Reignite your leadership. Deepen your impact.
The most pressing challenges in healthcare don't just call for better strategy — they call for leaders who are deepening their capacity to have the conversations that grow trust, surface what's missing, and build the shared accountability that gets outcomes realized without sacrificing relationships.
Urgent decisions no one saw coming. Funding shifts. Interest-holder relationships in flux. All while you're recalibrating your own attention, energy, and focus — the presence and steadiness it takes to stay clear-headed, have skillful conversations, and re-engage a team you're shaping into a culture where people can do their best work.
As a senior leader, you're navigating complex systems, high-stakes decisions, and the constant demand to deliver results while growing your people. Executive coaching gives you a confidential space to build depth of insight and sharpen your capacity to lead, with more clarity, more influence, more impact.
Together, we work on what matters most: aligning your vision with how you actually lead day to day, strengthening your presence in the conversations that count, building the resilience to sustain the work over time, and developing teams that coordinate with purpose, practice shared accountability, and deliver results that last.
This isn't about fixing what's broken. It's about creating the space to reflect, think strategically, and build the conditions where you and your team lead with purpose, where leadership feels less like pressure and more like possibility.
Deepening Your Inner Leader
This is the foundation of everything. We deepen your connection to your purpose, values, and vision, expand your self-awareness and emotional intelligence, and honor your embodied wisdom and intuition as a powerful resource in complex decision making.
Leading with Others
How you show up in relationship defines your leadership. We cultivate trusting relationships through genuine, skilled communication, strengthen your executive presence, and develop your capacity to listen deeply and lead conversations that matter. We do deep work in building high-performing teams where trust is the foundation, people coordinate with purpose, and leadership capacity grows at every level.
The Coaching Relationship
Each coaching partnership is personalized to where you are and where you want to go. Meaningful, lasting change requires desire, commitment, and practice, and our work together is designed to meet you exactly there.
The coaching work we do together goes beyond strategy and performance, developing the emotional intelligence, somatic awareness, and relational depth that make you a generative and impactful leader. Together we build the trust, skills, and expanded capacity to see new possibilities and lead with greater impact.
Leading in healthcare is complex. Daily, you're called to make high-stakes decisions in situations that require grounded, steady judgment, often with no clearly right answer. This free reflective assessment puts four real coaching scenarios in front of you, the kind of moments you navigate every week and helps you notice where you land: steady, leaning steady, leaning unsteady, or unsteady.
Takes about 10 minutes. What it makes visible, you can start using immediately.
Leading with Vitality
Sustainable leadership starts with you. We clarify your highest-value focus areas, build boundaries that protect your energy, and develop the practices that sustain your best work over the long term.
Leading Strategically
Your role demands more than execution. We expand your capacity to think creatively and systemically, lead complex initiatives, navigate moments of misalignment with clarity and integrity, and build teams that engage fully and produce results that are meaningful and lasting.
Leading Upstream
Your leadership extends beyond your immediate responsibilities, it shapes the systems, cultures, and connections that determine whether people and organizations flourish. Together, we work on reimagining the conditions that create lasting change, building a culture of high trust teams infused with vitality.
We'll explore new moves to expand your impact by extending outward to cultivate values-aligned relationships across the broader ecosystem. This is expansive, systems-level work for leaders deepening their capacity to design the conditions where people, relationships, and results thrive together.
A Process That Evolves With You
Most clients work with me for a minimum of nine months and many for two to five years. That's not an accident. Meaningful, lasting leadership development isn't a sprint, and the depth of what becomes possible grows as our coaching partnership deepens.
Self-Discovery, Direction and Alignment
We begin by reconnecting you with what matters most, your cares, concerns, purpose, values, hopes, and the outcomes you most want to create. From there we establish a purposeful direction and explore the thread between your desired future, your strengths, and your developmental edges. This clarity becomes the compass for everything that follows.
Formal Assessment
For clients who want additional depth and data, I am certified to offer and debrief the Leadership Circle Profile 360 Assessment and Leadership Culture Assessment, one of the most powerful tools available for senior leaders.
Enhancing Self Awareness and Ways of Knowing
At the heart of this work is a confidential, guided learning conversation that creates space for genuine self-discovery. You'll access your full range of knowing: intellectual, emotional, intuitive, experiential, aesthetic and embodied, to make sense of where you are and where you want to go.
Expanding Choices, Designing Actions and Practices
As our work deepens, we broaden perspective and foster the curiosity needed to navigate complexity and uncertainty with greater ease. We surface patterns and invisible barriers that have been quietly limiting your momentum, and we build the inner resilience to ask for what you need, protect your energy, and lead from a place of sustained vitality and enthusiasm for both your work and your life.
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Josie Silverman Méndez
Deputy Director, Willamette Health Council
I’m incredibly grateful for my time working with Amy as my executive leadership coach. She challenged me to step into my best self as a leader, especially while navigating complex organizational changes and difficult supervisory dynamics. Their insight, encouragement, and ability to ask the right questions helped me grow in ways that will stay with me throughout my career. I can’t recommend her highly enough.
Reina Patel
Senior Director
I started working with Amy with doubts about what paths I wanted to pursue in my leadership career. Amy was able to guide me through my avoidance of asking and answering questions that I found difficult. She had the ability to provide methods for me to move forward and help me find my next path. Even after 6 months her words and advice continue to refresh my thoughts and remind me of my true desires for my career. Every moment of Amy's words and guidance was invaluable.
Lisa
VP Human Resources
Amy’s coaching helped me be more in tune with my team and my boss. She helped me create and execute plans so I could meet my goals and achieve a VP role. She helped me gain clarity on what I really care about and to pay attention to my whole life, my energy, more than just success at work.
Natalie
Director, Clinical Programs
Working with Amy helped me build my confidence this year and truly see myself and my potential through a different lens. The coaching sessions were amazing; I benefited in many ways, personally and professionally. I’m looking forward to this new journey of honing my skills to bring more value to the organization and leadership team.
Joanne
Hospital Healthcare Executive
Amy was a great listener who would ask questions to clarify and make sure she really understood what I was saying. Her coaching helped me achieve a promotion to a VP role and be more in tune with my team and my CEO. She helped me create plans aligned with what mattered, with a clear pathway to execute and meet my goals. Amy's holistic approach guided me to recognize that my whole life impacted my career fulfillment, not just the things at work.
Cass
VP Operations, Regional Health Network
Ultimately, my goal was to increase team engagement, trust, accountability, and shift out of overwhelm. I wanted to build leadership capacity while managing my commitments more fully and consistently. Coaching was an empowering process. I gained a clear focus for my ambitions, future and team.
It calls on courage to be a catalyst for lasting change in healthcare. Let's reimagine it together. Join a community of leaders committed to making it happen.
Jen, Founder, Coach, Consultant
Amy Vodarek has a coaching style that is one in a million. I hired her to help me grow my business and I got results from the first month after we started working together. She guided me to focus on my goals and actions, holding me to them while providing a sense of calm and caring that is genuine and motivating. Now I know what my care is and this anchor my actions, choices and strategies. I used to think this was “a nice to know”; now I realize I have plugged a massive leak in my productivity by being sure my actions are taking me toward my care and goals.
Bridget, Senior Leader, Founder
Amy has supported me through many challenges and transitions and has helped me identify and grow into my leadership role in my business.
Our coaching has helped me navigate as a founder and leader of a growing company by dealing head-on with opportunities for growth, difficult conversations and my professional development. She’s positive and focuses on helping me identify possibilities without avoiding the challenges.
Judith, Founder & CEO, Award-Winning Intersectional Social Impact Impact Leader
I was connected with Amy by receiving an award from a social impact fellowship I participated in. As an awardee, I had the opportunity to receive coaching from a world-class coach in the arena of my choosing. I was looking for someone who could see and hear things I wasn't already present to and who had an authentic desire to contribute to me and my commitment to making an impact in the world. As my coach, Amy was exactly that and so much more. She has a unique way of listening to you from your commitment and posing questions that have you consider new possibilities. I recommend Amy to anyone interested in elevating their performance not only as an entrepreneur but as a global leader interested in making a difference on the planet.
Schedule Your Strategy Call
A highly focused, confidential conversation with Amy to help you gain clarity and new insight on a priority issue, challenge or decision. You will leave with new potential actions or fresh ideas to consider. At the end of the call, we will consider together if a more in depth conversation is the best next step. Once you submit the form, a member of my team will reach out to schedule your call with me.
