Redefining Success for a New Generation of Women Leaders
Former Google leader Brooke Taylor built a global coaching practice around one idea: the most dangerous thing holding ambitious women back isn't their circumstances — it's their definition of success.
For many ambitious women, success can become a moving target. A promotion leads to the next goal. A milestone quickly becomes another expectation. Achievement becomes a habit, but fulfillment remains just out of reach.
Brooke Taylor understands that cycle personally. Before becoming a globally recognized executive coach, keynote speaker, and author, Taylor spent years building a successful corporate career — including leadership roles at Google. By many measures, she had achieved the kind of success many professionals aspire to. Yet behind the accomplishments was a growing sense that something was missing.
The Success Wound
That realization would become the foundation of her life's work. Today, Taylor is the founder of Brooke Taylor Coaching & Consulting, where she helps executive women, founders, and senior leaders create careers rooted in purpose and sustainable success rather than burnout and constant striving. Her clients include leaders from Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Uber, Salesforce, Coinbase, and Meta.
At the center of her work is a concept she pioneered: the Success Wound™. "The Success Wound™ is the pain that comes from mistaking success for self-worth," Taylor explains. "It's the underlying root cause that secretly sabotages female leaders from having the career and life they truly want."
The Conscious Success Method
Through her Conscious Success Method™, Taylor helps clients identify the underlying beliefs and behaviors that drive burnout and self-sabotage. Clients report promotions into senior leadership, significant salary increases, improved executive presence, and healthier work-life boundaries.
Her recently released book, Healing the Success Wound, expands on these themes and offers readers a framework for pursuing ambition without sacrificing their wellbeing. Her mission is simple: help ambitious women achieve extraordinary success without losing themselves along the way.