In a complex, ever-changing world, how do you consistently bring your most effective self to your biggest challenges? Resilience-focused leadership coaching creates lasting behavioral change and a sustainable personal path toward creating the best version of your work and life.
Martha Wooding-Young
Our founder offers clients 35 years of global business experience, 25 years of contemplative practice, and a lifetime of formal and informal coaching. Martha and her seasoned team evoke transformational change to grow resilient leaders for a sustainable world.
Coaching, Training, and Retreats Grounded in Presence
One-on-one leadership coaching supports executives in times of questioning, transition, or burnout, as well as those seeking to level-up their leadership. Coaching is infused with the practice of presence – allowing space for centering and balancing. Emotional intelligence training and team culture interventions provide powerful pivots for teams stuck in unhealthy patterns. Retreats offer concentrated leadership development in a supportive natural setting. Pay it forward with our mindfulness program development and keynotes to support team and company resilience.
Coaching, Demystified
We co-create a safe crucible to uncover your inner game, unnoticed self-talk, and subconscious limitations, seeking to make visible the invisible. Enhance your ability to inhabit your authentic power by transforming weakness into insight and learning to embrace challenges.
“Judging by the outcome of her work for us, it is quite clear that Martha’s successful career as a Wall Street executive, combined with her decades of meditation practice, make her a truly transformative coach. We brought Martha in to support a new partner stepping into her leadership role. Martha’s coaching, grounded in awareness, built resilience and executive presence crucial to our high-performance environment. Their work together allowed our young partner to embrace her new responsibilities with poise and confidence. Martha was a thoughtful, skillful, and strategic partner throughout. Her results have proven to be remarkable and lasting.”
-Jonathan L. Hochman
Managing Partner, Schindler, Cohen & Hochman
“We brought Martha in to coach a newly formed co-leadership team facing a high-stakes, high-complexity situation, and a global, diverse team they had inherited, not built. From the very beginning, it was clear she wasn’t a typical coach—her holistic, deeply personal approach blended rigor with humanity in a way that immediately resonated with our leaders. With empathy and humor, Martha helped them navigate cultural clashes, restructure thoughtfully, and lead with shared purpose. She didn’t just coach the individuals—she coached the system. Her ability to guide them through the tough work of aligning goals, building trust, and coherently blending their voices was invaluable.
Beyond the tactical progress, what really stands out is the resilience and lasting behavioral change she helped instill. ”
-Christine
Senior Talent Partner, Top Ten Global Asset Manager
“With an insider’s perspective from her decades in finance/banking, Martha is a uniquely powerful coach who brings deep wisdom and clarity to helping her clients envision and enact change. With her deep understanding of the corporate and finance workplace, Martha is a true change agent who brings her decades of mindfulness practice to her coaching work. She is the partner we all need when we are trying to shift our life, our career, or our perspective to reach the next stage of growth. Her warmth and humor make this difficult and important growth work a true pleasure.”
-Laura
Tech Startup Founder/CEO
“Working with Martha ranks amongst one of the best decisions I have ever made in my professional career. I initially sought her help navigating a difficult work situation that felt insurmountable at the time. I was searching for a coach that was rooted in neuroscience and mindfulness as I was interested in making life lasting changes, and boy oh boy did the universe provide! Martha and her many years of experience navigating similar work and life situations were invaluable. With her guidance not only was I able to successfully deal with the pressing work situation, but more importantly I was also empowered to better understand myself and effectively identify and build actionable plans to tackle other important areas of development in my life.”
-Ricardo
Investment Analyst