Coaching Services for Professionals

Nobody starts at the top

It was during my time as a varsity rower. One day, I was staring at the list of times on the wall and my name… was dead last. This had never happened to me before. I felt like running away and crawling into a hole.

Only a few months earlier, my name would have been at the top of the list. I was rookie of year. But things had changed. I had changed, and despite trying and trying to get more out of my body, it was shutting down on me. The harder I tried, the worse my times became. I was now the slowest rower on the team.

No one could really understand me or what was happening. I spent time with my coaches, I got help from psychologists, I read everything I could get my hands on, and finally, I ended up taking a break. A complete break. I needed to regroup.

It was in that moment of darkness where I went from getting results through “hard work” and “being talented” to being obsessed with the strategies behind optimal human performance.

I learned that getting faster isn’t always about trying harder or training harder, but training smarter and having better strategies. I learned that at a certain point, performance is governed more by our inner mental and emotional game than by our technical skills or expertise. I worked at deconstructing and learning the inner skills that no one really teaches you in a way that I could directly apply to my personal performance, in sports, in school, in work, and in life.

As I moved beyond competitive sports and into professional life, I learned and experimented on myself while doing a PhD, running a semi-finalist XPRIZE team, consulting at a world-class mathematical research institute, and building a number of small companies.

In the process, I’ve learned what I’m best at, and how to get the most out of myself. One of the things I’ve learned that I’m best at is helping others learn, grow, and improve their professional performance through coaching.

Don’t work more. Work better

If you’re ready to take your professional life to the next level, but you’re feeling stuck or plateaued, I want to help you. Maybe you don’t have the confidence to take that leap into more management or leadership. Maybe you feel caught in certain patterns of thinking that keep you from that next-level of excellence in your job.

You don’t have to stay where you are. Amazingly, it doesn’t take more work. It takes better strategies, and someone who’s been there before who can help you see what strategies will make the biggest difference in achieving your goals.

Sometimes, we stop improving. Sometimes we plateau. Sometimes it’s not clear what we need to do to improve and to get better. Life gets in the way and we don’t have time or energy to put into improving on your own. I get it.

In one-to-one personalized coaching with me, Amy Wooding, we can work together to help you build your professional skills in a way that will take you to the next level of performance, make actionable changes that replace effort with strategy, and give you the confidence and job satisfaction to get the most out of your professional life in your current role and beyond.

Who am I?

I’m Amy Wooding, and I am a high-performance specialist. I’m the co-founder and CEO of Learn Leap Fly. I was a two-sport varsity athlete at the University of Victoria (rowing and rugby). I played semi-professional soccer in Kamloops, BC. I earned a PhD in Mathematics from McGill University. I’m a consultant for a prestigious Institute for Mathematics and Computing in Ottawa, Ontario. I’m a two-time XPRIZE semifinalist. In short, I know all about high performance. My mission is to help others reach the highest levels of performance in their personal, professional, and parental lives.