“The most important thing is remembering the most important thing.” Suzuki Roshi
Heather May Roberts
Self-Leadership Coach for Entrepreneurs and Organizational Leaders
I help purpose-driven, compassionate leaders focus on what’s most important – their own well-being.
Well-being is the foundation for impact, happiness and career success.
Joy, creativity, inner peace and fulfillment follows.
Focus on well-being and the others are byproducts.
Sacrifice well-being and you lose out on everything.
But this is no easy task in the world we live in…
Why I do what I do
I believe that our ability to positively impact the world rests on a foundation of radical self-care and our own inner transformations.
Everyone has something to contribute and something to learn. We all have our own personalities, inherent strengths, skills we’ve learned, and our life experiences. None of us can do everything and we all can do something.
I used to try to avoid thinking about environmental and social issues that felt too big and overwhelming to address. But I was trained in environmental science and I knew we were in trouble, so I constantly felt guilty that I wasn’t doing my part to address the climate crisis.
What was really happening is that I kept bouncing back between two extremes of
(1) trying really hard to make a difference, falling short of creating real impact while sacrificing my own health and
(2) trying to ignore the larger issues and focus on my own health while feeling guilty that I wasn’t doing enough.
Ugh.
Then I found coaching…
The first time I could even imagine there was a better way was when I worked with my first coach. She helped me identify my values and strengths as a way to focus my energy most effectively while tapping into my own creative process.
Eventually, I identified coaching and facilitation as the best ways to use my unique combination of strengths, values, personality and life experience to help others thrive and make their greatest positive impact in the world.
I came to understand that everything rests on the foundation of the relationship with myself. I cultivated fundamental skills of self-leadership in order to focus on what I want to create rather than on problems I want to solve.
In other words, I became solution-oriented, rather than problem-oriented. I created routines and structures in my life to prioritize my own wellbeing. I stopped trying to do everything on my own and became willing to receive support, which made me much better equipped to give support to others.
Now I live in a much healthier ebb and flow of action-taking and rest. I alternate between focusing my attention externally and going within to focus on my own healing and development.
As a result, I don’t feel guilty when I’m focusing internally and the actions I take have a much greater positive impact.
By embracing my unique contribution and not trying to do everything for everyone, I’m playing the role I’m meant to play in the Great Turning (as Joanna Macy calls this pivotal time as we shift from the Industrial Growth Society to a life-sustaining society).
How I can help you
My work is all about self‑leadership. I believe self‑leadership is the foundation for all leadership, and it’s necessary for all of us—not just people in official leadership roles—so we can do more than just get by in crazy time and actually create what we want in our lives and in the world.
Self‑leadership is the art and science of creating what you want in your life from the inside out.
There are two core principles I work with:
- Your inner state determines your outer results. What you think shapes how you feel. How you feel drives what you do—or don’t do. Your actions create your results, and those results then feed back into what you think. If you like your results, that loop reinforces itself. If you don’t, self‑leadership is about interrupting that loop.
- You must balance your energy for your work to be sustainable. Most of us are in a chronic state of energetic imbalance: we’re spending more energy than we’re generating. We leak energy through self‑doubt, fear, second‑guessing, or being physically present but mentally somewhere else.
My work is helping people turn each moment into an energy‑generating moment instead of a depleting one—so you can use your energy to create more of what you want, right now and in the future.
I offer 1-1 life coaching services to help you build a solid foundation of self-leadership so that you can do what you want to do without burning yourself out.
Interested to find out more about how life coaching with me works? Click below to book a free coaching consultation where we’ll talk about your goals and my programs to see if we’re a good fit.
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