Meet the team
Emily Hirsekorn
ELI-MP, JD, BA (Psychology)
Work with Emily

Emily is an executive life and leadership coach empowering ambitious professionals to navigate their careers with confidence, develop as conscious leaders, and integrate work and life so they can be their very best at work without sacrificing who they are at their core. Emily is an ICF credentialed coach, using the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching’s Energy Leadership™ framework and leadership assessment to help clients identify their unique growth opportunities, develop an aligned custom coaching program, and maximize their energy to achieve greater overall success. Emily is also one of Coaching Advocates’ 12 lawyer coaches around the world helping companies modernize the work environment through team coaching. She speaks regularly to professional organizations on confident leadership, career confidence, and work-life balance and will be launching the Career Confidence Code podcast very soon.

 

Emily graduated in the top 9% of her law school class and worked at a mid-sized defense law firm, specializing in labor and employment and special education law. After practicing law, Emily worked in law career development for six years, where she coached and advised lawyers and law students in the areas of career clarity, transitions, confidence, networking, and interviewing. She completed the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching’s (iPEC) extensive coach training program, is certified to administer iPEC’s Energy Leadership Index assessment, is credentialed with the International Coaching Federation, and is currently completing Penn’s Foundations of Positive Psychology Specialization certificate program. She is a proud mom of two curious kids and two rescue pups and enjoys reading about the human mind, spending time in nature with her kids, and hosting dinner parties with her husband. Emily volunteers her time as a member of the Institute for Well-Being in Law’s Programming Committee, a Kansas City Jewish philanthropic circle, a local grassroots initiative supporting reproductive justice, and the board of her kids’ parent-teacher organization. Her top character strengths are zest, curiosity, appreciation of beauty, and excellence.

Qualifications
  • Associate Certified Coach (ACC) – International Coaching Federation
  • Certified Professional Coach (CPC) – Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC)
  • Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner (ELI-MP)
  • LeggUP Coach (provides regular personal development-based executive coaching to several mid-level managers in large companies)
  • Served as a career development coach, advisor, and educator with the University of San Diego School of Law for six years
  • B.A. in Psychology with a research focus in Positive Psychology / Hope (analyzed the correlation between social support and goal setting, pathway development, and motivation under the late C.R. Snyder at the University of Kansas)

TESTIMONIALS

“Through our time together, I was able to pinpoint why I felt exhausted, unsuccessful and drained in my current role. She helped me build strategies, frameworks and tactics to move beyond the various blockers and challenges I was facing in my career. She helped me with action plans and analyses that ultimately led to a major career shift that has opened up so many doors! Emily is beyond talented- her approach and style allows her clients to do the hard work and really understand who and what they can be in their careers.”
Jenny C.
“I worked with Emily for about 6 months and she truly has changed my career and life path. Emily is personable and will adapt the plan completely to you and your style. She understands what it means to be an attorney and the stressors that the career path brings. . . . What I thought would just be a way to help relieve work stress turned into bettering my entire life. I have had the confidence to make huge life changes because of our work together.”
Morgan Small
“I came into the sessions wanting to transition into Big Law and 3 months after our sessions ended I made that jump! I am super happy that I decided to invest in myself. I was tired of waiting for something to fall into my lap. I knew I had to do something. I never had coaching before, so this was a first. Working with Emily allowed me to believe in myself and shift my perspective on situations. My anxiety and imposter syndrome decreased significantly. It is amazing how recognizing where your mindset is can change how you proceed with life. After my sessions ended, within 3 months, I was able to obtain my goals. I am happy that I made this investment!"
Taylor, G
“I made a significant career change, and I broke a long-term pattern of often focusing on or following the most ‘accepted’ or ‘usual’ path, rather than a path that fits me best. . . I learned that many of the "rules" I believed about my career were generally just untested assumptions or fears. . . . Emily brings great energy and insight to each coaching session. She helps clients recognize long-held mental hurdles that they may not even realize are impacting their thinking and progress. She fosters a mindset of finding solutions and opportunities, rather than focusing on problems or difficulties.”
Greg
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