Stop Being the
Best Kept Secret...
On Your Terms.
You are not behind. You are in a season.
This coaching experience helps Executives identify their Leadership Season and receive support that honors where they are, not where they are expected to be.
This is not a confidence issue. It is a context shift.
Many Executives are leading through post-pandemic instability, power realignment, and increased scrutiny with fewer safeguards and less margin for error. You are expected to deliver results, carry culture, and remain composed regardless of cost.
If what used to work no longer does, that does not signal weakness. It signals that the environment has changed.
Effective leadership requires different strategies at different moments. Identifying your current Leadership Season is not reflective indulgence. It is strategic clarity.
The 5 Leadership Seasons
There is no ideal season. There is only the season you are in.
Season of
Power Recovery
​​For executives navigating burnout, organizational disruption, or loss of influence who need stability, grounding, and reconnection to their decision making authority.
Season of
Truth Realignment
For leaders reassessing identity, leadership style, or professional direction who need clarity, boundaries, and alignment in changing environments.
Season of
Worth Reclamation
For leaders pursuing advancement, visibility, or negotiation who need confidence, self trust, and a stronger relationship to their value.
Season of
Expansion & Legacy
For senior leaders preparing for growth, transition, or broader impact who need vision, intentionality, and long range perspective.
Season of
Healing & Reset
For executives impacted by bias, role trauma, or repeated transitions who need emotional repair, safety, and space to reset how they lead.
The Leadership Seasons Assessment represents the coachee’s current experience and readiness for transformation. They describe the emotional, psychological, and professional stage a leader is currently navigating.
The Seasons answer the question:
“Where am I right now in my leadership journey?”
Leadership is not a straight line. It moves in seasons shaped by context, identity, and lived experience.
How Stop Being The Best Kept Secret Stands Out.
Most leadership coaching assumes that the challenge is internal and the solution is individual improvement.
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SBTBKS starts from a different premise.
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It recognizes that many high-performing leaders are navigating systems that were not designed with them in mind. The pressure to adapt, overperform, or stay resilient often masks deeper issues of misalignment, exhaustion, and unmet support.
This is not a program focused on fixing you.
It is a season-based coaching experience that responds to where you are now and what you actually need to move forward with clarity and agency.
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Dr. Tana M. Session
An award-winning consultant, international speaker, executive performance coach, and bestselling author, Dr. Tana M. Session is known for helping high-performing leaders elevate their influence and Stop Being The Best Kept Secret in their organizations.
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A recognized organizational strategist and multigenerational thought leader, Dr. Session has advised executives, boards, and organizations for more than two decades. She has been named a Top Change Management Consultant by TechTimes, a Top Company Culture Consultant by Fond.co, a Top Employer Branding Expert by Eightfold.ai, and one of the Huffington Post’s Top Female Experts to Follow. She is also an official LinkedIn Learning expert in organizational development and performance management and was recognized by Forbes as part of the Next 1000.
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Beyond her professional success, Dr. Session’s coaching philosophy is shaped by a life of resilience and reinvention. Known for her grit and determination, she continues to evolve her own leadership journey while helping others do the same.
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Through the Stop Being The Best Kept Secret® coaching program, Dr. Session helps leaders reclaim their power, elevate their visibility, and design the next chapter of their leadership journey with clarity and confidence.
You are not behind. You are responding to a moment that requires a different approach.
Season of
Power Recovery
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For executives navigating burnout, organizational disruption, or loss of influence who need stability, grounding, and reconnection to their decision making authority.
Season of
Truth Realignment
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For leaders reassessing identity, leadership style, or professional direction who need clarity, boundaries, and alignment in changing environments.
Season of
Healing & Reset
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For executives impacted by bias, role trauma, or repeated transitions who need emotional repair, safety, and space to reset how they lead.
Season of
Worth Reclamation
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For leaders pursuing advancement, visibility, or negotiation who need confidence, self trust, and a stronger relationship to their value.
Season of
Expansion & Legacy
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For senior leaders preparing for growth, transition, or broader impact who need vision, intentionality, and long range perspective.
We offer a framework that honors timing, acknowledges reality, and supports leadership that is sustainable rather than performative.
What This Coaching Is
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Context-aware and identity-informed
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Grounded in lived experience and systems literacy
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Designed for leaders navigating complexity, not deficiency
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Structured to evolve as your season changes
What This Coaching Is Not
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Performance optimization for its own sake
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One size fits all leadership advice
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Toxic resilience or endurance based success
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Surface level confidence building