About Me

I’m Michele Stills, a mental performance coach who helps people stay clear, grounded, and effective when the pressure is on.

Long before I worked in coaching, psychology, or neuroscience, I learned about pressure as an athlete. Those early experiences taught me how quickly clarity can disappear under stress, and how much our responses are shaped by patterns that show up before we have time to think. 

That foundation later deepened through leadership roles, advanced study in psychology and neuroscience, and years of coaching practice.

Over the past decade, I’ve worked with executives, physicians, scientists, military leaders, entrepreneurs, and other high-performing individuals across industries. People whose success depends not just on what they know, but on how they think, regulate, and respond under pressure.

My coaching blends cognitive neuroscience with practical communication strategy, while also working with automatic patterns that operate before conscious thought. Just as elite athletes do, effective leaders need awareness, adaptability, and the ability to stay composed under pressure, even when thinking narrows. In our work together, we build skills that support clarity and regulation in real time so that you can respond with intention rather than habit.

I help clients harness the brain’s capacity to change, creating new patterns of thinking, leading, and communicating that support lasting growth. The result isn’t just better conversations, it’s steadier performance, more decisive leadership, and responses that hold when the stakes are high.