Helping you grow personally and professionally, enabling sustainable high performance, joy, connection and meaning in your expatriate, executive or entrepreneurial journey.
Does any of this sound familiar?
You’re exhausted from maintaining your position in the office power plays; the daily firefighting, always-on business culture, questionable decisions and patriarchal bullshit are sapping your motivation. Yes, your business training is useful but you want to be doing more than just surviving in your corporate role. You want to talk to someone who can help you thrive and create tangible results that will advance your career.
The idea of moving abroad for work sounded great, but now you’re mired in move logistics, immigration paperwork, local bureaucracy, on top of navigating a wildly different office culture and figuring out transportation and local supermarkets. You need to talk to someone who understands and can help you calm the overwhelm and rediscover the joy of living abroad.
You’ve raised some capital, found a few early adopters for your product MVP and built a team, but now you need to ensure the business stays focused and executes while you work on strategy and fundraising. You know you have blind spots and need to talk to someone who understands the pressures and tensions inherent in juggling customer, employee and investor needs so that you can be a great CXO and stay healthy and engaged outside the office too.
Your brain works fast, and has some unique strengths and challenges - some of which are incredibly helpful and some which are making life difficult. It’s hard to find someone who understands this and can run at your speed. You want to be able to unmask and talk to someone who will help you harness your unique ways of seeing the world, so that you can play to your strengths and manage your challenges.

“Hanna asks questions in such a way that not just doors, but entire worlds open up.”
— Sue Jay Johnson, Writer, Activist, TEDx Speaker
My Coaching Style
Unlike a mentor or a teacher, my role as Coach is that of a facilitator. I am deeply committed to helping you create and achieve your vision for your personal and professional life. Together we will explore what you want and find your natural and most powerful way of achieving it. Working with me you will receive the evidence-based, neuroscience-backed tools, techniques, tactics and strategies best suited to your specific goals and needs, so that you are well resourced throughout and beyond our work together.
To ensure success on your coaching journey I will ask you questions based on over 30 years' experience of living and working in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia and North America. As an an experienced Chief Operating Officer and Board member I will help you regain your sense of meaning and engagement while creating tangible career results - whether you work in private, public and government clients in stealth, startup (Seed to IPO) or a publicly traded company.
To guide your decision making you will also have access to my 20+ years’ experience coaching, mentoring and teaching in various settings, including as a professional action sports instructor, at-risk youth mentor, mentor leader, entrepreneur, corporate executive, life coach, and University lecturer.
And you will also benefit from the best of attention neuroscience training developed at Google, power energetics taught at The Academy in New York City, and leadership know-how from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, all of which underpin my coaching practice - as well as my own neurodivergent, high IQ approach to problem solving.
What results do clients report after working with me?
Results from independent 3rd party assessments post-program
91% of clients say they feel more confident having difficult conversations
84% of clients say the bounce back from setbacks faster
92% of clients say they remain calmer in stressful situations
You deserve to work with an exceptional Coach:
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I ELEVATE MY CLIENTS FROM EXECUTING WELL TO A STATE OF EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCE.
I've worked at early stage startups, publicly traded companies, for two space billionaires and with customers ranging from the United Nations and many nations’ governments to small private companies and large multinational conglomerates.
I've convinced CEOs to hire me over dinner and been chosen as a rainmaker by other CEOs in turn. I’ve closed nine-figure contracts, Joint Ventures and multi-year deals. I’ve worked in Operations, Product Management, Sales and Business Development. In my corporate career I've held senior roles, including Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, President and Board of Directors positions.
I bring all of this experience to the table when working with my clients, because those experiences shine a light on the challenges and struggles my clients are facing.
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WHILE MY EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS TELL A STORY, THEY ARE NOT THE WHOLE STORY.
I am the woman who taught Latin American millionaires' families to ski, mapped uncharted dive sites in the Straits of Hormuz, surfed virgin breaks off the coast of Africa and raced motorcycles against men, at triple-digit miles per hour.
I have moved across the planet multiple times in pursuit of interesting work. I've deliberately taken the job I was least qualified for to ensure I learned more. And the job that scared me the most, for the same reason.
I am comfortable with risk and change, big and small. This doesn't mean I will insist my clients do the same things or take the same level of risk; only that they trust that there's wisdom gained from these endeavors.
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SUBSTANCE AND WORLD VIEW
I have spent vast portions of my professional life being the only woman or the only Caucasian in the room.
Often I was both of these at the same time, and often where English is not the primary language. I have been targeted by racial prejudice and discrimination, and have taken Governments to court over discriminatory policies and won.
I have also spent a considerable portion of my working life looking at Earth from above, experiencing something akin to what the astronauts refer to as "The Overview Effect": the feeling of a common humanity where the only line that matters is the thin line of the atmosphere protecting all life on Earth from the emptiness of space.
I draw attention to these experiences because they have shaped me in ways that positively affect my working partnerships with my clients.
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MY COACHING AND TRAINING USE EVIDENCE-BASED, PROVEN METHODOLOGIES…AND SOME WOO, TOO.
I am a scientist by training, willingly read science papers, and appreciate the rigor of physics, biology, chemistry and engineering. Yet I also understand there are things science can’t yet explain.
I have a deep reverence for ancient traditions, and those that have stood the test of millennia. I sense and test with my gut as well as with my brain.
I utilize various states of attention to get results. I meditate and practice breath work. My office contains rocks gathered on my travels. I burn sage.
You don't have to do any of these things to work with me.
Members of the LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, kink and Ethical Non Monogamy communities are welcome in my coaching practice.
However, here is my hard no: If you believe you can pray a rocket into orbit, that vaccinations or climate change are a hoax, that any “race” is somehow inherently superior, that it's OK to treat people as cash piñatas or that any belief system justifies violence - leave this page. We will not be working together.
Your next steps:
Step 1: Coaching Consultation
We will set up a 30 minute call to discuss your needs and expectations and the coaching services I provide. If we are a good fit we will set up our next call, to complete the onboarding process.
Step 2: Onboarding
Our initial meeting will last about 60 minutes. We will discuss, in depth, where you’re at today, what’s getting in your way, what your goals are and how we can begin working towards them.
Step 3: The Strategy
At the end of our Onboarding meeting we’ll have a plan for moving forward, and we’ll schedule our next meeting. I initially meet clients weekly and together we regularly assess needs and progress.