Executive Coaching and Leadership Development in Austin, TX
The next level of leadership begins with knowing yourself.
Effective leadership starts with understanding how you think, communicate, and respond under pressure, and how those patterns affect the people around you.
I help individual leaders deepen their self-awareness, navigate challenges, and move beyond habits that limit their effectiveness. I also partner with organizations to develop their leaders, strengthen working relationships, and put learning into practice.
Through individual coaching, group coaching, and customized training, we build an approach around your needs, whether you’re growing in your own leadership or investing in the people who lead your organization.
Let’s talk about what you need.
What are you looking for?
Individual support to deepen self-awareness, navigate challenges, and lead more effectively.
Individual coaching, group coaching, and customized training shaped around your organization’s needs.
Space to regain perspective, reconnect with what matters, and explore a more sustainable way forward.
What Kind of Leader Do You Want to be?
You want to give more honest feedback, trust your judgment in a bigger role, or give your team more room to make decisions. And you may also be the person everyone counts on to catch what falls through the cracks. I’ve seen it too often: talented leaders who are admired for what they deliver and quietly running on empty. The long hours, the constant striving, the weight of always being “on.” It takes a toll.
I’m Shelley Pernot, an executive and leadership coach in Austin. My work blends practical leadership development with the deeper inner work that sustains it. We might start with a conversation you keep replaying or a responsibility you know you need to hand over. We’ll work through what to say or do, and get curious about what makes it hard. What feels at stake when you speak up? What happens when you let someone else do it their way?
Coaching gives you space to pause and pay attention to what matters to you. From there, you can make clearer choices about what you take on, how you show up under pressure, and where you want to put your energy as a leader.
Client Success Stories
Developing leaders at We Are Blood
What does leadership development look like at an Austin, Texas nonprofit where teams depend on each other to keep the local blood supply moving? See how We Are Blood partnered with True North Coaching to support its leaders through individual coaching and facilitated team conversations about how they work together.
Trusted by Leaders from Organizations Including
It’s easy to talk about emotional intelligence when life is going smoothly. But what happens when life knocks you off your game and the emotions you’d rather not feel come rushing in? Sometimes the most emotionally intelligent thing we can do is stop trying to fix ourselves.