It’s All About Relationship
My approach begins with relationship—how you relate to yourself, to others, and to the world—and how that shapes your ability to influence, inspire, and lead.
We explore questions like:
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How do you relate to leadership, authority, influence, and accountability?
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How do these relationships affect your effectiveness, fulfillment, and sense of ease?
Conversation Is a Portal
As a Conversation Activist, Martha is all about the way we speak—and how we hold conversation—reveals our relational patterns. When we slow down and pay attention to communication, what’s working and what’s not becomes visible. Conversation reflects both our inner world and the larger systems we move within: culture, power, and norms. From here, we experiment with small, courageous shifts that create real, felt change.
Visit her Susbstack Conversation Activism here.
Core Orientations
Awareness
Shifting how you relate is tricky, because how you relate isn’t super visible. This is why developing an awareness of our relationship with what is here—within ourselves, between us, and between ourselves and the wider world is a cornerstone of my approach. What do you notice? What do you feel? What becomes visible when you attune to the vastness of the present moment and allow “nowness” to be your teacher?
Compassion & Play
We practice compassion and play – two necessary elements in the learning journey as they soften the ever-present right/wrong thinking that permeates western culture. When we move from the perspective of compassion and play we have more ability to hold the complexity and uncertainty inherent in life.
Courage
Our relationships are shaped by patterns and habits and they often reflect our comfort zones or as I like to call it your personal status quo. It takes courage to interrupt these patterns and habit:, to try something new and stay present when taking bold steps to shift a relational pattern.
Ways To Work With Me
Get a taste:
Relational Leadership Recipe
Get a personalized leadership video from Martha and a custom leadership recipe that is a blend of practices, meditations, reflections, exercises, rituals, and curated resources — designed just for you.
As a new offer, I have 5 spots that I’m offering at $55
Go deep:
Relational Leadership One-on-one Coaching
Join me in for a deep dive into unlocking your relational leadership genius. This 3 month container is a space to slow down, become more sensitive and adept at leading, creating and showing up to relationships and conversations with greater agency. Together, we listen for what wants to shift, work with what is present, and translate insight into grounded action.
3, 1 hour sessions for 3 months
Meet Martha
Martha Williams is a relational leadership coach and longtime creator and facilitator of conversations that matter. Her work is rooted in the belief that leadership lives in relationship—in how we listen, speak, and stay present with one another, especially in moments of tension or change. It’s about the containers we create and the deep awareness we embody.
Martha is the cofounder of BreakBread World, a community of Conversation Activists dedicated to reweaving our shared humanity. With BreakBread World she designs and leads spaces for connection as well as trains people in Conversation Alchemy, a conversation practice model her and her partner and cofounder created.
She has a creative background in film, dance, writing or whatever she feels like getting her hands on. She also has a long history with sustainability activism, and systems thinking—an uncommon blend that shapes her grounded, intuitive, creative and embodied approach. Martha has an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, has been certified as a Co-Active Coach at the pre-eminent The Coaching Training Institute and certified as a yoga teacher at OM Yoga in New York City. As a former dancer, she brings a deep somatic, spatial and visual intelligence to her work. She draws much of her learning from Regina Thomashauer and Kasia Urbaniak, which both helped her develop her attention practices and helps her to understand how the role of feminine and masculine energies shape our understanding and ways of moving through the world.
She brings presence, discernment, and deep respect for the human terrain of leadership—supporting clients to lead differently, and in doing so, to shift the world around them!
