Meet Our Coaches

our team

Sheronda Dorsey

Sheronda Dorsey is a seasoned executive and certified leadership, life, and career coach with more than 35 years of distinguished service as a former C-suite leader in the Central Intelligence Agency. Drawing on her extensive executive leadership experience across business operations, service delivery, organizational development, and human capital management, she brings a strategic and deeply empathetic approach to leadership development and coaching.

Sheronda has a proven track record of empowering leaders to drive transformational change, enhance workforce engagement, and pursue purposeful self and career growth. Her coaching spans a diverse range of clients—from students and emerging professionals to C-suite executives—helping them unlock their full potential and successfully navigate complex career transitions.

With a holistic methodology that integrates personal well-being, core values, and professional ambition, Sheronda’s coaching is grounded in clarity, accountability, and results. She is a certified Wiley Brand DiSC® practitioner and a motivational speaker known for her powerful insights on inclusive leadership, organizational resilience, and personal empowerment.

Mike Bruni is a distinguished talent acquisition leader with close to 30 years of experience spanning both public and private sectors, including significant contributions within the national security arena. 

Having coached job seekers how to make a professional leap for several decades, be they students, mid-careerists, transitioning military or government employees, Mike has perfected the Reverse Recruiting method of Sweet Science.

As a former Vice President of Talent Acquisition and now Partner at Talent Acquisition Strategies, LLC, Mike has built a reputation for delivering innovative recruitment solutions, optimizing organizational design, advancing sourcing and recruitment technologies, as well as building candidate coaching and reverse recruiting methodologies.

Mike’s expertise encompasses the full spectrum of talent acquisition—from hands-on sourcing and recruiting to strategic management, consulting, and industry advisement. 

His career highlights include establishing best-in-class recruitment organizations, creating proven reverse recruiting methodologies, and elevating employer branding and marketing strategies to help organizations attract top-tier talent in highly competitive markets.

His career highlights include establishing best-in-class recruitment organizations, creating proven reverse recruiting methodologies, and elevating employer branding and marketing strategies to help organizations attract top-tier talent in highly competitive markets.

Mike Bruni

Gabrielle Braden

Gabrielle is a dynamic leader with 22 years of distinguished federal service inside the Intelligence Community and the State Department.

Respected for her ability to lead high-performing national security teams both domestically and abroad, Gabrielle brings a formidable blend of operational expertise, strategic communications, and organizational analysis to Tal-Strat and Sweet Science Recruitment. Her proven business acumen is matched by a keen understanding of recruitment strategies, design thinking, and the cultivation and mentorship of diverse and growth-oriented teams.

An entrepreneur at heart, Gabrielle is the founder of Day+West (dayandwest.com), an innovative skincare company where she is experienced in branding, product development, market trends and storytelling.

A certified Wiley Brand DiSC® practitioner pursuing her IFC coaching credential, Gabrielle is a catalyst for growth and innovation.