Executive Coach for Women Ready to Lead and Live With Heart

Heart-centered coaching to help you gain clarity, build confidence, and create meaningful, lasting change in how you live, lead, and grow.

Executive Coaching With Two Decades of Experience

From being new in leadership to building a career leading people, you need support with what comes next.

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You've built a career, led the team, and solved a lot of problems on your own. Yet, you’re still unsure of what’s next for you and your career.

I’m here to help you get clear on your next step by asking thoughtful questions, giving honest feedback, and offering practical tools that build the confidence to communicate with more ease, make clearer decisions, navigate difficult conversations, set boundaries, and lead in a way that fits who you are.

As you move from questioning to action, I'll encourage you, challenge you, and hold you accountable to the commitments you make to yourself.

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20+ Years Leadership Experience • ICF PCC • Certified Heart-Centered Leadership Coach • Masters in Executive Coaching • Masters in Positive Psychology • 146+ Clients Coached • Stanford Compassion Training

When What Used to Work Stops Working

You’ve likely done everything you already know how to do.

You’ve worked hard. You’ve thought it through, read the books, and talked with the people you trust. You’ve done everything you know to do on your own. But now you’re stepping into a bigger role or a new chapter.

Maybe there’s a conversation you keep putting off, a decision you can’t quite make, or more responsibility on your shoulders than your boundaries can hold. What used to work isn’t working anymore—and you know something needs to change.

Insight alone hasn’t created the change you want, and that’s usually the moment coaching is the next right move. By working with an executive coach specialized in leadership, you’ll start to see yourself and your situation differently while turning what you learn into action that aligns with how you want to show up.

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Meet Your Coach

I’m Heather, Executive Coach for Women

After two decades in hospitality and operations leadership, I realized my favorite part of the job was the conversations where someone started to see something differently or found confidence they didn't know they had.

That led me to advanced degrees in Executive Coaching and Positive Psychology and eventually to HeartRise where I coach women through leadership growth, life transitions, and career changes.

With executive coaching, I bring warmth, honesty, and a pretty extensive list of experience to every conversation. I will ask you the hard questions, but I'll also cheer you on when you are working at achieving the goal that you are after.

  • “Heather’s kindness really helps me focus on the present, especially enjoying what could be considered “small wins”…. but that really add up to huge gains. I've met with Heather a few times now; from each meeting, I've left two steps closer toward my goal "life." Quite easily has her input and guidance hugely and positively impacted my life. And I have NO doubt that from such support I will be describing my work with her as "Life changing" sooner than later!”

    — Annie

  • “Absolutely incredible. Just being a soundboard for me to vent and unspool my thoughts about my strategy currently and going forward was just so tremendously valuable. You gave me so many great ideas and wonderful insights, I feel more excited than ever to charge ahead and make my goals happen! Thank you so much for your encouragement and the joy you bring to these sessions.”

    — Patrick

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Where is Your Heart Directing You?

If you’re ready for meaningful, lasting change in how you live, lead, and grow, let’s have a conversation to see what’s possible.