning sessions on topics including leadership, management, and professional development. Her last corporate role was Executive Coach and Director of Leadership and Management Development at Charles Schwab and Co., Inc.
Denise holds a Bachelor’s Degree in French from Arizona State University (summa cum laude) and the University of Paris Sorbonne, and a Master of Liberal Arts from Stanford University. She is a New Ventures West-certified Coach. She is certified in FIRO-B, Fierce Communications, The Influence Edge, The Lumi Company Strategic Manager Series, The Extraordinary Leader 360, PDI, DDI, and others.
- Email: Denise@BrillianceInc.com
- Phone: 415-939-3571

Heather Andersen
Heather is an executive coach and facilitator specializing in effective communication and leadership development. She brings a decade of expertise to her work with managers, teams and individuals. Many of Heather’s clients are leaders who have transitioned into a new position or taken on a higher level of responsibility. She partners with client to help them leverage their strengths, engage in more powerful conversations, develop key relationships and take confident action to excel in their new role.
Heather has coached and consulted with a wide range of Fortune 500 clients including the IT, Financial Services, Consumer Products and Manufacturing sectors. With a background in cross cultural consulting she brings extensive international business experience to her work with individuals and teams and has particularly deep knowledge and experience in India.
Heather holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of New Hampshire, and an MSBA in International Business from San Francisco State University. She is a New Ventures West-certified Coach. She is certified in NLP, FIRO-B, Highlands Ability Battery, and Bar-On’s EQ-i. Heather serves on the board of the Professional Coaches Mentor’s Association (PCMA).
- Email: Heather@BrillianceInc.com
- Phone: 510-336-1461
