Creative Leadership & Executive Coaching
Why Creative Leadership & Executive Coaching?
Creative Leadership Development
Want to reach your unique goals with more joy and less stress? Good…
When creative people in STEM feel like throwing their job against the wall like a glitchy phone, they call me instead and save themselves time, money, and drywall.
I love to help people make small, consistent changes that lead to big results.
CEO-track bad asses, non-profit leaders, and tech sales stars are my people: we talk, I ask questions, you make small, consistent changes, and your life starts to feel light and delicious, like a watermelon margarita with a desert sunset.
Here’s a bonafide bio for the part of you that wants to submit this coaching as your personal development budget:
Executive leadership coach for over twenty years, Alexandra Jamieson has developed a suite of Creative Leadership Development programs, is a five-time best-selling author with a focus in Positive Psychology certification (CAPP). Clients include CEOs of tech-ed companies, Presidents of global retail brands, Product Mangers, and sales leaders.
Founder of We Create | NYC, an arts organization that curates and produces exhibitions and education experiences featuring living women and non-binary artists.
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WHY I’m Passionate About Creative Leadership Development
As a 20+ year entrepreneur I know the value of grit. Playing soccer, running track, singing in high school musicals, and holding down after school jobs as a kid, I learned the value of hard work. When I burned out in my late-30s I realized I had to work smarter, not harder…
As a year book editor in high school, and ‘Zine co-founder in college (hey - it was the 90’s! Didn’t we all start a ‘Zine?) I’ve learned that to be a long-term success in selling yourself or an idea you need to connect with your creative strengths, values, and a lot of mindset tricks to keep showing up.
Growing up in a family riddled with mental illness and addiction, I’ve worked to overcome early childhood traumas and false voices that told me I was “never enough.” Using my hard-earned strengths of creativity, love of learning, and authenticity in coaching is deeply satisfying to me.
I got my motorcycle license at 22, and love the powerful feeling of riding down a scenic road on a bike.
I’m a 3rd generation self-taught artist and am raising a teenager who already calls himself an Artist (I thank my lucky stars that he skipped the decades of self-doubt I had to overcome to call myself an artist in my late 30s).
Creative Leadership Development requires tools to help you grow and achieve on your path to achievement.
Today I support and guide high-achieving STEM and sales leaders who want to bring their full selves to the world in an authentic, sane, rewarding way.
I help you get out of analysis-paralysis and perfectionism and into aligned, authentic action.
I slay shame and Imposter Syndrome, and help you pick up your own sword to do the same.
When creative pros in STEM feel like throwing their job against the wall like a glitchy phone, they call me instead and save time, money, and drywall.
Creative Leadership Development Talks & Workshops
Hire Alex to speak at your next event on creative women leaders in STEM.
ALL successful people need help at times, but don’t always have someone they can go to for non-judgmental feedback and advice.
Having that extra level of support means more progress, faster.
It means less wasted time overthinking and procrastinating.
Having the right coach means you’ll have your next steps when you need them.
Working with a multi-dimensional coach serves all the needs that connect to your success:
Creative leadership tools to get you unstuck and productive
Strategic thinking to help you make plans that work for your unique life
Communication skills to get your desires heard
Career experiments that lead to increased wealth
Food + movement ideas that don’t make you want to hurl, but do boost your energy
Boundaries for your personal life that fuel your satisfaction and goals
A coach offers that individual attention to identify the blocks in your way, and more importantly, helps you define the strategies to get past them in a direct and timely way.
Rising leaders in STEM are especially served by a coach who can help to identify where the gaps are in their work and then address them together with you, one by one.
It’s all about developing a plan of action specific to you, your wealth of interests, and your dreams.
“My clients and I work as a team because every woman is unique. A good coach asks the right questions rather than taking a cookie-cutter approach. That’s why it’s so important to find the right coach who has a wide variety of professional experience and can see the bigger picture.”
Here are a few multi-talented leaders I’ve worked with, and what they say about our coaching:
How Elite Creatrix Coaching With Alex WORKS:
Talk With Alex.
It all begins with a 1:1 coaching call. Maybe you’re a tech sales leader who hit a plateau. Maybe you want to launch a business. Or maybe you’re a creative leader on the rise in need of a launchpad. Meet with Alex and she’ll guide you to your clarity, courage, and motivation.
Align Your Actions.
Coach with Alex for 6-months, stay on target, stay clear, and stay in aligned action. Show up strong, confident, and engaged with life in new, magnetic ways.
Grow + Achieve.
Reach your goals, enrich your life, and stick your landing. Again and again, with more ease.
The “REAL” Bio to get you that sweet Personal Development approval:
As the award-winning and best-selling author of five books, and co-creator and co-star of the Oscar-nominated documentary Super Size Me, Alexandra Jamieson is a highly-sought-after success mentor and motivational guide for rising leaders in STEM and Sales.
Her latest book Radical Alignment, co-authored with her husband Bob Gower, helps people and teams have high-stakes, and highly emotional conversations, where everyone wins.
As a 20+ year Creative Leadership Development consultant, coach and speaker, Alex has developed training programs, creativity workshops, retreats, and private leadership coaching to help driven, creative leaders jump to their goals faster.
Her work has been featured by Oprah, The Today Show, Martha Stewart Living, the New York Times, CNN, Elle, Marie Claire, USA Today, People, and the American Heart Association amongst many others.
Alex is also an award-winning artist and loves leaving her laptop to get lost in creating commissioned works for companies and clients around the world.
As a life-long learner, her coaching expertise has grown out of two decades of experience, as well as her education at the Natural Gourmet Institute, the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and a certification in Applied Positive Psychology.
The Values That Inspire This Coaching Work
To become a credible leader, you should know and embody the beliefs that drive you. You can either authentically communicate your beliefs in ways that uniquely represent who you are, or you can struggle to be seen and acknowledged:
Here are the four top values of all the work, coaching, writing, and community that I endeavor to live, represent, and create with my clients:
Authenticity:
Authenticity is about presence, living in the moment with conviction, confidence, and staying true to yourself. An authentic person aims to let go of who we “think we’re supposed to be,” and honors who we truly are. Authenticity is also accepting of personal evolution. Authenticity is a touchstone that brings care into every interaction with every person while staying true to who I am as an individual.
How this value shows up in my work, writing, community, and coaching with clients:
We care about seeing reality with honesty.
We are dedicated to knowing and accepting ourselves, and other people.
We work to be compassionate in words and action.
We aim to express and honor our full range of emotions.
We believe in learning from our mistakes and other people.
We seek to understand our motivations and unconscious biases.
We admit when we are wrong and commit to making amends when necessary.
I’ve noticed in both my work and my personal life that when I feel inauthentic I am unable to move forward toward my goals. I put it at the top because the other values don’t seem possible without it.
Boldness:
It was hard to choose between courage and bravery as core values.
Then I saw Boldness.
#lightbulbmoment
Boldness encompasses courage, bravery, and that “feeling the fear, and doing it anyway” vibe. Boldness, in acknowledging fear and possible dangers, is the product of knowledge, imagination, and conscious thought. Boldness is taking risks and moving forward through obstacles. It’s possible with conviction, community, passion, and hope.
How this value shows up in my work, writing, community, and coaching with clients:
We acknowledge conflicting emotions of fear and hope, then move forward with strategy.
We commit to contributing to something bigger than ourselves.
We keep a non-toxic, non-hostile sense of humor.
We choose to take action not just because things get accomplished, but because it also instigates growth, progress, and movement for those around us
Creativity:
I believe we are all created from Life’s infinite energy and are therefore capable of infinite creativity. Cue the lyrics: “we are stardust.”
How this value shows up in my work, writing, community, and coaching with clients:
We believe it is possible to figure out any problem and find new solutions.
Fun and play are welcomed and encouraged.
We collaborate with others, seeking to find new answers together.
We are always learning and curious. Everyone is a student, and a teacher.
We feel self-empowered and capable, and let go of victim mentality.
We believe that beauty and utility go hand in hand.
Every person is a unique being, so no cookie-cutter solutions are allowed.
We examine and transcend old ideas and rules that no longer serve us, creating meaningful new ideas, actions, and ways of living.
Creativity is the skill we all possess, and it’s the most important tool for humanity. Together we will grow your creative confidence, clarity, and powers to envision a new future.
Love:
Love as a value shines a light on being compassionate, showing care and desire to help when someone is distressed, hurt, or in need of help. It places justice, equity, and fairness at center stage. Love has the ability to motivate and facilitate a connection between people, nurturing relationships, and healing.
How this value shows up in my work, writing, community, and coaching with clients:
We care deeply about the people we work with, and the projects to which we commit.
We create safe and inclusive spaces with our words, intentions, and actions.
We commit to loving ourselves with clear, strong boundaries.
We bring compassion into our work for ourselves and each other.
Love is, truly, at the heart of the most impactful, enduring work.
Take the Values Quiz. Feel clear. Create more of what matters most with ease, purpose, and joy.
DOUBLE DOWN ON YOUR UNIQUE EXCELLENCE & CREATE MORE OF WHAT MATTERS MOST