Meet Becky Pastner

Strategy advisor and leadership coach for people creating a better tomorrow

Your leadership journey might sound like mine. My hard work and individual contributions led to promotions and increasing responsibility to manage others. I learned (the hard way) that leading people is a lot different from getting the work done on my own, and leadership can be a lonely business.  

Sound familiar? It doesn't have to be that way.

In 2022, I stepped away from an executive role at a health foundation to write my next professional chapter. I now wear multiple hats as an adjunct professor, a strategy advisor to funders, and as an executive and leadership coach. I learned about the transformative power of coaching first as a funder who invested in coaching for our grantees, and then first-hand as a coaching client.

My coaching and advising practice is centered on the belief that values-driven leaders fulfilling their purpose will transform organizational culture, systems, and, ultimately, the world.​​

Born and raised in Vermont, I went to college in Philadelphia, and moved to Austin for an Americorps job. My "one year in Texas" turned into a 20+ year career in policy advocacy, health philanthropy, and nonprofit capacity building.