Client Context
A professional seeking to grow as a leader recognized that self-doubt and negative patterns were holding her back. Despite strong capability, she often silenced her inner voice, avoided asking for what she needed, and carried the weight of others’ emotions. She wanted to build confidence, honor her values, and step into her leadership potential.
Challenge
- Tendency to suppress her inner voice and avoid advocating for herself
- Reliance on external approval rather than self-trust
- Absorbing others’ negativity and burdens.
- Lack of alignment between values and work environment → feelings of incongruence
- Desire to break negative behavioral patterns while strengthening leadership skills
- Doubting Inner Guidance & Intuition
Coaching Approach
- Provided tools for value clarification and alignment-based communication
- Cultivated practical frameworks for self-advocacy, boundary-setting, and visionary leadership communication
- Encouraged inner voice recognition and trust
- Supported development of self-awareness to identify negative patterns and uncover innate strengths and talents
- Focused on both professional and personal applications of leadership and up-leveled communication skills
Outcomes
- Mastered effective work communication and advocacy for leadership needs
- Experienced a shift in processing and managing work interactions
- Inner voice became louder and more confident, guiding courageous action
- Gained ability to set healthy boundaries and release burdens imposed by others
- Identified and began breaking negative behavior patterns
- Reframed leadership identity → saw herself as equal, powerful, and self-assured
- Recognized true value and self-worth, creating a foundation for continued growth
- Reported positive changes both at work and in personal life
- Recognized self abandonment and built tools to overcome and shine
- Resuscitated confidence in her competency as a visionary leader, creating impact across company channels
Client Voice
“I have noticed a big shift for me in the way I process and manage my work interactions. While still a work in progress, I feel like I have mastered the art of work communication and advocating for my leadership and career needs. One of the most valuable tools I’ve learned so far has been identifying and clearly defining my own values. I am beginning to recognize my own power, to advocate for what I need, and to view myself as an equal player. Setting healthy boundaries has been a huge skill that I have honed, both at work and in my personal life. The work I’ve done with you has really helped me see my strengths and true value so I can tap into my self-worth.”
Full Testimonial
I wanted to thank you for all of the wonderful leadership coaching sessions to help me navigate some of my work challenges and frustrations.
The sessions we have had have been so helpful for me to dig deeper into the environment I’m working in, but mostly dig deeper into myself and the things that hold me back. I have noticed a big shift for me in the way I process and manage my work interactions. While I still have a ways to go to feel like I have mastered the art of work communication and advocating for my career needs, I have already seen and felt positive changes in my journey. For example, I have noticed the confident, self-assured voice in my head that used to not be very loud, now coming out louder and more clear, talking myself into asking for what I need. In fact, I hear that voice pushing me sometimes when I start shying away from being assertive and being complacent. Prior to working with you, I used to quiet that voice frequently by talking myself out of what I needed and wanted. But now I am learning to listen to that voice, and to not suppress what I need or succumb to fear.
One of the most valuable tools I’ve learned so far has been identifying and clearly defining my own values more crisply. It is very powerful when I identify how some of my work experiences don’t align with my values and create a huge feeling of incongruence for me. I am learning how to honor my values more and more by using them as my framework for how to position my communication style and conversations with my manager and others. I am beginning to recognize my own power in these situations. I am starting to reject the status quo of me just accepting bad situations at my own expense as what I “have to live with” in order to “keep others happy”. I am learning to make it a more natural and repeatable practice to advocate for what I need and view myself as an equal player.
I am also learning that It’s OK for me to reject some of the bad advice I get from people whose points of views may be impaired by their own unconscious biases and limitations. I am learning to listen to my own inner voice more and more and not seek approval from others. I am also learning to not inherit other people’s negative feelings or take on the burdens others want to put on me. Setting healthy boundaries has been a huge skill that I have honed. I have been able to apply these skills at work and in my personal life as a result of our sessions together.
Finally, one of the other areas I’ve grown in over the time we have worked together has been in my ability to see how my past behaviors and attitudes towards my own needs has not served me well in gaining the respect and career opportunities I want for myself. I have realized that I am not always operating in ways that acknowledge my needs and best interests. Sometimes I accept less than what I want and deserve. Sometimes I take a submissive position out of habit and self doubt. The work I’ve done with you has really helped me start to see my own negative patterns and behaviors. But it is helping me also see my strengths and true value so I can tap into my self worth. I am excited to see myself start to break some of my behavior patterns. I cannot wait to continue gaining more control over my tendencies and gain more mastery of the invaluable life and career management skills I am learning.
I love the way you communicate simply and break down the learnings and techniques into effective and easy-to-apply techniques. I am so grateful to have found you! Thank you again Margrete for all of your wisdom, guidance and expertise.
