Lead on Your Terms.

Guided growth for women ready to step into clarity, boundaries, and self-trust.

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Once you can see the pattern, you can decide what happens next.

Most women do not need more grit. Or resilience. Or advice about balance.

What they need is the ability to see the forces around them with clarity. The eldest-daughter wiring, the quiet expectations at work, the glass cliff “opportunities” dressed up as praise, and the confidence to navigate all of it with intention.

That is what this mentorship is for.

Not to help you return to a previous version of yourself, but to help you rise into a more capable, strategic, and powerful one.

If you are ready to lead differently, this is where we begin.

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You are not starting from scratch. You are starting from strength.

What We Work On.

  • This is a space where we slow the noise long enough for you to see what is happening, both inside you and around you, with accuracy instead of adrenaline.

    Together, we work on:

    • understanding the patterns that shaped your leadership

    • spotting the cultural scripts women are handed without consent

    • learning to navigate bias, expectation, and invisible labor with clarity

    • strengthening your voice and building boundaries that hold

    • stepping into leadership that feels intentional

    • creating a version of success that fits your life and values

    Mentorship is not a pep-talk. It is skill-building, truth-naming, and power-gaining.

  • This mentorship is for women who:

    • are capable, ambitious, and tired of guessing what the room expects

    • want to understand how systems like the glass cliff or eldest-daughter conditioning show up in their careers

    • feel stretched and want clarity, not clichés

    • want to lead with confidence rooted in awareness, not performance

    • want to build boundaries without backlash

    • are ready to choose themselves with intention

    • want a strategic perspective that honors both their ambition and their humanity

    And for men who want to better understand and support the women they lead, work with, and care about.

  • Every mentorship is tailored, but the core themes remain consistent because the lived experience is consistent.

    Awareness

    Seeing the real dynamics at play, the emotional labor, the expectations, the biases, the patterns you inherited, and the ones you can now release.

    Agency

    Developing the confidence, clarity, and voice to choose your responses instead of reacting out of habit or pressure.

    Navigation

    Learning the strategy and communication tools to move through complex situations, from team conflict to leadership dynamics, with skill and steadiness.

    Boundaries

    Creating limits that protect your energy, your clarity, and your authority.

    Leadership Evolution

    Defining what kind of leader you want to be next, not the one you were trained to mimic.

  • We meet one-on-one in private sessions.

    Each conversation is structured but human, practical but reflective.

    You will bring real situations, real challenges, and real questions. I will bring clarity, insight, strategy, and a calm, honest presence.

    What you can expect:

    • grounded, human conversation

    • a mix of coaching, mentorship, and leadership development

    • concrete tools and language

    • perspective you have never been offered before

    • quiet humor when the truth becomes too obvious not to laugh

    • accountability that feels supportive, not punishing

    What you won’t get:

    • platitudes

    • performance advice

    • productivity hacks

    • “just work harder” energy

    • leadership clichés dressed as insight

    This is professional growth without the pretension.

  • By the time our work ends, you will not feel “back to yourself.”

    You will feel better equipped, more aware, more confident, and more strategic.

    You will be able to see systems clearly and decide with intention how you want to move through them.

    You will have language for experiences you used to swallow.

    You will trust your ability to lead without shape-shifting to fit the room.

    You will know how to navigate difficult moments, not by enduring them, but by understanding them.

    Most of all, you will feel like a leader who finally has options.

A Note From Me.

I have mentored women, and the men who support them, for years.

It is some of the most meaningful work I do, because people begin to recognize experiences they never had words for until now.

They begin to understand their own patterns, their own power, and the systems that shaped them. They start making different choices.

Clearer choices. Stronger choices.

If something in you is leading towards this work, there is a reason.

Pay attention to it.

It is the beginning of a shift.

Awareness is a form of power. Once you have it, you lead from a different place.

Let’s redefine leadership together.

kimberlyangellone@gmail.com
(724) 205.0859

Pittsburgh, PA 15116