Leaders. Love. Leverage.
Create clarity. Strengthen your leadership. Do it “in love”.
Move what matters forward.
As a CEO, founder, or senior leader, your greatest contribution is no longer how much you can personally accomplish.
It’s how clearly you think, where you direct your attention, how effectively you communicate, and what you enable others to do.
Every interaction, decision and touchpoint is an experience for your team and your clients and customers. Working effectively is not enough. Doing what you do with love and intention creates experiences that will ultimately impact your growth, your employee retention, your client satisfaction, and your succession.
I work in medium enterprise private businesses with:
CEOs and Founders
You have built something meaningful and are now navigating the complexity that comes with growth. The business needs your vision and judgment, but it cannot continue to need you for everything.
Senior Executives
Your decisions affect people, performance, culture, and business results. You need space to think clearly, strengthen your influence, and lead through complexity without losing yourself in it.
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Clients
The business has grown. Has your role evolved with it?
The qualities that helped you build and contribute to a successful business can eventually become the very things that limit its growth.
You are decisive, so people bring decisions to you. You are capable, so you step in when something needs to get done. You care about the outcome, so you stay close to the details. You see what is possible, so you pursue new ideas and opportunities.
None of these qualities are wrong. But as the organization grows, they can create unintended consequences:
Too many decisions stay with you.
Urgent work crowds out important thinking.
Your team waits for direction rather than taking ownership.
Communication becomes fast, fragmented, or open to interpretation.
New opportunities and shiny objects pull attention away from agreed priorities.
You are working harder without creating the impact you expected.
Leadership leverage is not about doing less for the sake of doing less. It’s about recognizing where your involvement creates value… and where it gets in the way.
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coaching + leader evolution
Executive coaching for CEO’s, Founder, and Senior Leaders
12 Month Individual 1:1 Coaching Program:
Executive coaching creates protected space to step back from the noise of the business and look at what is really happening.
You don’t need another person telling you how to run your business. You need a trusted thinking partner who can help you slow down, challenge your assumptions, see the larger system, and move from insight into action.
Together, we examine the decisions, patterns, relationships, and competing priorities affecting your leadership. The work is thoughtful, practical, and connected to the realities of running an organization. This is leadership leverage.
Leaders Love Leverage in Practice
Leadership leverage shows up in five interconnected areas.
Attention: Am I directing my attention, or is the business directing it for me?
Judgment: What decision will have the greatest effect on what happens next?
Communication: What does my team need to understand to move without me?
Ownership: Where am I helping, and where am I unintentionally creating dependency? Do I really trust my team?
Wellness: What am I not paying attention to that is impacting my health and relationships?
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Solutions
leadership team facilitation
External facilitation for organizations
Leadership Retreat Facilitation
An external facilitator allows leaders to participate fully instead of managing the meeting while trying to contribute to it.
I bring structure, neutrality, and the ability to notice patterns, tensions, assumptions, and gaps that are harder to see from inside the team.
Through a Leadership Leverage lens, external facilitation helps groups clarify priorities, surface what is not being said, make better decisions, and turn discussion into practical next steps.
This is especially valuable for strategic planning, leadership retreats, and moments where the conversation has become circular or high-stakes.
Peer to peer facilitation
Women Presidents Organization (WPO)
Vancouver Chapter Facilitation
The WPO is a global peer community for women leading businesses with revenues over $1M. I currently chair the Vancouver II Chapter with 15 exceptional women Presidents.
Each local Chapter is a confidential, professionally facilitated group where members meet monthly to exchange insight, challenge assumptions, and support one another’s growth as leaders and business owners.
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coaching vs. facilitation: what’s right for you?
| Category | Coaching | Facilitation |
|---|---|---|
| Primary Focus | Unlocking individual potential through self-awareness and clarity, then translating that insight into purposeful, actionable steps. | Creating space for meaningful dialogue, shared understanding, and collective learning. |
| Role of the Practitioner | Asks thoughtful questions, holds space, and challenges constructively, without giving advice or steering the outcome. | A neutral guide who designs the structure, manages the process, and ensures balanced participation. |
| Time Orientation | Present to future. Focused on goals, change, and growth. | Primarily present. Focused on creating insight and connection in real time. |
| Key Outcomes | Clients often leave with a sense of clarity, renewed confidence, and practical steps they feel ready to take. | Participants often leave with alignment, deeper understanding, and insights that emerge through shared conversation. |
About
caratt process
Growth happens when leaders create space to think clearly, act intentionally, reflect honestly, and adjust with purpose. The Caratt Process is built through a simple but disciplined rhythm: clarify, act, reflect, adjust, and involve the right people at the right time.
c - chart | Start with the end in mind. Clarify what you are trying to create, what the business needs from you, and where greater leadership leverage would make the most difference.
a - act | Movement creates information. Choose a meaningful action rather than waiting for certainty, perfect conditions, or a complete plan.
r - reflect | Step back from the outcome. Notice what worked, what changed, and what the experience revealed about you, the team, or the system.
a - adjust | Leadership is not a fixed formula. Use what you have learned to refine your approach and respond to the realities in front of you.
t - team | No leader creates meaningful results alone. Build the clarity, trust, and capability that allow others to contribute fully.
t - time | Time is finite. Attention is even more valuable. Invest both where they create the greatest impact.
about Monica
Leadership Navigator
I am a Chartered Professional Accountant, CPA, CA and Certified Executive Coach, CEC, PCC based in Vancouver, Canada.
I have spent much of my career alongside people carrying significant responsibility. Business owners, CEOs and senior leaders who are expected to have the answers even when the way forward is not clear.
I understand the leader through executive coaching.
I understand the business because I have founded, led, and operated a business.
I understand the numbers because I am a CPA, CA.
I understand the loneliness at the top through my work with leaders and facilitation at WPO.
I am a left brain accountant, business person, and lover of data and analytics. I’m also a right brain creative curious communicator who enjoys a deep conversation with a willing partner. Having these two sides working together helps me navigate alongside leaders to find their focus to keep moving forward.
My WHY
For me, there are two things that comes easily to me. One is observing what is happening around me (my nickname is Radar). The second is connecting with people. Listening to people’s current situation, hearing about their ideal future possibility, and identifying the gap to get there is my navigational superpower.
As a leader, you are at the helm. Where I help is in the navigation. Where are you going? Where are you now? What is in the way? How and when do you want to get there? What do you love when you are working? How do you inject that into your day?
The positive change in energy, alignment, and leadership trajectory is what fuels me. I see leaders make a difference in their teams, their organizations, and their communities as they grow themselves.
Not surprisingly, when I am not working with leaders, I am often on the water cruising (and navigating) the Pacific Northwest.
Connect
What could become possible with greater leadership leverage?
Let’s have a conversation.