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Who you are when it counts.

A six-month engagement for leaders at a genuine inflection point: a new scope of responsibility, a decision that will define the next chapter, a way of leading that has reached its limit.

Six months  ·  Individual  ·  Chapel Hill & Virtual


The gap competence cannot close

Most leaders arrive at consequential moments having clarified the strategy and left the self unexamined. They bring skill, experience, and good intentions; under real pressure, an older pattern takes the wheel. The result is familiar: a capable person doing slightly the wrong thing with great conviction.

This work addresses the distance between who you are under pressure and who you are capable of being. It assumes you have already done the obvious work. What remains is harder to name and more consequential to recover: the capacity to stay present when the moment is large, to see the field clearly when others are reacting, and to act from something steadier than habit.

Clarity about the situation is common. Clarity about the self acting within it is rare, and it is the difference that decides outcomes.

Presence-Based, depth-oriented

The method draws on Presence-Based Coaching, depth psychology, and somatic awareness, integrated through thirty years of work in the theater. Each strand serves a single aim: to widen the range of who you can be in the moment that matters.

Sessions move between three registers. We work cognitively, mapping the systems and decisions in front of you. We work somatically, tracking how your body organizes under load, since presence is a physical event before it is a mental one. And we work imaginally, using the resources of depth psychology to reach the material that strategy alone never touches.

Assessment informs the work where it is useful; imagination leads it throughout. The engagement is built around the specific territory you are navigating, so the agenda is yours and the structure is mine to hold.


What six months includes


Who this serves

At an Edge

You are stepping into a scope that the version of you who succeeded so far cannot fully meet. The growth required is developmental, not informational.

Already Capable

You have done the obvious work. Coaching frameworks and leadership books have given what they can give. The remaining work is deeper and more personal.

Willing to Go Below

You are open to psychological and somatic terrain, not only tactics. You sense that how you meet pressure is shaped by more than technique.

In a Real Moment

Something consequential is genuinely in motion: a transition, a decision, a relationship, a threshold. The stakes make the work worth its demands.


The shape of it

Duration Six months. Twelve to fourteen sessions, plus access between.
Format In person in the Chapel Hill and Triangle area, or virtual anywhere.
Investment Set in conversation, scaled to scope. Discussed once fit is clear.

Before you reach out

How is this different from executive coaching I have had before?

Most coaching works on behavior and strategy. This works there too, and goes further: into the psychological and somatic ground from which behavior arises. The aim is a durable change in who you are under pressure, which then changes what you do.

Do I need a background in depth psychology or theater?

None. The frameworks stay in the background; your situation stays in the foreground. The work meets you in plain language and in your own material.

Why six months rather than a few sessions?

Developmental change has a tempo. Pattern recognition is quick; embodying a new pattern under real conditions takes time and repetition. Six months gives the work room to hold across the situations that test it.

Can my organization sponsor the engagement?

Yes. Many engagements are organization-sponsored. The coaching relationship remains confidential and centered on you; sponsor reporting is agreed at the outset and kept clean.

Start with a conversation

If something here has named a real problem you are carrying, the next step is a direct exchange.

No intake form. A conversation to find out whether this work fits where you are.