By: Zach Miller
Alison Pothier’s journey from the high-powered world of Wall Street to becoming a highly intuitive executive coach is nothing short of inspiring. After years of working as a Managing Director and COO in prestigious investment banks, including JPMorgan and UBS, Alison transitioned from transforming global organizational models, strategies and cultures to helping leaders and private individuals evolve their businesses and worlds by transforming themselves. Honing intuition, inner beliefs and self-awareness, her evolutionary approach is transforming leadership from the inside out.
Born out of first-hand industry experience, Alison Pothier has established a specialist coaching practice that weaves her corporate background with her profound intuitive gifts. Founded in her belief that self-actualization, authentic contribution and energetic congruence are vital components of an effective leader, Alison believes that true leadership starts from within. She believes that to realize better outcomes and derive inspired results begins with self-enquiry, intuitive self-belief and improving one’s inner landscape. This has become the cornerstone of her leadership coaching practice, applying her intuitive capabilities to help others hone and harness their own to better navigate periods of change and transition.
Whether through coaching sessions, training programs, offsites or retreats, Alison’s emphasis on intuition is a major component of her work, making her unique from other conventional executive and personal coaches. Serving a wide-array of clients, from C-Suite leaders to professional and private individuals, Alison helps others to improve their inner game and attain inspired results.
While Global Head of eTrading at JPMorgan and COO at UBS, Alison spearheaded evolutionary changes in the business of Futures and Options. Now helping individuals and organizations to improve their own future and expand its options, she continues to spearhead evolutionary change. It was during her executive career that Alison began her own profound journey to reconcile her life and lifestyle with her deep desire for inner balance, personal congruence, aspirational fulfillment and inspired contribution. Today, as a highly sought after specialist coach, she combines the wisdom of experience with intuitive insight to offer developmental support to others wishing to achieve similar transformative growth.
Inside Out Retreats, Alison’s coaching and transformational development business, offers an array of courses, workshops, training and retreats for private and professional individuals, groups and teams going through periods of change and transition. Tailoring each to the needs of her audience, Alison designs and facilitates programs that help people reconnect to self and values, hone better beliefs, clarify aspirational dreams and intentions and evoke better outcomes. Her retreats enhance emotional and intuitive awareness, authentic self-expression, energetic congruence and aspirational alignment. Alison also works with executive teams facilitating strategic transitions, leadership development and cultural transformation – including fostering cultures of emotional awareness and authentic leadership. Whether through workshops, retreats or one-to-one coaching, Alison’s transformational work is founded on the belief that change comes from within.
Her ventures do not end at coaching. Believing that story connects everything – those we tell ourselves and those we tell the world – Alison and her husband, Jules Williams, dedicate their services to helping others tell better stories with their lives. Beyond coaching, she and Jules, create short-form documentaries and personal legacy stories under their production company, 21 Mile Films. One of their significant projects, IBULIEVE, a docuseries and podcast, explores how beliefs define people’s lives and outcomes. Showcasing the role and significance of story in transformational self-realization, Alison continues to empower others through these and other creative outlets.
Recognized for her contributions in the fields of intuition, coaching, leadership and transformation, Alison has been capturing the attention of audiences in both the corporate and personal development arenas around the globe. To this end, she was asked to feature in the transformative documentary, Choice Point, together with eminent personalities like Richard Branson and Desmond Tutu. Shedding light on Alison’s inspiring personal story, the film captures the kaleidoscopic lens through which she navigated her profound transition from Wall Street highflier to highly intuitive executive and transformational coach.
Alison believes that effective leadership requires knowledge of self, not simply managing people, strategies and bottom lines. Inside Out Retreats, 21 Mile Films and Intuitive Coaching – by these avenues, Alison is reshaping the way people and organizations engage with their worlds, encouraging them to lead them from within and change them from the inside out. Her work in coaching, retreats, film and creative ventures is reflective of her personal commitment to serve others by empowering them with their true authentic selves.
Published By: Aize Perez
