In the 70th episode of The Teaching Journeys Podcast, host Dave Roberts interviews Kirsteen Williamson Guinn, a transformational confidence and transition coach who established Elevate Women. Kirsteen shares her journey from a 32-year corporate career in banking to founding her own Coaching business focused on empowering women. They discuss the importance of balancing masculine and feminine energies in leadership, the impact of corporate systems on women, and Kirsteen’s mission to promote gender parity in senior leadership roles. The conversation emphasizes self-care, confidence-building, and the benefits of female leadership in creating balanced and harmonious workplaces.

Kirsteen’s Bio and Contact Information

Kirsteen is an experienced senior leader with 15 years at Director level in a large corporation.

She has a proven track record in delivering commercial Growth and cultural transformation across large teams.

After experiencing Stress and Anxiety in her life and losing her confidence for the first time in her career, Kirsteen created her business Return to Work in November 2019 (now Elevate Women). This business was created to support people in the most stressful time in their career, when they return to work.

As the business has grown, clients come to Kirsteen for a variety of reasons, not just because they are returning to work.

As a transformational confidence and transition coach, Kirsteen enables her clients to build unshakeable confidence so they can return to work confidently, or step up in their career.

Kirsteen is a certified master of transformational health and life coaching, and a master of Feminine Power principles.

Kirsteen works with clients on a 121 and group basis as a transformational coach, speaker and facilitator.

You can connect with her in the following ways:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirsteen-williamson-guinn/

www.elevate-women.co.uk

The Teaching Journeys Podcast is available on your favorite podcast platforms.

To find out more about Dave, please go to davidrobertsmsw.com and his author page psychologyprofessorandminister,com

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Dave Roberts LMSW, Author, Podcaster

David J. Roberts, LMSW, became a parent who experienced the death of a child, when his daughter Jeannine died of cancer on 3/1/03 at the age of 18. He is a retired addiction professional and an adjunct professor in the psychology child life department at Utica University in Utica, New York. Dave also teaches psychology classes at Pratt MWP School of Art and Design. He is the host of The Teaching Journeys Podcast, which can be found on Apple, Spotify and other podcast platforms.

Dave has presented workshops at national conferences of The Compassionate Friends as well as for the Bereaved Parents of the USA. He was also a keynote speaker at the 2011 and 2015 national gatherings of the Bereaved Parents of the USA. Dave also co-presented a workshop titled “Helping Faculty After Traumatic Loss” for the Parkland, Florida community in May of 2018, in the aftermath of the mass shootings at Stoneman Douglas High School.

Roberts has been a past HuffPost contributor and has contributed articles to Medium, Open to Hope Foundation, Mindfulness and Grief, Thrive Global, and the Recovering the Self Journal. He has also appeared on numerous podcasts, as well as Open to Hope Television. In 2021,he co-authored and published a book with Reverend Patty Furino titled, When The Psychology Professor Met The Minister.