Self-Advocacy Coaching for Leaders

Build interpersonal confidence to advocate for yourself, your ideas and your team at work

Have You Let Your Career Pass You By?

Maybe you’ve taken a more passive approach to your career - hoped that the work would speak for itself, held yourself back from disagreeing with others, taken roles only because they were offered - and now your inner voice is begging to be heard.

….or maybe you’ve noticed that others around you seem to get more recognition (even if they are doing less). They allow themselves to be visible in a way that parts of you resist.

….or maybe you know you're missing the skills and confidence to advocate for yourself at work and you're longing for a world where you feel more empowered.

You’re ready to partner with someone to reclaim your agency at work.

You’ve come to the right place.

I’ve helped 400+ leaders in 1:1 coaching engagements just like you.

Begin To:

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Clearly articulate what you want in your career and why you’re deserving of it
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Recognize what holds you back from self-advocacy—and learn to quiet those doubts
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Discover the ways you’re unconsciously undermining your voice
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Demystify how to build influence and manage up in a relational way
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Rebuild your professional reputation or establish your brand in a new role
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Set boundaries that afford you more freedom

Past Clients Have:

Landed jobs for roles they weren’t ‘officially’ qualified for

Successfully advocated for promotions and high-visibility projects

Stopped taking on non-promotable tasks

Shared tricky feedback with their managers

Turned down roles that weren’t right for them

Secured sponsorship for roles they’re interested in

Been selected for prestigious leadership programs

Pushed to get more tangible feedback from their bosses

My Approach

I help clients illuminate what they’re longing for professionally and face honestly what has held them back from self-advocacy.

So many of us lose faith in our own agency, burying our hopes and ambitions beneath fear and doubt. By embracing these dreams again, we can build a clearer path from where we are to where we want to be.

I enjoy working with clients who are ready to take bold steps .

Change stirs resistance, both within and around us. I guide clients through gradual, intentional steps that honor their internal fears while building courage. Together, we'll also develop strategies to navigate external pushback, using negotiation techniques that turn potential resistance into support.

I bring structure to a sometimes nebulous topic.

Venturing into new territory without a guidebook can leave you feeling lost. I partner with clients to create a clear roadmap, with guideposts that track your progress and keep you steady. We'll leverage a Self-Advocacy toolkit that I've developed through research and extensive training to help you find solid ground.

The Self-Advocacy Toolkit Includes:

Emotional intelligence frameworks
Scripts for asking for what you want
Negotiation tips
Resilience techniques for getting through uncomfortable interpersonal moments
Self-awareness exercises, including 360 reviews and building a vocabulary of feelings and needs
Concepts from nonviolent communication, Internal Family Systems, exposure theory and somatic experiencing

Client Testimonials:

" I was lacking the confidence to advocate for myself and my people pleasing tendencies were having a detrimental effect on my well-being. Meredith challenged me to work towards my goals and vision for my life and I found myself regularly taking risks that resulted in increased confidence."

Belinda, Finance Director
"Meredith’s impact throughout a challenging time of career uncertainty, was PRICELESS. By the end of the coaching, I landed a promotion for a role that oversees a 151-person organization. "

Julia Cashel, Director of Client Relations, VA Medical Center
"Meredith's approach to coaching helped me break through my discomfort around defining my personal brand and after only a few sessions I had a clear understanding of my strengths and interests and how to effectively communicate my brand to further my career."

Alyssa Martens, AVP, Client Marketing, Synchrony
"The ROI of the coaching has been astronomical. Looking at myself today, I see a completely different person. Before the coaching, I effectively felt like I had zero control of my life. I now feel a sense of agency and optimism."

Ryan Vincente, Associate Director of Commercial Excellence, Geron Corporation
“Meredith worked with me to identify key leaders I needed visibility with, and talked me through how to highlight my achievements with them. With Meredith’s guidance, I was able to lock in a promotion! Her coaching had a huge direct and tangible impact on my career.”

Amanda Brown, Digital Marketing Strategist, ServiceNow
“Meredith is an empathetic, skilled leadership coach filled with golden nuggets. She helped me imagine a reality in which I could be direct with others while staying true to my compassionate nature. Everything we discussed had immediate and lasting application to real-life situations."

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Meet Meredith Benedict

It's wonderful to meet you and I hope to be a part of your self-advocacy journey. It can be difficult to choose the right coach, so I strongly encourage you to set up time for us to connect.

In the meantime, here are some details about me:

Nearly 20-year career leading product and marketing teams in Fortune 30 high-tech, high-growth companies
Experience leading large organizational changes, including launching equity-focused interventions for a 1,000+ person organization
Coached C-suite and VP-level executives with their internal and external communications as a marketing leader at Meta
MBA from UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
2,000+ hours of 1:1 coaching
700+ hours of coach training
400+ clients
Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the premier global body for coaches, the International Coaching Federation
Trained in Co-Active Training Institute coaching methods
Certified in 360-degree feedback tools