Executive Self Leadership
& Resilience Coach
Helping Quietly Powerful Leaders Reclaim Their Authenticity to Live & Lead With Confidence, Resilience & Purpose
Helping You Be Who You Really Are — So You Can Create a Life and Career You Truly Love
I work with quietly powerful, thoughtful, often self-critical high-achievers — executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals who want to live and lead with more authenticity, confidence, and purpose.
Many feel stuck or burned out. Some are navigating big transitions. Most are longing for more meaning and alignment — and a deeper connection to their Authentic Self.
But they find themselves held back by self-doubt, inner resistance, or protective patterns that once helped them succeed, but now keep them from thriving.
They’re seeking an experienced, compassionate, and effective coach who gets it — someone who can help them grow, take meaningful action, and come back to their inner clarity, strength, and wholeness.
If this resonates with you, I invite you to explore the coaching and training options below — and reach out for a free Coaching Exploration Session. We’ll talk about what really matters and see if we’re a good fit to work together.
Multiple Coaching Pathways & Approaches
Executive Coaching
Elevate your leadership & life by aligning with your core values and Authentic Self. Dissolve limiting patterns & build the clarity, confidence, and resilience needed to flourish.
Resilience Coaching
Learn Resilience Building Skills & embrace practical concepts & tools that help you manage stress better and live with more presence, inner balance, clarity, self-compassion and confidence.
Whole Life Coaching
Coaching for self discovery & personal growth. Let’s clarify your values, uncover your strengths & define your purpose so you can start to enjoy a rich, rewarding & meaningful life.
Self Leadership Coaching
The ultimate coaching & training journey – discover your Authentic Self, become the loving leader within, dissolve draining patterns, reclaim confidence & wellbeing.
Extensive Corporate Experience Coaching Executives from:
Why Traditional Coaching Isn’t Enough — and Why You Deserve a Compassionate, Trauma-Responsive Approach?
The world is burning people out — and many don’t even realize they’re running on empty. Stress, anxiety, self-doubt, and exhaustion have become the norm.
And while traditional coaching often focuses on “doing more” or “thinking better,” that only scratches the surface.
What many don’t realize is that the root of these struggles is often unresolved trauma or chronic stress patterns — even in high-functioning, high-achieving professionals. Without addressing these deeper patterns, change won’t stick. That’s where trauma-informed coaching makes the difference.
We’ve pushed ourselves beyond our natural capacity to cope — making it nearly impossible to feel fulfilled, resilient, or fully alive.
Trauma — or more accurately, its lingering effects — disconnects us from our Authentic Self. It wires us into protective patterns instead of truth, reactivity instead of response, survival instead of presence.
HeartRich Coaching is rooted in a trauma-responsive, nervous-system-informed approach. That means we work with your mind, your emotions, your body, and your protective patterns — with deep compassion.
Instead of pushing through resistance or overriding self-doubt, we learn to meet those parts of you with curiosity and care. We uncover the intelligence in your defenses — and help you access the deeper, wiser Self that’s always been there beneath them.
This HeartRich approach meets people where they are — honoring their pace, lived experiences, and humanity — and helps them reconnect with who they really are beneath the survival strategies and roles they’ve had to play.
This work is especially effective for high-achieving, sensitive, and thoughtful professionals — those who may appear successful on the outside, but privately feel stuck, exhausted, or like they’re holding themselves back.
Through this work, clients learn to:
- Understand and regulate their inner states
- Build self-compassion and self-trust
- Strengthen their capacity for presence, resilience, and choice
- Lead their life and work from their Authentic Self — not from fear or survival strategies
I call it Self Leadership Coaching — because the most powerful and sustainable leadership begins with Self.
A Lack of Self & Inner Leadership Drains Our Wellbeing & Resilience
Contributing to Overwhelm, Burnout, Anxiety & Depression
Stacked Stressors
When stressors pile up one on top of another and aren’t resolved, they drain more and more of your energy and resilience each day, making it hard to do everything, which is also a drain.
Self-Critical Inner Chatter
It’s completely normal for the mind to churn incessantly (it loves to think) but we need to learn how to manage the quality of our thoughts because they in turn affect how we feel & behave.
Poor Emotional Regulation
Without cultivating our ability to self regulate (find calm, clarity, inner balance) and process our emotions, we fall victim to disruptive emotional & physiological patterns, and are effectively impaired.
Unfulfilled Essential Needs
When our essential needs aren’t fulfilled effectively (or at all), we are living under constant stress, which drains our physical, emotional & mental wellbeing.
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Manage Your Inner World Better to Build Resilience, Lead with Purpose, and Thrive in Work & Life
Executive & Leadership Coaching will help you navigate challenges with clarity, confidence, and heart. Designed for leaders who want to strengthen self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and resilience – enhancing your ability to lead effectively while maintaining personal wellbeing. This highly customized coaching empowers executives to move from reactive patterns to intentional, values-driven leadership, fostering both personal fulfillment and organizational success.
Executive Resilience Coaching & Training will help you learn the skills to manage stress, emotions, and energy more effectively. This coaching helps you learn how to apply proven strategies to regulate your nervous system, build resilience, and prevent burnout. By cultivating emotional balance and mental clarity, leaders and professionals alike can enhance their wellbeing, performance, and overall quality of life.
Whole Life Coaching will help you align your life with your core values and deeper sense of purpose. This process helps you clarify what truly matters, set meaningful goals, and take action in ways that align with your strengths and values. By removing inner blocks and fostering a growth-oriented mindset, you’ll create a life that feels more fulfilling, purposeful, and aligned with your Authentic Self.
Trauma-Responsive Self Leadership Coaching is a blend of all the other approaches offered to help you reconnect with your Authentic Self and lead your inner world with greater compassion. Blending evidence-based coaching with Parts Work (Internal Family Systems), this approach helps you cultivate Self Leadership – moving beyond reactive patterns and protective strategies to lead with clarity, courage, and wisdom. This coaching integrates mindfulness, emotional processing, and heart-based resilience-building to help you step fully into your potential.
What Does The Heart Actually Have to Do With It?
Our hearts are truly as powerful as we’ve imagined and science can finally prove it. We can use the heart to help us regulate our nervous systems – changing our state of being and with it our capacity to choose to be a better version of ourselves, moment to moment.
I help a wide variety of people, including leaders and executives, learn to connect to the physical heart using Polyvagal-Informed resilience building, self-regulation practices. Heart Rate Variability training helps you learn to generate a state of inner balance and ease, and being in this state improves your overall physical & psychological wellbeing.
I call on the symbolic heart to help you connect to your personal or spiritual core, to tap into who you really are, and to connect to your deepest values, which will guide the way to an authentic, meaningful life.
Become a Heart-Rich Presence to yourself and to those you love and lead.
What People Are Saying
“Guy’s guidance has helped me unlock new levels of self-awareness and authenticity, enabling me to show up as my true self with greater confidence and impact because I now truly trust myself and my ability to cope and manage challenging situations and people.
As a result, I’ve seen significant improvements in my leadership effectiveness, communication skills, and overall influence within my organization.”
“Guy’s approach goes beyond traditional coaching methods; he creates a safe and supportive space where I feel comfortable exploring my thoughts, emotions, and experiences.
Through his insightful, compassionate guidance and practical tools, I’ve gained a deeper understanding of myself and learned invaluable strategies for managing stress, regulating emotions, and bouncing back from setbacks.”
“Through our meaningful sessions, I’ve gained a greater understanding of my own purpose and the things I need to be doing in order to live my life to its highest potential. Guy has the ability to make sense of his clients’ needs and struggles in ways that address the root problems and reasoning for why those inhibiting feelings might be there in the first place – And by simply doing/practicing that, those negative feelings start to dissipate, with a sense of inner satisfaction gained in the end.”
“Whether on the phone or in person, Guy always creates a positive and non-judgemental environment to discuss any topic. I truly appreciate that he knows when to challenge and hold me accountable or when I just need to talk and “vent”. His approach is very personalized and he’s one of these persons whose positive impact in your life cannot be forgotten…”
“Over the last few months, I’ve worked with Guy to develop healthy coping strategies for dealing with life’s up and downs. It has been a big help. I’m currently going through a job transition, and instead of panicking, I’m reacting calmly and thoughtfully. I think my most significant change has been to stop being overwhelmed by worrisome thoughts to focus instead on appreciating each moment and on being thankful for the people and activities that bring me joy. Thanks, Guy! ”
“Within just 2 sessions with Guy Reichard, I started to feel better. My sessions with Guy were invaluable, and a solid investment to all aspects of my life. I will continue to use Guy’s teachings to improve, maintain a positive outlook on a daily basis and to centre myself when things happen – which they inevitably will and that’s ok, as I am now much better equipped to deal with any issues as they arise. I would not hesitate to recommend Guy to anyone, he is truly a beautiful, compassionate, knowledgeable & open-minded soul and I cannot thank him enough for his help and friendship!”
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From Cringe to Compassion: It’s Time to Meet Your Shadow
Facing and Embracing the Parts of Yourself You’d Rather Not See to Restore Wholeness, Confidence and Resilience
Ever cringe at someone’s weakness or beat yourself up for feeling “pathetic”? Jung called it the Shadow. Parts Work calls them Exiles. Facing them can feel unbearable — but it’s also the path back to real confidence, resilience, and wholeness. Through a fictional coaching conversation and the story of a sprout rising from ashes, you’ll see how even the parts you most resist can open the way to growth.
Book Spotlight: The Heart of Values
Most people approach values work intellectually. They:
❌ Pick words from a list
❌ Take an assessment
❌ Get a printout of their “top values”
And then… they’re stuck. Because words on a page don’t change your life.
Knowing your values intellectually won’t transform you.
Living them will.
Because values work isn’t about finding words that sound nice. It’s about finding what’s real.
And once you do, you’ll have something you can trust – something that, no matter how lost you feel, always leads you back to yourself.
Book Spotlight: How to Talk Amongst Your Selves
A New Way to Relate to Yourself
This book is about solving the disconnect from your Authentic Self – not by fighting yourself, but by learning to listen, communicate, and lead yourself with heart, with compassion.
✔️ It explains the fundamentals of Self Leadership – the lifelong practice of living and leading from your Authentic Self.
✔️ It teaches Parts Work – how to recognize, understand, and harmonize the different parts of your psyche.
✔️ It includes exercises, dialogue examples, and guided practices to help you start these life-changing inner conversations.
✔️ It helps create safety within your mind, body, and nervous system so you can move beyond fear-driven reactions.
✔️ It shows you how to transform shame, pain, and fear into deeper self-acceptance.
Beyond Positive Intelligence: Why Real Growth Requires More than Just Positivity
Positive Intelligence, aka PQ, focuses on identifying and overcoming internal ‘saboteurs’ – so-called negative thought patterns that can interfere with success and wellbeing. While this model resonates with many, it also presents critical limitations, particularly for individuals with histories of trauma, chronic stress, or unresolved inner conflict.
This article examines the strengths and shortcomings of the PQ framework, exposes the risks of oversimplified coaching approaches and inadequate coach education, and makes the case for a more trauma-wise, compassionate, and heart-centered approach – one that supports both coaches and individuals in fostering deeper self-awareness, self-acceptance, healing, and authentic growth.
HeartRich Resilience: Developing A System for Authentic Flourishing
Imagine a compass guiding you in life, not just to “survive” but to live deeply, meaningfully, and resiliently. The HeartRich Resilience Compass is designed with nine interconnected facets, each representing an area of your inner world and a suite of principles and processes or skillsets we can learn.
When you learn to turn these ‘Dials of Influence’ from the negative, destructive side toward the positive, life-affirming side, you begin to embody your truest self. You no longer react out of fear, avoidance, or survival; instead, you consciously choose your responses, acting with intention, clarity, and heart.
A Year of Reckoning and The Call for Love and Courage
I had not one inkling that the final year of my 40s would turn out the way it did. This past year has reshaped both my inner and outer life in ways I could never have anticipated. I hate to admit it, but I was incredibly naïve, and ignorant. The writing was quite literally, on the wall….
As I turned 50 just days ago, I find myself contemplating how this year of horror, trauma, violence, and hatred has fundamentally shifted my identities – as a Jew, an Israeli, a Canadian, a family man, friend and neighbor, and as a professional who tries to bring more heart to the world.
Does this Resonate with You?
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