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Something is off and it has been off long enough that you have stopped expecting rest to fix it. Maybe it is the exhaustion that does not lift no matter how much you accomplish. Maybe it is the persistent sense that the person you used to recognize in yourself has gotten harder to locate. Maybe you have earned a room you cannot fully inhabit, and the gap between your capability and how you actually show up in high-stakes moments is starting to cost you. Maybe you have arrived at something that was supposed to feel like enough and it simply does not. These are not separate problems. They are different entry points into the same place. This is not about one acute situation. It is about the recurring pattern underneath every situation like this one โ the thread that has been pulling you back regardless of how much clarity you find in the moment. ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ โ Professionals experiencing burnout that credentials, rest, and achievement have not touched โ Leaders navigating imposter syndrome that has nothing to do with skill and everything to do with belonging and permission โ People who have lost track of the version of themselves that existed before the path took over โ First-generation and diaspora professionals who have arrived and still cannot fully claim the room ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ Eight weeks of deep work on the specific threads keeping the pattern running. We do not work on one decision in isolation. We work on what generates the loop โ the inherited pieces, the identity weight, the belief structure that makes both directions feel costly โ and we untangle them directly. Running alongside this work is the Positive Intelligence mental fitness program. Not as the main event. As the infrastructure that makes the shift sustainable. Think of it as building the capacity to stay out of the loop once we have interrupted it, so the work holds when the pressure returns. ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ Most coaching works on the situation in front of you. This work extends to what comes after: to the very pattern that generates situations like this one. The specific belief structure that forms when the perceived cost of honoring yourself feels like dishonoring the people whose sacrifice made your opportunity possible. That structure does not resolve by working harder at the surface. It resolves when it is named precisely and worked with directly. That is what eight weeks is for. The goal is not a better decision. It is a different relationship to the ones that come after it.
A named pattern โ specific, visible, and workable across future situations
A direction that holds, made from your own values rather than inherited pressure
The mental fitness to catch the pattern before it pulls you back
A document that captures your direction, your pattern, and your interrupt in your own words, for reference when the pressure returns
Coaching delivered via live sessions.
โ Direct and precise. We work on what is actually there, not the polished version of it. โ Culturally grounded. I understand the specific weight that first-generation and diaspora professionals carry into their decisions and their leadership. That weight is not a side note here. It is central to the work. โ Below the surface. Most coaching works on the visible problem. I work at the layer underneath it, where the pattern that keeps generating the problem actually lives. โ Your language, not mine. The insights that come out of this work are named in your words, not translated into a framework you have to remember later. โ Structured and focused. Every session has a direction. You will not leave wondering what just happened or what comes next. โ Credentialed and experienced. JD, Columbia Law School. AB, Harvard University. Certified Coach, NLP Master Practitioner, Positive Intelligenceยฎ trained. 1,200+ hours of coaching delivered across career direction, leadership presence, and professional development.
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Sasha also coaches for Leadership Coaching, Life Coaching, Law School, and Legal Practice. View all.

Joined September 2025
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Career Decision Strategist Helping You Go From Circling to Committed
My path to career coaching runs through two decades of working inside the kinds of institutions and decisions my clients are navigating. Corporate law at Jones Day came first, focusing on cross-border M&A and Sovereign Wealth transactions and the high-stakes pressure that comes with them. From there, the work expanded into energy and higher education leadership at Johns Hopkins University, and eventually into designing training programs and instructional materials now used by more than one million professionals across major organizations. The rooms where difficult career decisions get made are familiar territory. So is the experience of making several hard ones. A graduate of Columbia Law School and Harvard University, where I majored in Biology, I am a Certified Life Coach, NLP Master Practitioner, and Positive Intelligenceยฎ trained coach, currently working toward my ICF PCC credentials. The methodologies behind the work are grounded in decision-pattern analysis and mental fitness, which means sessions go beyond advice and strategy. The goal is building the internal capacity to make decisions clearly and follow through on them.
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