Executive and Leadership Coaching in Austin, TX
Build a successful career and business without losing yourself.
You’ve achieved a great deal, but the pressure to keep performing, solving problems, and carrying responsibility for everyone around you may be taking a toll.
Whether you're leading a team, growing a business, navigating change, or questioning what's next, coaching gives you the space to think more clearly, lead more intentionally, and reconnect with the kind of life and career you actually want.
Together, we'll strengthen your leadership, build resilience, and create success that doesn't come at the expense of your health, relationships, or sense of self.
Executive Coaching. Leadership Development. Leadership Training.
Ready to thrive, not just survive?
I’m Shelley Pernot, an executive and leadership coach in Austin dedicated to helping driven professionals lead with confidence, compassion, and authenticity. My work blends practical leadership development with the deeper inner work that sustains it.
I’ve seen it too often: talented, high-performing leaders who are admired for their results yet quietly running on empty. The long hours, the constant striving, the weight of always being “on.” It takes a toll.
Coaching with me is a space to pause, breathe, and realign with what truly matters. Together, we’ll strengthen the skills and mindset that fuel effective leadership clarity, presence and emotional intelligence, while also tending to the deeper patterns that lead to burnout.
For many of my clients, especially high-achieving women, this work is about learning to lead from wholeness rather than perfection, from purpose rather than pressure.
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What happens when a person, group, or organization we once valued stops giving us what we need? We often fight reality, trying harder to change the situation until frustration turns into resentment, cynicism, or disengagement. Learning to identify our unmet needs, let go of what we can’t control, and recognize the choices we still have can help us move from resistance and disappointment toward greater freedom.