Who We Work With
Big jobs.
Big ambitions.
Big responsibilities.
Big challenges.
At Women Leading Women Australia we coach women who want to lead powerfully — on their own terms.
Learn more about how we support you.
Who We Work With
Big jobs.
Big ambitions.
Big responsibilities.
Big challenges.
At Women Leading Women Australia we coach women who want to lead powerfully — on their own terms.
Learn more about how we support you.
IS THIS YOU?
Executive women seek us out at many places and times in their career journeys. Some are stepping into their first executive role and keen to define their leadership from the outset. Some are seasoned executives grappling with the unique challenges of senior female leadership. Others are navigating big transitions, at work or in life.
Our clients come from diverse sectors and backgrounds, and amongst many other things, they share this in common: the yearning to lead with more ease, grace, power, and balance.
Welcome! We’re glad you’re here.
EXECUTIVE WOMEN
Carrying all the weight but still not getting the traction you want?
Is your strategy stalling? Politics grinding you down?
Are you spending your time firefighting instead of leading?
It's exhausting to work so hard behind the scenes, unrecognised and unheard. Through our fully-personalised executive leadership coaching for women, we help you flip the script: from self-doubt to self-trust, from high stress to high focus, from invisible effort to visible authority.
It’s time to command the respect, attention and value you deserve.
Emerging Female Leaders
Stepping into your first big leadership role?
Feeling the weight of responsibility but not yet the confidence to match?
Wondering how to make an impact without losing yourself in the process?
You don’t have to figure it out alone. Through our emerging leaders program, we help you build clarity, confidence, and presence early — so you can set up your leadership career with strength, poise and impact from the very start.
HR & L&D Leaders
Responsible for developing senior leaders in your organisation?
Under pressure to deliver change and development programs that actually stick, not just tick the box?
Struggling to balance budgets, time, and impact?
We partner with HR and L&D leaders across private and public sectors, bringing decades of experience in executive leadership coaching that drives measurable change.
Together we’ll design programs that win buy-in, build capability, and free you from chasing outcomes alone.
Small Business Owners
Working in a male-dominated industry and running your own business?
Feeling like you constantly have to prove yourself — both as a trusted professional and as the authority driving your enterprise?
Navigating client politics while trying to stay true to who you are?
You’re not alone — and you don’t have to go it alone.
Our female leadership coaching helps you harness your authentic strengths, amplify your unique voice, and turn your experience into power you’re comfortable using. You’ll lead your business and your team with confidence, influence, and impact.
Board Members & Aspiring Directors
Stepping into your first board role — or managing the complexities of a chairing position?
Wondering how to assert authority, be heard and respected, and drive real strategic impact?
This step can feel like one of the loneliest. Women are still a small minority in most boardrooms, and that’s why we’re committed to helping you succeed in yours.
Through board of directors coaching, we help women own their authority, sharpen strategic thinking, and lead with confidence at the governance table — navigating complex decisions, strengthening board culture, and making their mark with clarity and influence.
Menopausal Women in Leadership
Brain fog derailing big boardroom moments?
Hot flushes or sleepless nights disrupting your energy and focus?
Wondering how to stay at your best while honouring the changes your body and brain are going through?
You’re not alone — and this is a space where you can bring all of yourself.
Executive menopause coaching helps you navigate this transition with practical strategies, self-care, and clarity that sustain performance and purpose.
Women in Career Transition
Have you decided — or been told — your current position just isn’t right anymore?
Returning to leadership after a personal or career break?
Changing industries, roles, or how work fits into your life?
This kind of transition is one of your most powerful opportunities for growth — and it’s invaluable to have a guide while you make it.
With a career transition coach from Women Leading Women Australia, you’ll explore what you want next (and what you don’t), unpack your values and experience, and step into your next stage from a place of confidence, clarity, and purpose.
Event Coordinators & Professional Associations
Tasked with booking a speaker or trainer?
Need someone you can trust to deliver for your audience — without fuss for you?
See why Karyn might just be the best you’ve ever booked.
As a leadership speaker and facilitator, Karyn blends warmth, insight, and practical inspiration to engage audiences and spark meaningful change. Whether you’re hosting a keynote, panel, or workshop, she delivers an experience that uplifts and empowers — leaving attendees talking long after the event ends.
A Few Questions You Might Be Asking
What level of seniority do you work with?
Most of the women I work with are in senior leadership roles — executives, directors, board members, founders — or stepping into them.
That said, it’s not about title. It’s about responsibility, complexity, and your readiness to lead more deliberately.
If you’re carrying significant decisions, influence, or visibility — you’re likely in the right place.
Do you only work with women in corporate roles?
What if I don't fit neatly into one of these categories?
Is coaching only for women who are struggling?
Do you work with organisations as well as individuals?
What if I'm in a highly visible or politically sensitive role?
Not Sure Where You Fit?
At Women Leading Women Australia, we understand that while many women’s stories have common elements, every woman’s story is unique.
Wherever you are in your leadership journey, if you’re an executive woman ready to grow, there’s space for you here.
WHAT'S IT LIKE TO COACH WITH KARYN?
HERE'S ONE WOMAN'S STORY
BEFORE MY COACHING WITH KARYN
Before my coaching with Karyn, I was a mum in a corporate role on the verge of burnout. I enthusiastically rushed into most challenges and threw my energy at them 100%.
Everything was urgent. My kids, my household, my email inbox. It didn’t leave much energy for me.
I found Karyn at a point when all I wanted was to step back, but instead I stepped up into a management position during a time of huge change and grit my teeth harder.
I coped, but I was on edge, my digestion was a mess, I spent almost no time on myself, and my family and friendships were at the bottom of my to-do list. My panic attacks from a few years ago started to creep back. Sometimes you don’t realise you are holding on by a thread until you think you can’t breathe in a meeting.
Life is infinitely better now that I feel in control of my own time. I’m more confident, calm and considerate.
I’m still a work in progress, but I am taking steps in the right direction – even really small ones – every day, even now my coaching sessions with Karyn are complete.
I WAS A LITTLE NERVOUS
I was nervous about being given “homework”.
I’ve had previous life coaches assign me homework that added to my weekly load.
What Karyn did instead was the opposite.
My assignments were to take things OUT of my week to get time back to myself!
That was more difficult than you’d expect, so she chased me up until I could prove I had taken the ‘me time’ I said I would.
I NEEDED TO TRY IT AND SEE
I needed to “try it and see” for these life lessons to sink in. Only then could I fully understand the ‘why’ and ‘how’.
Through experimenting in my own life with a confident and reassuring guide by my side, I was able to explore the dynamics of situations, both my own and of others.
Karyn gave me scripts that I could use in difficult discussions – even showing me where to pause for effect.
These enabled me to test new approaches and observe the outcomes and dynamics with the support of a safety net.
When these tests were successful, of course I adopted the new skills immediately.
The One of Many soft power types approach batches skills in a simple way so I can recall, practice and ‘embody’ them as I need.
WHAT'S CHANGED FOR ME?
Coaching with Karyn has been transformative for me:
I am so much more aware of my finite energy and I can defend that energy against too many tasks.
Because of this, I am more confident in giving my best efforts towards the things that matter to me and the people and causes that I care about.
Almost counterintuitively, as a result of that strategic scheduling, I feel space opening back in my life for having fun again.
This feels like a gift that just keeps on giving.
THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE?
The biggest difference has been the validation that I’m not 'a tired mum who can't keep up'.
Understanding my energy and my soft power types has changed my approach to everything.
It allows me to plan my time well and confidently decline what doesn’t align with my values and what I need or want to achieve.
As a result, I successfully negotiated reduced hours at work so I can be more present while my kids are young.
Feel Inspired?
WHY WORK WITH KARYN?
Karyn has a reputation for strategy, support, cheerleading and compassion – it’s an incredible and rare mix.
She thinks big-picture but is realistic about what is achievable.
She understands what it is to be a busy corporate mum, and she backs us at every step to take back our power and own our schedules and energy.
And she makes it fun.
I would wholeheartedly recommend coaching with Karyn. Your life will change and you won't look back.
You’ll probably do a lot of smiling and enthusiastic nodding, note taking, deep thinking and life evaluation.
And you’re likely to have a lot of “ohhh, I get it now” moments about things that have been murky for years.
Karyn personalises the program to her clients in a way that is truly transformative.
By addressing our learned beliefs, our triggers, our life balance, even our monthly cycles, I found a path from near-burnout to flourishing – and I believe others will too.