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Heather Dobbin Coaching:
Elevate Your Leadership Potential

If you made it here, you’re ready for a change. You’ve identified some aspect of your life you’re ready to take the full creative responsibility for.

You want to lead, live, and relate in a way that allows you to make your unique mark and successfully impact those around you in a way that is physically, mentally, and emotionally sustainable.

You might have even tried a few things to be more effective and more impactful, and as a result sense that a deeper change is necessary for you to step into your full potential in a way that allows you to be fully satisfied with all aspects of your life.

By being here, you have taken a huge first step. Keep going!

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Meet Your Coach

Heather is a globally recognized, ICF-certified coach, educator, and facilitator with 15 years of experience helping individuals uncover their true potential and align their actions with their dreams. Her diverse background includes working with executives, leaders and managers in large corporate and startup environments in multiple countries around the world to cultivate self-awareness, courage, and practices for success.

Highly experienced, Heather works with clients individually and in teams across a range of topics — from leadership, to burnout prevention and recovery, to major life and career transitions, to inner confidence and self-expression, to communication. 

Her coaching style integrates somatics, cognitive-behavioral techniques, hormone cycle awareness, mindfulness-based practices, and more to empower her clients to thrive in business and life. She emphasizes inner acceptance and compassion, believing that these qualities are foundational for effective leadership, sustainable inner and outer transformation, and meaningful relationships.

Based in Hayama and Tokyo, she currently serves professional women’s communities and individual, startup and corporate clients. In her free time you can find her practicing Muay Thai, drawing, caring for her many houseplants, badly playing the banjo, and taking walks on the beach. 

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Individual Coaching

Unlock clarity and confidence with Heather Dobbin’s individual coaching in Tokyo. Personalized leadership development and communication coaching to support lasting transformation and professional growth.

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Corporate Coaching

Elevate your team with Heather Dobbin’s corporate coaching and leadership training in Tokyo. Drive alignment, boost communication, and build resilient, high-performing organizational cultures.

How To Get Started

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Browse My Services

Decide which works best for you.

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Start the Conversation

Get in touch to schedule your first sesssion.

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Become the Change

Watch yourself meet and exceed your goals.

Kind Words

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“Heather turns leadership coaching into a deeply personal growth journey. Instead of one-size-fits-all training, she tailors her approach to fit your unique identity and your professional goals.

I once thought success required changing myself to fit a conventional ‘leader’ archetype.

Thanks to Heather’s guidance, I learned that true leadership coaching isn’t about changing who I am but becoming more in tune with my authentic self, my values, and the leader I aspire to be.”
— Agnes

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It’s shared with the best intentions. It’s meant to be a lifeline for anyone feeling the paralyzing grip of imposter syndrome or the fear of a new challenge.

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The Emotional Journey of Entrepreneurship: Why Mentorship Matters

I’m proud to be a mentor for HerRise, a program supported by Shibuya Startup Support through my work with Startup Lady Japan.

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How Much?

How much? Money? Time? Health? Love? Influence? Status? (Insert the change you're craving here). How much more do you want? How much more do you need? Even more importantly, why do you want more? What will it change for you?

Imaginal Cells and the Beauty of Transformation
Imaginal Cells and the Beauty of Transformation

What’s the technical name for the goo that a caterpillar becomes inside the chrysalis?This question popped into my head the other day while reflecting on the state many of my clients find themselves in—and a state I’ve cycled through many times myself. 

The ROI of Lightness
The ROI of Lightness

What’s the ROI of lightness? When I ask my clients how they feel at the end of a session, "light" is a word that often comes up. In fact, it came up with every client I worked with one day recently.