About Manal
Manal is a certified coach who supports ambitious socially-minded women and generation-shapers to achieve their mission in a gentle, nourishing way.
You may know deep down you that you are here to be part of creating a better world but feel like constantly being in warrior mode, feeling angry about injustice, and second-guessing yourself at work and in your personal life can be exhausting.
She believes in creating a sustainable legacy over time, from wherever you are, in a way that feels good for you.
Drawing on Manal’s extensive corporate leadership career, she supports you to clarify your mission; to find your path to the world you want to live in; to honour (and sometimes question) your childhood dreams; to own who you are; and to feel happy and fulfilled.
Manal is known as a leader who gets results and empowers others. She blends pragmatism, feminine insight, intellectual inquiry and strategic clarity in her approach.
She is living proof that you can shape a better world with heart, with ferocious joy, with happiness and with the same peace you crave in the world.
She is a mother to a son who she hopes will grow up knowing he is deeply loved, and can deeply love.
“Whatever you feel you lack, do not feel you need it to please others. All you need is not acceptance from others, but from yourself, in the end you are the only one that counts! Nobody is going to live along with you, more than yourself. Start liking the idea! It’s gonna be a while! Khulu 🙂”
embracing the worst parts creates Your power
When I was fifteen I went to South Africa for a school semester. At the time life back home in Australia was hard. I was lonely and just wanted to fit in.
My time in South Africa was an adventure – a fresh start. One day, a girl named Khulu handed me this note. It’s been sticky-taped to a page in my old journal for almost twenty years. I found it again at Christmas last year, when I was rifling through a dusty bookshelf in my childhood home. The tape was yellow and the ink had faded so I could barely make out the words.
After I read it, I dropped the thin black notebook on my lap and thought about how I’ve spent my whole life trying to learn this lesson. I couldn’t quite shake my people-pleasing tendencies or my need to ‘fix’ whatever people might not like about me. It was a way to fit in and avoid loneliness.
Life might’ve been very different if I’d just followed Khulu’s advice back then. By my mid-20s I had my dream life – the exact job I’d wanted as a little girl, lots of travel and an inspiring circle of people around me. I was a high-achiever but I was also an anxious people-pleaser.
Working with powerful coaches, I’ve found ways to be authentic and increase my self-worth. I’ve owned the parts of myself I was most ashamed of so that it doesn’t bother me what others think now. I’m free to make the powerful decisions I need to make as the best leader I can possibly be.
I’m finally free to role model the kind of leadership and connection I wanted to experience myself twenty years ago, as a young girl clutching a hand written note on a bench in South Africa.
My favourite thing in the world now is supporting others to find their authentic selves and watch their lives transform.
I love seeing women step into their unique power and the ripple effect when they go on to have a positive impact and legacy on the world.
Are you ready to be reconnected to your power and worth? I’d love to support you. You can find out more by booking in a discovery call today.