Hello, I’m Maja
Trauma-Informed Leadership Coach for Female Leaders
Meet Maja –
Your Leadership Coach
A former university professor turned Leadership Coach, on a mission to support female leaders after crisis—so they can lead again with clarity, confidence, and deep resilience.
If you’re a woman who has spent years holding everything together—teams, deadlines, family…—while slowly abandoning your own nervous system, your own softness, your own needs… you’re in the right place.
Because here’s the truth most women leaders never say out loud:
You can be extraordinary and exhausted. Capable and quietly collapsing. High-performing and hurting—deeply—at the same time.
I know this because I lived it.
The Collapse That Rewrote My Life
Before I became a trauma-informed leadership coach, I built a career rooted in structure, achievement, and responsibility. I led a team as head of department, guided students through demanding academic paths, and researched Organizational Sciences—teaching the very frameworks that shape leadership.
I knew how to hold people, deliver results, and perform strength.
But what I didn’t know was how fragile all of that becomes when your inner world breaks open.
A traumatic brain injury didn’t just interrupt my life—it dismantled the identity I had spent years building. I walked through exhaustion so deep my body felt foreign, a nervous system that couldn’t regulate, cognitive limitations that terrified me, and grief for the woman I had been. The injury stripped away every piece of armor I had earned through over-performance.
But in that unraveling, something else happened—something I could never have learned through books or leadership theory: my post-traumatic growth began.
What Trauma Revealed About Leadership
When everything familiar fell away, I finally saw the truth beneath my old leadership: I had led from my mind, not my body—from discipline and performance, not presence or self-connection.
And as I began healing, a painful realization surfaced: so many women are leading from that same place.
Women who appear strong on the outside while navigating health crises they hide, burnout so deep they dissociate through the day.
They struggle with brain fog they’re ashamed to admit, emotional overwhelm masked as hyper-productivity, and identity collapse after divorce, loss, or trauma.
Women who wake up every day afraid that the version of themselves before the crisis was the last powerful version they will ever be.
I recognized them because I was them.
And I saw what traditional leadership completely overlooks: trauma changes how you think, decide, relate, and lead. It rewires your nervous system. It redefines your identity. You cannot return to leadership the way you once knew it.
But—and this is the truth that changed my life: trauma doesn’t take leadership away from you. It transforms the leader you can become.
Why I Became a Trauma-Informed Leadership Coach
My years in academia gave me the theory of leadership. My time leading teams gave me the practice. But my brain injury gave me the embodied truth of what leadership requires when everything collapses.
What makes this work unique is the convergence: years of leading teams, researching organizational structures, and surviving the collapse myself. I know the theories women are taught to follow—and I know the embodied reality of what actually sustains you when those theories fail. I understand the fear of appearing weak, the weight of expectations, and the quiet power of bringing trauma-informed presence into teams and workplaces. This isn’t abstract coaching. It’s leadership rebuilt from the inside out.
How I Support Women Leaders
Through nervous system work, trauma-informed practices, and embodied leadership frameworks, I help you:
- Regulate your nervous system so you can lead without bracing
- Make decisions from clarity and embodied strength
- Rebuild self-trust after crisis shakes your foundation
- Shift from performance to presence
- Transform trauma into grounded resilience and sharper boundaries
- Lead teams without self-abandonment
- Reclaim your leadership identity on your terms
This is not about “getting back to who you were.”
It’s about becoming the leader your crisis was preparing you to be—a leader with deeper presence, clearer power, and an unshakeable connection to herself.
No performing. No pretending. Just the real, resilient you—rising, leading, and creating impact from a place of authentic strength
That’s where your real leadership begins. And I’m here to walk that path with you.
A few of my
FAVORITE THINGS
Go-to workout
hiking
Dream destination
under Northern lights
daily fix
chai latte
Guilty pleasure
rich, crispy croissants
Hidden mic skills
shower beatboxing
bingereading madness
high fantasy
Rainy day pastime
astrology
Signature accessory
bold sunglasses
ready to lead differently?
The crisis doesn’t have to define you, especially as a woman. If you’re ready to move beyond insecurity and self-doubt and step into a leadership chapter grounded in confidence, self-trust, and steady presence, here’s how we can work together: