Kirsten Trussell
Coaching and Consultancy
Leadership, visibility, and ambition - redefined for midlife
Hello, I'm Kirsten - coach, consultant, and quiet rebellion starter.
I help high-functioning women and progressive organisations build new standards for leadership through midlife and menopause.
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The kind that understands brain fog mid-presentation isn’t a mindset problem.
The kind that makes ambition feel possible on the days your energy disappears by 10am.
The kind that recognises when showing up starts costing more than it returns - and helps you rebuild from there.
Because pushing through is not a strategy -
and being indispensable shouldn’t come at the cost of your clarity, capacity, or credibility.
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This is where leadership evolves.
Not through grit - through truth.
Ways to work with me
Whether you're an individual navigating the silent cost of showing up or an organisation ready to lead the future of work with clarity, not just compliance - there’s a path here for you. ​What we do together depends on what’s happening for you right now.
This is the shift...
Lucy
This is the moment it started to clear for Lucy.
Not overnight. But for real this time.
Head of Curriculum at a Further Ed college and known for being calm under pressure. Until calm became code for invisible.
Until she found herself snapping at her team, crying in the car park, and second-guessing everything. Not because she wasn’t capable - but because she couldn’t keep pretending it wasn’t costing her.
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She chose UNHIDDEN.
Eight weeks later, she stopped performing and started leading on her terms. She ran her next senior team meeting without biting her tongue once.
That wasn’t a new script.
That was her actual voice - finally in the room with her.
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That’s not personal development.
That’s reclamation.
Rachel
This was the shift for Rachel. Not dramatic. Just undeniable.
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A mid-level leader, quietly ambitious for years. She never said it out loud, but the executive table was always in her line of vision. Until menopause flattened her.
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The brain fog hit mid-sentence during a team update.
She laughed it off - but it shook her. She stopped speaking up. Started over-prepping for everything.
Crossed her own name off the promotion shortlist… before anyone else could.
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By the time she found BECOME, her ambition hadn’t disappeared - it had gone underground. Over seven months, she came back into view. Not by “getting her mojo back” - but by building a new rhythm she could actually sustain.
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She claimed projects she used to think were out of reach. She pitched a board-level proposal with full-body certainty.
She didn’t just return to the table.
She redesigned how it worked.
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That’s not reinvention. That’s what happens when a woman stops waiting to be chosen.