Embodied Leadership Coaching with Michelle
Managing your composure isn't the same as trusting it. Most leaders only learn the first.
Three months of deep, embodied practice — for leaders who have read enough. This is where composure goes into the body and holds on its own when the room turns.
You know this work. You've reflected on how you lead, who you want to be in the room, what your people need from you. You understand it.
And still, under pressure, the calm is something you maintain, not something you rest in — a steadiness held together by effort, that slips at the exact moment it costs you most.
This is the gap between knowing and embodying. Most coaching adds more to know. This work is different: it lives in the body, where regulation actually happens.
Who This Is For
Leaders at a moment that asks more of them than usual — stepping into a bigger role, steering a team through a restructure, or succeeding at a level that's quietly costing them. People who care deeply about those they lead, and sense there's a deeper way to show up: ready to move from understanding good leadership to living it, and willing to do the quiet inner work that lasting change asks.
What Changes
The world is not short on clever leadership. It is short on grounded leadership. This work builds the second — not more to know, but the capacity to stay steady when it counts, so composure holds on its own rather than by effort.
You don't do it alone. Real change has to bring the people around you with it, or it leaves them behind. Together we tend how you relate — to those you lead, those you answer to, those beside you, and the family you come home to at the end of a full day. A leader's growth should bring their world closer, not leave it behind.
How Change Happens
We train the body, not just the mind — because that's where composure under pressure actually lives. The work is somatic: we focus on nervous-system regulation and live rehearsal to practise high-stakes moments before you're in them. Over three months, your thinking and your physiology come back into one system, so steadiness holds on its own rather than by effort.
Why Michelle
I've worked across corporate, government, and entrepreneurial worlds — in the UK, New Zealand, Singapore, and beyond — leading complex programmes inside large organisations, and building and running my own businesses. My thinking is grounded in my study of philosophy and creativity at the University of Cambridge — examining how human beings construct meaning, and how leaders build clearer, more expansive inner lives. But I know the pressure of delivery under uncertainty, the weight of being responsible for outcomes and people, and the loneliness that can come with it. I'm not coaching you from theory.
I've spent years in Bali deepening the embodied practice I now bring to leaders — not as a retreat from the corporate world, but as the training ground for the steadiness it demands. That combination — credibility in your world, depth in the body — is rare. For the leader who's ready, it's the missing piece.
If this resonates, let's talk.
“Michelle introduced both me and the participants to her lived philosophy — one that better exemplifies the things that philosophers have tried to teach us. It was her tireless, patient leadership, and her commitment to principles she was willing to test in fire and water, that held us all together.”— Dr Alexander Carter, Associate Professor, University of Cambridge“Michelle brings calm, grounded presence to situations, especially under pressure, modelling the clarity, integrity, and ethical discernment she guides leaders and change-makers towards. I truly trust her judgement, her deep care for people, and her ability to help others navigate complexity with steadiness and clarity.”— Lisa Land, Co-Founder, iuni Sanctuary · Johannesburg“Michelle is deeply gifted at finding the light in the dark, the joy in the pain, and the majesty in the self. She has helped me trust myself more, discover my own wisdom, and act with brave integrity. She is a genuinely insightful creator of trust and empowerment.”— Tina Cachules, Founder, Ensemble Stories · London“Michelle is one of those rare souls who naturally brings both clarity and compassion wherever she goes. She truly sees people with a level of empathy that is both disarming and healing. What sets Michelle apart is her ability to hold both the intimate and the expansive — she doesn't just listen; she realigns.”— Renske van Vroomhoven, Applied Philosopher · The NetherlandsWhat's Included
We begin with a 30-minute alignment call, to understand where you are before we start. From there we meet every two weeks across the three months — six sessions in all — a rhythm that lets the work settle in your body between them. Sessions are held by video call. I take only two or three clients at a time, so there's real space for the people I work with: between sessions, I'm a message away — there for the moments that matter, without replacing the depth of the work itself.
Embodied Leadership Coaching · 3 months · six sessions
We talk through the investment on our discovery call, once we know it's the right fit.