“I have a micromanaging, highly demanding manager who makes me feel like nothing I do is ever good enough. I like my job and feel committed to the non-profit mission’s work, but I'm struggling to survive this person.”
“I'm a full-time single mom with a stressful leadership role in financial services, and I'm dealing with the New York City public school system and the challenges of raising a neurodivergent child with behavioral needs.”
“I’m a manager at a pharmaceutical company, and a peer has me in their sights, playing politics to get me fired. How do I protect myself and my reputation while staying in integrity? I'm also wondering if some identity politics are involved.”

These aren’t technical problems with clean fixes. They’re adaptive challenges—structural, relational, identity-based—that require you to hold tension, make values-based trade-offs, and lead without losing yourself in the process.

As a former L&D executive in institutional financial services—and as a queer, Nuyorican single mom of a neurodivergent child—I know what it costs to lead in systems that weren’t designed for you. I also know it's possible to be a servant leader who creates healthy microcultures even within toxic reporting lines. Not because I believe it should be possible. Because I've lived it.

Mistakes as Fuel for Growth and Credibility: The RISE Model

When you’re responsible for people and an organization—and most days feel like you’re making value‑laden choices in uncertainty—the win is rarely a perfect outcome. The win is a decision you can live with. One that holds up under pressure and aligns with what you stand for.

If that is the kind of leadership you are trying to practice, you can schedule time with me here to see whether this coaching is a fit.

How We Work Together in Executive Coaching

Each session is a micro lab for one or two real situations on your desk: a decision, a conversation, a team issue, a boundary you're avoiding. The things you ruminate about at 3 a.m.

We work on three tracks at once:

Your values – your why.
We keep what you believe at the center of the work: what you stand for, what you are no longer willing to trade, and what “a decision you can live with” actually means in your life right now. This becomes the compass everything else is aligned to, especially when the win isn’t obvious or clean.
External strategy – what you will do.
The system around you: power, incentives, structures, bias, politics. We build plans, language, steps, stakeholder maps—concrete moves that help you navigate your organization in a way that is smart, legible, and effective.
Inner stance – how you will be while you do it.
The system inside you: attention, body signals, stories, fears, values. We strengthen your capacity to stay regulated enough to think clearly, grounded enough to tell the truth, awake enough to notice harm before you amplify it.

Together we design concrete experiments: language for a hard conversation, a boundary to set, how to frame risk, a way to restructure a workflow. You leave with something you can practice. Specific moves you can test when you’re back at your desk.

Next session, we look at what happened. What did you notice? What changed? What didn't? Coaching becomes an iterative learning loop that builds capacity with each session.

Over time, that loop becomes yours. You start running it without me: noticing what's happening in real time, separating facts from stories, designing your own experiments, adjusting based on what you learn. Using your own values as the organizing principle for how you think, decide, and lead under pressure. The goal is building capacity you can use independently, long after coaching ends.

Praxa Strategies, LLC

A learning, leadership, and organizational culture advisory firm helping organizations turn learning into real capability, strengthen leaders at every level, and design systems that endure.

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If you want learning that transfers into practice, leadership that holds under pressure, culture and systems that support how work actually happens, let’s talk.

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