Amanda L. Christian | Women's Executive Coaching

Aligned Leadership: Why Your Nervous System Is Your Real Leadership Strategy

You can be highly capable, deeply respected, and objectively successful, and still experience a quiet strain underneath your leadership. Not the kind anyone else sees. The kind that shows up as decision fatigue, emotional bracing, or the increasing effort required to produce the same level of cl...

The Quiet Choice That Changes Everything

There’s a particular kind of quiet that settles in when you’ve stopped forcing yourself forward—but haven’t yet stepped into what’s next. It often arrives on a Sunday night. The house is still. The week ahead is outlined on your calendar. And you notice something subtle: the old urgency isn’t t...

Feminine Leadership Isn’t Soft—It’s Strategic

I still remember the moment I learned—quietly, unmistakably—that feminine leadership was something to manage carefully. I was leading a complex, enterprise-scale technology initiative inside a global financial institution—multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, and material consequences if ...

Women and Negotiation: Why You Go Silent for Your Worth

I've negotiated million-dollar deals at work without blinking. I've successfully navigated multiple real estate transactions. I've advocated for teams and budgets in meeting rooms. But when I was laid off and interviewing for a contracting position? That was different. They came back with an of...

The Authority Gap

When Accomplished Women Leaders Stop Proving and Start Embodying You're in another December planning meeting. You've spent the year delivering results—exceeding targets, leading initiatives, solving problems no one else could crack. And yet here you are, again, front-loading your recommendation ...

Do I Have Imposter Syndrome?

(Here's Why That's the Wrong Question) Do I have imposter syndrome? If you're a high-achieving woman asking this question, I want to start by saying this: what you're experiencing is real, valid, and incredibly common among successful women. You're not imagining it, and you're definitely not alo...

Feeling Stuck at Work?

Here's Why Executive Presence Advice is Making It Worse Stuck at work despite doing everything "right"? You're Googling this at 3am because you've tried all the executive presence advice—speak up more, lean in harder, command the room—and you're still invisible. Here's the truth no one's telling...

The Competence Trap: Why High Performers Stay Invisible in Leadership

Here's what no one tells you about being really, really good at your job: It's the fastest way to become invisible for leadership roles. You feel stuck, overlooked, and trapped by your own excellence. But here's the plot twist—that "trap" you think you're in? It's actually hidden leverage you did...

How Women Lead: 4 Natural Patterns from Exhausted to Influential

I'd always been able to see patterns others missed, but I didn't have words for it. And when I'd bring up what I was seeing—inefficiencies, better ways to do things, connections others overlooked—I was consistently poo-poo'd. "You don't know what you're talking about." So I learned to stay quiet...

What Are the Traits of an Effective Leader? The Revolution Hidden in Your 'Flaws'

"Just smile your pretty smile, take notes, and bring them back to me to solve." That's what my manager said when sending me to a meeting with irate division heads. The Technology head couldn't attend, my manager couldn't attend, so they sent me—the woman—to be a note-taker. "Do you really think...

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