Andrea is an executive coach for high potential women and female leaders, specializing in career development and burnout recovery. As a former HR business partner, operations manager, and change management specialist, she understands the weight of responsibilities, expectations, and the hurdles women face in their careers. Through her signature frameworks, Andrea helps women step out of over-functioning and into values-led decisions, so ambition stops feeling like survival and starts feeling like alignment.
Andrea Macek
(Anne-dree-Uh)
Founder, CEO, Executive Coach, AYM Consulting (Aim), my company
Draper, Utah
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About
Speaking formats
Experience level
Experienced Speaker
Occasional / experienced speaker (5–10 speaking engagements in the last 2–3 years)
Signature talks
- The Leading Edge
- Most high-achieving women have been told the solution to burnout is more effort, more discipline, more information. It isn't. The real problem is a pattern, a specific, predictable way burnout shows up and quietly takes over how you lead, decide, and show up at work.
- The Leading Edge names that pattern and gives you the tool to interrupt it. You'll learn the four core burnout patterns and which one is currently running your decisions. You'll see the research confirming that the exact skills leadership requires right now -spoiler alert: these are skills women already have ! And you'll walk away with a simple, repeatable framework to stop leading from the pattern and start leading from your edge.
- This isn't about doing more. It's about disrupting what's already running the show.
- Key Learning Objectives
- Identify your specific burnout pattern and how it's currently leading your decisions. Attendees will learn the four core burnout patterns, and recognize which one has been running the show in their own leadership and career.
- Understand why the skills women already have are exactly what leadership requires now. Attendees will learn the research-backed connection between the qualities women are proven to lead with and what today's leadership landscape actually demands.
- Learn Andrea’s signature Stop-Start-Stay framework to interrupt the pattern in real time. Attendees will walk away with a simple, repeatable three-question process they can use immediately to stop the pattern that's been driving burnout, and start leading from their edge instead.
- The Visibility Shift
- For decades, professional value was built around being indispensable, always available, never uncertain, never asking for help. That model was disproportionately rewarded in men. The qualities the workplace actually requires now, discernment, the ability to build real relationships, comfort operating in ambiguity without needing certainty first, are qualities many women already carry. The problem was never a lack of skill. It was a pattern of performing the old model of value instead of trusting the one they already had.
- Here's what most women don't realize. The qualities the workplace actually needs now, discernment, the ability to build real relationships, comfort moving through ambiguity without needing certainty first, are qualities you already have.
- You don’t lack the skill. You learned to perform the old model of value instead of trusting the one you already had.
- In The Visibility Shift, I break down why burnout doesn't just drain your energy. It erodes the exact qualities that create real visibility and real opportunity, your discernment, your presence, your trust in your own read on things.
- This isn't a talk about working harder to be seen. You've already been seen. This is the talk about what's been getting in the way, and the five specific shifts that move you from burned out to built for what's next.
- Key Learning Objectives
- Identify how burnout erodes the specific qualities that create visibility and opportunity.
- Attendees will understand why burnout isn't just exhaustion, it actively undermines discernment, decision-making, and the ability to build trust and relationships, the very qualities the modern workplace now rewards most.
- Learn the five shifts that move someone from burnout to sustainable visibility.
- Attendees will walk away with five specific, ownable shifts (spanning decision-making, productivity, support, value, and time) and a clear before-and-after for each, not abstract advice, but a concrete contrast they can recognize immediately in their own behavior.
- Build a personal next step for trusting the value they already have.
- Attendees will leave with a clear starting point for their own pattern, identifying where they've been performing value instead of trusting it, and one specific shift they can practice immediately.
Media & video
- See above
Selected engagements
- The Leading Edge, with WLI Career Development Cohort
- Building a Roadmap for Career Advancement, Keynote Speaker for Silicon Slope Women in Leadership Mentorship program
- What’s Next For My Career: Building Meaning Connections Zion's Bank Women's ERG
- Mac’s List, top Top 100 Career podcasts
- Career Talks Podcast, nationally ranked carer podcast 2 parts
- High Achiever Burnout: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-193-high-achiever-burnout/id1567135916?i=1000751016803
- From Burnout to Clarity: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-196-from-burnout-to-clarity/id1567135916?i=1000756757150
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