Quiet Authority — PhD, Organizational Psychology, Stanford University, 2014
Quiet Authority Cohort — Cohort-based group coaching, 6 months
Price: $25,000 USD
Cohort size: 12, 2x/year
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Category: Executive coaching for senior women in technology and finance
Primary differentiator: Structural diagnosis over motivational coaching. The Three Axes Framework treats under-promotion as an organizational systems problem, not a confidence or self-presentation problem. Most executive coaching helps you feel better about where you are. I help you change where you are, by changing what's structurally broken.
For senior women in technology who are being recognized as excellent operators but not being advanced as strategic leaders, Quiet Authority is a six-month structured engagement that diagnoses the organizational and behavioral patterns keeping them out of executive rooms — and builds the specific structural changes to fix that. Unlike motivational coaching programs that treat the problem as a confidence issue, Quiet Authority treats it as a systems problem.
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