Peggy McAllister
Principal, Essential Leadership
Peggy McAllister is an executive coach who has partnered with leaders and their teams around the world for more than three decades. Her coaching has empowered hundreds of leaders with simple yet powerful tools that unlock new insight and more effective leadership.
Her work is known for creating space where leaders can pause, reflect deeply, and see their leadership challenges with new clarity. What once felt complex or stuck begins to open. From this place of insight, leaders often reshape how they engage their teams, make decisions with greater confidence, and move forward on issues that previously felt intractable.
Over the course of her career, Peggy has coached leaders from both global and regional organizations including VF Corporation, PwC, Franklin Templeton, Twitter (original), United Airlines, BB&T Bank, Truist Financial, SAS Institute, Rex Healthcare, GlaxoSmithKline, and the University of North Carolina. She frequently integrates the Leadership Circle Profile™ into her coaching as a catalyst for meaningful leadership insight and growth.
With graduate degrees in psychology and counseling, Peggy brings both psychological depth and practical organizational understanding to her work. She believes effective leadership development begins with a willingness to look inward - and from this deeper awareness, leaders can engage others with greater clarity, courage, and humanity.