For those compelled to thrive individually and contribute collectively.

Your body of work is a vehicle of culture. Via the ways you relate and create. My body of work is devotion to the beauty and potency of yours. Via partnerships and curated experiences.

A next level for you means a next level for those beyond you.

For your team. For your organization. For your field.

For those beyond it.

“Instantly transformational” is how someone recently described the first 20 minutes of their engagement.

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The breakthrough to your next level starts with tension.

Tension is an indicator of life force meeting resistance.

Here, tension is honored as a call to break through to a next level. We transmute tension into breakthrough without you tolerating more bullshit, compromising your values, or wasting more time. So you can get to your next level; more personal thriving and more collective contribution.

Tension as a call your next level can look like:

  • delivering high-value contributions, but not being recognized or compensated for it

  • chaotic “leadership” that pretends things are one way when they are really another, with the implicit expectation that you go along with them.

  • colleagues, clients, or family that relate to you with blame and criticism.

  • having your strengths go unused or actively discouraged

  • being laid off despite your integrity of contribution (or because your integrity wasn’t aligned with the the leadership’s low integrity.

  • navigating a job search and dreading networking or feeling gross about the idea of selling yourself

  • friends or family not respecting you or your work

  • having a relationship with your work, family, or love that you wouldn’t want as an example for your children to emulate.

  • overwork or sacrificing for something you know is entirely not worth it

  • being exhausted from being the most competent or high-capacity person in the room or relationship…as per usual

Breakthrough at your next level can look like:

  • providing high-value contributions you’re appreciated and compensated for, while also being honored for who you are as a person.

  • people telling you they admire your work, your relationship, your leadership, or your life. And you’re not surprised because it feels even better internally than it looks externally.

  • knowing that when things are chaotic, you have the capacity to stay true to yourself, which you notice then shifts the tone of the room.

  • colleagues, clients, and family that relate to you with personal responsibility and appreciation; consistently.

  • having your strengths utilized and actively scaled.

  • creating a new line of business, changing your business model to a more satisfying one, being promoted, having better, more aligned things that you do at your current role, consciously negotiating a layoff and then time off, or transitioning to a better role at a new company.

  • feeling grounded, confident, clear, and generous as you network or speak about yourself.

  • friends and family suddenly really “getting” your work or respecting you and your time and energy much more deeply.

  • having the kind of relationship with work, family, and love that you are proud to have as an example for those you care about.

  • the peace of right action and work ethic correctly applied to the unique contributions only you can give.

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  • 25,000+ Coaching Participants

    Negotiation for Women, Ideal Career Design, The Unpublished Job Market, Resume Writing, Communication Strategies for People Who Hate Selling Themselves, and a dozen more topics.

  • 700+ Private Clients

    from 25 countries and dozens of industries across public and private companies, nonprofits, government, and higher education. From founders to professionals to board advisors and executives up to the Fortune 50 President level.

  • 400+ Peer Advisory Members

    from elite executive masterminds to entrepreneurial bootcamps to creative lifestyle design community. The best part is that members become friends. The other best part is that then they provide these friends with access and insight they otherwise wouldn’t have had access to.

  • Hundreds of new businesses

    Birthed or nurtured. New ventures from multi-exit founder types to freelancers new to entrepreneurship. Company stages ranging from ideation to scale and sale. From governance advisories to design studios. From radical consultancies and tech startups to purveyors of culture change.

  • 40+ Client Roles

    From entry to entrepreneur to Fortune 50 President. Founder, GM, VP of Innovation, Chief of Staff, COO, CRO, CPO, CTO, CISO, CMO, CFO, Chief Diversity Officer. Chief Communications Officer. (S)VP, Director, Manager, and individual contributor roles across functional areas and industries.

  • Groups of up to 14,000

    Facilitations of large and small groups for career and lifestyle design training and workshops. The smallest was for 4 graduate students of a Buddhist University and the largest was for 14k employees of a Fortune 50.

  • Recent Immersions: Bathed in Baja Beauty

  • Aboard Leap, our 410 Catamaran

  • Over hot coffee on a cold morning

  • Channeling the connective buzz of the San Francisco Bay Area

  • Taking the first steps on the new path you're creating

  • Expanding in the Caribbean, from Curaçao to the Virgin Islands

  • Amplify the way your thriving naturally fuels the thriving of those whose character and craft you admire.

  • Treat yourself to the clear-eyed perception and deep attunement of our Captain (and Chef)

  • Immerse yourself in possibility. From finalized divorce paperwork to in love and sailing in Italy...in 4 months.

  • Receive clarity from rewarding climbs, luxury spas, or intuitive healers before exquisite farm-to-table dining in Boulder + Denver

  • Step through a portal that beckons you

  • Open to the powerful revelations that may arise amidst the rawness and the bounty of New York's Hudson Valley

  • "The best investment I've ever made."

    COO, Social Impact

  • "Instant clarity."

    Healthcare Leader

  • "I just wanted a job that sucked less. Now, I'm 1000x happier."

    Founder, DEI & Legal Consultancy

  • "I wish I met you when I was 24."

    CFO, Logistics

  • "Where have you been all my life? I want to clone you and give you to everyone."

    Sr. Director, Higher Education

  • "I feel like I exorcised a demon and grew wings at the same time."

    Entrepreneur, Creative

  • "I can always count on you to cut through the bullshit to what's true."

    SVP, Operations

  • "Terrifying! And exhilirating!"

    Head of Product

  • 200+ Client Companies

    Disney, Nationwide, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Cisco, Tesla, Apple, Nvidia, Tom’s Shoes, DC Comics, Deloitte, EY, United Health, Caterpillar, JP Morgan, Comcast, GM, startups, nonprofits, government bodies, and consultancies.

  • 12+ International Destinations for curated immersions since 2005

    Custom, curated leadership immersions in the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, and the US. Recent projects in Curaçao, California, Baja Mexico, and the Virgin Islands. VIPs welcome aboard our Caribbean catamaran, Leap.

  • Millions in lifetime earnings

    whether as an exec negotiating a $10MM agreement + equity stake or a young professional with a family who negotiates a 40% base comp increase.

  • Hundreds of new businesses

    Nurtured whether in ideation, launch, growth, or scale. From governance advisories to design studios. From radical consultancies and tech startups to purveyors of culture change.

  • Groups of up to 14,000

    Facilitations large and small, whether for a Fortune 50. Or as intimate as 4 students of a Buddhist university.

  • Uncountable

    Acts of inspired art and high-integrity leadership - from stewarding dramatically more equitable practices inside an executive leadership team to large-scale public art installations to lineage-shifting moments over kitchen tables.

  • "...truly transformative workshops for executives across the globe...when she speaks, you can hear a pin drop - every single word is priceless and her delivery is impeccable."

    Program Manager, Entrepreneurship

  • "I’ve been fortunate to be the writer for many of Emma’s coaching clients. Her belief in each client’s gifts and potential, her instincts and insights...have been instrumental in empowering her clients to move ahead.”

    Executive Resume Writer

  • “when my position was eliminated after 24 years, I felt compelled to re-evaluate what I wanted to do with the rest of my career. Emma was extremely helpful in envisioning and encouraging me to follow my "calling,”... her positivity and support were invaluable!”

    Senior Program Manager, Technology

  • "The energy, sympathy and council she provided was the reason I successfully found my next opportunity. I would strongly recommend her and her services; she will help you, because that is who she is and what she does. "

    SVP, Finance

  • "Path-clearer, heart-seer, visionary builder of the most epic community."

    Director, Nonprofit

  • "...gifted in opening clients' eyes to the possibilities....creating a space to execute on a bold plan for 'what's next.'

    Sr. Executive Resume Writer

  • "Ultimate inspiration of love, life, and leadership."

    Program Designer, Arts and Education

About Emma

Practice Areas:

  • career + lifestyle design for individuals, founders, families

  • career transition, outplacement, notification events

  • roundtable and mastermind group facilitation

  • speaking and workshops; in-person, remotely

  • curated international leadership immersions; recently US, Mexico, the US Virgin Islands, and Curaçao.

Education + Early Career:

  • Applied Social Psychology; prejudice and discrimination, strengths-based and positive psychology. Spanish.

  • SCUBA Divemaster, sailing instructor, Wilderness First Responder, and bilingual basic needs case manager.

  • Experiential Program design/facilitation in 14 countries.

What started as resume writing and career coaching evolved into the organization’s current form, Body of Work; to encompass all the ongoing composition of the ways people relate and create.

Emma Garrett has partnered with ~700 private coaching clients from 25 countries in English, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese, facilitated growth and community for 400+ individuals virtually and in-person, and presented to over 25,000 people in career transition; including corporate workshops and trainings for up to 14,000 employees of a Fortune 50.

Clients have ranged from students to the Fortune 50 President level.

She brings “elite” level coaching experience to high-integrity leaders in their many forms and expressions, via partnerships and immersions.

She and her love split the majority of their time between a cabin in Colorado and a catamaran in the Caribbean.