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San Francisco, CA, USA

Maya M.

Former CPO | 0 to 1 Guru | Start-up Advisor | Leadership Coach

With over 20 years of experience leading People teams for tech start-ups, Maya Miller is now a Fractional HR Leader and certified Leadership Coach. No stranger to fast-growing companies, Maya has helped startups and the Fortune 500 navigate their people strategy and operations such as Blockchain.com, Ripple, LendingClub, The PlumpJack Group, Wells Fargo Asset Management and Financial Engines. Prior to her role as Chief People Officer for Blockchain.com, where she scaled the company from 150 to 550 in less than 12 months, she was the founding HR executive for Ripple, where she led the creation of company values, built HR infrastructure, and grew and led the People and Talent teams.  

Four years ago Maya obtained her professional coaching certification at the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) and subsequently established her own coaching business. Maya marries these two experiences in her coaching and consulting business.  

She holds a BA in Human Development from UCSD, an MBA in Organizational Development from GW, and an Associate Coaching Certification from the Co-Active Training Institute, an ICF accredited program.

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Testimonials

Before working with Maya, we faced significant challenges and needed a strategic partner. Maya brought the expertise we required. She led an employee engagement initiative, creating open communication channels through focus groups and establishing an internal committee that gave employees a voice. The results were immediate—improved satisfaction and collaboration. Maya’s strategic, collaborative approach makes her the perfect fractional CPO for companies seeking to enhance employee relations and culture.
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Vanessa GilardiGlobal Head of People, MoonPay

Work

Lighthouse Knowledge Base

lighthouse.lsvp.com

Developed written and video content for Lightspeed VC's portfolio companies and founders. Topics include how to effectively choose and work with an Executive Coach.  https://lnkd.in/gw33mDFt and building your first performance management program.

The article explains to founders when to engage an executive coach, select the right coach for their goals, estimate time and cost commitments, and more. 

Experience

Jul 2020 — Present
Growthspace

Growthspace

Executive Coach

Growthspace was founded on the belief that L&D is a business-critical function that is instrumental to the success of any organization. A breadth of solutions, including one-on-one coaching, mentoring and training, internal mentoring, team coaching, and workshops.

  • Selected as primary coach for VP + clients, and team coaching.
Mar 2020 — Present

Maya Miller Coaching & Consulting

Founder, Consultant, Coach

Focused on culture building and people strategy, this is my independent business for HR consulting projects and Leadership coaching engagements. Recent projects include: 1) identified root causes for negative employee sentiment via focus groups, and presented problem analysis and created action plan to executive team (300 employees, series C, FinTech). 2) building first performance management system and selecting apropriate system, cadence, process, communication and training (30 person, series B, FinTech).

Mar 2021 — Apr 2023
Blockchain.com

Blockchain.com

Chief People Officer

The world’s leading crypto finance house serving people, projects, protocols and institutions since 2011. Whether it’s trading, earning rewards, checking payment status, or lending crypto, Blockchain.com offers the most established and widely-used way to invest in cryptocurrency for tens of millions of customers in nearly 200 countries.

  • First CPO hired, built the People strategy and infrastructure from 0 to 1. Scaled the company and systems from 100 to 500. Led people and cost streamlining during the crypto bear market in 2021-2022.
Sep 2017 — Mar 2020
LendingClub

LendingClub

VP People Success

Since 2007, serving more than 4.8+ million members, LendingClub is the leading digital marketplace bank at scale. Provides members with access to a broad range of financial products and services through a technology-driven platform, designed to help them pay less when borrowing and earn more when saving.

  • Led HRBP team and partnered with CTO on all People strategy topics from recruiting to DEI to retention.
May 2016 — Sep 2017
Ripple

Ripple

Head of People

Through blockchain technology, Ripple enables global financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers to move, manage and tokenize value, helping to unlock greater economic opportunity for everyone, everywhere.

  • Founding HR leader. Built People strategy and infrastructure from 0 to 1. Member of Comp Committee with BOD. Lead initiative to build and institutionalize company values.