REDESIGN YOUR CAREER INTO ONE YOU LOVE.

I’m Yaz Woodward, a trauma‑informed master coach and award-winning strategist. I help high achieving women break free from burnout, reconnect to their unique gifts, and transition into soul-fulfilling work - without losing the respect, income, or lifestyle they’ve worked so hard to create.

HOW I WORK WITH WOMEN LIKE YOU

Through 1:1 coaching, I help high-functioning, burnt-out or bored-out women redesign their careers from the inside out.

This isn’t just about finding a new job title. It’s about doing the deep inner work — regulating your nervous system, rebuilding your self-trust, unhooking from old pressure patterns — and pairing it with a strategic, meaningful plan for what’s next.

We design a career that lights you up - intelligent, creatively energising, and spacious enough to hold the life you actually want.

  • Old patterns - like needing to prove, please, stay safe, or stay in control - don’t vanish with age. They quietly shape how you work, lead, and decide, even when you know it’s time for something new.

    That’s why mindset work and surface-level wellness tools often fall short. Real change begins when you meet what’s underneath and gently unwind the survival strategies that once protected you, but now keep you stuck.

    We use 20+ trauma-informed tools to rebuild self-trust, nervous system capacity, and the energy to hold the career you’re truly ready for.

  • This isn’t about what looks good on LinkedIn - it’s about uncovering what’s actually yours: your gifts, your voice, your zone of genius. We’ll get clear on what truly lights you up and build a career around it that’s creatively energising, financially viable, and rooted in who you are now.

    I bring the same tools I’ve used to shape strategy for brands like Nike, Google, Amazon, Visa, and LVMH - now applied to the most important brand: you.

    Whether you’re pivoting, launching something new, or finally naming what you really want - we’ll turn clarity into a strategic, sustainable path forward.

  • Your career isn’t your whole life - and it shouldn’t feel like it.

    Together, we’ll design your next chapter to prioritise what truly matters: your energy, your relationships, your joy, your future dreams.

    This means practical shifts - like cycle syncing, boundaries, and nervous system-led planning - that make space for the life you want alongside the work you love.

Client stories

  • Micki's Story: From Stuck + Self-Doubting To Confident + Clear on Her Path

    “The best investment I’ve ever made in myself. Before coaching, I felt stuck and wanting more personally and professionally but lacked the confidence and self-trust to make real change. Working with Yaz was truly transformative. I cultivated deep inner confidence that brought peace and clarity to my life. I healed childhood and teenage emotional weight, overcame my fear of public speaking, and showed up authentically. For the first time, I feel grounded in who I am and where I’m headed - empowered and excited about my life.”

  • EMMA'S STORY: FROM CORPORATE BURNOUT TO A 6-FIGURE PASSION-LED BUSINESS

    “After severe burnout working in the corporate world, I needed to make a change. Yaz helped me release limiting beliefs, big fears and old wounds holding me back from pursuing my dream. I’m now living in total alignment & often can’t believe this gets to be my career and life. Yaz’s coaching made all the difference, it is one of the best investments you’ll ever make in yourself!”

  • LAUREN'S STORY: FROM FEELING STUCK TO A DREAM ROLE WITH A 30% RAISE

    “I absolutely loved working with Yaz! She is so supportive & incredibly skilled. She guided me through really challenging moments that then left me feeling free & unblocked from things that were holding me back & that I’d been holding onto for decades. I loved the version of myself I became during the container & how I began to embody everything I dreamed of.”

  • ROSIE'S STORY: FROM THE BEATEN PATH OF SUCCESS TO A SWIMWEAR SIDEHUSTLE

    "I worked with Yaz to help design a roadmap for the next few years of my life. Prior to coaching, I felt like I wasn’t really sure what I wanted the next few years of my life to look like. Our coaching covered all aspects of my life from relationships to career. Yaz made me see my life goals in a totally new light, prioritising balance across the things I find important."

  • SHAIMA'S STORY: From Maxed Out to Calm Under Pressure

    “I started coaching with Yaz to help tackle a heavy workload and the habit of always putting myself and my wellbeing last. We worked on shifting that - releasing pent-up emotion, asking for more help, and using my voice. After our sessions, I was able to handle a tough period with calm - a big shift for me. My nervous system coped with stress in a way it never had before; normally, I’d be in full fight-or-flight mode. I felt very safe and well supported by Yaz”

  • EMMA'S STORY: FROM ANXIETY AND SELF CRITICISM TO DEEP SELF CONFIDENCE

    “I came to Yaz wanting to shift patterns of “not enoughness” and wanted to be coached by someone who understood my busy career. Yaz helped me heal so many things; my relationship to self, relationship with my partner, experiencing less anxiety and overwhelm, by cultivating a strong and supportive relationship to my own self.”

  • CHRISTEN'S STORY: FROM AN INITIAL IDEA TO A PROGRAMME TO SUPPORT ASIAN-AMERICANS

    “I highly recommend working with Yaz. Yaz has great leadership and shares insights I didn’t think were possible. She has a lot of wisdom on business coaching and relationships and she holds a very safe and nurturing space. I can feel that she cares about my challenges and I trust her entirely with my heart.”

READY FOR A REDESIGN?

This isn’t a surface-level career pivot.

It’s a full-spectrum coaching experience where we redesign both your work — and the woman inside it.

Inside The Career Redesign Container, we work together 1:1 over with 3 or 6 months to:

– Unwind the survival patterns keeping you stuck

– Rebuild nervous system safety, clarity, and self-trust

– Uncover your natural genius and what truly lights you up

– Create a strategic, soul-aligned plan for what’s next

– Build a career that honours both your ambition and your wellbeing

You’ll get bi-weekly Zoom sessions, voice note and message support, and access to a toolkit of trauma-informed tools - all tailored to you.

You don’t have to start over. You just need a smarter, more spacious path forward.

My Story

I know what it’s like to be the one who always has it together - until you don’t.

By 25, I’d gone from growing up in social housing to graduating from Oxford, becoming the youngest director at the world’s top ad agency, and leading global work for brands like Nike, Netflix, Google, and LVMH. From the outside, it looked like I was thriving.

But inside? I was constantly proving, performing, and pushing past my limits. I’d buried my real dreams in favour of what looked smart and stable. I didn’t believe it was possible to have both fulfilment and financial safety.

After two medical leaves for severe burnout, I finally had to stop.
It forced me to reckon with what I was really running from: the legacy of family addiction, financial scarcity, and the belief that success was the only safe place.

So I went inward — doing the deep trauma work, rewiring my nervous system out of survival and hustle, rebuilding self-trust, and learning to feel safe being fully myself.

And then I redesigned everything — from the inside out.

I rebuilt my work around my genius. Honoured how I’m wired to work. And made space for the dreams I’d long put on hold.

Today, I run a business I love, consult for Fortune 500 brands, and live with softness, joy, and a full-spectrum life.

I’ve learned it’s not an either/or scenario. Another way exists —
You can have creativity and security. Success and authenticity. Fulfilment in your work and wellbeing in your life.

My mission is to help more women discover that path - to do the work they’re meant to do, and become the woman they’re truly here to be.

 FAQs

  • Coaching with me is a structured, supportive space to redesign both your career — and the internal patterns that shape it.

    We begin with a 45-minute complimentary connection call to explore where you are, where you want to be, and how coaching could support you. If it feels like a fit to work together, we’ll co-create a coaching container — typically 3 to 6 months — tailored to the shifts you want to make in both your work and your inner world.

    This isn’t just strategy or surface-level mindset work. We go deep — combining trauma-informed tools, nervous system healing, and strategic career design to support you in building a career and life that actually fits.

    Sessions are held bi-weekly on Zoom, with ongoing voice note and messaging support in between — so you’re supported every step of the way.

  • I am a certified trauma-informed Master Coach. I’ve now coached over 500+ sessions and 1000s of hours. I completed my training at the industry-leading Elementum Coaching Institute under the mentorship of Christine Hassler, Preston Smiles, Alexi Panos, Stefanos Sifandos and guest teachers including Michaela Boehm and John Wineland. I am certified in the modalities of Somatics, Nervous System Regulation, Trauma Work, Internal Family Systems / Parts Work, Inner Child Work, Emotional Release, Manifestation and Magnetism, Non-Violent Communication (NVC), Healthy Boundary Setting, Masculine and Feminine Energetics, Vision and Values, Strategy & Action Plans and Whole Self Embodiment.

    I also have over a decade of experience in business strategy and coaching teams at the worlds biggest brands including Nike, Netflix, LVMH, Adidas, Google and Visa to implement change and realise bold visions.

  • Whilst there are some overlaps in coaching and therapy there are also some key distinctions:

    Coaching is orientated around a future goal or vision you’d like to move toward and whilst we will work with your past experiences, this is always done in service of supporting how you desire to be today in your life and moving forwards.

    Coaching happens for a dedicated period of time (known as a coaching container) and work with clients happens both in session and outside of sessions via messaging, accountability and spot-coaching.

    Coaching is for individuals who are emotionally and psychologically healthy and who want to make changes and move forward in their lives. Coaching is not advice, therapy or counselling.

  • Yes, I work with clients from all over the world via Zoom. If you are unable to find a time slot that works for your timezone please email me at hello@coachingwithyaz.com and we can find a slot together.

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