WORKING TOGETHER
Executive Leadership Coaching (1:1)
A 6- or 12-month focused partnership with C-level executives, VPs, and executive directors.
This is a trusted space to work through challenges you can’t process with your team.
What’s included:
- Kickoff and goal-setting session (75 min)
- Ongoing coaching (2–4 sessions per month)
- CliftonStrengths or Enneagram assessment + session (60 min)
- Email support between sessions
360 feedback interviews and board/staff retreat facilitation are available for org-sponsored engagements.
In our sessions, we:
– Work through real situations + experiences as they’re happening
– Get clear on what matters and what doesn’t
– Prepare for conversations that carry the most weight
– Map stakeholder dynamics so you can move with intention
– Build your capacity to function well under pressure
Results from working with me:
This is not generic leadership coaching.
❌ Generic leadership coaching:
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Adds more frameworks on top of pressure, instead of working underneath it
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Trains executive presence as "fake it til you make it"
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Frames burnout as a time-management problem
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Minimizes the systemic and political realities shaping leadership
✅ My somatic executive leadership approach:
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Gets to the root of challenges quickly and without force
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Builds real, embodied presence you and others can feel
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Works at the level of who you are, not just what you do
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Expands your nervous system's capacity to handle stress
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Prevents burnout and addresses survival patterns at their source
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Integrates a systemic, as well as mind-body, lens into coaching
Meet Caitlin Clarke, CHP, CPIC
I’m an executive leadership coach with 20 years' experience inside scrappy, fast-growing startups and mission-driven organizations in San Francisco. I’ve advised CEOs and senior leaders, built strategy and systems, and influenced decisions that impact hundreds of people.
I learned early how to think outside dominant narratives and move between worlds. I saw how systems of power shape people’s lives, and how leadership often reinforces them.
I integrate strategy, systems thinking, and deep training in integrative coaching and somatic (body-based) psychology, because leadership isn’t just what you think. It’s how your body holds pressure, how you show up in the room, and how your presence shapes what happens next.
"About a year into my role as Executive Director, I was fearful, overwhelmed, under constant pressure, and unable to embrace vulnerability and authenticity with my team...
Through working with Caitlin, I was able to get to the psychological and physical roots of that pressure, lifting a huge weight off my shoulders. I’m now approaching my work from a place of trust in myself and in my team. I can discern what’s truly urgent without guilt, and am more confident in my ability to lead well.
The impacts of working with Caitlin are evident in my organization: delegation with my leadership team is easier and more effective, and we’re sharing responsibilities and operating with greater trust and grace. I feel supported instead of threatened.
I appreciate Caitlin’s attentiveness to the nuances and sticky aspects of my struggles. I’d recommend her to anyone navigating the complexity of leadership roles—juggling the many levels of responsibility leadership demands is hard! Caitlin brings the joy back to it."
– Consuelo Tupper Hernàndez, Executive Director, La Peña Cultural Center
Read my success story with Consuelo here >
No great leader does it alone.
This work ripples outward—into your team, your decisions, and how your organization operates.
To learn more, schedule a call with me below.
