Banks Pecht

With an energetic style perfectly suited to today’s workplace, Banks Staples Pecht helps successful people be more successful. She leads corporations and individual executives through complex transitions; she motivates high achievers to go even higher; and she coaches teams to optimize performance through increased trust, efficiency, and collaboration. 

Banks is both a lawyer and International Coach Federation (ICF) certified evidence based coach. Prior to coaching, she began her career as a commercial litigator with a global law firm representing biotechnology and telecommunications companies. She later moved into retained executive search, where she helped global technology and financial services companies strategize and fill their senior leadership needs.

 Banks’s coaching work has been featured on television, radio, and on Lynda.com/LinkedIN Learning.

Education and Community

Banks earned her bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from Princeton University and her J.D., also cum laude, from the University of San Diego, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and the San Diego Law Review. Banks holds a graduate level certification in Comprehensive Evidence Based Coaching from Fielding Graduate University and is an ICF certified Professional Certified Coach (PCC). Banks serves a variety of county-wide nonprofit and philanthropic organizations. She is the Vice Chair of the City of Ventura Cultural Affairs Commission, President of the National Charity League, Ventura County Chapter, sits on the Boards of Directors of Livingston Visiting Nurse Association and Women’s Economic Ventures, and is a member of the Curriculum Committee and a featured speaker for the Ventura County Leadership Academy.

Banks is also a wife, mother, writer, yogini, and two-time international champion barbershop singer.