Communicating with…

Confidence, Power, and Presence

Increase authority, expand influence, and use your voice with grounded confidence!

Next program is happening Fall 2025!

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Contact Heather at heather@heatherwhelpley.com to learn more about bringing Communicating with Confidence, Power, and Presence to your organization

What people are saying…

“Heather's course was a game-changer. Her insights and practical strategies helped me express my ideas with clarity and impact, both in professional settings and beyond. I highly recommend this course to anyone looking to strengthen their communication skills, develop their authentic voice and build lasting confidence!”

Charity Hall, 2024 participant

“I would recommend this course to ANYONE.”

Martha McDonaugh, 2025 participant

"Heather's course provided so many actionable takeaways to add to my personal and professional toolkit. Not only did she share HOW we can enhance the way we communicate, but she helped us get to the root of what holds us back. I wish I had taken a course like this years ago when I was first entering the workforce!"

Amanda Hackett, 2025 participant

Does this sound like you?

Have you ever gotten feedback that you're too direct? Or that you need to speak up and be more confident? Or work on your executive presence?

Or all three!?!?

Are you ever afraid of saying the wrong thing, making a mistake, or getting a question you don't know the answer to if you share a new idea?

Do you question whether you know enough or have enough experience to speak up?

Do you ever second-guess yourself after you speak up or ruminate on what you wish you'd said - or wish you hadn't said?

Do you worry about what people will think and filter your voice past the point of simple emotional intelligence?

Do you want to share your voice with greater confidence?

Maybe even feel POWERFUL sharing your voice?

You're not alone.

Almost every woman I talk to has experienced some kind of barrier in sharing her voice -- and nearly every woman I talk to wants to share her voice and create greater impact in a way that is authentic and powerful to HER.

You've come to the right place.

Communicating with Confidence, Power, and Presence will show you how to get through doubt and imposter syndrome and teach you strategies to share your voice and get heard so you can share ideas, advocate for your career development, have hard conversations, show up with presence with senior leaders, influence without authority, challenge and disagree when needed, and make a difference.

100% of past participants felt more confident speaking up after the program!

Course Overview

Week One: Overcoming Doubt & Imposter Syndrome

You’ll walk away from our first class knowing how to identify doubt and imposter syndrome — and with tools to quiet the inner critic and stop the second-guessing, ruminating, and overthinking that so often come up when using your voice.

Week Two: Tapping Into Your Grounded Confidence

Your deepest confidence comes from being grounded. You’ll take away practices to calm nerves and anxiety and you’ll learn how to speak from a place of power deep within you. People can’t help but listen when you speak with this kind of confidence!

Week Three: Strategies to Influence & Get Heard

You’ll walk away with concrete strategies to get heard in meetings, tools to influence without authority and foster executive presence, tactics to ensure your words convey confidence, and methods to adapt and get results without losing your authenticity.

Week Four: Mastering Tough Talks

For our final class, we'll go deep on how to handle the tough conversations, like giving constructive feedback, delivering a hard message, or sharing a dissenting opinion with leaders. You'll also create an action plan so you can keep communicating with confidence, power, and presence after the program ends!

"I left the course feeling more confident in how to prepare for tough conversations, and how to present myself to leaders in a confident manner."

Dani Stoneburg, 2024 program participant

You’ll Get:

>> Four 60-minute live teaching calls

>> Extra Q&A and discussion for 30 minutes after each teaching call (optional)

>> Recordings of all calls if you miss a class - or want to watch it again!

>> Private community to connect with other participants, share ideas, get your questions answered, and discuss application of the tools

>> Three months of access to course recordings

>> High-impact, targeted exercises to increase your confidence and presence

Hi! I’m Heather

For over ten years I worked at Cargill and Ameriprise in HR, leadership development, and change management roles at corporate headquarters, production facilities, and offices in the U.S. and Australia. I managed development programs specifically for high-achieving women. After I started my business, I coached and presented to women across a huge variety of roles and companies.

Everywhere I went, I saw the same story: Amazing women who questioned themselves. Who felt like they could never disappoint anyone. Who believed they had to make everything perfect and prove themselves again and again. Who worried about being too direct - while at the same time needing to be seen as confident. Who felt like they didn't know enough to share their great idea or go for the promotion, even though they were highly qualified.

It wasn't just them. I felt it myself too. And I wanted to do something about it.

I’m on a mission to empower women to live, work, and lead with grounded confidence - and to break the rules and expectations that lead us AWAY from that confidence.

I do that through speaking at women’s conferences and events, executive coaching, and leadership development programs and courses like this one. I’m also the author of two award-winning books, An Overachiever’s Guide to Breaking the Rules and Grounded Wildness: Break Free from Performing Your Life and Start Living It. I live in Colorado - and I LOVE Colorado! I hike and explore as much as possible. You can find the full download about my background on the About Page.

“I walked away from this course with so many applicable, achievable and simple ways to remain grounded with my true self and my emotions. It allowed me to really identify some unspoken "rules" I was following for years (you aren't allowed to fail - you must go by the book - don't rock the boat) and opened up a totally new level of self-awareness. I would recommend this course to ANYONE.”

— Martha McDonaugh, 2025 participant

More Testimonials

“Having the focus be on ME - my strengths and using my unique voice, was incredibly refreshing. I think many of us (women especially) tend to focus too much on how others are perceiving us in our day to day lives. This feeds our negative inner critic voice and makes her way too comfortable hanging out.”

— 2025 participant

“I really enjoyed the structure of this course. Heather is great at facilitating a welcoming space, and the tools she provided were solid in terms of realistic application and efficacy! It was very encouraging to convene with other women from various professional settings.

— Alyssa, 2025 participant

"Thank you for doing this, and making it easy from an attendee's standpoint! I now have more tools to lean into, and reflect on, thanks to this course."

— 2024 program participant

“I appreciate that you gave us various actionable tools that we could implement into our lives right away. I also like that you start the course by going into the "rules" we have about ourselves (imposter syndrome, people pleaser, etc.) and helping us get to the root of what holds us back."

— 2025 participant

“It was very valuable to convene with a group and get validation that I am not in fact alone in my insecurities. It takes the "scary" out of them when I see other professional women, many with more experience than me, experiencing the same thing.”

— 2025 participant

"Heather recently led a program on Authentic Voice for us. It was outstanding! Participants reported greater confidence, speaking up more often, and even applying for promotions as a direct result of this program."

— Sarah Moran, The Toro Company

“I can’t say enough great things about Heather’s presentation on Discover Your Authentic Voice. There were many valuable, relevant, and relatable takeaways. We received actionable tools to confidently take up the space we need to communicate with presence and power. The presentation was captivating, engaging, and interactive. We all left feeling empowered to speak up and take a seat at the table!”

— Will Kulesza, Kellnova (formerly Kellogg’s)

“There were so many "a-ha" moments in Heather’s keynote on Discovering Your Authentic Voice. I was flooded with positive feedback from employees after her session, with people saying that It really made difference and left the session feeling prepared to contribute, connect, and deliver."

— Revthi Lakhole Singh, Motorola Solutions

“Mastering Tough Talks was a blueprint for how to manage hard conversations. We even heard stories about participants taking the tools Heather shared and applying them immediately - literally, the next day!”

— Angela Dodd, Females in Food Community

FAQs

  • Communicating with Confidence, Power, and Presence is for woman and non-binary individuals at all ages and stages of your career. If you connect with what's on this page about the program - then the program is for you!

  • Yes, absolutely! Many companies sponsor employees for programs like this. I encourage you to talk to your manager about getting reimbursed for the course fee. Share this webpage with them so they understand what the course is about and why it's valuable for your career development.

  • It's awesome when companies sponsor programs like this -- and you are also allowed to invest in your own development! In fact, I've often seen when women make the decision the invest in themselves, they throw themselves in the program and get SO MUCH out of it. YOU are worthy of your own investment!

  • Each call will be held over Zoom. I promise, each session will be engaging and interactive! We’ll use the chat to share ideas and you’ll be doing activities during the calls. There won't be any breakout rooms and turning on your video is optional.

    I’ll also stay on for up to 30 minutes after each teaching call for extra Q&A and discussion so you can get all your questions answered and connect with other participants. People in the last program loved this extra time!

  • No problem! All calls will be recorded and posted in our private community space. You'll also be able to ask me questions in the community space, so you will feel supported even if you have to miss a session.

  • Yes! I often facilitate leadership development programs inside of organizations. Send me an email at heather@heatherwhelpley.com and we can set up a call to talk further.

  • Have a question that wasn’t answered here? Feel free to email me at heather@heatherwhelpley.com and I’ll get back to you!