As an ICF Certified Coach, I help high achieving professionals, executives and business owners make clear decisions, overcome overthinking, and get results while maintaining work life balance, especially under pressure.
If you’re someone who performs at a high level but internally experiences mental noise, second-guessing, or the weight of constant responsibility… I will to help you see clearly, think strategically, and follow through consistently.
🎓Qualifications & Experience:
-ICF Certified Professional Coach
-Emotional Intelligence Certified Coach (Daniel Goleman Institute)
-Industrial Engineer & Supply Chain Professional: structured, analytical, results-driven
🏢 13+ years leading teams and driving change across multinational organizations
🏆 Top Rated Coach on Upwork, 5 star reviews
⏱ 2,000+ hours of 1:1 coaching
🌍 Clients from 35+ nationalities
🧠 Formally trained in Emotional Intelligence, Life Coaching Human Behavior, Mindfulness & Productivity (Daniel Goleman Institute, Tara Brach, Janina Fisher, Tony Robbins)
During all these years I have observed a consistent pattern: "The most capable and high achieving people carry the most invisible pressure."
Not because they are weak but because it is hard to understand their challenges and provide relevant support
I help these clients achieve:
✅ Sharp, confident and grounded decision-making during high-stakes life or career transitions
✅ Calm executive presence & Leadership influence
✅ Clear boundaries and strategic communication skills
✅ Emotional intelligence under pressure (self-awareness, values, identity shifts)
✅ Reduced / no overthinking, self-doubt, imposter syndrome and perfectionism
✅Sustainable performance (without burnout) with accountability & support
✅ Control over their time, energy, and focus
I primarily work with:
🔘Executives and senior leaders navigating growth, pressure, or complex decisions
🔘Founders and entrepreneurs building systems for themselves or for their teams
🔘Technical professionals developing executive presence and communication
🔘Professionals balancing demanding careers with family life
🔘High achievers who are competent but mentally overloaded
No matter the background, I have helped them achieve clarity, control, balance and results that aligns fully with their purpose, goals and values.
🏆 Recent client outcomes:
-Supported professionals in securing executive-level roles through strategic career coaching, clarity, and interview preparation
-Helped a tech entrepreneur with ADHD overcome perfectionism and execution blocks by identifying avoidance patterns and building structured accountability
-Guided a freelancer to surpass income goals while working fewer hours by restructuring offers, systems, workflows, delegation and prioritisation
-Supported professionals through complex career decisions, negotiations, and high-stakes conversations with clarity and confidence
-Coached CEOs for decision on next business venture / masters program
-Fewer emotional reactions, Calm, grounded leadership presence
-Progress without constant pressure or burnout
-Greater control over time, energy, and focus
-Stronger boundaries and communication, without guilt
🎯How This Works
1. Identify the root of your mental friction in 1:1 coaching sessions (deep, focused, practical)
2. Clarify decisions, priorities, purpose and direction
3. Real-time problem solving for decisions, challenges, and leadership situations
4. Build simple systems and habits for consistent execution
5. Shift your mindset to abundance, growth and fulfilment
After each session, you will leave with:
1- Clear action plans and structured follow-up
2- You will get ongoing support, accountability, resources and reflection in between sessions (if you opt for it)
What clients consistently say:
- I identify core patterns quickly (even the ones that are hidden behind logic or “good reasons”)
- I combine emotional intelligence with structured, practical execution
- I don’t offer surface-level advice, I help change how they think and operate
- I provide clear frameworks, accountability, and follow-through systems
✨ Next Step
If you’re looking for clarity, structure, and real progress, not just conversation. I’d be glad to support you.
👉Feel free to send a message and share what you’re working through.
My promise:
You’ll leave the first session with clarity, direction, and immediate mental relief, or I’ll refund the session. No questions asked.
Executive Coaching
Leadership Development
Leadership Training
Health & Wellness
Life Coaching
Career Coaching
Business Coaching
Leadership Coaching
Corporate Communications
Psychology
Personal Development
Growth Strategy
Strategic Planning
Training & Development
AccountAbility
Project Management
Cross Functional Team Leadership
Management Skills
Relationship Management
Stress Management
Emanuel-Dominic G.
Mombasa, Kenya
$124/hr
4.7
18 jobs
Either move, or be moved!
Are you a visionary founder drowning in the day-to-day chaos of your scaling company?
Are you spending over 60% of your week acting as the default operational bottleneck, refereeing internal team conflicts, and chasing delivery updates?
The truth is, scaling a business breaks everything. But most founders fall into one of two traps:
1. They hire a business coach who gives high-level strategy and mindset frameworks that lead to self-awareness but produce zero actual systems.
2. They hire an operations manager who builds technical workflows in a vacuum, only for the systems to fail because the leadership behaviors never changed.
I bridge this gap. I operate as your unconventional Fractional COO, Chief Automation Officer, and Coach.
I don't just hand you a binder of recommendations and walk away. I embed directly into your business to coach you as a leader, up-skill your middle management to step up, and physically build and automate the operational infrastructure required to scale predictably.
Together, we build an organization that can perform consistently without your constant physical presence.
🧠 The Hybrid Approach: Advisory, Mentorship, & Execution
1. CEO Advisory & Leadership Coaching (The Leader)
- Delegation Frameworks: Designing customized delegation guardrails so you can confidently hand over responsibilities without sacrificing quality.
- Transition Mentorship: Guiding you through the psychological shift from a hands-on "tactical doer" to a strategic, visionary CEO.
- Decision Partnering: Serving as an objective, trusted sounding board to unblock decision latency, resolve structural blind spots, and run hard organizational conversations.
2. Middle Management Upskilling & Team Culture (The Team)
- Manager Coaching: Mentoring and upskilling your delivery leads, account managers, and department heads so they can own their metrics with absolute confidence.
- Accountability Structures: Designing performance dashboards and meeting cadences that motivate teams to act like owners, eliminating the need for micromanagement.
- Culture & Retention Engineering: Structuring remote-first cultural initiatives and clear career pathing to reduce employee turnover and stabilize delivery quality.
3. Operational Infrastructure & Systems Design (The Machine)
- Operating rhythms: Installing sprint-based meeting cadences, daily stand-ups, and weekly alignment structures to eliminate execution delays.
- Process Standardization: Transforming tribal knowledge into robust, documented Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) within ClickUp, Asana, or Notion.
- Financial & KPI Visibility: Architecting real-time executive scorecards, margin-tracking models, and 13-week capacity forecasts so you always know where you stand.
4. Intelligent Workflow Automation & AI (The Leverage)
- Custom Tool Integrations: Building automated API pipelines via n8n and Zapier to link siloed software environments and eliminate duplicate data entry.
- AI Agent Deployment: Integrating conversational AI agents into your Productivity, ERP, CRM, HRIS and ATS platforms to instantly handle up to 70% of tier-1 employee policy queries.
- Recruiting Operations: Re-architecting workflows, tools, and candidate tracking databases and automating applicant communications to slash time-to-hire by over 80%.
📊 Proven Portfolio Highlights (Outcomes, Not Promises)
- Reclaimed 15 to 20 strategic hours per week for an agency founder by coaching them through delegation frameworks and taking over day-to-day team management.
- Upskilled a weak middle-management layer at a 35-person remote startup, improving on-time-in-full (OTIF) project delivery to 94%.
- Executive headhunting, and automated recruiting coordination pipelines, cutting manual job description processing times from 30 minutes to under 5 while scaling operations
- Unified fractured CRM and delivery systems into a single source of truth, closing margin leaks and reducing decision latency.
🗺️ Our 90-Day Collaborative Roadmap
Because sequencing determines success, we follow a clear, phased approach that addresses both leadership behavior and business systems:
1. Days 1–30 (Operational & Leadership Audit): Running a diagnostic of your tools and workflows while identifying where you, the founder, are the primary bottleneck. We deploy our first major process delegation victory in week one.
2. Days 31–60 (Systems Design & Manager Coaching): Constructing your custom SOP databases and coaching your key department heads to confidently run the new operating cadence.
3. Days 61–90 (Embedded Execution & Automation): Integrating your custom n8n/Zapier automations, stabilizing your talent acquisition pipeline, and running the business as a unified, data-driven engine.
Stop running your agency or startup. Start leading it.
📩 Send a message or book a pitch-free, 30-minute diagnostic session to pinpoint your primary operational bottleneck and map out a tailored scale strategy.
Executive Coaching
Leadership Development
Strategy
Business Coaching
Team Management
Operations Analytics
Process Architecture
Automated Workflow
AI Implementation
Human Resources
Recruiting
KPI Metric Development
EOS
Operational Planning
Ruth K.
Nairobi, Kenya
$25/hr
4.9
42 jobs
Are you looking to elevate your podcast with captivating guests or boost your visibility through podcast appearances that deliver instant credibility and fresh audiences?
Podcast guest appearances are a fast way to:
Build trust by borrowing authority
Tap into ready-made, engaged audiences
Create evergreen content that keeps working for you
Drive leads and brand visibility without ads
I specialize in podcast booking, outreach, guest placements, and article placements that help experts amplify their reach and podcasters grow their shows. I handle the research, outreach, and logistics, so you can focus on showing up and sharing your expertise.
🎯 For Podcasters
Book relevant, high-value podcast guests tailored to your niche
Manage the complete podcast guest booking & outreach process (research, outreach, scheduling, briefs)
Provide interview prep materials for engaging conversations
Handle all guest coordination & logistics
Build a consistent pipeline of quality podcast content
🚀 For Experts, Coaches & Thought Leaders
Secure strategic podcast appearances to grow your audience and credibility
Place articles in media outlets to expand your influence beyond podcasts
Target industry-relevant podcasts & publications aligned with your expertise
Craft personalized pitches that get responses
Manage end-to-end booking & placement logistics
Provide interview prep for confident delivery
📈 Additional Support & PR Services
Podcast growth strategies & show optimization
Podcast PR & article placements for visibility & thought leadership
Content repurposing & social media promotion
Content calendar management & community building
Performance tracking & growth reporting
✅ Ready to grow your podcast audience, land guest appearances, or secure article placements that amplify your brand? Let’s connect and create a strategy that delivers measurable results.
Communications
Email Communication
Google Workspace
Appointment Scheduling
Customer Service
Scheduling
Administrative Support
Personal Administration
Podcast Show Notes
Apple Podcasts
Booking Services
Podcast
Podcast Episode
Task Coordination
Nadja N.
Nairobi, Kenya
$100/hr
5.0
52 jobs
As top 1% Expert-Vetted Career Coach, Recruiter, HR Consulting expert and former Upwork with 10 years of experience, I can help you with strategic hiring, HR solutions, and career growth just like I've done it for close to 10,000 other professionals worldwide.
◈ **Human Resources & Recruitment** 🧩
I support remote, hybrid, and international teams by:
- 📋 Crafting targeted job posts to attract ideal candidates on Upwork, Seek, and more
- 🔎 Pre-screening, interviewing, and securing top-tier talent
- 📈 Building talent pools and evaluating soft and hard skills
- ⚙️ Designing efficient selection processes
- 🌐 Leading and managing remote teams
- 🎓 Creating engaging content, workshops, and webinars to drive team growth and motivation
◈ **Freelance, Career & Executive Coaching** 🚀
With extensive experience coaching thousands of professionals, I can guide you to:
- 🌱 Expand your businesses and overcome any professional challenges
- 🛠 Launch your freelancing career or navigate career transitions
- 🎤 Hone your interview skills through tips, mock interviews, and best practices
- 💼 Discover your unique value propositions for negotiation success
- ✍️ Create an impactful resume, Upwork and LinkedIn profile, and proposals and cover letters
- 🎯 Reach your professional goal, whatever it may be
Driven by a growth mindset and commitment to continuous improvement, I've built my own independent consultancy to empower others with the knowledge and confidence to thrive.
If this aligns with your needs, feel free to reach out—I’m here to help you succeed.
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