mBODYed Leadership Coaching
Lead with clarity, grounded presence, and the capacity to steady the people who rely on you.
Most leaders are trained to manage systems — but not to regulate the bodies that lead them.
Your nervous system sets the tone in every room you enter.
Your presence determines whether people tighten or open, defend or collaborate, hide or contribute.
Leadership Coaching at mBODYed helps you lead with steadiness, clarity, and embodied authority — especially when things get complex.
So your team, department, or institution can rely on a leader whose presence stabilizes the system.
THE LEADERSHIP TRUTH
Leadership is a somatic experience before it is an intellectual one.
Your body responds to pressure, conflict, visibility, and responsibility long before your mind interprets it.
Most leaders were never taught to notice this — let alone lead from it. Many leaders carry this weight alone:
holding tension in the name of responsibility
keeping the room steady at the expense of their own steadiness
navigating conflict with bracing instead of presence
speaking from exhaustion rather than clarity
leading through effort instead of coherence
This coaching offers a different way of leading.
You do not need to lead at the cost of your body.
mBODYed Leadership Coaching invites you into a form of influence shaped by nervous-system literacy, embodied communication, and systems that support human beings instead of draining them.
This coaching supports leaders who want influence without intensity.
Authority without pressure. Visibility without collapse. Impact without burnout.
This mentorship is for leaders who want to create environments where:
people feel safe enough to think
creativity expands rather than collapses
conflict becomes clarifying instead of destabilizing
the system follows the steadiness of the leader
What Leaders Say About This Work
Dr. Amy Hardison Tully, Dean, College of Fine Arts, Texas Christian University
“Shawn is truly the artist’s artist, and he approaches his work from the perspective of artists and their shared experiences. As an accomplished educator who transitioned from adjunct to tenured studio professor, he understands the stresses and demands of the academic environment, as well as the physical and emotional toll that the freelance hustle takes on both mind and body. This understanding, combined with his Somatic Wellness Training, provides participants with a holistic coaching experience that is relevant and applicable to artists’ professional lives and personal well-being."
Your Somatic Archetype shapes how you lead under pressure.
It reveals the pattern your system uses to protect you: controlling, withdrawing, over-giving, over-performing, or avoiding visibility.
These patterns once kept you safe.
Now they may be asking to evolve.
In leadership coaching, your archetype becomes our doorway into capacity, clarity, and embodied authority.
Each archetype reveals a unique pattern of protection:
Over Efforter leaders tighten into control
Burned Out leaders deplete themselves for others
Impostor leaders overperform to be believed
Disconnected leaders withdraw when things get intense
Seeker leaders chase solutions rather than land in clarity
Integrator leaders know the work but cannot always embody it
What Leadership Feels Like When the Nervous System Leads
Leaders often describe:
a grounded, unshakeable presence
clarity that reduces reactivity and over-functioning
communication that creates psychological safety
conflict that becomes clarifying instead of explosive
authority that emerges naturally, not from effort
steadiness during visibility, feedback, and difficult conversations
boundaries that protect the leader and the system
relational ease that shifts culture from the inside out
This is leadership that nourishes instead of depleting.
This is the leadership your body has been preparing you for.
Core Areas of Development
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A Six Month Executive Mentorship
This is high-attunement work designed for leaders who move systems, not tasks.
Two, seventy-five minute private sessions per month
Somatic leadership assessment and archetype mapping
Personalized leadership plan
Optional shadow coaching (teaching, rehearsals, public speaking)
Between-session integration practices
Relational pacing that protects depth and reduces overwhelm
This work is not fast.
It is steady, transformative, and designed to last. -
If you hold responsibility for shaping rooms, cultures, or futures — this work is for you.
This coaching is for ensemble directors, department chairs, senior faculty, teaching artists, arts administrators, and creative executives who:
- feel the weight of responsibility in their body
- struggle with boundaries or emotional labor
- want influence without intensity
- want steadiness during visibility
- want to reduce burnout and reactivity
- want to lead from authenticity, not performance
- want a system of care that includes themselves
If you sense this work is calling you, you are ready.
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Investment
Six-month executive mentorship: $5,400
Twelve private 75-minute sessions
Payment plans available
Custom additions available (shadow coaching, observation, advisory support)This is a premium mentorship designed for depth, longevity, and systemic impact.
What makes this different from other leadership coaching
Most leadership coaching works at the level of mindset or strategy.
This mentorship works at the level of capacity — the nervous system patterns that shape presence, communication, conflict, and authority.
You don’t become a better leader by thinking differently.
You become a better leader by leading from a regulated, grounded body.