Grow
Through
Pressure
Keynotes, coaching, and consulting
that empower you and your organization to transform pressure into extraordinary results
You're The Boss
Become the Manager You Want to Be (and Others Need)
By Sabina Nawaz
Available March 4, 2025
From Simon & Schuster Wherever Books Are Sold
Available March 4, 2025
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Wherever Books Are Sold
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“Sabina is a next-level thought leader.
She has dedicated her vast wealth of knowledge, experience, and care to me and my company. We are now poised for the next phases of company growth, thanks in large part to her business acumen and relentless focus on holding us accountable to maximizing our potential.”
—Henry Albrecht
Former CEO, Board Director, Founder Limeade
“Sabina is an incredibly strategic, insightful, and experienced executive coach.
She has a broad toolkit, well-researched approaches, and effective frameworks for a wide variety of situations—problems and opportunities. She combines her intellect with her heart to fully immerse herself in her client’s situation. Any executive who has a chance to work with Sabina is lucky!”
—Zeynep Schoenwaelder
President Bags and Small Leather Goods, Ralph Lauren
“Sabina has been a fantastic coach for me for nearly 10 years!
Through her insight and coaching, I have learned many new skills. I especially value the discussions we have about various challenging topics—I always come away with new perspectives and ideas of how to approach the problem!”
—Julia Liuson
President, Developer Division, Microsoft
“Sabina is extremely effective in asking thought-provoking questions that have altered my perspective and guided me toward a new approach.
I am impressed with Sabina's ability to quickly get to the heart of an issue and suggest new ways of thinking.”
—Amy Villeneuve
Board Director, Past COO and President Amazon Robotics
“Sabina has provided me invaluable counsel.
She combines high-level analysis as well as critical pragmatic tactics supporting my development which assisted me in my work and opened up opportunities for me.”
—Tom Sebastian
President and CEO, Compass Health
You're the
Boss
Become the Manager You Want to Be (and Others Need)
Whether you aspire to management or have been a CEO for years, You’re the Boss will help you understand the complex interplay of power and pressure in management and turn the hidden pressures you face into astonishing results. Discover the leadership secrets of the world’s most successful managers and a powerful, proven set of tools for managing yourself and others, navigating working relationships, and communicating effectively in every context.
“It’s not power that corrupts
a person’s character.
It's pressure."
—Sabina Nawaz
Sabina Nawaz
Global CEO Coach & Advisor,
Author, and Keynote Speaker
Become the boss you want to be
—and others need—while experiencing less stress and greater impact.
Sabina has worked with leading organizations like:
You don’t just need to manage internal stress, but all the external forces coming at you from multiple angles without respite.
It’s not easy. Even the most successful CEOs secretly suspect they’re not achieving their full potential.
And they’re right.
But that same pressure is the key to exponential growth.
I’ve helped CEOs worldwide harness pressure to deliver extraordinary results for themselves, their employees, and their bottom line, and I can help you and your organization.
LET’S GROW
THROUGH PRESSURE
Together
Meet
Sabina Nawaz
Global CEO Coach & Advisor, Author, and Keynote Speaker
For over 25 years, I’ve worked with best-in-class executives and organizations around the world. Through advising, consulting, and speaking, I’ve helped them navigate complex business and people challenges to drive expansive growth.
My clients include Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, non-profits, and academic institutions in over 30 countries. I’ve also written hundreds of articles read by 7.5+ million readers. Maybe you’ve read one in Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, or Forbes.
My articles and work with clients tackle a wide range of complex issues. Yet, most of these challenges share the same root cause—a fundamental misunderstanding of pressure and power.
Many of my clients, yes even the CEOs, feel isolated, frustrated, and sometimes even a little ashamed they aren't effortlessly overcoming their work’s intense challenges and demands. (Or worse still, they thought they were, only to find out they were wrong!)
The reality is they (and you) face constant pressure. Without the right framework, these unceasing demands will easily corrupt anyone’s actions, often without them realizing it (especially if they’re in management).
But pressure can be a force for unprecedented growth if you know how to harness it.
I’ve spent my career reverse-engineering the keys to this type of transformative success, first in my position as the head of succession planning, leadership, and employee development at Microsoft, and later with my clients. I collected and analyzed feedback from my clients’ coworkers (12,000+ pages of it) and researched organizational and behavioral psychology. The evidence-based strategies I’ve created have been the springboard for my clients’ successes, and they can do the same for you and your organization.
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READY TO
GROW THROUGH
Pressure
When managed correctly, pressure creates possibilities. Sabina’s methods:
Pressure pushes you out
of your comfort zone,
promoting rapid personal
and professional
development.
Services
Keynotes
“Choosing Sabina gave our event unexpected dimension and depth. She not only shared her own inspiring stories to a standing ovation but gave us simple yet powerful techniques.”
C-Suite
Partnerships
“Sabina has provided me invaluable counsel. She combines high-level analysis as well as critical pragmatic tactics supporting my development which assisted me in my work and opened up opportunities for me.”
Organizational
Development
“Her no-nonsense approach and dedicated discipline to applying leadership expertise create immediate results and new ways of thinking that accelerate an organization's overall performance.”
Executives and Managers
Free themselves up to do the work they’re uniquely qualified to do and add increased value to the bottom line.
Employees
Feel seen and valued, instilling them with more confidence and empowering them to proactively improve their performance.
Teams and Organizations
Move past isolation, misunderstandings, and blame to become more collaborative, adaptive, and productive, leading to bottom-line results and exponential growth.
“Presenter. Coach. Thought Leader.
Regardless of the many hats she wears, Sabina Nawaz has achieved impactful outcomes for us! We've worked with her on a variety of programs over the years, and she has the ability to connect with her audience and inspire meaningful change. We consider her an incredible partner on our journey, and we are grateful for her contributions to our growth and success.”
—Tony Rojas
President, Slalom
“Sabina’s deep business know-how is augmented by an unrelenting commitment to integrity and results,
high-level coaching skills, polished presentation ability and keen wisdom. Bringing humor, excellence, and generosity to every endeavor, she challenges others to reach for new heights, and they still enjoy the process.”
—Jane Gregg
Senior Organizational Development and Learning Consultant, Fred Hutch
“Sabina has both the experience to relate to business challenges as well as the emotional intelligence and depth to get to the root of what’s going on.
If you can be patient and make the effort to put her suggestions into practice, you’ll be happy you worked with her in the end. I know I am.”
—Mike Haylon
Head of Enterprise Sales, Asana
“Sabina is engaging...
and her broad experience enables her to connect with every person in a diverse audience. Her description of tools and why they work go beyond the steps of what to do and include reasons about how people react the way they do – providing this “physics” behind her strategies to maximize the impact of her lessons.”
—Sara Wadia-Fascetti
Vice Provost, Northeastern University
“It's not often that a coach/mentor/teacher is able to stand out and break through the walls people put up...
in such relationships, but I and other colleagues all agree she's made a huge difference by giving us tools to help with leadership, managing life and work, succeeding in the complex interconnect world of teams and corporate organizations.”
—Robert Sibo
Head of AI/ML Customer Engineering, ANZ
Transform
PRESSURE INTO
Results