The way you learned to lead
has become your ceiling
Locate the specific patterns, both in how you operate and in what’s capping your growth as a leader.
Pattern-Based Executive Coaching for Executives, Founders & CEOs
You love being a leader.
You care about the work, your team, what you can build together.
But somewhere along the way, leading has become heavy and pressured, and your attention and efforts feel divided between the work you love and everything you are holding together.
Roxanna Draddy · ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
The patterns underneath are quietly costing you.
They show up as the work you can’t delegate, the people you can’t keep, the margin that keeps thinning, the decisions you delay or make too quickly, the successor you can’t quite trust, and the strain that follows you home into your relationship or your marriage.
A single difficult moment is an event, and it can be handled as one. When the same moment keeps returning in different forms, it’s a pattern, and a pattern deserves a mirror.
“I went to see Roxanna with the idea that she would help me sort through some alternative work scenarios. I got a lot more than I bargained for. Her impact went far beyond work. My concentration and focus improved, my ability to plan improved, and I felt more settled. I don’t quite know how to describe what she does, but I can say that she is remarkable.”
JAY TRIMBLE
Mission System Manager, VIPER Lunar Rover, NASA
“Roxanna is extremely intuitive and wonderful at digging deep to create understanding of the ‘whys’ behind things… challenging me while also supporting me along the journey.”
EILEEN (DUFFY) YARALIAN
Managing Partner, Chief Growth & Innovation Officer
Remedy Edge
Maybe it happens on the drive home, or in the quiet minute after everyone has left the room, when you find yourself asking: Is there another way to do this?
You may recognize yourself in some of these situations:
Over-control
Holding on to stay safe.
Fear is the engine, and control is the strategy. The leader stays close to every decision because certainty feels safer than trust. At work it shows up as bottlenecks, decisions waiting on one person, a team that stops thinking for itself, and successors who never get ready. The business can only move as fast as the leader can personally handle.
Accommodation
Managing the room instead of leading.
This combines approval-seeking with avoidance. The leader reads the room accurately and adjusts to keep things smooth, so hard conversations get delayed, feedback gets softened, and what they actually think stays unsaid. At work it costs truth: problems surface late, performance issues linger, and meetings produce agreement rather than decisions.
Over-responsibility
Carrying what isn’t yours.
This combines rescuing with overwork. The leader absorbs other people’s problems, fills every gap, and measures their worth by how much they carry. At work it shows up as poor delegation, burnout, thinning margin, and a team that learns to hand problems upward. Because the leader is indispensable, the leader is also the constraint.
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Build what’s next, without losing who you are.
How does the coaching process actually work?
I build a personal development program for every person I work with, but the work circles around these six questions.
- What is happening in your leadership right now, and what makes this moment significant?
- What underlying pattern is shaping the challenge you’re facing?
- How are this pattern and the identity behind it affecting your work, your team, and your relationships?
- What truth, decision, or conversation is being avoided?
- What needs to change in how you lead—whether in your structures, conversations, or behavior?
- What are you willing to commit to in order to make that change real and sustainable?
Private coaching engagements typically span three to six months. We shape the work around your leadership context and development goals.
What makes Roxanna different from other executive coaches?
I work with leaders at the intersection of identity and full accountability for their vision, attention, choices, and responsibilities.
By creating a connection of honesty and safety, my approach often goes beneath the immediate leadership challenge that’s presented during intake.
Over the past twenty years, I have developed a particular quality of presence that allows me to identify where your attention is caught and recognize the underlying organization of your leadership, identity, or adaptation that may be holding you back.
Cultivating accountability and feedback throughout the coaching engagement will help you develop self-trust and awareness, and build your capacity to navigate complexity and uncertainty in decision-making, relationships, and responsibilities that matter.
I see the patterns across the system you’re in. I draw on a range of developmental modalities, inquiry, relational intelligence, and direct accountability to help leaders recognize where their attention and choices have become constrained, opening greater freedom to envision, connect, and lead differently.
Am I the right coach for you?
My clients are often COOs, CEOs, law firm partners, and other leaders responsible for people, teams, and consequential decisions.
They’ve already demonstrated that they can succeed. They’ve built careers, earned trust, and taken on significant responsibility. But they’ve reached a point where working harder won’t solve the problem.
Who this isn’t for
This work isn’t for someone who wants me to fix their team while leaving their own leadership unexamined.
It isn’t for someone who wants validation more than truth, who repeatedly asks for a plan without acting on previous commitments, or who wants a prescribed system rather than coaching built around their particular challenges and development.
None of this makes someone a bad leader. It may simply mean the timing isn’t right—and timing can change.
I'm usually not your first, but your last Coach
Most of the people I work with have already tried the systems, the programs, and at least one other coach. Those things weren’t useless. They just never got underneath the leadership pattern that was quietly producing the same result every time.
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Meet Roxanna Draddy
I’m an executive leadership coach and ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), working with executives, founders, attorneys, and senior leaders navigating greater complexity, responsibility, and change.
My approach combines practical leadership coaching with developmental and somatic work. We attend to the challenge in front of you and the patterns influencing how you meet it.
I bring careful listening, direct feedback, and a willingness to explore what may be difficult to see on your own. Our work is collaborative and grounded in your circumstances, judgment, and goals.
The aim is to expand your ability to lead with clarity, authority, and freedom—and to trust yourself more fully in the process.