— EMOTIONAL SELF-LEADERSHIP COACHING
I help ambitious professionals, emerging leaders and growth-minded individuals understand the emotional patterns shaping how they think, communicate, lead and live so they can develop with greater clarity, confidence and intention.
Maybe you’re navigating the next stage of your career, questioning what you want, struggling with confidence, overthinking conversations, avoiding difficult situations or noticing behaviours you’re ready to change. Together, we uncover what’s driving those patterns, challenge what may be limiting your growth and turn greater self-awareness into meaningful change; personally, professionally, and more often than not…both.
You’re capable.
You’re self aware.
But you know there’s more in you.
You’re capable.
You’re self aware.
But you know there’s more in you.
Certified Professional Coach
CMI-Qualified
ELI Master Practitioner.
CIPD Associate
Raised Awareness.
Honest Conversations.
Fulfilling Choices.
— WHEN LIFE LOOKS FINE ON PAPER
Other people may see you as confident, reliable or successful. Yet certain situations seem to have far more power over you than you would like.
Perhaps nothing is dramatically wrong. You simply have the persistent sense that the way you are thinking, working or living is no longer quite working for you.
But something underneath isn’t working.
You replay conversations.
Long after everybody else has moved on, you are still analysing what you said and what they meant.
You know you need a boundary.
Saying no, disappointing someone or creating tension feels harder than simply absorbing the cost yourself.
Feedback hits harder than you want it to.
You understand it rationally, but emotionally it can knock your confidence for hours or even days.
You can see the pattern.
People-pleasing, avoiding, overworking, controlling or overthinking - but seeing it has not automatically stopped it.
You stay composed, then unravel after.
From the outside you handled it. Internally, the situation follows you home.
You want to lead differently.
Not by becoming a different person, but by having more choice over how you respond when pressure rises.
Emotional self-leadership.
— THE WORK
Emotional intelligence becomes useful when it changes what happens in the moments that matter.
What happens inside you before you avoid a difficult conversation? Why does one person’s opinion carry so much weight? What causes you to become defensive, withdrawn, over-explain, people-please or take control?
Emotional self-leadership is the ability to understand what is happening internally and use that awareness to make more intentional choices externally.
— MY METHOD
Real change rarely starts with being told what to do. It starts with understanding yourself.
We analyse the current situation, exploring the emotions, assumptions, beliefs, triggers and recurring patterns that are shaping your response.
01 / AWARENESS
See what is actually happening.
02 / CHOICE
Decide what your future looks like.
Awareness gives us options. We explore what matters, what you are responsible for and what a more intentional response might look like.
03 / CHANGE
See what is actually happening.
Take the learning into the real world: a conversation, decision, boundary, or action. Ensure success with an accountability partner.
Awareness. Choice. Change.
— START WITH UNDERSTANDING
A structured way to make how you experience and see the world, a structured map to explore.
Personality tools can tell you useful things about your preferences. The ELI takes a different approach: it looks at the attitudes and energetic patterns influencing how you perceive situations and how those perceptions can affect your choices and behaviours.
The Energy Leadership Index Assessment
STEP 1 / ASSESSMENT
You complete a straightforward online assessment, usually taking around 20 minutes.
We explore your results together, identify patters that matter to you and connect them to real situations in your work and life.
STEP 2 / DEBRIEF
— ABOUT
Hi, I’m Alexandra
As any good salesperson will tell you, decisions are rarely driven by logic alone. People make choices through emotion, fear, values, pressure, habit, confidence and the stories they are telling themselves.
My work helps people understand those drivers clearly enough to make choices that better align with their vision and take action to achieve it. My approach is simple: awareness, choice, change.
My background spans learning and development, HR, welfare, public service and adult learning. My work combines coaching, emotional intelligence, behavioural insight and practical people-development experience. I am calm, structured and direct. I will not tell you how to live your life, but I also will not sit there and politely nod while we circle the same issue. I’ll partner with you to create the life you want to live.
— TRAINING & CREDENTIALS
Coaching grounded in professional practice.
My approach draw on formal coach training, emotional-intelligence assessment, people development and management practice.
What the work can feel like from the other side.
— CLIENT EXPERIENCES
“I developed a level of self-awareness that fundamentally shifted how I see my choices, my direction, and my potential.”
FERNANDA NAVARRO - PROJECT MANAGER
“Alexandra didn’t give me advice; she helped me cultivate the clarity and confidence needed to step into my own power.”
RED BROAD - ENTREPRENEUR
“I now have a clearer mind of what I want from every aspect of my life. She gave me the confidence to be myself and trust my choices and emotions.”
WADEEAH ALMESHKHAS - SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER