You are successful. Yet internally, you quietly feel the pressure, responsibility and worry.
let's talk about emotional intelligence
Your inner world is shaping your outer results. When it is in conflict with your outward facing identity, it impacts your leadership, your relationships and your well-being.
You are successful. Yet internally, you quietly feel the pressure, responsibility and worry.
let's talk about emotional intelligence
Your inner world is shaping your outer world. When it is in conflict with your outward facing identity, it impacts your leadership, your relationships and your well-being.
why fearless leadership is an illusion
Feeling fear is not weakness. Feeling anxiety is not weakness.
Emotions are information. They let us know something requires our attention.
Welcome! I'm glad you're here.
I am Alexandra Krieger, executive emotional intelligence coach. Combining my background in business and personal development with the science of emotional intelligence and positive psychology, I work with executives to level up and optimize your leadership, your business, your life.
This isn’t about hyped motivation that makes you feel good for a moment, it’s about creating your personal framework to thriving internally and externally. Our work together provides a space for hard and heart conversations, creating lasting change from within. We walk the journey together.
I look forward to hearing your story… your strengths, your goals, and your fears you don’t talk to anyone about – and help you build your momentum for growth.
In a world of uncertainty, it's natural to feel anxiety (you may call it worry, apprehension, nervousness or experience it as feeling on edge). Anxiety is part of being human. It can become the catalyst for hope if you understand and embrace both.
anxiety = fear + uncertainty
hope = uncertainty + trust
Hope isn't a wish or aimless optimism. Hope is the belief that your future will be better than your past, AND your desire to make it so.
Raising Hope In People and Organizations
What sets her apart is her incredible ability to utilize emotional intelligence assessments to uncover deeper insights about personal and professional roadblocks. Through her coaching, I learned to better understand my emotions, make more intentional decisions, and create habits that drive long-term success. She not only helped me grow in my career but also guided me toward a stronger sense of self, balance, and fulfillment in my personal life.
Thanks to her expertise, I now navigate challenges with confidence, communicate more effectively, and have a renewed sense of purpose. If you’re looking for a coach who blends emotional intelligence with proven success strategies to help you excel in all areas of life, Alexandra is the one! I am beyond grateful for her impact and highly recommend her to anyone ready for real transformation.
When things took an unexpected turn in both my professional and personal life, Alexandra showed up in a way that truly demonstrated compassion and a desire to connect with the messy humanity of my life. She sought to understand and ask probing questions that helped me to gain clarity about where I found myself and what I needed to do to move to where I wanted to be.
Alexandra has been immensely supportive. She has a penetrating intuition that is driven by a desire to truly understand people and help them achieve their absolute best, even more than they thought they were capable of. She came into my life as a business coach, and has remained in my life as a friend.
understand yourself and others
Our beliefs, emotions, thoughts and behaviours are intrinsically linked, one influences the other. And when we struggle in one of these areas, all of them are affected. You can get a lot of information on this topic, but it really comes down to how you operationalize the information to create change.
Beginning with the questions ‘What do you want? and ‘What is holding you back?’, learning about your beliefs, emotions, thoughts and behaviours will allow you to level up your leadership, and to create different outcomes, professionally and personally. Emotional Intelligence (EQ) often is viewed at as a ‘soft skill’, but it is at the heart of creating ‘hard results’. EQ is as, if not more, important than IQ in leadership success.
core beliefs
Our core beliefs are the lens through which we view ourselves, the world and the people around us.
They can be serve us in a supportive way, they can be neutral, or they can affect us negatively.
Our beliefs influence our emotions, thoughts and actions.
emotions
External events and internal thoughts trigger our emotions, and can lead us to feel both pleasant as well as unpleasant emotions.
All our emotions serve a purpose. Fear, for example, can alert us of an imminent threat to keep us safe, however ongoing rumination may make us feel anxious.
thoughts
Our thoughts are mental cognitions, influenced by our and others’ emotions, beliefs, experiences.
Because we have conscious control over our thoughts, we have the power to change them.
Just as what we feel can influence what we think, what we think can influence what we feel.
behaviours
Our behaviours are actions we take in response to a stimulus, which can be internal (our emotions or thoughts), or external (something someone else said or did).
Behaviours can be physical, verbal, or non-verbal.
As with our thoughts, we have conscious control to choose our behaviours.
Real Talk. Rooted in Research.
Understanding the patterns behind how we think, feel, and show up.
Breaking the Silence: Talking About Anxiety in Business
Keeping It Together: The Hidden Experience of Anxiety in Business
Stuck in the Scroll: How Doomscrolling Hijacks Our Minds (and What We Can Do About It)
Rational Minds, Emotional Roots: The Psychology of Decision-Making
Stress Is Information: Learning to Pause, Listen, and Choose
Statistics Sources: Founder Report, Kapable, Startup Snapshot.