Leadership Coaching

Leadership coaching that’s grounded in somatics offers a unique approach to professional development because it engages both mind and body.

This approach helps you navigate the challenges of leadership with greater presence, clarity, and confidence. Like traditional executive coaching, we explore topics such as communication, decision-making, emotional intelligence, and leadership style. What sets this style of leadership coaching apart is the approach.

By incorporating the body and nervous system into the process, somatic-based leadership coaching can go deeper, helping you shift underlying patterns, manage stress more effectively, and lead from a place of greater alignment and authenticity.

Why Somatic Leadership Coaching?

If you're facing recurring challenges in your career or seeking professional growth, somatic leadership offers an alternative approach to traditional executive or leadership coaching. What’s unique about this approach is that it includes the body, recognizing that how you lead isn’t just shaped by your mindset but also by your emotions, stress, beliefs, and energy patterns held in the body.

By working with these deeper layers, this style of leadership coaching helps you shift unproductive habits, regulate your nervous system, and embody the leadership skills you want to develop, resulting in more presence, clarity, and effectiveness in your role.

Scroll down to learn more about how this work can support your professional development.

Embodied Leadership Coaching for women combines somatics and energy work to support professional growth.

  • Somatic practices can deepen your self-awareness by connecting physical sensations with emotions and thought patterns.

    This awareness can help you better understand your strengths and opportunities for growth to support your professional development.

  • Emotional intelligence is the foundation of effective leadership.

    Learning tools to work with your own emotions and those of others can help you stay centered even under pressure and can strengthen your connection with others.

    Somatics provides a fresh approach to process and release your own emotions and to work with the emotions and stress of others.

  • Oftentimes the most challenging aspect of leadership is working effectively with other people.

    Improving your emotional intelligence, non-verbal communication and presence can help you build trust and foster collaborative relationships.

    Strengthening your communication and relationship skills can also help you navigate conflict with more ease, improve cross-cultural communication, help you give and receive honest feedback, set boundaries, and speak up with clarity and kindness.

  • Somatic practices can help you access your intuition which for many is held in the body, and make decisions aligned with this deeper wisdom.

    This can help you with decision-fatigue, managing your time effectively, getting clarity about your vision for the future, and developing strategies that are informed by your head, heart, and gut.

  • A key element of embodied leadership is aligning your work in the world with who you are as a person.

    As a result, this work can help you get clarity on your purpose, vision for the future, and how to move forward in your career in a way that aligns with your values.

  • Working with somatics can help you develop a leadership style that’s unique to you and aligned with your strengths and values.

    Leadership that’s guided by both your head and your heart is oftentimes far more compelling and effective at inspiring others.

    Authentic leadership can also help you stay motivated when inevitable challenges arise, can help you overcome imposter syndrome, and can help you show up at work in a way that honors your strengths and personality.

  • While it’s important to learn new strategies to support your leadership and professional development, it’s just as important that your work is sustainable. As a result, supporting your wellbeing is a key priority in coaching.

    Through this work, you’ll learn how to release emotions, limiting beliefs, and blocked energy held in your body. This can be crucial not only to support your leadership but also your health and wellbeing.

    Through this work, you’ll also learn strategies to deal with stress more effectively so you can feel more grounded and centered in your everyday professional life.

Logistics

Leadership coaching is typically offered as a six-week virtual program, featuring six one-hour, one-on-one sessions. Each session blends conversation, somatic practices, energy work, and traditional leadership strategies tailored to your unique goals.

The program length and session frequency can be customized to best support your needs and schedule.

To explore if this coaching is right for you, schedule a free consultation below. During this session, we’ll discuss your leadership challenges and goals, and I’ll guide you through a demo of somatic and energy practices so you can experience firsthand how this approach can support your professional growth.

Getting Started

  • Words from Kim H:

    After years of “traditional” corporate professional development, somatic leadership coaching with Elizabeth was a breath of fresh air. Past trainings left me with a checklist of things to do but without an understanding of why they might be difficult to implement. Following Elizabeth’s expert guidance, I was able to better understand the root issues holding me back and learn how to work with, not against, the mental and physical responses to tough work situations. With this knowledge, I feel equipped to practice with the new tools gained in these sessions and move forward.

  • Words from Flannery N:

    “Working with Elizabeth was such an enriching experience. I considered myself fairly in tune with my body before beginning somatic coaching. But she showed me how much deeper I could go in my awareness and understanding of how my body is communicating with me. Elizabeth’s presence is incredibly grounding and she knows just how to guide you to your own realizations so that you can gain confidence in listening to the wisdom your body is waiting for your mind to discover.

    I highly recommend working with Elizabeth if you feel stuck in any way, even if you aren’t quite sure why – she will help you uncover it and give you the tools to move forward.”

  • Words from Judy C:

    “Elizabeth helped me identify what my body’s response was to certain thoughts or emotions and it was mind boggling! This work helped me delve into myself in a way I hadn’t experienced before. The connection of mind and body is so underrated and desperately needed in our ongoing journey of self.”

  • Words from JC:

    “When I am in a stressful situation, my body often betrays me. My breathing feels constricted, my mind feels fuzzy. I feel tension in my neck and back; sometimes I feel fatigued, irritated, or overwhelmed. I am unable to tap into all that knowledge that is stored in my brain to change my present situation. It’s left me wondering: what can I do to calm my mind in the moment? Is there something I can do to shift my body to help me think differently?

    That’s where Elizabeth’s work comes in. She takes a holistic approach to leadership. It’s a somatic approach that has the same roots in somatic therapy — a form of body-centered therapy that looks at the connection of mind and body and uses both psychotherapy and physical therapies for holistic healing. This approach makes a ton of sense to me.

    Elizabeth helps you improve how you feel in your body ... and teaches you the techniques you need to improve your physical and mental wellbeing. The idea is that our body is the channel to our mind. When you improve your mental wellbeing, you can show up the way you want to show up in any situation.

    To me, that’s the holy grail of leadership.”