Tracy Wallingford
Career Coach, Full-Time MBA
Bio
An ICF Professional Certified Coach and Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, Tracy brings over 20 years of corporate and start-up experience in marketing, management, and mentoring to her work in career and leadership coaching. She brings diverse experience across sectors, with leadership positions in technology and retail and early-career experiences in advertising and training and development.
Tracy is passionate about helping her students, clients and teams define and communicate what makes them unique and build upon those strengths to achieve their goals, and founded her firm Strength-Powered Strategies to support that mission. Her work involves individual coaching, team coaching, teaching workshops and speaking on leadership topics to diverse audiences ranging from students to CEOs. In addition to her work at NC State, she works across MBA programs at UNC Kenan-Flagler and taught presentation techniques to first-year MBA students as an Adjunct Instructor at the SMU Cox School of Business.
Tracy earned her M.S. in Management Science with a concentration in Organizational Behavior and Executive Coaching at The University of Texas at Dallas and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia with a B.A. in Economics. When she’s not coaching or leading workshops, she is spending time with her family: her husband, teenage son and daughter and beloved dog Tex.