Communicating with…
Confidence, Power, and Presence
Increase authority, expand influence, and use your voice with grounded confidence!
Registration is open!
We kick off October 28th - secure your spot today and get ready for all the confidence, power, and presence!
What participants 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
Do you want to….
✔️ Increase your executive presence?
✔️ Influence without authority?
✔️ Walk into tough talks feeling calm and confident?
✔️ Speak up in meetings with senior leaders and know your ideas will be heard?
✔️ Advocate for yourself and your career development?
✔️ Share your ideas without overthinking or second-guessing?
If so, you’re in the right place!
Let’s be honest - using your voice isn’t always easy
Maybe you’ve been told that you’re too direct and need to hold back…or that you need to speak up and be more confident.
Maybe you second-guess yourself after you speak up or ruminate on what you wish you’d said - or wish you hadn’t said.
Maybe you’re afraid of making a mistake, saying the wrong thing, or getting question you don’t know the answer to.
Maybe you overthink and over-filter your voice, sometimes so much so that your real perspective never makes it out.
Maybe you’re worried you don’t know enough to speak up.
You're not alone.
Almost every woman I talk to has experienced some kind of barrier to speaking up (myself included!).
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.
This why I created Communicating with Confidence, Power, and Presence
Sign up today
We kick off October 28th - come join us!
You’ll walk away with:
➕ Tools to move past doubt and imposter syndrome
➕ Strategies to influence, present, and get heard
➕ Confidence to speak up in meetings with leaders
➕ Practices to manage nerves and stay calm when emotions rise
➕ A stronger sense of your authentic, powerful voice
And you won’t be doing it alone - you’ll be part of a supportive group of women who get it.
100% of past participants felt more confident speaking up after this program!
Course Overview
Week Two: Tapping Into Your Grounded Confidence
Your deepest confidence comes from being grounded. You’ll take away practices to soothe nerves and remain calm when emotions run high (your emotions or theirs!). You’ll also learn how to speak from a place of grounded power deep within you. People can’t help but listen when you speak with this kind of confidence!
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 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 at 11:00am mountain time on 10/28, 11/4, 11/11, and 11/18
>> Small group coaching for 30 minutes after each teaching call (optional)
>> Recordings of all calls if you miss a class - or want to watch it again!
>> Ongoing access to recordings, toolkits, and additional resources after the course ends
>> High-impact, targeted exercises to increase your confidence and presence
>> Total investment is $395
Sign up today!
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 equip 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.
More Testimonials
“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
“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
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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 small group coaching, Q&A, and discussion so you can get all your questions answered and connect with other participants. People love this extra time!
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No problem! All calls will be recorded and posted in our private class folder. You'll also be able to ask me questions via email, so you’ll feel supported even if you have to miss a session.
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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.
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Have a question that wasn’t answered here? Feel free to email me at heather@heatherwhelpley.com and I’ll get back to you!
We kick of October 28th!
Sign up today and get ready for all the confidence, power, and presence!
