Build a business that supports your life.

For women founders and leaders carrying too much, I help uncover the gap between your real capacity and the way your business is operating, so you can lead with more clarity, better support, and less pressure.

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Leadership & Decision Ownership for Women Carrying Too Much

You don’t need more ideas.
You don’t need another group program.

You need decisions made, pressure reduced, and structure that actually holds your work & life.

That’s the work I do.

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This is the cost of being the capable one…

  • Your business or role looks successful, but feels heavier than it should

  • Decisions, people issues, and operational pressure keep circling in your head

  • You’re leading a team or business that depends too heavily on you

  • You’ve outgrown generic advice, but still need clarity on what changes next

  • You want more support, better structure, and less dependence on you holding everything together


    It’s not a motivation problem.

    It’s usually a mismatch between your capacity, your leadership load, and the way your business is built.

I help female leaders carry less, without shrinking what they’re building

Most women don’t need more discipline. They need better support.

My work sits at the intersection of energy, leadership, and operations, because when those things are out of sync, growth starts to feel unnecessarily heavy.

I work with founders and leaders who have become the default decision-maker, the pressure-holder, and the person everything keeps falling back onto.

This is where we step back, get clear on what’s really draining capacity, and make smarter decisions about what changes next.

How we work together

The Energy Equation

The Energy Equation is my framework for understanding why capable women still feel stretched, overloaded, and behind.

  • Rhythm — how you naturally work best
    Season — what your body, brain, and life can hold right now
    Lifestyle Load — the invisible pressure you’re carrying outside the work itself

    Start with the Starter Guide to understand why the problem usually isn’t you — it’s the way your work and business are designed.

Get The Energy Equation Starter Guide
Get The Energy Equation Starter Guide

Energy-Led Ops Audit

A focused strategy session for women founders and leaders who need clarity on what’s creating pressure in their capacity, operations, and growth.

    • your business feels heavier than it should

    • the business is leaning too heavily on you

    • you know something needs to change, but not what to change first

    • you want strategic clarity before investing in more support

    In this session, we look at what’s draining you, where the real friction sits, and what kind of support makes sense next.

    That next step might be:

    • a simple strategic shift

    • additional support with me

    • implementation through Grow Advantage

Book the Energy-Led Ops Audit
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Leadership problems don’t get solved in public.

The decisions that shape your time, energy, team, and business are rarely simple, and they’re rarely things you can talk through properly in public spaces or on big group coaching calls.

This work happens privately, strategically, and in real time. Because leadership pressure doesn’t need more noise.

It needs clarity.

Trusted by women building, leading, and carrying a lot

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    "Even though I know you don't call yourself a business coach and you're not, there's been times where I've worked with you, where I feel like you're the only person I could ask that question about my business."

    - Em Gee, Biz Rebelution

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    If you’re sitting there thinking, “I just need someone who gets it and can actually help me move forward,” Chrissy is your girl. She’ll save your ass, sort your team, and get you back into your CEO energy—fast.

    - Corrina Rawlinson, Spotty’s Mechanical & She’s Honestly Mental

  • “Chrissy helped us through a tricky HR issue with clear, concise guidance. She was responsive, professional, and made a stressful situation feel simple.”

    - Kara Stokes, Copywriter

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    "It was like, this is a no brainer. It was something that I definitely needed or it was close the business down."

    - Alisha Woods, Mentoring Young Minds

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    I had a VIP day with Chrissy and it was mindblowing!! Being able to sit with her in the morning and riff about my business and then her going away putting it all together and then coming back to me at the end and telling me how to use it all! So easy for me to roll this out time and time again in my business, as it expands! :)

    - Kristie Williams, Excel and Empowered Minds

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    Chrissy, this really was a huge eye opener for me. I have really been struggling to move forward - every day was indecision and doing things I simply should not have been doing as the business owner. You helped me get clear and offload stuff to my team meaning I have been able to focus fully on growth. This is number 1 of the best things I have done for my business. THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

    - Mini Cainer, Everyshot

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    "Once I found you, I knew that you got it and I felt really comfortable in that and knew that it was gonna be okay."

    - Eva Hall, Clean the Nest

I’m Chrissy Elle

— Founder, operator, strategist, and single mum of two.

I’ve led large teams at scale inside some of Australia’s biggest organisations, across Big 4 banking, major telcos, and the largest NSW Government department.

I’ve overseen 700+ contractors, advised C-suite leaders, and delivered complex projects where the stakes were high.

I’ve also built my own service-based business with a growing global team, and supported founders to lead, hire, and grow without everything collapsing back onto them.

I know what leadership pressure looks like when it collides with real life.

The Energy Equation came from that intersection,  the reality that growth, leadership, and operations only work sustainably when they’re designed around real capacity.

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“Is this right for me?”

  • No. This is applied strategic support. We work on real problems in real time, with practical next steps.

  • Primarily women founders and leaders who are carrying too much and need clearer support, sharper decisions, and work that fits real life better.

  • We look at what’s creating pressure across your capacity, leadership, and operations, then identify what needs to change first and what support makes sense next.

  • If you need hands-on operational implementation, that work happens through Grow Advantage.

  • No,  but this work is especially shaped by the realities women often carry in leadership, business, and life.