Victorian engraving of a branching nerve

Championing

dysregulated leadership

I help leaders and founders work with their nervous system, in a world that works against it.

Pressure rolls downhill. So does regulation. Whatever state you’re in, the people around you catch it.

Regulation isn’t calm. You can be regulated and completely lit up. It’s capacity: the capacity to feel the full force of a moment and still choose your next move.

Katie J White on the beach at golden hour

About me

10,000-hour strategist · 15 years’ leadership experience · Qualified leadership coach and trainer · Unenviable personal burnout story

Previously leading at:

Work with me to build capacity in your business, your people and yourself.

Strategy

Clear vision &
plans.

My hard-won approach to strategy, planning and problem-solving gets the answers out of your heads and into action.

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Training

Empowered
teams.

My line-up of leadership training programmes builds accountable teams who hold their nerve and trust their instincts.

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Coaching

Access to yourself,
under pressure.

My challenging one-to-one coaching goes beyond your thinking, to work with what’s really driving you (or holding you back).

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Range, not calm

Dysregulated leaders

  • One setting for everything
  • Decide fast to end the discomfort
  • Snap, blame and escalate
  • Hold on tight and micromanage
  • Lead for the audience
  • Go quiet when it gets hard
  • Run on adrenaline until they crash

Regulated leaders

  • Move between states as the moment needs
  • Take the pause, then decide
  • Feel the heat and stay in charge of themselves
  • Trust their people and let go
  • Lead for the people in front of them
  • Stay present in the hard conversation
  • Build in recovery, so they can go again

It can be learned.

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Regulated leaders are the leaders we need.

We’re living through an epidemic of reactive leadership: in boardrooms, in teams, in politics, at home. You’ve seen it. You’ve probably been it. I certainly have.

Nobody is regulating who gets to lead. So leaders have to regulate themselves.

Ready to get your nervous system back in line with your ambitions?

Tell me what’s happening in your business, your team or your head, and I’ll tell you honestly whether and how I can help.

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