Executive Coaching

I work with leaders who have big jobs and little kids

Some people operate in predictable environments with straightforward decisions. Not you.

The complexity of your world is dizzying. As a leader, you face all the same challenges as your peers, yet with young kids at home it all feels higher stakes. Just to get everything done, you're on autopilot most of the time, and you're struggling to find time for the big picture thinking that as a leader you know you need. 

When you look back, you want the sacrifices you made for work to be worth it.

On top of the day-to-day challenges, you're in the middle of deeply uncertain change at work.

As a leader, you might be:

  • Stepping into a new role, with high stakes and high visibility
  • Taking on a new scope, that feels big and unknown
  • Dealing with messy internal politics, and you’re reaching a breaking point
  • Inheriting a new team, and you need to build trust fast
  • Navigating an acquisition or layoff, and you need to steady the ship 
  • Finalizing a new round of funding, and you’re struggling to keep up with the speed that’s needed 

Add young kids at home, and you’re carrying more than any human should. 

Not everyone gets your world, but I do. I’ve lived this story over and over in startup leadership roles. I've been the leader juggling board meeting prep with family commitments, scaling systems while scaling back my own sleep. I’ve helped hundreds of leaders move from reactive chaos to intentional leadership. 

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Imagine a year from now...

What’s changed? You have. 

  • You pause before responding, making choices instead of knee-jerk decisions
  • You’re more able to find human moments with your team, and with your kids, to build the long-term relationships you know you need
  • You’ve built the skills to communicate the hard things that you used to delay or avoid

Being a leader and a parent is still hard, but you've grown in your ability to manage your energy, attention, and to step out of autopilot.

You've found that this inner work has not only given you the tools to navigate the details of uncertain change, but you've built the capacity to show up as the person you want to be through it all.

By investing in your leadership, you've built skills that have also transformed how you show up at home with your kids.

You’re truly proud of the leader and parent you’ve become. 

Why Invest in Coaching

I help you navigate not just the details of change and leadership challenges, but I help you find and keep the person you want to be through it all.

This investment in yourself is critical. You can't afford to wake up 10 years from now wishing you'd shown up differently - for your team, and for your kids. These are years you don't get back. 

This work is about waking up to reclaim your mind and heart share, so you can intentionally direct it toward the most important things.

Unlike traditional executive coaches, I move between helping you source your own wisdom, and being your leadership thought partner, all while holding your growth -- as a leader and parent -- at the center. I speak your language, and can personally relate to what you’re in the middle of as a leader, and a parent.

Working with Nalani

Step 1:
Coaching Session

We have one, complimentary 60-min coaching session.

This is a full coaching session, like I have biweekly with each of my clients.

There are two goals coming out of this session:

  For you to walk away with something of value

  To help you and I both decide if coaching together feels like the right alignment

Step 2:
You Decide

At the end of our coaching session, you decide between three options:

   You feel complete. We part ways for any reason

   You're curious to talk about how we'd work together, and we set up another call to dive into specifics customized to you

   You didn't quite get enough from our session to decide either way. We set up a time to help you get the information you need

Step 3:
Establish Focus

If you decide you want to explore how we'd work together, in our follow-up call we will:

  Define what you want to get out of working with a coach

  Outline all the details of working together

  Discuss the investment to coach together

I'll support you in making whatever the best decision is for you, including other coach referrals if you need. 

Being a leader and a parent is already hard,
but doing it on an island makes it harder.

Are you ready to not do it alone?

 

What People Are Saying About Nalani's Work

Working with Nalani has been life changing.

She's helped me become more thoughtful in my work and in my life. She has helped me gain clarity on what I really want, pushes me to think differently and more deeply, and has given me the confidence to make meaningful change. My fiancé even remarked, "Nalani is the best thing that has ever happened to you."

Katie M. Venture Capital Director

[Nalani] keeps the business perspective in mind, and contextualizes issues instead of just dealing with my perspective only. Nalani shared her own [leadership] journey with me....which was important to allow me to overcome the urge to poke holes in [her] reasoning. This allowed me to focus on the value she was providing.

 

 

Mikus Krams Co-Founder || Trace.Space

Nalani is one of the best active listeners...she shows me that she is listening by asking clarifying questions and holding me accountable to things I've said in the past. By doing that, she's able to direct me to new realizations and help me make sense of my sometimes overrun mind.

Nalani helped me tap into my body and understand what situations create what thoughts and feelings. By uncovering this I'm now able to respond from a place of empowerment rather than reaction.

Unlike talk therapy where I have often felt like I'm getting nowhere, Nalani gave me tools that created real change.

Marie Lunney Director of Digital Customer Success || Chili Piper

Before, I felt like I was floundering. Now, I am an entrepreneur.

I needed help to understand why I felt so unsatisfied...despite being lucky enough to land top jobs [at Google and Amazon].

Nalani's pointed questions quickly helped me see that I hadn't been giving myself permission to be the entrepreneur that I want to be.

Being more deliberate about understanding [what was possible] helped the months that followed [my transition] feel like the most productive I have ever had.

Adam Stober Founder || Heroic Services

 

I am always accountable to what I am feeling and what is most standing in my way [when I'm with Nalani]....I leave with a clear image of what the roadblock is (and what it isn't) and what I am going to do to remove it. I have had some of my most productive, difficult, and rewarding professional conversations of my life following my sessions with Nalani.

 

Joey Williams Director of Sales Development || Chili Piper

Nalani's superpower is that she's able to make a difficult, stressful, or seemingly unwinnable situation feel approachable. She is empowering without lecturing. She asks thoughtful questions without steering. She acts as a guide to identifying the root of problems, and developing solutions. Her thoughtful and personal guidance was not only incredibly helpful in navigating work situations, but her lessons transferred seamlessly into my personal life as well.

 

Lauren R. Sales Leader || Chili Piper

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