Know. Trust. Lead.
Coaching, Training, and Kolbe™ Consulting for Mission-Driven Leaders and Teams
Know your Strengths.
Trust your Instincts.
Lead with Clarity.
Leading a team—whether it's five people or five hundred—means carrying weight others don't fully see. You're making decisions with incomplete information, managing competing priorities that can't all be met, and staying steady while navigating complexity that shifts by the day.
What if the path forward isn't solely about more strategy or better frameworks—but deeper integration with how you actually think, feel, and operate?
When you understand your natural decision-making patterns—and develop the emotional acumen to stay grounded when pressure is high—you stop compensating and start leading from strength. You read situations accurately. You hold hard conversations without losing yourself in them. You integrate what you know, what you sense, and what you feel into decisions you can stand behind.
This is leadership that sustains—because you're working with your whole capacity, not against it.
Teams stop working around each other and start working with each other. Leaders hire for overall fit, not just credentials or personality. And conflicts transform into creative tension instead of paralysis or dysfunction.
Sustainable success comes from alignment, not improvement.
“Identifying my genius with coaching from Nancy has provided me the most liberating freedom. I no longer feel I have to do everything great - I can focus on what is natural to me. That alone has made a significant impact in my life and everyone around me.”
—Suzy Batiz, Founder & CEO, ~Pourri
For over 20 years, I've coached the difference makers— leaders with big visions for what's possible.
The people I work with are carrying real weight — big visions, real responsibility, and the kind of pressure that doesn’t always show on the outside.
Boards. Funding. Expectations. Teams who need clarity, direction, and care — all at once.
And they’re not looking for theory.
They’re looking for something that actually works in real conversations, real decisions, and real moments of tension.
So we start beneath the strategies and goals — with what’s actually shaping how people show up. The habits. The beliefs. The relational patterns that run communication, decision-making, and conflict.
This is where the real shifts begin — where leadership gets gently re-patterned toward a more conscious, grounded way of leading self and others.
Together, we uncover what’s getting in the way of the desired state and then apply proven approaches that build greater clarity, trust, and connection from the inside out.
Over time, perspective shifts take root. I’ve witnessed leaders create new layers of safety with their peers and teams through deep listening and authentic exchanges, and I’ve watched team members gain steadiness through self-trust.
The results last because building and sharing an internal and relational infrastructure makes meaningful work sustainable — for leaders, teams, and cultures that are ready to evolve.
How I Work With You
Coaching, consulting, and training tailored to where you are now.
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We begin with your natural strengths, then turn our attention to your desired transformational shifts.
This isn’t about fixing what’s wrong. It’s about shifting the habits, patterns, and nervous-system responses that shape how you lead — transforming how you show up, how your team shows up, and the culture you create.
For leaders who want proven tools to help them show up fully — clear, grounded, and aligned under pressure.
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Kolbe measures your innate way of problem solving, aka your striving instincts. These strengths are separate from your personality and intelligence, and knowing them is fundamental to understanding and living in your genius.
When you understand your natural operating style, you stop fighting yourself and start working with what's already there. When teams understand each other's wiring, friction becomes collaboration.For individuals and teams who want to understand how they're actually wired to solve problems and take action.
For recruiters and leaders who want to take the guesswork out of their hiring decisions.
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Offering bespoke individual and group coaching, workshops, and trainings.
We get underneath what's not working—and build from what is. This isn't team building for its own sake. It's a thoughtful, strengths-based process integrating Kolbe Wisdom™ and emotional acumen to create a shared language and with a set of proven tools to restore trust, clear communication, integrity skills, and support teams in doing their best work together.
For leadership and teams experiencing friction, miscommunication, or the kind of misalignment that's hard to name but easy to feel.
About Nancy Stubbs
Nancy Stubbs is a coach and former HR leader with over 25 years of experience guiding C-suite leaders, founders, and their teams through growth and transition. She specializes in aligning emotional intelligence, instinctive strengths, and executive acumen, and brings deep expertise in intentional team building and resonant hiring.
Nancy has delivered thousands of coaching hours, assessed over 2,500 individuals with the Kolbe A™ Index, led 1,600+ Kolbe 1:1 review sessions, conducted thousands of interviews, and facilitated teams of 5-250 across North America and Europe.
She is a featured coach in several networks dedicated to advancing conscious leadership in startups, corporations, and nonprofits.
Extensively trained by The Hendricks Institute, an HR professional and consultant for 15 years, a Kolbe Certified Consultant for over a decade, and holding a BA in Management, Nancy is known for quickly building trust, elevating emotional intelligence, and accelerating leadership performance at pivotal moments. Her ideal clients are enlivened by conscious leadership practices of authenticity, integrity, emotional and body intelligence, appreciation, and curiosity.
She coaches internationally and lives in the Midwest, after calling Arizona, Colorado, and Oregon home for many years.
Possibilities abound. Let's chat.
I look forward to connecting with you soon!