About
I Know The Room You Are Sitting In.
Former executive. Leadership specialist. Certified coach.
You don’t need a cheerleader. You don’t need generic life advice from someone who has never carried the weight of a large portfolio or navigated the politics of the boardroom.
You need a peer.
I am not a guru on a mountaintop. I am a former executive who spent years in the trenches of healthcare leadership and government bureaucracy. I know the pressure, I know the language, and I know exactly why “better Q4 results” have stopped satisfying the hunger in your gut.
When The Corporate Theatre Goes Dark.
I didn’t leave because I couldn’t handle the work. I left because my tolerance for “Corporate Theatre” hit zero.
My midlife transition forced me to ask different questions. Not “How do I achieve more?” but “Who am I becoming? What actually matters? How do I integrate the life I’ve built with the life I actually want?”
I realized that the most valuable meetings in my calendar weren’t the initiative progress tracking or the board presentations. They were the more direct one-to-one conversations where the masks came off. The moments where the barriers to achievement had more to do with mindset than tools and skills.
I decided to stop playing a role and start doing the work that actually mattered. I traded the bureaucracy for the deep, structural engineering of the human experience.
Not Therapy. Not Coaching. Strategy.
Here is the gap in the market: Therapy often feels too clinical and backward-looking for a man of action. Standard executive coaching is too focused on squeezing more productivity out of an already exhausted machine.
You need a third option.
I offer a future-forward alliance. We strip away the judgment and the shame. We acknowledge that you aren’t “broken”—you are simply misaligned. My role is to provide the presence and the safety required to ask the dangerous question:
If you aren’t just your job title, then who are you?
The Credentials
Brendan is a certified professional coach whose approach integrates psychology, somatics, and narrative transformation. His training includes:
Why Clients Choose Brendan
Clients often say Brendan offers something rare: a space where they don’t have to perform. A space where they can be fully seen, without judgment, and finally ask the questions they’ve been holding for years.
They choose him because:
- He brings calm, thoughtful presence to high-stakes conversations
- He’s emotionally intelligent, but never emotionally indulgent
- He’s discreet, grounded, and non-hierarchical
- He gets what it means to carry pressure, visibility, and contradiction
This isn’t about quick fixes or high-fives. It’s about durable, meaningful change.
Brendan Abbott Coaching
I work with a limited number of clients at a time because this work requires my full attention and presence.