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Evidence-based
Executive Coaching

Empowering people and leaders to tap their full potential.

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The Approach

Wherever you go,
your psychology
goes with you.

How you show up—from critical meetings and difficult conversations to uncertainty and high-stakes decisions—is shaped by your level of psychological agility. In any given moment, it either expands or constrains what's possible.

By focusing on the emotional and psychological drivers that shape wellbeing, choices, and performance, Dr. West helps leaders, teams, and organizations build the psychological agility required to perform at their best.

Drawing on a blend of behavioral science, neuroscience, and positive psychology, she turns psychological awareness into competitive advantage.

20+
Years Experience
11
Countries
500+
Leaders & Teams Coached

Dr. West is one of the best and most authoritative coaches in the industry. An incredibly knowledgeable thought leader with deep industry experience — a rare master of both the science and art of coaching. Warm, relatable, empathetic, practical, and creative.

Dr. Rob Archer
Psychologist, Executive Coach & Creator of High Performance Routines
Ways to Work Together

For Leaders, Teams
& Organizations

From executive coaching, team development, communication training, organizational consulting, or a keynote — every engagement is evidence-based, tailored to your needs and designed for lasting change.

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Individual & Team
Executive Coaching for
Leaders & Teams

Leadership Coaching — Dr. West works with high-performing individuals to optimize wellbeing and performance through evidence-based coaching. Whether navigating a major transition, facing new leadership challenges, or ready to reach the next level of impact, her approach addresses the psychological drivers that shape how you lead and perform.

Team Coaching — Working with teams to strengthen collaboration, enhance communication, and align around shared goals. Through assessment and facilitation, Dr. West identifies and leverages team strengths, resolves conflicts constructively, and builds a unified vision.

Individual Coaching Supports

  • Increased self-awareness
  • Enhanced motivation
  • Effective communication
  • Greater mental flexibility
  • Improved emotional intelligence
  • Stronger resilience
  • Better problem-solving

Team Coaching Supports

  • Stronger collaboration and trust
  • More effective communication
  • Constructive conflict resolution
  • Increased psychological safety
  • Greater clarity around shared goals
  • More workable team processes
  • Enhanced creativity and innovation

Expert analysis and strategic recommendations for the challenges that keep organizations stuck: hiring practices that miss the mark, leadership bottlenecks, change management challenges, low employee engagement, or workplace cultures that need a reset. Dr. West diagnoses the behavioral and psychological patterns underlying organizational challenges and prescribes evidence-based interventions that lead to measurable, sustainable improvement.

This Work Supports

  • More effective hiring and talent development
  • Improved leadership effectiveness
  • Increased employee engagement and retention
  • Better organizational communication and culture
  • Resolution of persistent workplace challenges
  • Strategic change management
  • Evidence-based approaches to performance improvement

Customized learning experiences that help organizations develop the practical skills needed for high performance: psychological agility, emotional intelligence, effective feedback, psychological safety, and high-value teaming. These programs use a hybrid of didactic, collaborative, and experiential approaches with science-based tools teams can apply immediately.

This Work Supports

  • Enhanced emotional intelligence
  • More effective feedback practices
  • Stronger psychological safety
  • Improved team collaboration
  • Better communication under pressure
  • Increased workplace effectiveness

Example Topics

  • Emotional Fitness for Leaders
  • The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback
  • Wellbeing at Work
  • High-value Teaming
  • Collaborative Communication
  • Psychological Agility for Wellbeing and Performance

Keynotes designed to challenge assumptions, expand imaginations, and create lasting shifts in how people think and act. Each talk is tailored to your audience and focused on the real drivers of performance: psychological agility, emotional intelligence, leadership under pressure, team dynamics, and the conditions required for psychologically safe, high-performing cultures.

Is your organization on a mission to transform people's lives for the better? Dr. West helps clarify your goals and identifies strategies to engage your target audience and "nudge" them towards positive behavior change. Using assessments and market research, a clear plan is developed — from engaging employees to designing behavior change initiatives or activating the public around important policy changes.

Endorsements

What People Are Saying

Dr. West brings a formidable blend of evidence-based expertise, interpersonal skillfulness, and sophisticated systems awareness to her work. She quickly gets to the heart of challenges, clarifying not only why people may struggle to thrive and perform, but what is needed to excel.

Rachel Collis
Executive Leadership Coach & Instructor — Graduate School of Business, Queensland University of Technology

Dr. West is an extraordinary consultant and executive coach. Working one-on-one and in groups, she helped us clarify our company vision, brand, and values, which has translated into stronger workplace communication and culture.

Dave Steunebrink
President & Owner, Showdown Management

Working with Dr. West fundamentally changed how I lead. What began as leadership coaching became a truly transformative journey, introducing an entirely different paradigm for leadership, wellbeing, and what she calls "choicefulness."

CEO & Founder
Tech Company — Executive Coaching Client

Few are as creative, intuitive, and effective as Dr. West. She has a rare gift for holding multiple perspectives at once and building trust — an extremely valuable ally and advisor to organizations that need to connect across differences.

Dan Gerstein
CEO, Gotham Ghostwriters

In a single coaching session, Dr. West helped me shift my perspective and reframe challenges that seemed intractable. The impact of the session was immediate. I left with more clarity, momentum, and internal degrees of freedom than I knew were possible.

Kevin Gutierrez
Multi-Platinum Awarded Producer/Engineer — Paul McCartney, Shinedown, Twilight Soundtrack
FAQ

Frequently Asked
Questions

Everything you need to know before reaching out.

Contact Dr. West to schedule a complimentary consultation to discuss your goals and see if you're a good fit. You'll talk about your concerns and goals, and she'll outline how you might work together. If you decide to move forward, a plan will be created tailored to your specific needs.

As a psychologist and coach, Dr. West brings doctoral-level training and real-world experience working with the emotional and psychological drivers that shape wellbeing, behavior, decision-making, and performance under pressure. She can identify what's actually getting in the way, surface what isn't being said, and activate core processes that create sustainable change — not just manage what's happening on the surface. She also brings over two decades of experience across corporate, creative, tech, and policy environments, and has the expertise to support clients navigating both performance challenges and mental health concerns — something many coaches aren't trained to address.

Coaching is a collaborative process where Dr. West helps you clarify goals and values, develop skills, and build the psychological agility needed to reach them. She acts as a thought partner, disrupts unhelpful patterns, and designs behavioral experiments to help you move in the direction of what matters. Consulting involves expert analysis, strategic guidance, and solutions — assessing organizational challenges and providing specific recommendations based on best practices grounded in behavioral science.

Both. Some organizations bring Dr. West in for one-time assessments, strategic consultations, or targeted training programs. Others prefer ongoing coaching or consulting relationships. In some cases she is retained as "in-house" counsel for matters related to wellbeing, culture, and performance. The right structure will be discussed during your initial consultation.

Individual executive coaching engagements can be as short as 3 months or ongoing, depending on your goals. Team coaching and organizational consulting timelines vary based on the scope of work. During the initial conversation, Dr. West will provide a recommended timeline based on what you're looking to achieve.

Assessments are tailored to your specific goals and may include psychological self-report measures, 360-degree leadership or manager feedback, structured interviews, and customized organizational surveys. The goal is to establish clear baselines and identify specific areas for development. Dr. West will work with you to determine the best approach to provide the most useful data for your areas of growth or concern.

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