You’re a woman operating at a senior level.
You carry responsibility and execute your role with skill and intelligence.
Your work has mattered. You have delivered. You are trusted.
But you know you are capable of more.
You do not want to abandon what you could become.
And yet there are moments when walking away from everything you have built feels more compelling than continuing to succeed as you have.
The Leading Edge meets you here.
I support high-performing women at this critical point of change to step decisively into a future they feel ready to create.
When Success Costs Too Much.
We bring our whole selves into our professional lives.
Our personal and professional histories, our beliefs about ourselves and the necessary learned ways of operating we develop do not remain politely outside the workplace.
For many high-performing women, professional life is not a neutral arena. It is highly visible, often male-dominated, and implicitly unsafe in subtle but persistent ways. Here, success is rewarded but often the personal cost is ignored and belonging can feel conditional and uncertain, something that must be continually earned.
In these contexts, familiar patterns recur and for good reason - they have brought success in the past. You find yourself working harder than others, over-functioning, taking responsibility disproportionately and staying relentlessly capable even in the face of your own exhaustion.
You’ve noticed the cumulative strain that years of functioning this way begin to register on your system.
What once felt like your strength, your superpower, can begin to feel brittle and uncomfortable. Recovery takes longer, creativity is harder to access and the internal drive that once made work feel enjoyable and exciting starts to chafe. From the outside, nothing seems different. You are still competent, still relied upon, still effective.
But internally, you are changing.
You know you take on more than you should, carrying what others cannot and holding steady long after you are depleted.
You’ve begun to feel that the very behaviours that secured your credibility are now costing too much to sustain.
Often this is labelled as burnout, a loss of confidence, a motivation problem, or an inability to cope. The implicit assumption is that something has gone wrong within you, and that the solution lies in rest, resilience, mindset shifts, or renewed effort. While these explanations may describe parts of your experience, they miss what is most significant.
Your old way of operating is now the very thing that stands in the way of your being able to grow and meet the new challenges you face.
This is a valuable moment but it can also feel like a car crash. Suddenly nothing works anymore. Usual strategies fail and you feel something else, something different, is required.
This is your threshold moment
Where something new becomes possible
The Leading Edge exists to meet you here.
The Leading Edge is subtle in mechanism but profound in effect.
It focuses on a simple shift: the old narratives and negative beliefs that once felt fixed, and the assumptions that have shaped how you perform, lose their authority. The background misgivings that have kept you vigilant, over-functioning, or braced for exposure no longer feel like facts.
Instead, the solid recognition of your capability grows stronger and more credible than the doubts that once seemed unquestionable.
As a result, things change.
Operationally, decision-making eases, not because you’re trying harder, but because you are no longer negotiating with internal doubt. Flexibility and steadiness begin to replace rigidity in how you respond to moments of uncertainty and challenge. Boundaries can be set without the familiar internal backlash of guilt or self-questioning. Energy is no longer consumed by managing your reactions or anticipating the emotional demands of your environment. The constant background pressure begins to lift, along with the sense that everything depends on you holding it together.
What emerges is a renewed confidence in your capability, reinforced by a recognition of the qualities that have brought you this far and a more assured vision of the future you intend to create.
The Leading Edge in Practice
I support high-performing women who are ready to expand the scale of their leadership by decoding and intentionally upgrading the patterns and behaviours that have underpinned their success to meet the demands of what comes next.
Here, the inner dialogues and organising beliefs that once limited your performance no longer define what is possible. You see, without distortion, that the resources which have carried you this far are now ready to take you further into the future of your choosing. Agency in how you operate returns, steady and self-directed, grounded in a deep recognition of your capability and promise.
If this reflects where you are now, or where you’d like to be, the next step is a conversation.
I work with a small number of women at a time and begin with a careful exploratory process. This allows us to understand whether this is the right place to work, and whether my way of working is a good fit for you.