As the Founder/CEO of Your Business, I want to Let You in On a Core Truth:

You already know how to lead.

You've had a vision. You've been operating with your values. You've achieved results. That is leading.

What causes the struggle isn't that you can't lead. It's that your role as Founder/CEO has surfaced human challenges you - like most of us - were never equipped to solve.

And at your level, those challenges carry weight. The decisions you make affect people's livelihoods, the company's future, your own financial security. The ripple effects are real. The complexity is amplified. It can feel like there's no room to get it wrong, and no one who has your back if things don't go as planned.

You didn't become a CEO because you needed to learn leadership. You became a CEO because you had a vision, values that aligned with it, and the drive to make it real.

But here's what no one told you: The business will surface every unresolved part of yourself. Every pattern you haven't examined. Every place you don't trust yourself. Every conversation you've been avoiding - with yourself and others.

The angst you feel isn't because you're bad at leading. It's because you're being asked to make high-stakes decisions and navigate complex relationships while carrying unexamined beliefs, unprocessed emotions, and untested assumptions about yourself.

This isn't a leadership problem. It's a human development opportunity.

What You Actually Need

Life coaching for CEOs isn't about making you better at your role. It's about making you better at being you - so that every role you play (CEO, partner, parent, friend) becomes easier, more authentic, and less exhausting.

Because when you know yourself, trust yourself, and can express yourself clearly, the business stops being a battlefield and starts being what it actually is: a reflection of who you're becoming.

Operating a business presents lessons to be better at 'humaning'. For those of us who recognize our discomfort as a personal invitation for change, we must move through The Three Practices of Self-Development (that happen to make you a less anguished, more effective CEO):

1. Self-Awareness

• Seeing yourself clearly - your patterns, projections, beliefs, fears
• Understanding why you react the way you do
• Recognizing what's yours vs. what's theirs

2. Self-Responsibility

• Owning your choices, emotions, and impact
• Trusting yourself to handle outcomes
• Making decisions from your center, not from fear or performance

3. Self-Expression

• Showing up as who you actually are
• Communicating what's true for you
• Creating relationships (with employees, partners, clients) that reflect your authentic self

This Is What We Do Together

The Sage CEO is life coaching for women who lead.

We work together on developing you as a human - building clarity, trust, and authentic expression - so that leading your company becomes easier.

This isn't about fixing you. You're not broken.

This is about integrating you - so you can stop fighting yourself and start living in alignment with who you actually are.

What Happens Here

The work is intimate, honest, and deeply grounded. It's as much about you as it is about your business - because the business cannot grow without you doing so first.

Women who work with me come for clarity. They stay because of how they feel:

• Unburdened
• Seen
• Capable
• Resourced
• Reconnected to themselves
• Clear about what matters
• Confident in their choices

You stop spinning in your head. You stop carrying everything alone. You stop believing the doubts that run your days.

Instead, you develop emotional steadiness, inner authority, and grounded power.

And as you expand, so does everything you touch.

How It Works

Private 1:1 Coaching - Deep, personalized work focused entirely on you, your patterns, your growth.  

Group Coaching - Intimate cohorts of women leaders doing this work together, learning from each other while getting direct coaching.

Both include working with Kris and the focused attention you need to make real shifts.

Hi, I'm Kris.

I've spent over 30 years coaching leaders, and here's what I've learned: Most successful women don't need more leadership training. They need support for the very human challenges that get amplified when you're the one making every final decision, carrying the weight of other people's livelihoods, and navigating territory you've never been in before.

I'm the coach that female founders and CEOs call when they realize the problem isn't their business strategy - it's the internal experience they're having while running their business.

After three decades of working with women who build meaningful, complex, high-stakes lives - I know and keenly understand the weight you feel all-too-often as the one everyone else relies on.

Women seek out my work when they're done with cookie-cutter answers and people who tell them how to run their lives. They're looking for truth, clarity, and a place to put down the weight they've been carrying. They want a guide who understands the inner life of women who hold a lot.

I work with women who are often the expert in every room - women who are quietly tired of being the one who always has to know, decide, and hold it all together.

What sets this work apart is something I call Sage - it's not just a method, it's how I see my clients.

Clients say through our work I help them:

• See past the façade
• Cut through the story to what's actually true
• Ask the questions that stop the spinning
• Name what others sense but don't say
• Hold truth with compassion, humor, and steadiness

What Our Clients Say

The Sage CEO Is For You If:

• You're a Founder, CEO, C-Suite Leader or Executive Director
• You're exhausted from being the hub of everything
• You recognize your discomfort as a personal invitation for change
• You're ready to stop obsessing over getting it "right" and start trusting yourself
• You're willing to do the real work

Sage Is Not For You If:

• You're looking for business strategy or tactics
• You want someone to tell you exactly what to do
• You're not willing to look at yourself honestly

You didn't come this far to spend your life exhausted and frustrated.

You deserve peace, ease, and the freedom you thought you were creating.

It's available - not through better tactics, but through becoming more of who you actually are.