A decision
You're carrying an important decision, and the more you think about it, the harder it becomes to see clearly.
Leadership Coaching
Leadership Coaching for Leaders in Transition
Sometimes what you need isn't another answer. It's the right question.
Leadership can leave surprisingly little room to think.
Ristare leadership coaching creates intentional space to step outside the immediate demands, explore what matters most, and hear yourself more clearly.
A complimentary 30-minute conversation.
You may find yourself here
The question often arrives before the answer.
A transition
You're moving into a new role, leaving one behind, or beginning to wonder whether the path you're on is still the one you want.
A shift
Nothing is necessarily wrong, but something feels different. What once energized you may not anymore.
A new chapter
You're thinking about what comes next—not only what you want to do, but who you want to be in the chapter ahead.
You don't need someone else to tell you what to do.
Ristare isn't advice disguised as coaching.
Nicole's role is not to hand you the answer. Through thoughtful questions, curiosity, reflection, and conversation, coaching creates room to notice what may be harder to see from inside the everyday.
The goal is to help you hear yourself more clearly, explore possibilities, and determine what you want to do next.
Who coaching is for
For leaders considering what comes next.
Coaching may be useful when you're navigating an important decision, a new leadership role, a career transition, changing priorities, or a significant professional or personal chapter. You may have a clear question—or simply a sense that it's time to look at things differently.
Founder and coach
Nicole Burnett
24+ Years in Healthcare Leadership · ICF Certified Professional Coach
Nicole has led leaders and teams through change in complex, high-stakes healthcare environments. Her coaching brings professional practice together with the perspective of someone who understands what it means to carry responsibility while trying to find the right way forward.
Meet NicoleThe coaching relationship
A space to think differently.
Coaching begins with what is most present: a question, decision, transition, tension, or possibility. The conversation makes room to notice assumptions, patterns, priorities, and perspectives that can be hard to see from inside the everyday—then consider what feels aligned and what you want to do next.
Coaching, not prescription
You bring the expertise in your own life and leadership.
Rather than telling you what you should do, coaching creates space to explore the questions, assumptions, possibilities, and choices that are already yours to make.
When a conversation needs more space
Sometimes the environment is part of the work.
For some questions, stepping outside the everyday creates a different kind of space for reflection.
The Leadership Escape combines professional coaching with a purposeful change of place—creating distance from familiar routines, roles, and demands so you can see what's next from a different perspective.
It's not about how far you go. It's about creating enough distance to see differently.
Explore the Leadership EscapeWorking together
Coaching designed around what you need.
No two leadership questions—or seasons of leadership—look exactly the same. Ristare coaching engagements are customized around what you're navigating and the kind of support that would be most useful.
We'll begin with a complimentary conversation to understand what's bringing you here. If coaching feels like the right next step, we can talk about what that might look like.
A complimentary 30-minute conversation.
Coaching without the travel
Prefer coaching without the travel?
A change of place can be a powerful part of the Ristare experience, but it isn't the right fit for every season or every question. If you're looking for thoughtful, one-to-one leadership coaching without the travel component, coaching-only engagements are available by proposal and designed around what you need to explore.
You don't have to know exactly what you need.
Maybe you have a question.
Maybe you're standing at a crossroads.
Maybe something simply feels ready to change.
We can begin there.
A complimentary 30-minute conversation.