Relational Leadership | Executive Coaching in Montreal and Virtually From Anywhere
Relational Leadership & Executive Coaching
Lead with clarity. Connect with purpose. Thrive without burning out.
“Leadership begins with how we relate — to ourselves, to others, and to what we hold.”
Meet your Coach:
Amanda Hankins, MSW, Psychotherapist and Clinical Director and Founder of Clinic Altera
Drawing on many years of varied experience supporting high performers in medicine, mental health, politics, business, and academia, including my time at Harvard University, MIT, and McGill, I bring a unique blend of clinical depth and leadership insight to every session. Earlier in my career, I served as a leadership educator and university professor, an experience that shaped my understanding of how self-awareness and relational safety can transform leadership from the inside out.
This is not traditional performance coaching. It is a reflective and experiential process that helps you lead from a place of regulation, authenticity, and grounded confidence. Through a trauma-informed, attachment-aware, and psychodynamic lens, we explore how your nervous system, relationships, and leadership patterns intersect so you can create impact that is both effective and sustainable.
In our work together, we go beyond professional goals. We explore your passion and purpose, your mindset and relational triggers, your routines and habits, and your desire for meaning and impact. We tackle it all, with curiosity, compassion, and a commitment to growth that feels truly embodied.
I look forward to walking alongside you as you build a way of leading and living that reflects who you are, not just what you do.
For high-performing professionals ready to lead differently.
I developed the Relational Leadership and Executive Coaching process for people who carry a lot; emotionally, mentally, and relationally. This approach is for those who are both driven and deeply attuned, who care about their impact but sometimes find themselves overextended, disconnected, or unsure how to sustain the weight of it all.
Whether you lead a clinic, manage a team, run a business, or hold space for others in helping roles, this work is designed to help you reconnect with your core self as a foundation for how you lead. It is about growing your capacity for clarity, steadiness, and connection, so that leadership feels less like performance and more like presence.
A Process Informed by Depth and Experience
Drawing on over fifteen years of experience supporting high performers I bring both clinical depth and leadership insight to this process. Earlier in my career, I served as a leadership educator and university professor, an experience that shaped my understanding of how authentic leadership is built through emotional safety, self-awareness, and relationships but also the theory and science behind it.
Over time, I began to see the same challenges repeating across professions: leaders who were brilliant and compassionate, yet stretched thin; clinicians and entrepreneurs who could hold so much for others but rarely had space held for them. From that awareness, Relational Leadership Coaching was born; a space to integrate the personal and professional, the internal and external, the individual and systemic.
Not Traditional Coaching
This is not a formulaic program or a series of productivity hacks. It is a reflective, experiential process that brings psychology, nervous system awareness, and leadership science together.
We explore how your attachment patterns, nervous system, and leadership style interact to shape your relationships, communication, and resilience. Through this exploration, you’ll learn to recognize when your system is in stress, how to repair disconnection, and how to bring more steadiness into moments that matter most, the conversations, decisions, and transitions that define your leadership.
In our work together, we don’t just talk about your performance. We explore your passion and purpose, your mindset and relational triggers, your routines and habits, and your capacity for impact and desire. It’s full-spectrum leadership growth, rooted in psychology, embodied awareness, and relational intelligence.
What You Can Expect to Gain in our Coaching Container
Through our work, you will:
Strengthen your emotional regulation and relational presence
Clarify your current impact and map where you want to grow and how to do that
Lead with clarity under pressure and communicate with integrity
Understand how your personal history informs your leadership patterns
Recognize and prevent burnout before it becomes exhaustion
Build teams and cultures rooted in safety, trust, and collaboration
Reconnect with the purpose and values that drew you to lead in the first place
This process is as much about unlearning as it is about growth. Unlearning the overfunctioning, self-silencing, or perfectionism that keeps you overextended, and learning instead to lead in a way that feels congruent, compassionate, and sustainable.
The Relational Leadership Immersion
A 3–6 Month High-Touch Coaching Experience with Amanda
For those who lead, hold, and carry.
The Relational Leadership Immersion is an intimate, high-support container for professionals who want to lead and live differently. Over 3 or 6 months, we work closely together to help you reconnect to regulation, purpose, and relational strength, so that you can sustain both your impact and your well-being.
This process is for high performers who are ready to move beyond intellectual insight into embodied leadership — leaders, clinicians, and entrepreneurs who want to deepen self-awareness, repair burnout patterns, and lead from grounded confidence and authenticity.
What the Container Includes
Weekly 90-minute one-on-one sessions (in person or virtual)
Each session integrates coaching, therapeutic insight, and experiential modalities to deepen reflection and transformation.Unlimited support between sessions
You’ll have access to ongoing check-ins, reflections, and messaging support to help you stay connected, regulated, and resourced as you integrate changes in real time.Goal mapping and relational vision planning
Together, we clarify your values, define your leadership goals, and map out a sustainable path that supports growth in both work and life. What are your blocks? What are your strengths? How is your mindset? Where do you live on the futility—-> impact spectrum?Personalized resources and development tools
You’ll receive tailored reading lists, reflection prompts, nervous system regulation strategies, and leadership frameworks designed specifically for your context and personality.Integrative methods and modalities
Drawing from both psychotherapy and leadership science, we weave together:Brainspotting and bilateral stimulation to process emotional blocks and enhance clarity
Safe and Sound Protocol to support nervous system regulation and resilience
Attachment and personality assessments to strengthen insight and communication
Psychodynamic and trauma-informed coaching frameworks to explore how early patterns shape current leadership and relational habits
What You’ll Gain
By the end of your container, you will:
Feel more regulated, steady, and confident in how you lead and connect
Understand and work through the patterns that contribute to burnout or relational strain
Develop a clear framework for boundaries, communication, and leadership integrity
Build teams and relationships rooted in safety, trust, and respect
Reconnect to purpose and passion without losing balance or authenticity
This process is a recalibration, an opportunity to shift from doing to being, from reaction to regulation, and from overfunctioning to leading with presence.
The Experience
This work is personalized, deep, and collaborative. It is designed for those who want structure and accountability, but also relational depth and real transformation. You will be met not just as a leader, but as a whole person, with curiosity, compassion, and honesty.
This is a space where your insights are honoured, your emotions are integrated, and your capacity expands. It is for those who know they are ready to grow not only in skill, but in self.
Program Length and Investment
Duration: 3 or 6 months (customized to your goals and availability)
Format: Weekly 90-minute sessions + unlimited connection between sessions via email and messaging.
Delivery: In person (Montreal) or virtual from anywhere.