Hi, I’m Angela Johnston
27 years in global executive leadership. I left to build what I needed.
My story
For 27 years I built my career in executive leadership. Programme management, strategy execution, transformation delivery, the titles got bigger, the teams got larger, the stakes got higher. From the outside it looked like success, and from the inside I was disappearing. I was good at my job, really good, but being good at something and being fulfilled by it are two different things, and I kept climbing because that's what you do, without stopping to ask whether I still wanted what was at the top.
It wasn't burnout in the way people usually describe it. There was no dramatic collapse. But my body had been sending signals for a long time, and long covid was how it finally made me listen, the point it stopped negotiating. Somewhere along the way I'd lost myself completely, and the person who used to exist underneath all the deliverables, the stakeholder management, the executive presence, I couldn't find her anymore.
In December 2024 I stepped away from corporate life. It was the hardest decision I had made, and the right one.
What I had to learn wasn't another productivity system. It was how to regulate my nervous system under load, recover my decision quality, and reconnect to the purpose that years of performance had buried. I trained deeply in what actually held me, to integrate everything I knew about high performance with what I was learning about being human. That integration became the 7 Edge Protocol® and the 7 Wave System®. One for people still in the role, one for people working out who they are without it.
Why I do this
The pattern I kept seeing in corporate life is that business optimises everything except the humans running it. Leaders are told to choose between performing and being well, as if sustained success could ever come from that equation. EmpowerGenix exists to prove that wrong. Run the person down and the results go with them.
I also know what happens on the other side of it. When the role goes, or stops fitting, what is left is someone who has spent years being defined by what they deliver and has no practice for being anything else. That is its own work, and it is not the softer kind.
So there are two. The 7 Edge Protocol® for people still in the chair who want to stay in it without it costing them everything. The 7 Wave System® for people rebuilding, and for practitioners who want to hold this work for others.
I come to this from both sides, the executive world at the top of global business and a deep personal practice that bridges both. I am not observing your world from the outside. I built my career in it, I know what it takes, and I know what it takes from you. If that's you, let's talk.
Credentials
Executive - 27 years in global executive leadership, most recently in the C-suite as Chief Delivery Officer. AI + Design Thinking and Storytelling for Influence, IDEO U. Diploma in Business Administration. PRINCE2. Licensed Practitioner of NLP. Director Development Programme Accelerator, INDP. Leadership in Management, Leadership Trust. Business Sustainability Management and Women Leading Change, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
Practice and facilitation - Transformational Breath® Facilitator and Group Leader. Reiki Master. Meditation and Yoga Nidra Teacher and Practitioner. Transformational Coach. Soul to Soul Coach.