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Executive coaching for senior women

Executive coaching for senior women carrying more responsibility and less room for error.

For directors, VPs, site heads, partners, founders and owners facing a live leadership pressure.

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Claire O'Connor, executive coach

Start with what is happening now

The problem is rarely your capability.

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The conversation you keep postponing.

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The contribution you need to name.

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The work you can no longer carry alone.

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The boundary you need to hold.

When everything is asking something of you

You can be good at your job and still know the way you are working cannot continue.

You may be carrying a role that has outgrown its title, keeping the team moving, managing family life and giving your remaining time to everyone else. You do not need a perfect plan before you ask for support. We start with what feels most pressing and work out what needs to change first.

How the work moves

Turn the pressure into one clear next step.

We name what is happening, look at the pattern shaping your response and choose one practical tool. Then we prepare the conversation, boundary or decision you need to take into real life and review what happens.

The next action has to work under pressure.

Choose the support that fits

Four ways to start with what needs your attention now.

RIZE Foundations

A twelve-week, self-paced program you can work through at your own pace.

Build a practical weekly leadership practice with twelve lessons, guided exercises, worksheets, anchor tools and capacity checks.

Immediate access. $500.

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RIZE Group Coaching

Twelve weekly group coaching sessions with no more than six senior women.

Turn weekly lessons into practical action through small-group coaching, workbook exercises, tools and weekday support.


Twelve weekly group coaching sessions. Weekly lessons and support. Pricing on the call.

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RIZE Executive Coaching

Six months of private coaching built around your role, stakeholders and live decisions.

Work through live leadership priorities in twelve private sessions shaped around your role, stakeholders and agenda.

Twelve private sessions. Pricing on the call.

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RIZE for Organizations

Focused coaching and workshops for a team or section within your business.

Typically includes a deep dive with the leader, two one-to-one coaching sessions with each team member, and one or two group workshops.

Pricing on the call.

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Employer sponsorship

Your employer may be able to fund Executive Coaching.

If your organization may fund your coaching, Claire can help you give a manager, HR partner or budget owner the information they need. She can provide a sponsor summary covering the structure, timeline, investment and agreed confidentiality boundaries. Your coaching conversations remain private within those agreed boundaries.

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Free three-minute scorecard

Are you at capacity?

Are you the Chief Everything Officer, quietly carrying everything in the background? You may be overfunctioning across work, home and everyone else’s needs, with too little space for yourself or your career. This three-minute scorecard will show which areas may need your attention now.

See your result immediately. Midweek Reset emails are optional.

Take the Overfunctioning Scorecard

What clients say about the work.

GoogleRead Google reviews
SShanazLocal Guide
★★★★★

Claire is an exceptional executive coach who helps high-performing women lead with greater confidence, clarity, and purpose. She has a remarkable ability to inspire, challenge, and empower you to reach the next level, both personally and professionally. Whether she’s coaching one-on-one or speaking to a room full of leaders, Claire’s passion, insight, and genuine commitment to helping women succeed are truly outstanding. If you’re ready to invest in yourself and your leadership journey, Claire is the person to call.

SSandraGoogle reviewer
★★★★★

Claire has done two workshops and individual sessions with the team in Ireland. Before the first workshop, my ambition was that we would set personal and professional goals and work on that. Claire did that with us and more: she managed to get us working together as a team and focus on our strengths. I think this is what is unique with Claire: her sporting and teaching background allows her to bring out the best in people and work together as a team. I would highly recommend her and wish her continued success.

BBarbaraLocal Guide
★★★★★

Claire is genuine, relatable, encouraging, and positive, but also direct when needed. I would absolutely recommend her to any woman who feels like she’s constantly doing all the things and could use a little help finding more clarity, confidence, and balance. Claire truly understands how hard it can be to juggle career, family, responsibilities, and everything else life throws at you, while somehow still trying to make time for yourself. She has a wonderful way of asking the right questions, helping you look at things from a different perspective, and giving you practical tools you can actually use in everyday life.

MMagsGoogle reviewer
★★★★★

I sought out Claire to deliver a Performance and Leadership workshop for an elite female intercounty team. As a coach, I wanted an external, experienced voice to facilitate a ‘Reflect & Reset’ session focused on goal setting mid-season. Claire’s preparation was exceptional. She conducted pre-workshop evaluations with each player to tailor her approach. She effectively addressed accountability and goal setting, helping the team refocus on the three key performance objectives we set out at the start of the year.

Claire truly understood the unique challenges female athletes face, including balancing life outside of sport, and her coaching methods provided the springboard we needed to push forward. Her workshop came at just the right time, and it made a real impact on our team and girls personally. Would highly recommend Claire for any group looking to achieve a collective goal, sport or otherwise.

About Claire

Practical support from someone who has been there.

Twenty-one years in elite sport and more than two decades in education inform Claire’s direct, practical approach. She listens closely, asks the question that needs to be asked and helps you turn insight into something you can use in real life.

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A useful pause each Wednesday

The Midweek Reset

A short Wednesday note with one useful prompt to help you pause, reset and return to what matters.

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20 Minute Conversation Call

Start with what is happening now.

Bring the situation as it is. In 20 minutes, we will talk through what feels most pressing and what the right next step might be.

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