The Field Guide to Leading
Name what you're seeing. Then do something about it.
A field guide is the book you carry into the wild so you can recognize what's in front of you. This one is for the terrain of leadership, the meetings and hallways and kitchen tables where so many capable women hold everything and run out of room to be held.
Every page here answers one real question in plain language, whether you're leading yourself, a team, or a whole organization. Some name a pattern you may have been living inside for years. Some explain what this body-based work actually is, without the jargon. Some give you a practice you can use before your next hard conversation. All of them grow from the same root: communication is a nervous system event before it's a language event.
Read in any order. Start wherever something in you says, oh... that's me.
Start HERE
If you're new to this work, begin with
What Is Overfunctioning?
It's the pattern most women leaders recognize first, and it opens the door to everything else.
Patterns You Carry
Why do I keep doing this? These pages name survival strategies that pass for personality, so you can see them clearly and choose differently.
What Is Overfunctioning? Signs, Costs, and How Women Leaders Stop
The Fawn Response at Work
Understand the Work
What is this, and is it for me? Straight answers about somatic and embodied leadership.
Somatic Leadership Coaching, Explained Without the Jargon
Embodied Leadership: A Practical Definition
Practices for Pressure
What do I do in the moment? Tools you can feel working.
Locate, Root, Lead: A 3-Step Practice for Pressure
How to Prepare for a Hard Conversation: The Conversation Map
Culture and Communication
Why isn't our communication landing? For founders, executive directors, and anyone who shapes how an organization talks to itself.
Internal Communication Audit: 10 Signs Your Brand and Culture Don't Match
How to Communicate Change So It Lands
Internal Communication Strategy, From the Inside Out
Burnout in Women Leaders: What the Research Says
Ways to Work Together
Which kind of help fits? Honest guides to coaching, consulting, and learning the method yourself.
Leadership Coaching for Women: What It Is, What It Costs, How to Choose
Internal Communications Consulting: What It Is, When You Need It
Executive Coach vs. Therapist vs. Somatic Practitioner
WHEN YOU’RE READY FOR MORE
THAN READING
CONSULTING
For Your Team or Organization
When something in your organization is being said and it isn't landing. Consulting engagements, fractional communication support, or a focused project for a message that has to land.
COACHING
For Yourself
One-on-one leadership coaching, small cohorts, or the Hard Conversation Intensive for the one conversation you've been dreading.
