About Sasha

Sasha N. Franklyn, JD, partners with high-achieving professionals who are circling a career pivot or struggling to fully embrace a leadership role, and helping them understand what's actually driving the hesitation, so they can move forward with precision and without second-guessing themselves. With over 20 years of experience across Big Law, energy, and higher education, Sasha has spent her career at the intersection of high-stakes decision-making and the inherited pressures that shape it. She is a former M&A and sovereign wealth attorney at Jones Day. Her work there focused on cross-border transactions valued between $200M and $2B. She has also designed and led corporate training programs used by more than one million professionals across major organizations worldwide. The professionals she works with tend to arrive at one of two moments. The first is a career crossroads: a path that made complete sense on paper but has gradually stopped feeling like theirs. The second is a leadership transition, where the move from high individual performer to someone others look to for direction surfaces a self-doubt that was always present but is now harder to outrun. In both moments, the decision isn't really about the options in front of them. It's about a deeper question the options are carrying, one that makes forward movement feel more complicated than it should. For many high-achieving professionals, especially those from immigrant and diasporic families, that question is layered with what their success has meant to the people who sacrificed for it. That specific pressure is Sasha's focus. Clients leave with a clearly defined decision, a mapped understanding of the pattern that was stalling it, and a documented direction in their own confirmed language. She holds an AB from Harvard University and a JD from Columbia Law School, and is a Certified Life Coach, NLP Master Practitioner, and Positive Intelligence® trained coach.