You got the role. Now, the way you work has to change.
I help high-capacity women stop overfunctioning and start operating at the right altitude.
Stepping into the next level of responsibility often comes with more visibility, more ambiguity, and higher stakes — without much guidance on how to recalibrate.
What got you here — the thoroughness, the responsiveness, the ability to hold everything together — isn't what will make you succeed at this level.
This work is about making sense of what actually changed, untangling unnecessary pressure, and finding a more reliable way to operate.
Hi, I’m Austėja
I'm an ICF-certified, trauma-informed executive coach with 600+ hours supporting capable, high-performing professionals through role transitions and leadership inflection points.
I work at the operating level, not the motivational level. I don't help people "be more confident." I do help them understand what's actually happening — and how to respond with clarity and judgment.
When you step into a bigger role, the gap between how you used to operate and what this level actually requires doesn't announce itself.
It shows up in small, irritating ways.
→ Your confidence rises and falls with how others respond — a clipped reply, a facial expression, silence where you expected acknowledgment
→ Emails, messages, and decisions take more time and emotional energy than they should
→ You soften language, over-contextualize, or over-prepare to avoid being misread
→ You hold it together all day, then get home and can't stop replaying conversations, rerunning scenarios, fixating on the tone they used in that one meeting
I've sat in that meeting with a clear perspective forming and said nothing — too afraid it would land wrong.
I spent an hour drafting a three-sentence email. When things piled up I absorbed the stress instead of pushing the question back up to leadership where it belonged.
I thought I needed more confidence. What I actually needed was a different operating system. I was showing up to a new level with my old ways — people-pleasing, self-censoring, over-delivering — and wondering why it wasn't working.
That's what this work is about.
The Recalibration Process
Four weeks. Structured progression. Each week builds on the last.
We don’t work on everything at once.
We move in sequence — because each shift makes the next one possible.
Clarity first. Then identity. Then judgment. Then steadiness.
Client Feedback
“My role feels significantly more manageable now.”
When I started, I felt like I was on a marketing island - managing expectations from all sides, with an avalanche of things that wouldn’t get done. It honestly felt like a path to burnout.
This process was incredibly clarifying. It helped me see how much I was over-rotating and over-performing instead of standing my ground and expecting more from others.
The biggest shift has been learning to communicate more directly and move from that ‘corporate survival’ mode into a more confident, authoritative voice. My role feels significantly more manageable now.
-Megan | VP Marketing, Series A Startup
Ready to Recalibrate?
A short, focused conversation to see if this is the right fit. No preparation required — just bring what's present.
If it's a fit, we'll talk next steps. If not, you'll leave with more clarity than you came in with.
