Leadership Coaching at The Courage Practice is an intuitive, somatic approach to leadership development that works with the person behind the role.

We can work with communication, decision-making, relationships, influence, conflict, change, visibility, executive presence, or the demands of leadership itself. Yet leadership is more than a collection of competencies. How you lead is shaped by how you relate to yourself, other people, power, uncertainty, responsibility, and the systems around you.

The work develops the leader from the inside out.

I work with executives, senior leaders, founders, entrepreneurs, and emerging leaders across industries and stages of leadership.

For more than 25 years, my work has crossed startups and established organizations, nonprofits and for-profits, film and production, healthcare, technology, fintech, space tech, higher education, professional services, and businesses of many shapes and sizes.

The industries change. The human experience of carrying leadership has remarkable continuity across them.

My approach has been shaped by more than 25 years of working with leaders, teams, entrepreneurs, and organizations, alongside continued study in leadership, human behavior, well-being, equity, intuition, and somatic practice.

I’ve served as a member of the Forbes Coaches Council and contributed leadership and business perspectives to Forbes. My continued development has included Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead work, Somatic Experiencing coursework, study through The Embody Lab, The Science of Well-Being with Dr. Laurie Santos at Yale, and The Great Unlearn with Rachel Cargle. In 2024, I was recognized as a Top Intuitive Coach by The Coach Foundation.

All of it informs the work. None of it replaces the practice of paying attention to the human being in front of me.

I don’t separate leadership strategy from the human being responsible for carrying it forward.

My approach to leadership and executive coaching brings business experience, strategic thinking, intuitive perception, pattern recognition, and somatic awareness into the room. I don’t assume the presenting leadership problem is the whole problem. I may ask questions, challenge assumptions, make a connection, offer what I see, or introduce a possibility you haven’t considered.

The work strengthens both your leadership and your capacity to inhabit it.

Bring what leadership is asking of you right now.

A difficult conversation. A consequential decision. A relationship you can’t quite read. A team dynamic. Conflict. Visibility. Power. A new role. Organizational change. Something you’re becoming aware of in yourself—or something you can feel changing around you.

You don’t need to separate the professional question from the human one before you arrive.

Leadership is experienced through more than what you say. People experience how you arrive.

Somatic awareness in leadership coaching brings attention to information available through the body—sensation, response, activation, presence, and patterns we may experience before we have language for them.

Embodiment develops as awareness becomes something you can inhabit. You become more able to notice yourself while you are leading, remain present in complexity, recognize your responses, and make choices with greater contact with yourself and the people around you.

Leadership changes when what you know is no longer separate from how you live it.

As intelligence becomes increasingly available, our distinctly human capacities become more consequential.

AI can expand access to information, analysis, language, productivity, and possibility. It does not remove a leader’s responsibility to discern, choose, relate, communicate, build trust, navigate complexity, or understand the human consequences of a decision.

My work develops these capacities alongside the strategic demands of leadership—self-awareness, judgment, relational intelligence, intuition, creativity, courage, and the ability to remain present when the answer isn’t obvious.

The future of leadership will require more than access to intelligence. It will require the human capacity to know what to do with it.

The Leadership Advisory Session is a focused 60 minute phone conversation for a specific leadership question, decision, challenge, or situation where another perspective would be useful.

Leadership Evolution offers a three-month coaching engagement for a concentrated season of leadership development and change.

The Leadership Partnership is a sustained coaching and intuitive advisory relationship for the person behind the title—designed for leaders whose work asks for deeper attention and partnership over time.

If you’re unsure where you belong, a Discovery Conversation gives us room to talk about what you’re navigating and determine what kind of support makes sense.