Dr. Felicia Guity, DBA

Felicia Guity is a global enterprise leader and board member with more than two decades of experience driving growth, operational transformation, and market expansion across complex technology organizations including Google, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Citrix, and Coursera. She is known for uniting strategic vision with disciplined execution, having led businesses ranging from $695M to $307B across SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS environments.At Google, Felicia served as Chief Operating Officer for Cloud Engineering, overseeing 13,500 engineers responsible for mission‑critical infrastructure, data centers, and networking platforms. She strengthened operational resilience, improved cost efficiency, and aligned engineering execution with enterprise outcomes while maintaining 99.9% uptime across global systems.Felicia currently serves as Enterprise Strategy and Growth Leader at Coursera, where she built the foundational model to scale B2B, B2G, and B2C growth worldwide. She led go‑to‑market transformation, redesigned pricing and partner frameworks, and expanded alliances across North America, EMEA, Asia, and Africa. Her leadership has improved net revenue retention, forecasting accuracy, pipeline velocity, and customer engagement through data‑driven and AI‑enabled insights.During her 18‑year tenure at Microsoft, Felicia held senior roles including General Manager and Vice President of OEM and Worldwide Education Channel Strategy. She led Microsoft’s first global education channel strategy, managed more than $2B in marketing and incentive investments, and advanced digital‑equity initiatives that expanded global access to technology and cloud infrastructure.Felicia brings extensive board experience across nonprofit and public‑interest organizations, serving as Board Chair and board member for organizations with budgets from under $1M to nearly $100M. She is recognized for her governance discipline, strategic rigor, and ability to help organizations translate vision into measurable outcomes. She is also the Founder and CEO of an advisory practice focused on leadership, performance, and enterprise effectiveness, and is a sought‑after keynote speaker on organizational transformation. Felicia holds a Doctor of Business Administration, advanced degrees in economics and business, and executive certifications in M&A, AI strategy, and cloud transformation. Her work has been recognized with multiple national awards for leadership and innovation, and she is a patent holder for a global incentive delivery system.