Séverine Provenzano
CPC, MCPC
I didn't find my way through by working harder. I found it by getting honest about what I actually wanted.
For over two decades I operated at the intersection of tech and leadership, navigating career climbs and pivots, managing teams and deadlines and the invisible weight of always being the one who holds things together. I know what it means to perform at a high level for a very long time. And I know the particular exhaustion that comes with it.
I also know what happens when the structure falls away. Post-divorce, in a foreign country, with no safety net and no script, I had to figure out who I was when I wasn't defined by my role, my relationship, or my output. That experience didn't break me. But it did dismantle everything I thought I knew about how to move forward.
What I built in its place wasn't a better strategy. It was a clearer sense of self. And that changed everything: how I worked, how I made decisions, how I stopped mistaking motion for progress.
My coaching isn't just a framework I learned in a classroom. It's a way of working I developed through my own transitions and refined through years of sitting with others in the middle of theirs. I work with people facing the crossroads that don't come with obvious answers: the career that no longer fits, the house that's suddenly quiet, the version of success that looks right from the outside and feels hollow from the inside.
We don't just get through the transition. We use it to get clearer, more grounded, and more deliberately you than you've been in years.
My background
This is what my own journey would look like in one picture.
I grew up moving. Born outside Paris, I spent my childhood across French overseas territories and mainland cities before completing my education in France. Seven years in Finland followed, then a transatlantic move to the Pacific Northwest, where I consolidated a career, raised a kid, and put down the kind of roots that take decades to grow.
For over 30 years I worked in leadership roles in high tech that taught me how to think strategically, move fast, and perform under pressure. What those years didn't teach me was how to stop.
The transitions that shaped me most weren't the professional ones. Moves. Divorce. An empty nest. The particular silence of a house that used to be full. Each one forced a reckoning with who I was outside of the roles I'd been playing — and none of them came with a roadmap.
That's why I do this work. Not because I have a tidy story with a clean ending, but because I've been genuinely lost and found my way back to something more intentional, more honest, and entirely my own.
When I'm not coaching, you'll find me walking by the water or deep in a French baking project. Some things you carry with you wherever you go.
This practice is open and welcoming to everyone regardless of gender, background, identity, belief, ability, or where you come from. If you're at a crossroads and ready to do the work, you belong here.
