1:1 Leadership Coaching for High-Achieving Women
It's 2 a.m.
And you're already behind for tomorrow.
You're brilliant at your job — too brilliant, that's the problem. Somewhere along the way, your team learned to need you for everything. This is 12 weeks of private, 1:1 coaching to hand their work back, lead through influence, and close your laptop at 5 p.m. For real.
Only 2 spots still available · 12 weeks · Entirely confidential
You wake up at 6:30 — already 200 emails behind.
Your day starts three hours late. Every time zone woke up without you, and the requests piled up while you slept. So you answer emails while you straighten your hair and get the two-year-old ready. You haven't even walked into the office and you're already losing.
By 8:30 you're in your first meeting — the first of eight and a half hours of them, stacked on top of about three hours of real work and a fresh round of fires to put out. So you multitask through meetings you can't afford to miss, because there's no other place to put the work.
At 4:30 you leave for pickup. Dinner. Bath. Bedtime stories. And at 8:30 you're back on the laptop, finishing the day you never got to start — until 11, when your eyes blur over inbox zero and you start building tomorrow's deck.
Tell me if this sounds familiar
The 2 a.m. voice
“It's 2 a.m. — and I'm already behind for tomorrow.”
Heart pounding. Anxiety through the roof. You replay everything that didn't get done, check tomorrow's calendar, and start playing chess with your own time in the dark — which meetings to skip, which fires to punt, which deck to build at midnight instead of sleeping. You're solving problems at 2 a.m. that your team should be solving in daylight.
The part nobody tells you
Your excellence is the thing chaining you to the desk.
Here's the hard truth: every hour you spend rescuing your team, you're teaching them to need you. Every fire you put out yourself, every deck you fix at 10 p.m., every decision that lands on your desk because “only you can make it” — that's not their dependency. That's your training.
You didn't get to director by asking permission. You got there by being the one who could always do it. That's exactly why you're still doing it — at 11 p.m., after bedtime, on vacation, in the parking lot.
You're not a victim of your team. You've been the architect of your own prison — one rescued project at a time.
Two ways to run a team
There's the hard way. And there's the way you're about to find.
The Hard Way
Where you are
- Delegate — then fix the work yourself at 10 p.m. because “it wasn't done right”
- Have “the talk” with your team — then change nothing about how you two actually work
- Build the JIRA board with 60 tickets — then never hold anyone accountable to a single one
- Keep standards in your head, expect them anyway, and resent the gap
- Stay late. Feel guilty either way. Repeat tomorrow.
The Better Way
Where you're headed
- Hand work over — and have it come back right, on time, without a 10 p.m. fix-it shift
- Set the standard once, in writing, so “done” means the same thing to everyone
- Run accountability rhythms that hold — blockers get cleared, tickets close, work moves
- Lead through influence, not rescue. Your team runs without you.
- Close the laptop at 5. Sleep at 2 a.m. Take the vacation. For real.
This is for you if…
This is for you if…
The Offer
Leadership with Freedom
12 weeks · 1:1 Coaching · $4,500
This isn't another workshop you'll forget by Monday. It's a private, 12-week rebuild of how you lead — with someone in your corner while you change the pattern. By the end, your team runs without you. Your laptop closes at 5pm and the 2 a.m. spiral becomes a bad memory.
What's inside
60–90 minutes, just you and me — no audience, nothing off the record.
Text between sessions. The real test happens Tuesday at 3 p.m., not in the session.
Who owns what, what “done” means, what happens when it's late — in writing, finally.
How to check the work without breathing down necks — rhythms that actually hold.
The exact words for “the talk” that changes the pattern — not just the agenda.
Ready to roll the new way of working out wide when the moment's right.
The 12-week arc
The Contract
Map every program, decision, and fire. Sort what only you can do from what your team should own. Write the standards down — for the first time, explicitly.
The Handoff
Rebuild delegation so it doesn't boomerang. Decision rights, escalation rules, and a team that starts running without the daily checkpoint.
The 5 p.m. Reality
Accountability that holds. Leadership through influence, not rescue. Autonomy becomes the expectation — and the laptop closes at five, and stays closed.
The investment
Cheaper than the cost of one more bad quarter.
Think about what this problem is already costing you: the health scare you keep ignoring, the marriage that gets the leftovers, the daughter who sees a phone instead of a face, the promotion that slips because “the team needs her too much to move her.” $4,500 is a rounding error next to the price of staying where you are.
$4,500
12 weeks · 1:1 · All of it
Paid in full, or 3 payments of $1,650.
Your call. No pressure either way.
Many companies reimburse leadership coaching for directors. Bring this to your employer and let them fund your 5 p.m. — it's cheaper for them than a burned-out director.
2 spots · Remaining
Your move
Your team is waiting for you to stop doing their job.
You've spent years proving you can do it all. You don't have to prove anything — you already have what it takes. You just need the moves. Three spots. Twelve weeks. One very different 5 p.m.
Dr. Jaclyn Malcom
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