When you’re you,
you’re incredible at this job.
You know it. Your team knows it. But lately you've been running on autopilot — showing up, getting it done, and quietly missing the version of you that used to love this.
You don't want to leave. You want her back — the one who says what she thinks, leads like she means it, and doesn't have to put on a mask to walk in the room.
Own What's Next Leadership Coaching is a one-to-one process for mid-career leaders who are done performing and ready to lead as themselves.
Own What’s Next Leadership Coaching
You're damn good at your job — and running on autopilot anyway. You get it done, nobody suspects a thing, yet you barely recognize the woman doing it.
You've gone quiet in the room. You soften what you think, wait to be asked, talk yourself out of your own take before anyone else can. You've got the goods — you're just not putting them on the table.
You don't want to blow it up. You just want to feel like yourself again in the thing you worked this hard to build.
You show up, you deliver, you go home — quietly wondering when work started feeling like this. And whether it has to stay this way. (Spoiler alert: It doesn't.)
You've got so much more to give and you know it — you're just worn out from giving it as a version of you that doesn't feel like you.
You're done with leadership books and one more "authentic leadership" webinar. You need someone in your corner who'll tell you the truth, won't let you shrink, and helps you lead like yourself again — because when you're you, you're incredible at this.
is right for you if…
all these thoughts point to
Now is the time to be the leader
you were meant to be!
Why wait?
Own What’s Next Leadership Coaching empowers you to overcome self-doubt, enhance your skills, and make an impact that’s meaningful to you and the organization NOW.
Get back to being the woman who can’t be ignored.
Assess
Deepen your self-awareness as we closely examine your unique strengths and identify potential barriers to your growth. By leveraging these insights, we'll refine our approach and coaching goals to help you become the leader you’re meant to be.
Setup
Feel the heaviness start to lift as you gain a dedicated partner in me in your corner. Together, we’ll build trust and define specific goals that align with the leader you aspire to be.
Working together is a four-step process:
activate
Reduce stress and overwhelm as you make more conscious choices about how you show up and where you invest your energy. Align your actions with your core values to lead authentically and confidently, making a significant impact.
celebrate
Experience the transformation as you authentically lead with confidence and make a meaningful impact. Together, we’ll celebrate your journey and the significant milestones you've achieved, solidifying your role as an inspiring and impactful leader.
Meredith asks thoughtfully crafted questions, displays authentic vulnerability that draws you in, and listens as if you’re the only person in the world at that given moment. Passionate, personable, and purposeful, Meredith is a wonderful ally, a great coach…
— L.S., Management Consulting Leader
What Clients Are Saying
As a coach, she’s helped me grow personally through her perception and ability to ask exactly the right question at precisely the right time. To top it all off, she’s just flat-out fun to be around! Meredith will help you figure out where you want to go…and then help you get there.
— C.C., Communications, Leadership, and Organizational Development Leader
While I had a successful career to that point, I started to doubt my own [leadership] abilities. Stuck in a rut of burnout and self doubt, I turned to Meredith—and everything changed. The coaching experience transformed me.
I highly recommend working with Meredith and…finding new paths of living and working.
— D.A., Product Development Leader
“Meredith used insightful and effective frameworks to help me better understand my strengths and opportunities as a leader.
We used information from the Energy Leadership Index assessment to give me clarity and understanding of how my energy and intentions are integral to how I interact and work through challenges and conflict with others. I was able to use it to positively raise my energy and improve my mindset and approach challenging leadership moments more successfully. I also thought the Kolbe A Index assessment was a good companion that helped me see my core strengths in ways I had not thought about before.”
— Digital Product Management Leader
Here’s what I know after
16 years of doing this.
As someone who's spent 16 years coaching mid-career leaders through exactly this, let me save you the suspense: you're not stuck — you're just convinced you are. Big difference.
And climbing out of it happens a lot faster than the story in your head keeps telling you.
Not with pep talks or personality tests that sit in a drawer. With real, honest work that shows up in how you lead the very next week.
My clients speak up in the rooms they used to stay quiet in. They stop waiting for permission.
One went from second-guessing every opinion to trusted advisor — and a promotion to EVP. Same company, same role she'd almost walked away from. She just finally started showing up as herself.
You don't need to become a different leader. You need to get you back in the chair. That's what we do together.
What You Get
AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP
You’re a Once-in-a-Lifetime Gift
Embrace your innate strengths and define your unique leadership mission to lead genuinely and inspire your team.
growth
You’re Meant for Greatness
Dive deeper than surface-level skills
to ignite a powerful mindset and cultivate qualities that drive positive, sustainable
change in your leadership career and life.
impact
You Make a Significant Difference
Shift your focus from just titles and paychecks to making a meaningful mark and achieve greater career fulfillment.
A few of the program inclusions
Powerful goal-setting to get focused on your shift from Success to Significance
Own What’s Next Leadership Roadmap to get you there
Personalized 1-on-1 support in weekly or biweekly meetings
Accelerated self-awareness through assessments:
Rediscover your superpowers
Uncover blind spots that may not be serving you
Learn more about how others experience you
Leadership Style Development: Cultivate your unique style to lead authentically and effectively
Powerful Decision-Making Frameworks: Prioritize meaningful impact and positive change
Resilience and Adaptability: Navigate and thrive through change and challenges more effectively
Communication Mastery: Build stronger relationships, influence others positively, and foster a collaborative work environment
Vision and Purpose Alignment: Ensure your leadership presence aligns with your personal mission and values
Your Time Investment
6-MONTH TRANSFORMATION PROGRAM
Start your shift from Success to Significance by developing a more opportunities-oriented mindset and key skills that turn into lasting habits for long-term career fulfillment.
Employer-Sponsored Coaching
Comprehensive employer-sponsored coaching includes all above plus interviews with key stakeholders for gathering robust feedback to support your transformation and calibrating the company’s goals with your own .
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Titles don’t make leaders; the ability to inspire, guide, and make a significant difference does. And, hell, even rockstar leaders recognize they can always fine-tune their craft.
Leadership coaching helps hone your influence and communication skills, adapt to constant change and new challenges, and check and choose perspectives that serve you and others so you can lead with even more impact. Think of it as upgrading from good to great to unstoppable.
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Several clients have come to me after being recommended by other leaders in their organization who have honestly waited too long…
They’ve “tried everything else” but coaching…
Or the problems have become so big they feel insurmountable…
Or so many unproductive habits are engrained…
Or the leader being coached is so overwhelmed…
that it feels to them like coaching may be an impossible task.
To say it’s too late at any of these points may or may not be true, but certainly a lot more time will need to be invested in untangling the unproductive knot than if we’d started much sooner.
Starting ASAP with Own What’s Next Leadership Coaching can help you refine your skills and adapt to upcoming changes to ensure you stay ahead of the curve.
By starting now, you can ensure continuous growth and maintain your competitive edge, setting the stage for long-term success, impact, and fulfillment.
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You know the saying:
Strive for progress, not perfection.Own What’s Next Leadership Coaching isn’t just for fixing problems—it’s about taking you and your team from good to extraordinary, focusing on continual improvement rather than some unattainable ideal of perfection.
If your team is already killing it, imagine what they can do with a leader who’s even better – constantly curious and eager to learn from every situation, who taps into the collective intelligence of the team to evolve and innovate in ways never you’ve never thought possible. I want to be on THAT team with THAT leader!
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Vulnerability requires courage and a safe space. (Have you read Brené Brown’s work? LOVE me some Brené Brown!)
Therefore, I fully commit to you: Zero judgment here.
In fact, I promise the space to explore, experiment, mess up, try again, learn, grow, and level up. And we’ll have a few laughs along the way, too.Leadership coaching is all about creating a confidential, supportive environment where you can be 100% real and work on what really matters.
No facade necessary, I assure you. Together, we’ll get to the heart of what will make you an even better leader. -
Clients often come to me saying they feel overwhelmed and stretched too thin already.
Then quickly realize once we do get started, leadership coaching is actually a game-changer.
First, we’ll work together to fit sessions into your busy schedule, meeting often enough to keep the momentum on the powerful work you’ll be doing.
They’ll also be laser-focused to give insights and specific strategies that will have you saving time, precious energy, and effort in your day-to-day over the long run.In fact, by prioritizing coaching, you’re investing in making your leadership more effective and efficient, which ultimately helps you manage your time better and achieve more significant impact.
You’ll likely come out ahead with “more time” than you realized was possible. -
Leadership coaching is like a custom-tailored dress or suit—it fits you perfectly.
It’s not management training that focuses on teaching universal skills to a group without the benefit of addressing the circumstances of each leader and no follow-up support.One-to-one leadership coaching is personalized to your unique strengths, challenges, and goals with a dedicated partner ready to help you practice new skills, reflect on what’s working and what isn’t, course correcting and trying more new skills, and celebrating your progress.
It’s about developing your authentic leadership style and creating strategies that work for you in your unique situation. -
I was hoping you would ask!
Two reasons:
1. First, I recognize that you are a once-in-a-lifetime gift.
I am deeply committed to working closely with you to uncover and articulate your uniqueness: your strengths, your core values, and your goals for your leadership journey.
My sole priority: help you become the leader you, and only you, were meantto beSo, in me you don’t just get any ol’ coach but a true partner who’s fully invested in your goals.
My greatest joy is helping clients create and realize their leadership mission and vision so they can make a more significant impact on the work, on their teams, and on the organization and its stakeholders.2. In Own What’s Next Leadership Coaching, we use the proven Energy Leadership framework that you can go back to again and again, every day, and each time you’re ready to supercharge your leadership.
Of course, I’ll be honored to support you again in the future when you need a sounding board and someone to compassionately yet directly hold up the mirror and challenge your thinking.
At the same time, you’ll have what you need to make conscious choices about how you want to show up as a positive, influential, collaborative, and authentic leader others want to follow. -
Own What’s Next Leadership Coaching is never about forcing you into a mold.
It’s about
uncovering and enhancing your personal leadership style
supporting you in making the most productive choices in how you show up
and supporting you in making tweaks so those choices serve you and your teams.
We’ll absolutely build on your natural, hardwired strengths and your core values to adapt strategies so they are right for you, enabling you to lead authentically, confidently, and effectively.
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In short: Absolutely!
Clients come to me All. The. Time. reporting unproductive behaviors on the team.
Own What’s Next Leadership Coaching gives you the tools to navigate and resolve team conflicts, improve communication, and build a stronger, more cohesive team.
You don’t have to do it alone—let’s tackle those opportunities together. -
Then, my friend, I’ve got a little Career Coaching something-something with your name written all over it.
Frequently Asked Questions
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest
is just tenacity."
~AMELIA EARHART, AVIATION PIONEER (edited)
When you're you, you're incredible at this. Let's go get her back.