Client Story

    Amanda Breckenridge

    From in-demand coach to a premium, IP-backed practice

    Portrait of Amanda Breckenridge
    Founder & C‑Suite Executive Coach
    Trusted by executive teams at Okta, OpenAI, Google, Chime, and Linear
    6 years · brand, website, content engine, positioning
    Before — The Challenge

    What Amanda came to me with

    Had already
    Fifteen years in executive leadership roles at Yelp, Twitter, Change.org, and LinkedIn. Her first coaching credential and one year of experience built on word‑of‑mouth referrals.
    Didn’t have
    A brand, website, or language to match the caliber of the practice she wanted to build. Her best thinking lived inside 1:1 sessions, not anywhere a stranger could find it.

    When Amanda first came to me in 2020, she was already building the kind of coaching practice that founders recommended. She brought 15 years of operational expertise to her clients and was known for the roles she played in leading and scaling some of the most recognizable brands in tech. She had referrals, results, and an increasingly booked calendar. What she didn’t have was a brand, a website, or a language for her practice that matched the caliber of the work she was doing.

    She knew she wanted to build a business around what she valued, measured by her definition of success. One that could hold the season of life she was actually in: parenting young adults, caring for family, doing her own inner work, choosing right‑sized growth over endless scale.

    The Work — Our Solution

    What we’ve built over six years

    1Built the first container around her practice
    2Refreshed the site for the audience she’d grown into
    3Turned 1:1 experience into a public content engine
    4Rebuilt offers and positioning for the next tier

    1 Built the first container around her practice (2020)

    The first thing we did was give her work a place to live online. Amanda needed a brand and a website that named her, framed her, and gave her something to point referrals to instead of restarting the conversation from scratch every time.

    We built her brand identity from the ground up — visual language, voice, the early architecture of her offer — and launched her first website. It wasn’t trying to do everything. It was built to do one thing well: be a professional, on‑brand surface that matched the work she was already doing privately.

    From that point forward, her brand and website started to do the right elevation work in her referral cycle.

    2 Refreshed the site for the audience she’d grown into (2023)

    By 2023, Amanda’s practice had grown. The original site no longer reflected her client base. Her niche had sharpened — more senior leaders, more strategic engagements — and the people landing on her site were a different audience than the one we’d built it for.

    We did a brand and website redesign: rewrote the messaging around who she was actually serving now, surfaced client successes she’d stacked up, and updated the look and feel to align with the kind of leader she wanted to keep attracting.

    The redesign moved the website from a professional introduction to a premium offer — a place where a C‑suite leader could land, recognize themselves, and feel drawn to Amanda’s expertise.

    3 Turned 1:1 experience into a public content engine (2023–present)

    Amanda’s best thinking lived inside sessions. The next phase was about getting it out. We built a comprehensive content strategy across LinkedIn and Substack and started a monthly newsletter that explored her leadership themes at depth — overfunctioning, the performance paradox, reactive versus creative leadership, body and brain in executive work, how to decode vague feedback and build visibility.

    We launched a guest post series on Substack that amplified client insights and then a podcast that featured peer voices. The point wasn’t to “do content.” It was to give her instincts a public form, so the things she was already saying brilliantly to one client could be heard by hundreds, and soon thousands.

    The numbers validated our efforts. LinkedIn content visibility rose by 1,066% in the first 12 months. Engagement rose by 832%. Multiple posts went viral. Her email subscriber base grew by 500%, and continues to add subscribers every week. With her practice at capacity, total revenue rose by 35% in 12 months. Today, Amanda consistently raises her rates to align with demand. Those numbers matter, but the bigger shift was structural: she was no longer dependent on word of mouth as her only growth channel.

    4 Rebuilt offers and positioning for the next tier (2025–present)

    With visibility solved and inbound channels established, we turned to offer expansion. We leveraged Amanda’s Leadership Circle Profile certification to create the First Team Experience for executive teams ready for alignment in action. Since then, Amanda has secured corporate engagements at companies like Okta and Thinkific.

    After — The Transformation

    Where Amanda landed

    Sharper positioning
    Strategic leadership coach for CMOs, C‑suite, and senior leaders inside growth‑stage and public companies.
    Public content engine
    +1,066% LinkedIn visibility, +832% engagement, +500% subscribers, +35% revenue growth.
    Higher‑leverage offers
    Reinvention Lab, First Team Experience, productized offsites — beyond 1:1 hours.
    +35% revenue at capacity
    Driven by visibility, positioning, and tier — not by adding hours to an already‑full calendar.

    What’s most true now that wasn’t true six years ago: Amanda’s brand and business reflect the inside of her practice. The story is hers. The structure holds her season of life. And the practice she’s running today is seen from the outside as the deep, sophisticated, premium work it is.