Welcome. Take a breath, you made it

Ready for your Second Act?
This is where yours gets room.

I’m Leah. I work with people standing at a turning point: a diagnosis, a new baby, an ending, or a change of plans. People who are ready to work out what comes next, without the gloss.

Leah Ferguson, developmental coach, smiling in a sunlit garden

A quiet space, not a sales pitch

This site is meant to feel like the space I hold in person: unhurried, honest, and free to move where you want. You won’t find miracle promises. You’ll find a real person, plain words, and small steps that actually fit inside a real life.

Grounded

We start with where you honestly are. Not where the plan says you should be, and not where the highlight reel pretends you are. We ask: what’s the truth here?

Practical

Every conversation ends with something small and doable. The kind of step you can still take on a hard week, because your second act starts small.

Human

No toxic positivity, no performance of progress. Hard things are allowed to be hard here, and they still get to move. Let’s make this human and doable.

How we can work together

Ways in

Second Act Coaching

Unhurried, confidential conversations for every kind of transition, personal or professional, shaped around the season you’re actually in, with next steps you can genuinely take.

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Professional Leadership Coaching

Structured, accredited coaching built on vertical development: growing how you think, decide, and lead, not just what you know.

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Speaking and Workshops

Honest words for real rooms. Talks and workshops about turning points and recovery. No motivational theatre, just something people can carry out and use.

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Work with me

“You don’t need to have it all worked out to begin. You just need somewhere honest to start.”