Recognized & Promoted: Leadership Coaching for High-Achieving Women in Tech
I want you to feel confident walking into any room at work knowing your leadership, not just your output, is seen and valued. You’re already doing great work—this package is about making sure the right people know it and rewarding you accordingly. In this 3‑month coaching package, we’ll work together to turn your invisible impact into visible, promotable leadership. We’ll clarify your 90‑day leadership goals, map the key stakeholders you need to influence, and build the skills and systems that get you recognized without working more hours. You’ll get structured support between sessions so you’re never “doing this alone” between calls. Here’s what we can do together… - Clarify your leadership story: Define your 90‑day leadership goal, your unique value, and the specific results you want to be known for. - Thought + mindset work: Use modern cognitive psychology frameworks to unpack unhelpful patterns (overthinking, perfectionism, staying quiet) and replace them with confident, sustainable leadership behaviors.
What's included
My coaching is collaborative, not prescriptive. I believe you are the expert on your life and career, and my role is to help you see your impact clearly, ask powerful questions, and offer tools so you can make confident decisions. We’ll co-create your goals and strategy together, using our sessions to test, refine, and adjust based on what’s happening in your real day-to-day. I won’t tell you what to do or hand you a one-size-fits-all playbook—instead, we’ll find the right actions for you, in your context, so that any change we create is both effective and sustainable.
- Stakeholder + visibility strategy: Map the decision-makers, build a simple visibility plan, and create low‑stress ways to stay on their radar.
- Executive presence coaching: Practice speaking up in high‑stakes meetings, pushing back with confidence, and communicating your impact in clear business terms.
- Promotion‑ready proof of impact: Turn your accomplishments into concrete, compelling “proof of work” you can use in promotion packets, performance reviews, and skip‑level conversations.
Meet your expert
Sarah W.
I help women in tech turn great work into promotions and recognition.
I’m Sarah Williams, I help high-achieving women in tech turn great work into the promotion and recognition they’ve already earned. Before coaching, I spent 15+ years in tech moving from systems analysis into a Senior Manager role at Atlassian, leading global, remote-first teams and AI/ML initiatives (including two patents pending). Along the way, I learned that the hardest problems were never technical—they were people problems: visibility, communication, confidence, and navigating messy, political environments. Today, I help senior ICs and managers in male-dominated spaces turn their “invisible” impact into visible, promotable leadership. My clients have earned promotions at big tech companies, stepped into larger scopes and new orgs with confidence, and rebuilt their self-trust after layoffs and difficult work environments. We work together to clarify what they want next, translate their work into clear business outcomes, and build the visibility, executive presence, and communication skills that make decision-makers pay attention. My coaching is collaborative and grounded in modern cognitive psychology frameworks. I’m a Socratic Coaching Method Certified Coach, which means I won’t tell you who to be or hand you a generic playbook. Instead, I’ll ask powerful questions, share practical tools, and partner with you to find strategies that fit your values, context, and life—so the results you create are both real and sustainable.