Executive Coaching For Physicians & Professionals

Executive coaching for physicians and professionals who want stronger leadership impact, clearer boundaries, and a work life that feels meaningful—without sacrificing results or your life.

Whether you’re navigating values conflict and system friction, preparing for your next level, or leading through complexity and change, this work strengthens how you decide, communicate, and show up—so your success becomes sustainable.

If this feels familiar, you’re in the right place

You’re successful on paper, but something feels misaligned—with your standards, your ethics, your capacity, or the life you want.
You’re doing what it takes to maintain peak performance, and the personal cost keeps rising.
You want to lead with strength, humanity, and high standards—without sacrificing performance or becoming hardened, performative, or disconnected.
You’ve plateaued and know you’re capable of more, but you don’t want “more” at the expense of everything else.
You want your ambition to serve your life—not replace it.

Your standards didn’t change. Your environment did. Now what?

Three ways clients start this work

1) Misalignment + system friction

For physicians and professionals who feel the strain of values conflict, system friction, or “this isn’t how I want to do this anymore.”
What changes: clearer self-trust, better boundaries, renewed capacity, and an aligned plan—whether that means repairing what’s possible, renegotiating your role, or making a thoughtful transition.

2) Plateau → next level

For high achievers ready to level up, expand impact, or step into leadership without losing themselves.
What changes: a structured path to the next role or evolution—built on strengths, values, needs, and the environments where you actually thrive.

3) Leadership in complexity and change

For those leading teams through restructuring, limited resources, rapid change, and high stakes.
What changes: stronger emotional intelligence, clearer communication, grounded decision-making, and a leadership presence that creates trust and steadiness—while protecting performance, outcomes, and excellence.

Cultivating Splendor Difference

What clients notice is a clearer ability to see what’s shaping your choices—especially under pressure—and translate that insight into decisions, boundaries, and leadership behaviors that hold up in real life.

This is not quick-fix coaching. It’s not prescriptive. It’s not forced positivity.
It’s depth work with practical application—insight that shows up in your calendar, your conversations, and your decisions.

Clients often experience:

Clearer decisions with less second-guessing
Boundaries that protect what matters—without guilt spirals
Stronger leadership communication and engagement, especially in conflict or uncertainty
More capacity for meaningful work and a meaningful life
Success that feels sustainable

How IT works

A clear process—tailored to your context, role, and goals.

1) Start where you are

If there are immediate fires—overwhelm, conflict, decision paralysis—we address those first. If not, we move directly into discovery and direction.

2) Self-awareness assessment (when useful)

Using tools like the Enneagram and EQ-i, you gain a clearer view of your patterns—what drives you, what steadies you, and what derails you.

3) Integration

Insight becomes powerful when it meets your real context: leadership moments, relationships, boundaries, decision-making, and career direction.

4) Targeted growth work

You choose the areas that matter most right now—communication, leadership impact, values/needs alignment, internal narratives, emotional regulation, or transition strategy.

5) Application and alignment

You leave with clearer yes/no decisions, more focused energy, and a way of operating that supports both excellence and a life you can actually live.

What sets this work apart

My approach is rooted in compassion and accountability—supportive, direct, and built for high-stakes, real-life situations.

Depth with implementation: insight that changes how you lead, decide, and live—day to day.
Not prescriptive: you remain the expert on you; my role is to clarify, reflect, and challenge patterns that keep you stuck.
Principled leadership: we strengthen how you lead without compromising standards, ethics, or humanity—so trust and performance rise together.
A trauma-informed lens: as a physician, I recognize how trauma and chronic stress can shape behavior, leadership, and capacity. I’m not a therapist, but I coach with that awareness and adjust challenge and pacing accordingly, making referrals if needed.
Authenticity without performance: connection built through presence and precision

Credentials & Approach

For those who value trusted training and real-world experience:

International Coaching Federation ACC credentialed coach
Enneagram certified coach
EQ-i 2.0 Certification
Board Certified Emergency Physician
Trauma-informed lens in how coaching is held and applied

Featured Conversations

"Emotional Intelligence with Alice Horrell"

Listen → on Apple Podcast or the BOSS website.

Welcome to Cultivating Splendor

Lead with integrity. Deliver excellence. Live a meaningful life.

“When Medicine Costs You Yourself: A Trauma-Informed Conversation for Physician Moms with Dr. Alice Horrell”

Listen —> on Apple Podcast or the Inspired Mom MDs website

testimonials

“ALICE APPLIES HER COMPASSIONATE AND CARING APPROACH TO CHAMPION HER COLLEAGUES AND CLIENTS TO LEAN INTO THEIR FULL POTENTIAL. SHE IS SKILLED AT CREATING A WARM AND INVITING SPACE WHERE YOU FEEL SEEN AND HEARD, BUT ALSO CHALLENGED TO GROW DEEPER."

-Bethany Peters, PhD Leadership Professor and Coach

"THE TIME SPENT ON EXECUTIVE COACHING WITH ALICE WAS INVALUABLE. SHE WAS ABLE TO HELP ME IDENTIFY ISSUES THAT I WOULD NOT HAVE STOPPED TO ACKNOWLEDGE ON MY OWN WHEN STARTING MY BUSINESS. MANY OF HER WORDS ECHO IN MY MIND WHEN MAKING A DIFFICULT DECISION. FOCUSING ON MY GOALS AND VALUES HAS BEEN PARAMOUNT TO MY PERSONAL GROWTH AND SUCCESS IN BUSINESS. “

-Amandajo Sanders, DO -Owner, Sanders Family Medicine

“ALICE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN HELPING ME “HOLD UP A MIRROR” TO SEE ME AS OTHERS DO AND ALSO RECOGNIZE HOW I CAN SEE THINGS DIFFERENTLY. THE SESSIONS HAVE BEEN CHALLENGING AND REWARDING; THE BENEFITS OF THE WORK WERE IMMEDIATELY EVIDENCED IN MY SCHEDULE AND MY MENTAL HEALTH. ALICE HELPED ME REALIZE WHAT I REALLY WANTED TO ACHIEVE, BOTH IN MY BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL LIFE AND TO BELIEVE THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE. SHE WAS THERE TO ENCOURAGE ME AND HELP ME UNDERSTAND THAT BY IMPLEMENTING MY ACTION PLANS, I CAN PROTECT MY MENTAL HEALTH WHILE STILL FULFILLING MY DREAMS.”

-Deborah Braboy, PhD, LPC-S, NCC, Licensed Professional Counselor and Life Coach

“WHEN WE STARTED WORKING TOGETHER, ALICE SAID SHE WANTED TO BE MY THOUGHT PARTNER. IT STUCK WITH ME BECAUSE IT’S TRUE. THIS HAS BEEN THE BEST PART OF OUR JOURNEY TOGETHER. OUR CONVERSATION PROMPTS ME TO THINK DEEPLY ABOUT THE BEST PARTS OF MYSELF. IT IMPROVES MY RELATIONSHIPS AND HELPS SHAPE MY GOALS AND ACTIONS. I AM MORE CONFIDENT IN MY TRUE SELF AND HAVE DEFINED MY VALUES AND PURPOSE-PROFESSIONALLY AND PERSONALLY.”

-R.K., MD

“I BEGAN MY COACHING JOURNEY WITH ALICE AS A BURNED-OUT “TIRED OF THE SYSTEM AND EXHAUSTED BY THE INJUSTICE AND LACK OF RESOURCES” BEHAVIOR ANALYST. I WAS LOOKING TO MAKE A MAJOR CAREER CHANGE, AT THE SAME TIME I WAS PERSISTENTLY FEELING LESS CONFIDENT IN MY ABILITIES. ALICE HELPED ME EXPLORE PARTS OF MYSELF THAT I HAD, UNTIL NOW, PAID VERY LITTLE ATTENTION TO. WITH HER GUIDANCE, I LEARNED A GREAT DEAL ABOUT HOW I HANDLE CONFLICT, STRESS, AND OVERWHELM. TOGETHER WE EXPLORED WAYS TO INCORPORATE RIGHT ACTION INTO MY DAILY LIFE. I LOVE ALICE’S COMPASSIONATE, YET DIRECT APPROACH TO COACHING. I AM IN A BETTER MIND SPACE AFTER WORKING WITH ALICE, AND I FEEL READY TO TAKE ON A NEW PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY. I AM GRATEFUL FOR HER EXPERTISE AND RECOMMEND HER SERVICES TO OTHERS TRULY READY TO OPEN THEMSELVES UP TO CHANGE.” -Heather Callison, PhD, LBA, BCBA