Executives + Leaders
What are you reflecting in the world, or even just your organization or team? Are you reflecting the change you want to see? Or the patterns you’re resisting?
Common challenges that
might be bringing you here…
- “I don’t know who I am anymore. My roles (CEO, Manager, Leader, Parent, etc.) define me. I want to count myself in.”
- “I feel the anxiety, exhaustion, anger, grief, overwhelm, etc in everyone I lead and/or report to. I want to feel calm, confident, competent.”
- “I feel all those things, too, and am taking it out on my team. I want to respond rather than react.”
- “Everything seems urgent and important. I want to feel clear and focused.”
- “So much is uncertain and unstable. I desire agility and partnership with others in my team, organization, community, etc.”
- “I don’t know how to get team members to row with the rest of the team. I want us all rowing in the same direction with the same rhythm.”
What leaders often discover
through Leading with ELAN …
- Themselves. As a whole, unique person who leads more effectively when they are connected to what is most important to them in life and work.
- Steadiness. Even when the storms keep rolling in.
- Curiosity. Which invites creativity, adaptability, and leadership from others. Even when things are uncertain and complex.
- Clarity. Living and leading on purpose and aligned with priorities.
- Relational agility. Building trusting relationships with self and others through rough waters and complex systems.
- Energy. That which was lost before on spinning wheels or fighting against what is becomes available for what actually matters.
- Authentic connections. So that leadership empowers others to lead and collaborate, too.
- Optimism. Which is so much more than positive outlook. It’s a rich source of agency.
- Sustainability. Leaders not only stick around longer, but they stay engaged.
- Wisdom. Connecting to power wisely enables all of the above.
If you want a deeply personalized coaching experience where the focus is on you and you only, the 6-month Leading with ELAN is a great place to land.
Leaders who enter Leading with ELAN can expect a spacious, grounded, and deeply human experience that unfolds over time. The work begins with Exploring and Emerging, creating room to slow down, reflect, and surface what is asking for attention beneath the urgency of day-to-day leadership. Clients are met with a rare combination of steadiness and honesty, a safe and brave space where they can speak candidly about what leadership actually feels like right now. As trust builds, Lifting the Veil becomes possible: patterns, assumptions, and power dynamics come into clearer view, often revealing new choices and deeper self-understanding without judgment or rush.
From there, the coaching supports Aligning and Activating, helping leaders bring what they are discovering into their decisions, relationships, and ways of working. This is not about fixing or performing, but about moving with greater integrity, clarity, and relational skill across cognitive, emotional, somatic, and systemic levels. Over time, these shifts become embodied through Naturalizing New Norms, as new ways of leading take root and feel sustainable rather than effortful. Clients often leave the process not only more grounded and resilient, but more capable of leading with authenticity, shared power, and imagination in the midst of complexity and change.
What Coaching Clients Say…
Anonymous
SAFE. I felt like we were a partnership the entire time. You guided me and helped me speak truth to my situation, my shortcomings that helped lead to it, and my frustrations with others. And just now I'm pretty sure you'd want me to revisit "shortcomings" and give myself more grace. See what you taught me!! Each meeting started and ended with peace, and centering. Each session gave me actionable steps to take.
Anonymous
SAFE. I felt like we were a partnership the entire time. You guided me and helped me speak truth to my situation, my shortcomings that helped lead to it, and my frustrations with others. And just now I'm pretty sure you'd want me to revisit "shortcomings" and give myself more grace. See what you taught me!! Each meeting started and ended with peace, and centering. Each session gave me actionable steps to take.
Anonymous
Jessica Jacobson
Anyone considering working with Bryn should know that even if it feels impossible, this is going to be a life-giving process that is worth every session. Honestly, at the time we started coaching, I was dreading it. It felt like one more thing on a long list of to-dos. One more expectation, one more responsibility. I was dragging my feet about the entire thing and really resistant to doing the work. Given how resistant I was to the entire process and feeling like I couldn't add on one additional thing, I could never have imagined how transformative this process would be. It really works and I feel like I am a better leader and contributor because of it.
Jessica Jacobson
Anyone considering working with Bryn should know that even if it feels impossible, this is going to be a life-giving process that is worth every session. Honestly, at the time we started coaching, I was dreading it. It felt like one more thing on a long list of to-dos. One more expectation, one more responsibility. I was dragging my feet about the entire thing and really resistant to doing the work. Given how resistant I was to the entire process and feeling like I couldn't add on one additional thing, I could never have imagined how transformative this process would be. It really works and I feel like I am a better leader and contributor because of it.
Jessica Jacobson
Emily Yetman
Bryn is so authentic in everything she does, and in doing so, gives permission and inspires others to show up as and bring their whole selves too. It's energizing. Working with her, I feel like I have someone to walk alongside me, cheering me on, and believing in me fully. That is a huge gift and I treasure it immensely. Also, she's FUN!
Emily Yetman
Bryn is so authentic in everything she does, and in doing so, gives permission and inspires others to show up as and bring their whole selves too. It's energizing. Working with her, I feel like I have someone to walk alongside me, cheering me on, and believing in me fully. That is a huge gift and I treasure it immensely. Also, she's FUN!
Emily Yetman
Audra Christophel
When I started with you, I was so burned out and stressed I was having a hard time showing up as my best or most effective self. Building my own confidence, resilience, and adaptability means I'm showing up as a more effective and present leader at an especially challenging time when our community needs leaders in every arena working from a place of integrity for the benefit of the collective.
Audra Christophel
When I started with you, I was so burned out and stressed I was having a hard time showing up as my best or most effective self. Building my own confidence, resilience, and adaptability means I'm showing up as a more effective and present leader at an especially challenging time when our community needs leaders in every arena working from a place of integrity for the benefit of the collective.
Audra Christophel
“Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.”
– Mary Parker Follett