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The Women Leaders Association, the largest publisher and events organization for women professionals with 43,000 members and more than 130 regional chapters, today announced Kimberly Cremers, PharmD, ACC, as the first official Coaching Partner of its Seattle chapter, SeattleWomenLeaders.org. The appointment launches the association's new Coaching Partners program in the Puget Sound region, giving members direct access to coaches who have been carefully screened for credentials, track record, and client results.
The Coaching Partners program was created to solve a problem the association's members raise consistently: coaching is one of the highest-impact investments a professional woman can make in her career — and one of the most difficult to find. Coaching titles are unregulated, quality varies enormously, and a leader evaluating coaches on her own has little way to verify who is genuinely proven. Under the new program, the Women Leaders Association does much of that screening on the member's behalf. Every Coaching Partner is vetted for recognized certifications, verifiable experience, and excellent client reviews before being presented to members, so each chapter's professionals can book a consultation with confidence, have a great experience, and keep rising in their careers.
Petrichor is the smell in the forest after it rains — and Cremers named her practice for that moment of freshness and the growth it sparks. Founder of Petrichor Coaching & Consulting, she has supported leaders, graduate students, and teams across the pharmaceutical and healthcare landscape for more than 25 years, helping them grow with clarity, confidence, and fresh thinking. Her coaching creates a supportive space where accomplished professionals can pause, reflect, and move forward with intention — whether they are growing their impact, navigating change, or reconnecting with what matters most in their work.
Few coaches know the life-sciences world from as many angles. Cremers served on one of the industry's first Medical Science Liaison teams at Seattle's Immunex — including the launch of a first-to-market biotech therapy — then spent 11 years at Amgen rising through director roles across neuroscience, oncology, and metabolic bone, ultimately leading strategy and planning across Regional Medical Liaison teams and global Scientific Affairs training and development. Her later chapters span Seattle Genetics, UCB — where she headed Medical Science Liaisons for Rheumatology West — and Scipher Medicine, alongside six Médecins Sans Frontières missions to Liberia, South Sudan, Swaziland, Gaza, and Uganda. Today she also serves as a Success Coach for a Harvard Medical School senior executive program, coaching accomplished life-sciences leaders and hosting fireside conversations with CEOs and CMOs. In addition, she teaches the next generation of pharmacists at The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy about the pharmaceutical industry. A Doctor of Pharmacy and ICF Associate Certified Coach, she holds Executive, Business, and Career Coach certifications from the Center for Executive Coaching.
"Petrichor represents that moment of freshness after rain — which is exactly what good coaching creates," said Cremers. "Across twenty-five years in this industry — from one of its first MSL teams to Harvard's executive classrooms to field missions on two continents — I've learned that growth happens when we slow down long enough to understand where we are and where we want to go next. My work is to listen deeply, ask thoughtful questions, and help you see possibilities you may not have recognized on your own. I'm honored to bring that space to the Women Leaders Association's Seattle members."
Seattle-area members can now view Cremers's full profile, including her focus areas and credentials, book a complimentary discovery session directly through her calendar, or send her a private note through the page, at https://SeattleWomenLeaders.org/coaching.html?coach=KimberlyCremers
"Kim has lived the whole arc of this industry — among its first medical science liaisons, a decade of leadership at Amgen, lecturer roles at two pharmacy schools, and now coaching senior life-sciences executives for one of Harvard Medical School's executive programs — and she has carried those skills to Doctors Without Borders missions on two continents," said Lydia Price, 2026 Volunteer Chair of the Women Leaders Association. "Seattle is one of the world's great life-sciences cities, and launching its program with a coach this fluent in that world is exactly what Coaching Partners promises."
The Seattle launch is part of a national rollout, with the association planning to extend the Coaching Partners program across its network of more than 130 chapters, pairing each city's members with coaches selected for that market.
The Coaching Partners program extends the association's broader mission of giving professional women both the structural transparency and the individual support they need to advance. Research from Pew and others estimates that women still earn roughly 15 percent less than men on average, and most women have little visibility into which employers actually advance women fairly. The Women Leaders Association has invested heavily in closing that information gap: its Glass Ceiling Score project, uses big data to score most major U.S. employers on how fairly they promote women into management and executive roles, and its chapters publish Best Women Employers rankings, compensation studies, and annual Top 50 Women Leaders awards. Coaching Partners adds the complementary, personal dimension: once a member can see the landscape clearly, a proven coach helps her move through it.
About Kimberly Cremers
Kimberly Cremers, PharmD, ACC, is the Founder and CEO of Petrichor Coaching & Consulting (petrichorcac.com) in the greater Seattle area, offering executive coaching for pharmaceutical and healthcare leaders, Pharma Industry education for students and academic partners, and Medical Affairs consulting for organizations building or optimizing MSL teams. An ICF Associate Certified Coach with Executive, Business, and Career Coach certifications from the Center for Executive Coaching, she serves as a Success Coach for one of Harvard Medical School's senior executive programs and lectures at The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy. Her 25-plus-year career spans Immunex, Amgen, Sandoz (TriNet Pharma), Seattle Genetics, UCB, and Scipher Medicine, plus six Médecins Sans Frontières missions. She earned her PharmD from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia and her B.S. in Pharmacy from The Ohio State University, with ASHP residencies including PGY2 Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center. Seattle members can connect with her through her profile above.
About the Women Leaders Association
The Women Leaders Association is a non-profit committed to the development and advancement of women in the corporate arena. With 43,000 members and more than 130 chapters in major cities, it is the largest publisher and events organization serving women professionals, producing conferences, leadership programs, original research, and daily publications for its members. We also celebrate the top 50 business women in each city, publish a Glass Ceiling Score ranking how well most employers advance women, and then recognize the best women's employers in each city from these rankings.
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