Feminine Leadership
You can't break through the limitations
You’ve already achieved so much and yet, something feels off on the inside.
You’re navigating resistance and inner tension, lacking the clarity to reach your next milestone, whether in life or business. You may feel overlooked, unsupported, or suppressed, caught in dynamics fuelled by disrespect, manipulation, or the habit of shrinking yourself. These patterns dim your light and disconnect you from your authentic self. But once you address the root causes, everything shifts. You rise into the vision you now stand for with integrity, power, and impact.
tell me if you are feeling like...
Over the past 15 years, I’ve partnered with formidable decision makers around the world, and witnessed a profound truth: even the most capable leaders can feel a quiet dissonance when stepping into their next level.
The accomplishment is visible, yet something deeper calls for alignment, expansion, and evolution.
Disconnected, "at full capacity" or "out of alignment"
There’s a difference between doing leadership and being a leader. When you’re disconnected, every win starts to feel like it comes at a cost, your energy, your values, your personal desires. When you’re in alignment, your efforts translate into meaningful results without feeling like you’re selling your soul. You move with rhythm, not corruption or compromise. Your heart and brain work in harmony, enhancing your ability to think strategically, lead powerfully, and live fully. This is what freedom and true impact feel like.
You have neglected your own needs or values while pursuing your career
You’ve built your career by showing up for everyone else with dedication, commitment, and care. But somewhere along the way, you stopped showing up for yourself. Self-abandonment and imposter syndrome often hide behind striving, overworking, over-giving, and overcompensating. This isn’t weakness. It’s a strategy you learned to survive and succeed. But stepping into your next evolution requires a new strategy, one built on your readiness to meet who you truly are and what you are made of. It’s time to return to yourself. To be fully seen. To lead with unapologetic conviction, embodying the leader you were born to be.
We work with women whose tenacity can’t be measured. - women who’ve fought to become who they are, who challenge the status quo, carry responsibility and vision, and are still ready for more..
Our cohorts are deliberately curated: sacred, strategic spaces where ambition is respected, real conversations are the norm, and leadership is elevated through depth, self-responsibility, kindness, and standard of excellence.
This is a space to be seen - to experience real support, to be celebrated and understood, and to surround yourself with women who get what you’ve been through - and who cheer you on to dream bigger than ever.
Women who bring sharp perspective, strategic insight, and lived wisdom - life-changing!
Feminine Leadership Coaching Programs
How good could life get if you finally let the fire out?
A bespoke integration of executive coaching, behavioural science, and intuitive power.
designed for visionaries ready to lead with clarity, purpose, and impact.
Sitting in the driver’s seat of your life and career!
Leading with awareness and intuition while experiencing freedom & satisfaction.
Embodying a high level of self-respect by embracing your unique leadership essence!
to thriving by doing this...
Not being able to break through current limitations
Feeling disconnected, ‘at full capacity’ or ‘out of alignment’.
Neglecting your own needs or values while pursuing your career...
just imagine going from...
AWAKEN your leadership essence, CHAMPION your greatness and SUCCEED beyond imagining to Lead & Live
THE ULTIMATE LIFE?
are you ready to..
SUSANNE TEMPERLEY - DIRECTOR ASSET FINANCE SERVICES
“Love love love this lady!
After making a huge leap of faith to leave a well paid leadership role - in search of something that aligned with my core values more - I reached out to Ela.
Her strength of knowledge across a wide range of entrepreneurial, intuitive and behavioural areas - allowed me to reinvigorate my own strength of conviction to follow my instincts. Ela will turbo charge your results. Strength, passion, intellect and intuition all wrapped up in a Entrepreneurial Go Getter”
Do you know what it truly means to own your presence?
You will develop deep self-trust and grounded confidence, so you can hold your centre when it matters most: navigating resistance, addressing toxicity, resolving conflict, or leading difficult conversations with clarity, courage, and composure.
This is where imposter syndrome begins to lose its grip. When we integrate both feminine and masculine qualities, intuition and action, softness and strength, receptivity and conviction, we become deeply authentic.
And that authenticity is magnetic.
Master your
‘Inner Game’
You will awaken your fierce spirit and cultivate the purpose, passion, and intuitive intelligence to lead from a co-creative state of flow. How?
When you become clear on what truly drives you, and honest about what work you have been avoiding, you begin to move with greater speed, conviction, and courage.
This is where you strengthen your influence, refine the way you communicate, and develop the leadership maturity to solve problems with creativity, clarity, and wisdom.
Own your edge
This work isn’t for those seeking comfort, it’s for those who are ready.
Ready to go deeper, lead wiser, and rise higher. They are ready to be more, and to experience the true essence of their life more fully.
Who says we can’t have it all?
The meaningful work. The love. The health. The freedom. The impact. The success that feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside. Why not?
Results Beyond Imagining
Let's TALK! Here's what you can expect!
You deserve more than a life that feels just fine.
What many people don’t realise is that we get one shot at this life. Too many people spend it asleep, existing, performing, waiting, and moving through the days without ever truly asking what they want, who they are, or what they came here to create.
Our greatest fear should not be failure. It should be reaching the end of this journey and realising we spent our precious time on autopilot, shaped by other people's expectations and fear.
Because the real regret is not that we tried and fell short. It is that we never gave ourselves permission to live fully, honestly, and on our own terms.
It’s time to stop settling and start leading in alignment with who you truly are. Leading from your heart. Leading from what matters to you. Leading in a way that leaves something behind, something greater than you, something that you and those closest to you can be proud of.
Tolerating the Ordinary..
Why does this matter?
I champion corporate and business leaders who are ready to create deeply meaningful and truly positive impact, whether they are securing their seat at the boardroom table, leading high-performing teams, or thriving in their entrepreneurial zone of genius.
My work supports leaders who are determined to lead with humility, authority, and purpose while staying deeply aligned with their values, integrity, and boundaries.
For too long, corporate success has been built on quiet sacrifice: health, family, relationships, freedom, and the parts of life that make success worth having. Leadership is evolving. The leaders of this new era are not here to burn themselves out, abandon what matters, or lead through pressure and performance alone. They are here to achieve more with deeper alignment, build trust without ego, and create results without compromising their humanity across life, leadership, and career.
For over 15 years, I have worked with high-performing decision-makers, emerging and senior leaders, and teams across government, media, STEM, HR, finance, real estate, healthcare, mining, construction, luxury brands, and more. My passion lies in supporting impact-driven leaders to strengthen their art of influence, elevate their leadership capabilities, and implement practical tools that build trust, high-performing teams, and meaningful organisational results.
One of my core commitments is championing women in leadership, empowering them to thrive, excel, and take their place in top decision-making roles. This mission began in 2019 and has been featured in hundreds of media outlets, including Forbes Australia, and in my 2020 TED Talk, “Diversity & Inclusion Are Logically Impossible.”
I'm Ela
Leadership Coach & consultant here to champion your next level of trajectory!
I have collaborated with organisations such as NAB, Westpac, Caterpillar, BHP, PwC, IBM, Sanitarium, Xero, Veolia, LVMH, and McCarroll’s, both independently and in partnership with Dale Carnegie Australia. In 2024 and 2025, I was recognised as one of the top 20 Dale Carnegie “WOW” Trainers globally in the Voice of the Customer category.
My approach integrates a rich mix of certifications and experience across athletic performance, leadership training, presenting, wellness, NLP, hypnotherapy, energetics, and intuitive development.
I bring these disciplines together to support leaders who are ready to lead with vision, impact, humility, and authenticity, and become the kind of people they needed early on in their career.
This coaching approach is simple, but deeply intentional.
We begin by clarifying your desired outcomes and creating a clear vision of what you want to move towards.
My role is to help you understand what truly motivates you, uncover blind spots, move through limitations, and design practical, strategic actions that support real change.
Depending on what is needed, I may move between coaching, consulting, teaching, intuitive insight, and energetic work, if that feels aligned for you.
But at the centre of it all is you: your wellbeing, your growth, your truth, and the life you are here to lead.
Are you tired of shrinking yourself to fit a mould, while feeling overlooked in the places where you give the most?
You are ready to be
for your contributions the way you deserve!
ACKNOWLEDGEd
- Zuzana Ondičová - General Manager IBM
“Together with fifty colleagues across the globe at IBM, I had the opportunity to participate in an unforgettable corporate presentation on the topic of “High Performance Resilience – Championing What It Takes To Go Next Level” delivered by Ela Staniak – High Performance Coach. Ela provided us with enormous knowledge on the topic of peak performance and resilience and shared practical steps which we can apply at individual and organisational levels immediately. These steps were customised to our needs and specific to industry demands. She certainly did her homework!”
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I strive for providing clients with the experience of excellence and satisfaction. If you withdraw from your coaching partnership within the first 30 days for any reason, I will personally issue you a full refund of investment.
30 Day Money-Back Guarantee
there's no risk
Believe that you are not enough in any realm ie not worthy, not significant, not lovable, not capable, not powerful enough.
Believe that your lack of results is caused by external factors ie. unhappy relationship/ lack of relationship, lack of support, time, economy, politics or else.
Want to continue deny your potential, talents, destiny and power.
To experience next level of evolution in all key areas of your life: career, relationships & wellbeing.
To become a powerful creator of your reality guided by your intuition and living in FLOW Momentum - in your zone of Genius.
To have clarity and live in alignment with your passion, purpose, direction and values.
This is not for you if...
This is for you if you are...
Ela offers a complimentary ‘Feminine Leadership Discovery Session’ to assess whether this program is a suitable program for you, and to assess your level of readiness. Ela only works with clients fully committed to their results. Ela offers a 30-day Full Money Back Guarantee.
How do I know if this program is right for me?
Ela has worked with clients at all levels of leadership internationally and understands that some clients prefer not to disclose their coaching relationship. All information is confidential including clients’ names. Those clients who choose to provide testimonials do so willingly.
Is this program confidential?
All coaching sessions are conducted on zoom and booked and forecasted at the time and day convenient to you within a mutual agreement. Ela navigates all time zones in a way that suits clients’ schedules and lifestyle.
Can I work with Ela living overseas?
Have Questions? I've got answers.
Ela’s keynote delivered a thought provoking message completely aligned to the innovative and problem solving work my team delivers at NAB. The theme of 'making an impact' really brought it to life through story telling leaving us with a powerful symbol, the “dragon” to ignite our passion as we pursue our goals this year. Great session!
- MELINDA HOOKWAY - HEAD OF ENTERPRISE BUSINESS EXCELLENCE AT NAB
If you want to work with someone who truly embodies whole brain leadership, Ela is the person you need to speak with. Her gentle, yet thought provoking coaching style helps to illuminate what is hidden, unexplored and untapped. She has great wisdom and is able to navigate the intellectual and emotional realms with her clients in ways I have not experienced before. A true game changer.
Ela was an amazing speaker and mentor to have as part of our OnRamp programme. She spoke at length about Confidence & Communication with our participants at a number of sessions. Everyone who joined these sessions got endless value from Ela's combination of formal models with personal reflection and discussion.
Ela is now part of our ongoing brans trust, and we will continually invite her back to work with us in the Vibewire network.
- Leesa Tongoulidis - CCO and Principal Consultant at Human Art Pty Ltd
I absolutely love the inspiring energetic support of this unstoppable woman! Ela made me realise what it was I wanted to do, and what is most important to me, structuring my goals in a way that I’d never thought of before. This led to a complete change in life and attitude. I fully believe my goals are reachable! My confidence has never been higher.
- Kelli Carr - BMW Group Brisbane
- MIKE BIGGS - innovation, Strategy & design consultant
If you are ready for your next level of trajectory personally and professionally to Lead and Live 'THE ULTIMATE LIFE' then say YES to yourself and give yourself permission to be guided, supported and understood the way you deserve!
Your legacy is in your hands!
Awaken your leadership Essence,
Champion your Greatness,
Succeed Beyond Imagining!
don't miss this opportunity
The velvet advisory
6- or 12-Month Elite Private + Inner Circle Partnership
VIP sovereign Immersion
6- Month Experience
The Ultimate Life Blueprint™
16 week Private CORE Experience
Other ways to work with me
SUITE OF SERVICES
Custom designed corporate solutions
True leadership begins with connection - to yourself, to others, and to your vision. This unshakable bond creates the space where authenticity, influence, and results thrive. When you move from doing leadership to being leadership, every outcome accelerates.
Pillar#3
CONNECTION
Your life is shaped by the blueprint of your beliefs - both conscious and unconscious. When you shift the beliefs that no longer serve you, you unlock new levels of confidence, freedom, and potential. Transformation begins the moment you realise your future is not defined by your past.
Pillar#2
BELIEFS
Alignment is the foundation of leadership and life. When you are aligned, you access flow, clarity, and momentum with ease. Conflict and resistance are simply signals of being out of alignment - the moment you return to it, power and possibility open again.
Pillar#1
ALIGNMENT
Feminine Leadership Methodology to Lead and Live The Ultimate Life.
RESULTS
You will learn how to experience sustained exponential results as a function of living and leading a committed life! You will learn to transform your relationship to what it means to be ‘committed.’
GOALS
HEALTH & WELLBEING
You will learn how to be a 10/10 high performer personally and professionally. Who you are in your personal life has a huge impact on your professional life. We will review your life holistically to ensure that you are operating at your optimum.
RELATIONSHIPS
You will learn how as a function of who YOU are being to transform every relationship you have in your life personally and professionally. What becomes acceptable becomes inevitable.
CAREER/ BUSINESS
You will learn how to define, live and lead as a high performing leader achieving milestones beyond imagination. Whatever has been elusive before now will be exceeded to stratospheric levels.
The fundamentals of The Ultimate Life
PURPOSE
You will discover, connect to and embrace what you were truly born to achieve in your lifetime from a place of deep knowing and certainty.
GOALS
SIGNIFICANCE
You will learn how to make a significant difference in areas of your life that are important to you personally and professionally. The level of impact that is possible when one is in alignment is life altering.
DIRECTION
You will learn with crystal clear clarity to determine the direction of your life. For a boat to reach a destination one needs to charter it in a particular direction. We will powerfully partner you in learning HOW to transition from your current experience to experience the ultimate!
CONTENTMENT/ FULFILLMENT
You will learn how to live a life where you experience a sense of satisfaction never experienced before. As you shift EVERYTHING shifts.
PERFORMANCE
You will learn to maximise heightened levels of performance through evolving your consciousness. Sustained exemplary performance is a function of mastering the ones mindset.
GOALS
DREAMS/ASPIRATIONS
You will learn to dream again and make them happen with assured certainty, resilience, grit, and commitment.
PRODUCTIVITY
You will learn to work SMART not hard and stand for being highly productive in all areas of your life as your new norm.
FREEDOM/PEACE
You will learn how to live in alignment with your values. A value driven life guarantees a sense of freedom/peace one cannot put a dollar value on.
