Nicholas Whitaker facilitating a team workshop

Cultivating cultures that hold under pressure.

Executive and team coaching for organizations navigating burnout, reorgs, and the pace of AI. I help your leaders and teams rebuild the focus, energy, and trust that constant change keeps draining. Grounded in trauma-informed practice and behavioral science, built from 13 years inside Big Tech and a decade of coaching leaders through what work is becoming.
Nicholas Whitaker facilitating a team workshop

Cultivating cultures that hold under pressure.

Executive and team coaching for organizations navigating burnout, reorgs, and the pace of AI. I help your leaders and teams rebuild the focus, energy, and trust that constant change keeps draining. Grounded in trauma-informed practice and behavioral science, built from 13 years inside Big Tech and a decade of coaching leaders through what work is becoming.
Work is changing faster than people can metabolize it.
Burnout, disengagement, managers feeling like they need to hold it all together alone are the lagging indicators: This is what capacity collapse looks like at scale.

Nobody designed it to be like this, but pretending it's not happening won't change it.

Rebellious leadership will.

13 YEARS AT GOOGLE · ICF-CREDENTIALED COACH · 3 BESTSELLING LEADERSHIP BOOKS · KEYNOTES AT SABEW, IRE & SANTA FE COLLEGE · CLIENTS AT FORTUNE 500 AND NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP TEAMS

13 YEARS AT GOOGLE · ICF-CREDENTIALED COACH · 3 BESTSELLING LEADERSHIP BOOKS · KEYNOTES AT SABEW, IRE & SANTA FE COLLEGE · CLIENTS AT FORTUNE 500 AND NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP TEAMS

13 YEARS AT GOOGLE · ICF-CREDENTIALED COACH · 3 BESTSELLING LEADERSHIP BOOKS · KEYNOTES AT SABEW, IRE & SANTA FE COLLEGE · CLIENTS AT FORTUNE 500 AND NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP TEAMS

Diagnostic Engagement

A focused multi-week engagement to find where your leadership, team, or culture is actually stuck: the friction and drag nobody has named yet. You leave with a clear picture of what’s happening and a grounded plan for what to work on first. A low-commitment starting point.

Offsites and Hard Conversations

Facilitated sessions that say out loud what everyone in the building is already thinking: about AI, about the pace, about what’s getting lost along the way. Naming the problem in a room built to hold it is what turns anxiety back into capacity. These conversations are hard anywhere. My job is making them productive.

Executive & Team Coaching

One-to-one coaching for your leaders and facilitated coaching for the teams they run. Delivered as multi-month engagements that combine individual coaching, cohort learning, and applied practice, so capacity gets built between people, in the daily norms of how teams actually run. Individual self-management tools stopped being enough years ago. The result is leaders with the capacity to lead through change, which is the single biggest lever on retention you have.

Leadership Retreats

Custom nature-based immersions for leadership teams, delivered through Wild Rebellion with my partner Bex Burton. Contemplative practice and facilitated dialogue, designed around what your team actually needs.

Why me

I spent 13 years at Google, where I built training programs that reached 500,000 professionals and helped scale mindfulness programming to thousands of employees worldwide. And I’ve spent years working with journalists, one of the first knowledge professions to be impacted by the rapid pace of technology change, through SABEW, RTDNA, IRE, and others. The tools that helped them navigate that are now relevant to everyone. This work is built to fit the pace of your teams: nervous-system regulation, presence practices, and capacity habits that live inside the workday, where they actually get used.

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We'll get you clear on what rebellious leadership looks like for you.

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We'll get you clear on what rebellious leadership looks like for you.

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