Most leadership development builds skill. This work builds capacity.
What is capacity? When pressure, expectations, and stakes are high — which version of you shows up?
Clarity in decision-making. Composure when emotions run high. Compassion in difficult conversations. A toolkit for returning to the leader you want to be — the person you are — when you sense you’re off-track.
You don’t need a performance plan. You need a presence plan.
That is what this work builds.
How We Can Work Together
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Bio
Clara Ritger is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker with a decade of experience creating documentaries, branded content, and talent-driven series for NBC News, the Wall Street Journal, and TLC. She has also directed and produced corporate videos for Fortune 100 companies, coaching C-suite executives on their camera presence and speaking delivery. She brings her training as a meditation and somatic movement teacher (RYT-500) and trauma-informed coach to help leaders stay grounded, think clearly, and respond rather than react.
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Workshops
The most expensive leadership problems rarely show up in expertise — they show up in how people make decisions under pressure, how teams communicate when the stakes are high, and what it costs when people are stuck in old patterns that hold them back from their full potential.
These interactive sessions give leaders and teams practical tools for cultivating presence under pressure: nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and somatic intelligence — the body's own system for clarity and decision-making — alongside frameworks for understanding the stories that quietly shape how we lead.
Designed for leadership off-sites, corporate wellbeing programs, and teams navigating challenge and change. Sessions range from 90 minutes to a half-day, and can be offered in-person or virtual.
Download Clara's Corporate Offerings Deck for signature workshop details and outcomes.
Keynotes & Conference Sessions
These are not talks people half-listen to while checking their phones. They're designed to move audiences from passive listening into something they can actually feel, built by a speaker who has a decade of experience crafting award-winning documentary films and coaching executives on their camera presence.
Topics include leading through uncertainty, burnout prevention and recovery, and why emotional and embodied intelligence are becoming the defining leadership advantage in the age of AI.
Talks range from 45–90 minutes, customizable to your audience and theme.
Download Clara's Speaker Deck for full talk descriptions.
Embodied Leadership Coaching
1:1 engagement for leaders who are technically strong but sense a gap in how they lead, communicate, or show up. Sessions are tailored and may include:
- Authentic voice and communication
- On-camera presence
- Nervous system regulation tools for high-demand environments
- Meditation for grounding and intuitive knowing
- Leading from clarity rather than chronic stress
- Navigating people problems and challenging conversations with new frameworks and perspectives
Sabbatical & Extended-Leave Integration
Most sabbaticals end one of two ways: the person returns recharged and re-engaged — or they return changed and quietly planning their exit. The difference is rarely the sabbatical itself — it's the intentionality going in and the integration support coming out.
This work supports both ends: helping employees clarify what they're moving toward before they leave, and supporting re-entry in a way that honors who they've become — before that conversation becomes a resignation.
Available as individual coaching, manager preparation sessions, or an integrated program designed with HR and leadership.
Organizational Consulting
For organizations navigating people dynamics that keep recurring despite good intentions — where the pattern is visible but the source isn't. This work helps leaders and teams see what's actually driving behavior, and respond in ways that build trust rather than compound the problem.
Scoped individually in consultation with HR and leadership.
For coaching & consulting engagement details, view Clara’s corporate offerings deck.
Get In Touch
Every engagement is tailored to your organization's specific needs, culture, and goals. Clara works with a small number of organizations at a time to ensure depth over volume.
Investment in mindfulness-based programs has measurable returns: organizations like Aetna have calculated thousands of dollars per employee annually in productivity gains and reduced healthcare costs.
The business case is real. So is the human one.
The best first step is a conversation.