Embodied Leadership Coaching with Michelle
Stop holding it all together. Start resting in yourself.
Three months of deep, embodied practice — for leaders who already know, and are ready to live it.
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 can feel like something you maintain rather than something you rest in. A steadiness held together by effort, that slips the moment the day gets hard.
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, and where calm stops being a performance and becomes a place you can return to, in real time, when it matters most.
Who this is for:
Leaders who care deeply about the people they lead, and sense there's a deeper way to show up — ready to move from understanding good leadership to living it. Willing to go beyond strategy and behaviour, to meet themselves honestly, and to do the quiet inner work that lasting change asks.
What changes:
You stop performing groundedness and start embodying it.
A serious athlete would never compete at the highest level without a coach tending their body, their state, their recovery. Yet leaders carrying far more are expected to run on willpower and intellect alone. The cost is everywhere right now: capable people leading from the neck up, depleted, holding it together until they can't. The world is not short on clever leadership. It is short on grounded leadership.
We work with the whole of you — body, emotion, energy. Grounded in Yin yoga, meditation, and reiki, the practice brings mind and body back into one conversation, so presence stops being a mask you hold in place and becomes a state you can return to.
And 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.
This matters more now, not less. As AI takes on the cognitive load, what remains is the most human work of all: to bring calm into a room, to be fully present, to lead as only a person can.
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 more expansive, original, clearer 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 also live a recalibrated life in Bali, where I've spent years deepening the embodied practice I now bring to leaders. Most coaching works neck-up, sharpening how you think. This brings your thinking and your body back into one conversation, because that's where steadiness actually lives — the difference between knowing what calm looks like and finding it when the room is hard.
That combination — credibility in your world, depth in the body — is rare. For the leader who's ready, it's the missing piece.
Why Michelle
[PORTRAIT OF MICHELLE — use the calm, eye-meeting portrait (bamboo background, white top, warm settled smile), not the active jungle shot. Meeting the reader's eyes builds the trust that decides a discovery call. Crop it clean and full rather than the circle-on-a-banner LinkedIn layout. Warmth over polish.]
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 more expansive, original, clearer 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 also live a recalibrated life in Bali, where I've spent years deepening the embodied practice I now bring to leaders. Most coaching works neck-up, sharpening how you think. This brings your thinking and your body back into one conversation, because that's where steadiness actually lives — the difference between knowing what calm looks like and finding it when the room is hard.
That combination — credibility in your world, depth in the body — is rare. For the leader who's ready, it's the missing piece.
“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 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“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“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,