WELCOME TOÂ SCALED AMBITION
You’ve found the corner of the internet where ambition gets supercharged — pure energy, sharp strategy, zero hustle tax.
This is the place for the high-achieving woman who wants growth but not at the expense of her wellbeing. You’re done with the overwork cycle and quick-fix hacks that never last. You want a smarter way to scale, perform at your best and use energy as your competitive advantage - without driving yourself into the ground or compromising your values.
Sound like you? Welcome. This is your HQ.
Your energy is the strategy
Ready to play bigger without burning out?
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Your CV reads like a power play. Your calendar looks like a hostage situation.
You've climbed every rung - but somewhere between the late-night emails and the early-morning Teams calls, the climb stopped feeling like yours.
And when no one's looking? Your midnight search history reads like a burnout confession.
• "How to stop feeling guilty about rest"
• "Leadership fatigue symptoms"
• "Sustainable high performance"
You don't need another BS productivity hack.
Here's what nobody talks about: your energy is your most expensive business asset - and you've been spending it like it's unlimited. The 3pm energy crash during important meetings. Sunday night dread stealing your weekends. Stop apologising for having standards and start optimising how you meet them.
You need a complete upgrade to how you fuel your ambition — one that makes your energy your competitive advantage.
What if you could crush it at work, keep your edge razor-sharp and still have energy left for a life?
ENTER THE CHAT
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Scaled Ambition
Effortless Peak Performance. Wellbeing as a Power Lever. No More Hustle Traps.
Finally. A leadership development experience for women that sharpens their edge, sustains their energy and rewrites what success should feel like.
High-performance runs on energy.
Want more in the tank?
Scaling Ambition in Every Season
Ambition doesn’t hit pause when life shifts.
From parenting milestones to career pivots to navigating your own body’s changes, each season brings new demands on your energy and wellbeing. The question isn’t if you can keep performing — it’s how you fuel yourself to do it sustainably.
What if the way you lead evolved with the season you’re in?
- Returning to work after parental leave → finding your stride again without losing yourself in the juggle.
- Kids starting school (or finishing school) → navigating new rhythms while keeping your career momentum.
- Navigating energy and hormonal shifts → leading at your best through changes no productivity hack can fix.
- Career pivots or promotions → stepping into bigger roles without defaulting to overdrive.
- Caring for aging parents → balancing leadership at work with leadership at home.
- Re-evaluating success at new life stages → chasing ambition in a way that drives you, not just your CV.
Why does this matter?
Because ambition should expand with every season — not expire because of one…
Why it matters for high performing women
Ambition isn’t the issue — running it like a sprint in every season is.
- You can’t fuel long-term success on adrenaline shots and caffeine.
- You shouldn’t have to trade recovery for “just one more” task.
- You don’t need to feel guilty for choosing rest over another meeting.
- You don’t have to wonder if ambition always has to feel this hard.
The truth: it doesn’t. The key is scaling your ambition with the season you’re in — so it fuels you, not drains you.
Why it matters for the organisations who want to keep them
Losing high-performing women to career fatigue isn’t just a personal cost — it’s a strategic one.
- Burnout leaks talent, innovation, and leadership pipeline strength.
- Crisis interventions come too late and cost too much.
- The future of your organisation depends on leaders who can adapt and sustain in every season.
The truth: prevention pays. Your real competitive edge isn’t just skills — it’s building sustainable capacity that flexes with life’s seasons.
When the structures around women don’t flex with life’s transitions, the cost is severe — escalating burnout, declining wellbeing and a drain on leadership pipelines.
But here's where it gets real...
NZ’s leaking female leadership pipeline
The New Zealand Ministry for Women found many talented women stall or drop out before senior leadership. The main reasons? Rigid job structures, lack of flexible work, and career breaks for caregiving.
Source: Ministry of Women's Affairs NZ
Burnout spikes for Australian women in life transitions
72% of Australian women reported burnout in the past year. Stress peaks during major life transitions—like caring for kids, supporting elders, or career shifts—made worse by poor workplace flexibility.
Source: Ministry of Women's Affairs NZ
Flexibility fuels retention and wellbeing
New Zealand research shows inflexible work limits career progression and increases stress, pushing women out of leadership tracks. Organisations that enable flexible working keep more women leaders and see higher wellbeing.
Source: AUT Business School Thesis, Phoebe Murabula
The Hidden Cost of Business As Usual
Risk: Burnout costs organisations $20,683 per burned-out executive in replacement costs alone – not including lost productivity, culture erosion, or pipeline disruption.
Reality Check: If your top 10 leaders keep running at their current pace, it's not if they burn out – it's when.
Protection: This program shields your leadership pipeline and preserves institutional knowledge while building sustainable competitive advantage.
Source: Gallup State of the Global Workplace 2023
Burnout isn’t just a personal crisis—it’s a global economic one.
A 2024 Deloitte Global Wellbeing Survey estimates that burnout costs the world economy USD 322 billion annually in lost productivity alone.
Source: Thrive Global
Peak performance shouldn’t mean peak exhaustion.
Ready to make it more effortless?
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From generic leadership training to a high-performance blueprint that integrates wellbeing, helping women in leadership scale their impact sustainably
The Business Case: Why This Delivers ROI
This isn’t a pep talk or a wellness worksheet.
This is Smart Strategy + Somatic Intelligence - an evidence-based, results-driven performance blueprint that builds your leadership capacity and your energy reserves at the same time.
You’ll:
- Recover from high-stakes weeks without disappearing for a “digital detox”
- Make cleaner, faster decisions without the mental hangover
- Lead at your peak and make an impact, without the crash
- Elevate your composure to be more grounded and centered - ready to respond, not react
- Show up in all areas of your life with more vitality and presence
Let me break this down for you...
Smart Strategy
Practical, evidence-based methods for scaling success without more grind. It’s about:
- Designing systems that align with your values and energy.
- Prioritising the 20% that delivers 80% of results.
- Leveraging habits, structure, and clear focus so performance becomes easier, not heavier.
Somatic Intelligence
The science of using your body’s signals to fuel better leadership and performance. Instead of ignoring stress or overdrive, you learn to:
- Tune into physiological cues (tension, breath, energy shifts) as real-time data.
- Apply proven nervous system regulation tools (breath, posture, micro-resets) to return to clarity faster.
- Build resilience and recovery capacity so you can sustain peak performance.
Together Smart Strategy sets the direction and systems; Somatic Intelligence ensures your physiology can support the load.
The organisations winning right now aren't the ones with the hardest-working leaders - they're the ones with the most sustainable high performers. While your competitors burn through talent, you're building leadership infrastructure that creates competitive advantage.
Before you call the Woo Woo Police! Hear me out...
LET ME BE CLEAR ABOUT WHAT THIS IS
A deeply human yet undeniably high-performing learning experience
INTRODUCING
 Scaled AmbitionÂ
A 12-week cohort based program designed to integrate with daily work life, inviting participants to level-up with ease not exhaustion.
Here's what we focus on...
FOCUS #1
The Shift → From Hustle Trap to Scaled Ambition
From hustle trap to energy-first fuel
- Break free from the false choice between ambition and wellbeing.
- Shift from overdrive to aligned acceleration — where your ambition fuels you instead of drains you.
Outcome: A new lens on ambition: energy-first, hustle-free.
FOCUS #2
The Strategy Reset → Smart Strategy for Effortless Performance
From reactive grind to exponential, values-aligned systems
- Ditch survival-mode execution and design a system that scales with your energy.
- Lead with intention, clarity and freedom — not adrenaline and grind.
Outcome:Â A personalised strategy that grows with you, not against you.
FOCUS #3
The New ROI → Wellbeing as Your Power Lever
Wellbeing, regulation and vitality as power levers
- Redefine performance by making energy, recovery and vitality your ROI.Â
- Turn wellbeing into your ultimate unfair advantage.
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Outcome: Practical tools to make energy your most valuable asset.
FOCUS #4
Internal Infrastructure → Building Your Scaled Growth Engine
Personal genius-driven, strengths based systems and relationships that sustain growth
- Create a leadership system that sustains success long-term.
- Build a personal blueprint for scalable success — resilient, adaptable, energised.
Outcome: A repeatable growth engine that sustains your ambition with ease.
FOCUS #5
Communicating Your Evolution → Owning the Scaled Ambition Identity
Stepping into a 10X, embodied, values-led leadership presence
- Reinvent your leadership identity as a strategic upgrade and prepare to communicate it to your family, clients, colleagues and network.
- Walk away with language, presence, and confidence to embody your new era of leadership.
Outcome: You don’t just lead differently — you are different.
Here's what makes this stick...
Sustainable Integration During and Post-Program
- Designed for working leaders with competing demandsÂ
- Downloadable frameworks for ongoing application
- Peer cohort accountability structureÂ
- Done-for-you progress tracking tools and metrics
The Transformation
By the end of the program, participants will:
- Scale ambition without sacrifice — no more hustle traps.
- Achieve effortless peak performance, fuelled by energy, not exhaustion.
- Lead with Smart Strategy + Somatic Intelligence, creating impact that’s sustainable, grounded and expansive.
BONUS: Access to The Scaled Ambition AI Coach
A personalised, always-on digital coach that helps participants:
- Decode their energy in real time → “I’m drained after back-to-back meetings, what’s one reset I can do in 3 minutes?”
- Stay accountable to new habits → daily nudges around Smart Strategy priorities (e.g., “What’s your 20% focus today?”).
- Normalise transition seasons → tailored prompts for parenting, perimenopause, caregiving, promotions, etc.
- Reinforce program learnings → bite-sized reminders of your frameworks, reflection questions, and scripts from the program.
- Measure progress → tracking Energy ROI, decision-making clarity, and “leadership presence” through micro check-ins.
Measurable Impact: Individual & Organisational
For High-Performers
- Energy ROI they can measure — and feel
Tools to track energy like any other KPI, so they scales success without exhaustion. - Leadership presence that’s magnetic, not manic
Anchored in somatic intelligence, they’ll project calm authority, not scattered hustle. - Ambition that fuels, instead of frying them
Smart Strategy + nervous system capacity = growth that energises, not drains.Â
For OrganisationsÂ
- ROI that passes the Exec Team or SteerCo test
- Clear metrics on performance, wellbeing, and sustainable growth — not just “soft outcomes.”, bench strength, and culture gains without the churn
- High-performers stay longer, unlock more potential and role model a healthier way to succeed
- Burnout prevention that’s strategic, not fluffy
- Embedding science-backed systems and regulation practices that protect performance and people.
- Board-ready insights and reporting – dashboard templates and progress metrics so leadership teams can confidently present impact to stakeholders and justify investment.
How This Differs From Generic Leadership Training
Scaled Ambition is NOT
❌ Another “feel-good” generic leadership workshop that participants forget within weeks
❌ Abstract fluffy mindset advice with no operational backbone
❌ A call to shrink your ambition just to protect your sanity
❌ “Wellness tips” masquerading as strategyÂ
Scaled Ambition IS
✅ Sharper personal strategy — systems and focus that scale with your energy
✅ Nervous system mastery — practical tools to regulate, recover, and sustain peak performance
✅ Unapologetic ambition — fuelled by energy, grounded in values, free from hustle traps
✅ Performance infrastructure that scales with your ambition – not wellness tips dressed up as strategy
WORK WITH SOMEONE WHO WALKS HER TALK
 I’m Emma, an internationally certified coach, leadership strategist, and ex-burnout overachiever who learned the hard way that drive without capacity is a dead end…
Listen, I’ve been there: high-performing, high-achieving and running on fumes. What I figured out? You don’t need to “dial it down”. You need a better operating system.
I blend smart strategy with somatic intelligence—translating nervous system science into practical leadership upgrades that help women scale their success without trashing their energy.
This isn’t fluffy, self-care-wellness dressed up as leadership development.
This is precision work for women who want to lead smarter, go further, and amplify it.
Sustainable peak performance?
It’s not just possible—it’s exactly what your next level demands.
I’m on a mission to help more high-achieving women scale their ambition without compromising their wellbeing so they can achieve new levels of personal growth and peak performance - without falling into yet another BS hustle trap.
I often get asked “how do you have so much energy?!”. The Scaled Ambition program is almost like my personal playbook. A fusion of habit science, strategy, shadow integration, nervous system regulation and values-led leadership into one power-toolkit. The results it has helped me and other women achieve proves it works.
Ambition shouldn’t come with a burnout bill.
Ready to escape the hustle trap?
WANT TO KNOW MORE BEFORE THE HARD LAUNCH?
Built on deep research, interviews and co-design the program is currently in final pilot mode. Want early access? If 2026 is your year to invest in leadership capability that scales sustainably, let’s talk strategic partnership now!
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