ELEVATE YOUR IMPACT.
LEAD WITH PRECISION.
Executive coaching for visionaries ready to transcend performance plateaus and redefine success.
The Situation
You have accomplished a great deal. The next step is not always obvious.
At this level, the challenges grow quieter and more interior. Decisions carry more weight when you are the one who must make them and live with what follows. The isolation that attends senior leadership rarely gets named. You are holding the steadiness of everyone around you while your own nervous system runs in the background, shaping every call you make, every room you walk into, and every conversation you have.
There is opportunity in easier times and challenging times. Right now technology is evolving quickly and you are asked to steady teams through big change. The work draws on your judgment, your presence, and your capacity to stay clear.
The patterns shaping how you meet all of this are older than the role you are in, and they live deeper than most work ever reaches.
Valerie Abra Rosenfield has been a psychotherapist for 25 years. In that time she has worked with people carrying consequential weight: founders, owners, CEOs, VPs, managers, nonprofit executives, elected officials, creative professionals, artists, authors, lawyers, journalists, medical professionals, and other high-impact leaders all making decisions that reach far beyond themselves. Through that long practice she came to understand where leadership actually lives. The patterns that shape how a person leads form in the body, in the nervous system, long before anyone steps into a title. They move beneath strategy, and they hold steady until they are met directly.
When her clients began asking to think through their professional lives with her, she recognized that years of learning about how people change had prepared her for exactly this.
Her coaching draws on Internal Family Systems, somatic awareness, vagus nerve regulation, and applied neuroscience. It draws equally on more than two decades of Iyengar yoga practice and study of Vedic philosophy, traditions that have examined the relationship between self-knowledge and purposeful action for thousands of years. She brings all of it to the specific, present challenges her clients bring.
Valerie offers coaching that is direct, forward-looking, and grounded in a deep understanding of how people actually change.
Services
Leadership Alignment Intensive
Deep-Dive Strategy + Presence Reset
A focused engagement for leaders who need to find their footing quickly. After a transition, before a pivotal decision, or when a hard period calls for a deliberate reset… Read more
Advisory Partnerships
Strategic Investment and Counsel
A sustained, trusted relationship for leaders who want on-call counsel in addition to hourly sessions, present for the consequential moments as they arrive. Read more
1:1 Executive Coaching
Private, High-Impact Sessions
The work addresses what is immediate while building the capacity to meet what comes next, at the level of the nervous system as much as the strategic... Read more
What Changes?
Leaders who work with Valerie describe a different quality of thinking under pressure. More deliberate decisions. A steadier presence in the room. Team dynamics that shift because the leader has shifted. The capacity to make hard calls with clarity and confidence. A more conscious relationship to where their energy goes, and why.
"I now show up as a more positive and stable leader, and the morale of my team has measurably improved. Rather than fixating on my imperfections, I have learned ways to calm and clarify my thinking so that I can empower others. She coached me through some of the most difficult decisions I've had to make for the company, and for myself, teaching me how to handle these situations with compassion and candor." — Roya Amini-Naieni, CEO and Co-Founder, Trilobio
“Valerie is an incredible Executive Coach. Her work with me has altered the trajectory of Trilobio for the better. I now show up as a more positive and stable leader, and the morale of my team has measurably improved because of that. Rather than fixating on my imperfections, I have learned ways to calm and clarify my thinking, so that I can empower others. She has truly changed my life and helped me turn Trilobio into a healthy workplace with high employee retention. She coached me through some of the most difficult decisions I’ve had to make for the company, and for myself, teaching me how to handle these situations with compassion and candor. Good executive coaches are extremely hard to find. I am so grateful I found Valerie, and any leader would be lucky to partner with her. She is particularly helpful for passionate, hardworking, and perfectionist founders looking to lead with compassion, while having the courage to make hard decisions.”
“Have you seen The Matrix? The movie from 1999? After talking to you I feel like I just met the oracle, already feel better.”
“Walk toward the monster (the pain, the scary thing, the grief). ”
“Finding a sounding board who truly understands the unique weight of leadership is rare; finding someone who can walk alongside you through the intersecting fires of social-spiritual activism, community conflict, and personal evolution is a gift. For over twenty years, Valerie has been that indispensable force in my life and work. I call upon her wisdom in areas and at times that feel right. Valerie has become a part of the fabric of what I feel is the tapestry that makes community leaders feel held and valued.
Valerie doesn’t just offer abstract advice. She meets you in the trenches as an accomplice on the path. Her approach is beautifully disarming and completely devoid of sugar-coating. Through her attentive, instructive, and attachment-based dialogue, she has helped me cut through the noise, clarify my deepest thinking, and confront the upper-limit beliefs that were holding me back from the next level of my work.
Valerie has been integral to my leadership development, guiding me through periods of organizational uncertainty and crisis. Her unique capacity to meet me at the exact intersection of reality and growth allowed me to make critical, high-stakes decisions that ultimately empowered me, my community, and my clients. Her capacity for culturally sensitive, trauma-informed coaching allowed me to finally break through mammoth, long-standing emotional blocks.
If you are a leader navigating complex landscapes and looking to expand your capacity, break through internal ceilings, and ground your practice in deep evolutionary truth, Valerie is the guide you want by your side. Thank you, Valerie!”
“I have known Ms. Rosenfield for the past 23 years. She has been a colleague, as well as a critical support in my work as a non-profit executive in the Bay Area for the past decade plus years. Valerie has a unique understanding of organizational function, leadership challenges especially during times of turbulence and change, and how to merge one’s identity as a leader with the unique challenges of today. She is a unicorn. I highly recommend her, and know that you will only benefit from her unfailing support and guidance. ”