Leadership Coaching
Leadership coaching for high-performing women navigating perfectionism, burnout, boundaries, and difficult conversations.
Kalen Aradia, PhD · ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) · MA in Organizational Development.
Availability
Accepting new clients
Location
Remote sessions
Candence
Every other week
Sessions
45 min
You are more than your job
Is your work sustainable?
You may be accustomed to being the person others rely on, moving between professional, relational, and caregiving roles while holding yourself to exacting standards. Over time, it can become difficult to hear your own needs and direction beneath everything expected of you. We can begin with the pressure, decision, or difficult conversation in front of you and work toward clearer boundaries, more sustainable leadership, and choices that feel like your own.
Burnout, overwork & work-life boundaries
Difficulty saying no, carrying too much responsibility, or maintaining success at the expense of rest, relationships, health, and a life outside of work.
Career direction, meaning & transition
Outgrowing a role, questioning what success means, considering a career change, or wanting work that better reflects your values, abilities, and priorities.
Leadership, communication & workplace relationships
Navigating conflict, giving or receiving feedback, setting expectations, expressing boundaries, leading a team, or becoming more confident in your authority.
Identity, power & organizational culture
Understanding how identity, workplace norms, power dynamics, and organizational systems shape your choices—and determining what you can influence, challenge, accept, or leave.
Coaching is distinct from psychotherapy, crisis support, consulting, mentoring, and job-placement services. Direct feedback or possible strategies may be offered when requested, while your decisions and direction remain your own.
How coaching works
You want insight to lead somewhere.
Coaching is shaped around your goals and the kind of working relationship you want. We begin by clarifying what you need from me. Whether it's direct challenge, structured planning, reflective inquiry, or a combination, I can meet you there.
What our work may include
01
Clarifying the goal and defining progress
Identifying what you want to change, what would be different if coaching helps, and how we will recognize meaningful movement.
02
Mapping patterns, pressures and systems
Looking at the habits, relationships, responsibilities, workplace expectations, power dynamics, and organizational conditions shaping the problem.
03
Challenging assumptions and expanding options
Examining beliefs about success, responsibility, leadership, and identity while considering possibilities that may not yet feel visible.
04
Making decisions and setting boundaries
Clarifying priorities, weighing tradeoffs, and deciding what to say yes, no, or not now to.
05
Practicing communication and leadership
Preparing for difficult conversations, giving or receiving feedback, navigating conflict, setting expectations, and becoming more confident in your authority.
06
Turning decisions into action
Choosing manageable next steps, trying between-session experiments, reviewing what happens, and refining your approach using real-world evidence.
What it might feel like to work together
We can get to the point without losing the person.
My style is relational, direct, curious, structured, and adaptable. At the beginning of our work, I ask what your ideal coach would be like and what you want from me—clear challenge, practical structure, reflective space, or a combination. I ask focused questions, name patterns or tensions that may be difficult to see, and help us remain oriented toward what you want to change.
When useful and requested, I may also offer candid feedback, observations, or possible strategies informed by my experience in human behavior and organizational development. You decide what fits. Our work remains coaching: the purpose is to strengthen your judgment and capacity to act, not replace them with mine.
Although coaching is future-oriented, I do not treat work as separate from the rest of your life. Ambition, burnout, family responsibilities, identity, relationships, workplace power, and organizational culture often intersect. We can consider the whole system as we translate reflection into concrete decisions, conversations, and experiments. **** be sure to note how my research on internalized oppression influences my coaching work.
Kalen Aradia, PhD, PCC
Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation
MA in Organizational Development
Experience coaching employees and leaders through private and employer-sponsored engagements
Coaching format, fees & access
Know the practical details before you begin.
Coaching format
Individual coaching is available internationally by video. Sessions are structured around your professional goals while remaining attentive to the broader personal and organizational context in which those goals exist.
Private coaching and employer-sponsored inquiries
Individual coaching
45 minutes · Every other week
A biweekly cadence provides continuity while leaving time to try new approaches between sessions.
Fees and sponsorship
Confirmed before booking
The current private coaching fee will be shared before your first session. Organizations may also inquire about coaching for employees or leaders.
Fees, scheduling, and engagement details are confirmed before coaching begins.