EXECUTIVE COACHING FOR WOMEN:
FACILITATING TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE FOR FEMALE LEADERS IN A MALE-DOMINATED CORPORATE WORLD

Work With a Dedicated Executive Coach for Women​ To Elevate Your Earning Potential and Satisfaction With Life In and Out of the Office

Drawing on a proven approach grounded in developmental psychiatry and neuroscience, I collaborate with top-performing businesswomen in a dynamic and creative process to unlock their full potential through leadership coaching for women. Together, we can enhance your self-awareness, inspire action, and drive meaningful transformation.

Testimonials From My Female Executive Coaching Clients Around the Country

  • In my new role as CEO, I was having a hard time organizing my priorities. I was being pulled in multiple directions by different stakeholders and their often conflicting interests. I also needed guidance to help me champion my own needs as a leader in order to avoid burnout. Coaching with Kelly brought clarity to my decision making process and helped hold me accountable to execute my decisions, even if that meant inviting uncomfortable situations or conflict. She also got me to see that having boundaries for myself is ultimately good for my team and my organization. Ultimately, Kelly has given me a greater sense of control and self-confidence as a leader; I recommend working with her because she’s inquisitive and insightful in a way that will clarify how you see yourself in your leadership role.

    CEO, Fashion/Consumer Goods CEO
    New York

  • I have had the privilege of working with Kelly as an executive coach for the last six months. Kelly found me at a pivotal moment of change in my career that had caught me off guard - an unexpected layoff followed by a new, ambiguous role that had sunk me into a deep place of vulnerability and uncertainty. Kelly met me exactly where I was - I believe I even cried in our first session - and helped me take back agency over my new career path. One of the first things Kelly taught me was that our personal and professional lives are forever intertwined. That has stuck with me and made me feel more comfortable with factoring in my personal values and goals when making career decisions. In our work together, Kelly has helped me be the decision-driver in my new role by getting me to focus on my own professional goals and making strategic decisions to help me reach them. I have fostered strong work relationships, learned how to better prioritize projects I take on, and have reached significant goals including a recent promotion. If you choose to work with Kelly, you will be working with someone who blends empathy with accountability. She will provide space for you to feel your emotions and then bring you gently back to your goals to get you to where you want to be.

    Technology People Leader 
    San Francisco Bay Area

  • Ultimately, the impact of coaching with Kelly has been invaluable. Building my career as an executive in the fashion industry for 20+ years was a very specific path for me, until it wasn't. Kelly's guidance and advice helped me explore and map out what the next phase of my career in fashion could look like. Now, whenever I have those moments of unsureness, I revert back to what I learned from her and keep moving forward towards my new career goals.

    Fashion & Luxury Executive
    New York

  • I had the pleasure of working with Kelly over a series of sessions as I was navigating some key inflection points in both my career and personal life. Kelly did a great job of helping me distill the heart of the issues, develop a framework for how to approach things, and think through concrete next steps to support me through my journey. In one particular instance, she helped me prepare for a meeting with my manager where I needed to advocate for myself and a future career move that I deserved. Kelly did a great job helping me frame the conversation in a way to achieve the best outcome.

    CPG/Personal Care Marketing and Innovation VP
    San Francisco Bay Area

  • Kelly is a talented coach who was extraordinarily valuable in helping me navigate a career pivot. Before coaching with Kelly, I was struggling to articulate my leadership outside of the industry I had been in for the last 15 years. The lack of clarity was a roadblock to identifying and pursuing new opportunities. Kelly was invaluable in helping me to translate my experience into a broader career narrative. Her process helped focus my energy, push boundaries, and build confidence towards pursuing something new. She is an excellent storyteller, a compassionate listener, and an enthusiastic personal champion, all with a bias towards action. She is not afraid to push you out of your comfort zone and test your assumptions to get you where you want to go. I highly recommend coaching with Kelly!

    Business Development Executive
    New York, NY

  • Kelly helped me navigate multiple challenging situations at work. She opened my eyes to new ways of thinking and new strategies for success. She enabled me to tap into my strengths, identify areas for growth, and reconsider my work in the context of my core values. Working with Kelly ultimately helped me secure my recent promotion and reignited a confidence I had lost.

    Beauty Industry Marketing Operations 
    Los Angeles

  • Working with Kelly has been a transformative experience. Through our series of coaching sessions, her insightful questions encouraged deep self-reflection, helping me gain clarity on my strengths and what truly matters to me in my career. I deeply appreciate her thoughtful blend of personal and professional exploration, which guided me toward finding joy, building confidence, and identifying my passions. Kelly’s approach not only helped me define my non-negotiables but also empowered me to take agency over my career path. Together, we built a "confidence blueprint" that provides direction and purpose moving forward. Her coaching style is empathetic, intentional, and profoundly impactful—I’m grateful for her guidance and highly recommend her to anyone seeking clarity and confidence in their professional journey.

    Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Leader, San Francisco Bay Area

How Women in Leadership Positions Can Benefit From Executive Coaching

Implicit bias. Lack of representation. Workplace exclusion. The double bind expectation to be both nurturing and decisive. The glass ceilings are numerous for women in leadership. But women bring unique perspectives to the corporate world, and we deserve to be here. 

Navigating leadership roles and shattering those glass ceilings may require support and strategy. That’s where executive leadership coaching for women comes in. Executive coaching offers a space for women to rediscover authenticity, refine their leadership style, and learn to amplify their voices.

I know because I’ve been there. From intern to CEO, I’ve experienced all of it. Executive coaching helped me understand and adapt my style to temper my inner perfectionist, collaborate better with others, and improve my working relationships. It gave me a place to be comfortably vulnerable, acknowledge and overcome imposter syndrome, and enabled me to let go of the pressure to do the work so I could start to properly delegate and lead the work.

Most importantly, coaching helped me realize my biggest dream was to become a mother—and how to balance my career and home life to find fulfillment and success in both.

The coaching journey is deeply personal—an exploration of values, vision, and voice—and I’m here to provide support along the way.

Through Executive and Career Coaching for Women, I Encourage Pivotal Changes for My Clients

I offer coaching services to female leaders and companies looking to foster growth, optimize performance, and increase the impact of their female leaders.

Ambitious women seeking their next challenge or striving to avoid burnout.

Women transitioning into a new role or feeling stagnant in their current position.

Top female performers with high IQ, learning to nurture their emotional intelligence.

Career-focused women reorienting to the demands of parenthood.

Women navigating challenging dynamics with bosses, subordinates, or colleagues.

Female entrepreneurs and start-up founders seeking to drive expansion and success.

Female leaders seeking a thought partner to navigate the loneliness of being at the top.

Women transitioning from traditional employment to entrepreneurship.

Talent executives investing in leadership development for the women on their teams.

Female-owned businesses focused on strategic planning and change management.

Female-owned companies evolving from command-and-control to servant leadership. 

CEOs looking to galvanize female directors, leaders, or a new generation of employees.

Women in Leadership Roles in the Corporate World Face Unique Challenges—All of Which We Address Through Executive Coaching​

Silencing Your Inner Critic

Learning to acknowledge your strengths and capabilities and replace self-criticism with self-affirmation.

Manifesting Work-Life Balance

Integrating professional and personal goals, learning to set and maintain boundaries, and building a personal brand.

Navigating Imposter Syndrome

Building confidence, shifting your mindset, re-framing negative thoughts, and avoiding unattainable standards.

Navigating Existential Crossroads

Making sense of job dissatisfaction, overwhelm, boredom, or burnout. Managing value misalignments with peers or your company.

Addressing Self-Limiting Behaviors

Learn to work through perfectionism, fear of self-promotion, people-pleasing, overcompensation, and martyrdom. 

Overcoming Communication and Management Challenges

Navigating difficult conversations, relationships, and workplace politics to manage down, up, and across with ease.

Allowing Yourself to Delegate

Address micro-managing tendencies, learn to leverage the expertise of your team, and encourage collaboration.

Confronting Gender Bias in the Workplace

Understanding implicit bias against women in leadership roles and how you can effectively work to overcome it.

My Coaching Methodology: What I Bring to the Table as an Executive and Career Coach for Women

A combination of empathy, curiosity, and discipline

A safe, judgment-free zone

A commitment to client-led goal-setting and conversation

A balance of active listening and thought-provoking questions

An exploration of identity and actions

Tools and frameworks to expand awareness and agency

Customized action plans to achieve goals

Accountability against those plans

The Executive Coaching Impact: How I Enable Women in Leadership Roles To Achieve Success

Actionable strategies to help you enhance your ability to lead, innovate, and succeed in both your professional and personal life.

Developing both the mindset and skill set required for effective modern leadership.

Guidance on how to lead with authenticity, confidence, resilience, empathy, empowerment, and accountability.

Help navigating the challenging journey of achieving success in both business and life.

Empowerment to tackle tough challenges that demand vision, courage, and resilience.

Support for crafting and conveying your vision to align individuals, teams, and cultures, driving greater impact and success.

Insight on Creating a purpose-driven, values-focused, and high-performance business culture that maximizes the potential for success.

Coaching for Women in Leadership: Getting Started With Kelly Johnson

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If you want to learn more about my executive coaching services, please fill out my contact form.

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We’ll schedule an initial 30-minute consultation to discuss the challenges you’re facing and determine if working together will be a good fit.

Start Coaching

We’ll outline a plan to level up your leadership and dive right in with regularly scheduled coaching sessions.