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You’ve Already Started

I’m Rebecca Cartwright, a senior executive leader with more than 20 years’ experience in financial services. I've known first-hand the pressures that come with high performance, responsibility and constant demand. I also know there is another way.

I work with thoughtful, high-performing women have achieved a great deal professionally, but no longer want success to come at the cost of themselves.

If you’re here, part of you already knows something needs to change.

That awareness matters.

Recognising that the way you’ve been living or leading no longer sustainable takes courage, honesty and self-awareness.

Awareness is often where change begins. You’ve already started.

Success does not have to cost you who you are

You have achieved a great deal.

But real success should not require you to disconnect from yourself in order to sustain it.

Not your wellbeing.

Not your relationships.

Not your sense of who you are beneath the responsibility, pressure and achievement.

Because the goal is not simply to keep functioning.

It is to create a way of leading and living that actually feels like your own.

You do not have to navigate that alone.

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Why This Work Matters to Me

For a long time, I thrived in high-pressure environments.

I enjoyed the pace, responsibility and challenge that came with leadership. But beneath the surface, I had become disconnected with myself.

Like many high-performing people, I became very good at pushing through - until my body forced me to stop.

After burnout and a suspected heart-attack, I began questioning whether success was supposed to feel like constant endurance.

Working with an exceptional coach transformed the way I lived and led. Not because I needed ‘fixing’, but because coaching helped me reconnect with myself, ‘rewired’ my thinking to create a more sustainable way of living and working.

That journey is what led me here.

Today, I work with thoughtful, high-performing leaders who want success that feels more aligned, grounded and sustainable - not achieved at the cost of themselves.

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Client Reflections

  • "Working with Rebecca has been genuinely transformative. There is no topic off the table, and her fresh, objective perspective helped me make connections and associations that would otherwise have taken me years to uncover on my own. Her affable, approachable style puts you instantly at ease. I left every session with a real revelation or epiphany. Nil judgement, extremely thoughtful, an absolute pleasure to work with. I look forward to each session and cannot recommend her enough. Honestly, one session with Rebecca has been more valuable than a year of counselling or anything else!"

    — Senior Legal Counsel, Financial Services

  • "Working with you has been such a grounding yet empowering experience. You have he incredible ability to see the good in people, even the parts we sometimes lose sight of and gently bring it forward in a way that feels honest, safe and deeply motivating. What's so special is that your coaching goes far beyond work or goals. You've helped me move forward as a person, with more clarity, confidence and trust in myself. You bring a rare combination of insight, intuition, and grounded presence that creates immediate trust and clarity and have a special way of helping people reconnect with their own wisdom while also giving them the tools and perspective to move forward with purpose. For ambitious women navigating personal growth, professional leadership, and life change, your work is incredibly powerful and I can't recommend you enough."

    — Senior Compliance Professional, Financial Services

  • "Rebecca exuded warmth and genuine care from the very first moment we met. I automatically felt comfortable opening up to her, and most importantly, she always made me feel seen and heard - and that’s not a given. I know that whoever embarks on a coaching journey with her is lucky to do so. I wholeheartedly recommend her."

    — Charity Sector Professional

Coaching With Me

Coaching with me offers space to pause, reflect and reconnect with yourself beneath the pressure of constant performance and responsibility.

Together, we explore what is no longer working, what matters most to you and how you want to live moving forward.

I’d love to hear more about you, what’s feeling important and where you’d like things to feel different.

If it feels the right next step, you can arrange a discovery conversation below or simply send an email to hello@emberandoakcoach.com to say hello.

  • Support for moments of transition, reflection or the beginning of meaningful change.

    Six 60-minute individual coaching sessions.

  • Longer-term coaching for those seeking a more grounded, sustainable and aligned way of living.

    Twelve 60-minute individual coaching sessions

  • Bespoke coaching for senior leaders navigating transition, change, complexity and responsibility.

    Particularly suited to women leading within high-performing environments.

    Pricing available on request due to the tailored nature of this work.

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