About Me

I’m Elliott Rector—an attorney and former business consultant turned leadership coach.

I work with high-performing professionals and purpose-driven organizations who are no longer satisfied with surface-level success and ready for more.

Maybe you’re standing at a crossroads. From the outside, life looks great. But inside? You're wondering if this is really all there is.

Or maybe you’re looking to optimize and enhance your life, and lead with deeper purpose.

Wherever you are, one thing is true: performance without alignment doesn’t last.

I’m here to guide you to pause, realign, and create a new kind of success — one that’s more sustainable and satisfying – and comes from a place that actually feels like you.

For Years, I Did Everything Right

I checked all the boxes. Built a great career. Married the love of my life. Became a father. I was on track to make partner at a respected firm.

But the deeper I went into that world, the more I felt like I was disappearing from my own life. I left for work before my daughter woke up. Got back after she was asleep. The healthy routines I once valued slipped away. And even though everything looked fine on paper, I felt off—disconnected from my body, my direction, my joy.

A panic attack one month after my daughter was born finally brought me to my knees. I went to the doctor. They told me I was perfectly healthy. But I knew something deeper was going on. My body wasn’t failing—I just wasn’t listening.

I let myself slow down enough to ask:

Who am I when I’m not performing?
What kind of father do I want to be?
What if I don’t want this version of “success” anymore?

That’s where the real work began.

Not self-improvement. A self-return.

That was the beginning of everything changing.

I Didn’t Need to Get Stronger—I Needed to Be Honest With Myself

That moment cracked something open. It forced me to stop performing and start paying attention. I started working with a coach. I returned to the practices that had always grounded me—time in nature, meditation, breathwork, movement, stillness. Slowly, I began to feel like myself again.

I didn’t leave to run away.

I left to walk toward a fuller version of who I am.

How I Work Now

Today, I guide other high-achieving leaders back to themselves—especially the ones who feel like they’ve lost their way but don’t know how to step off the track they’re on.

People who are done carrying the weight of everything on their own.

Founders. Leaders. Partners. Parents.
The strong ones. The steady ones. The ones everyone else counts on.

You’ve made it far.
But you’re tired of holding it together and calling it thriving.

I’m not here to give you a 5-step plan.
I’m not here to promise a quick fix.

I’m here to tether in.

To partner with you.
To walk the real way forward—with you.

My work is rooted in presence, empathy, and deep listening. It draws from my lived experience, my work in law and business, wilderness leadership, mindfulness practices, and somatic work—and most of all, from the way my father taught and coached me growing up: not by giving me the answers, but by guiding and helping me find my own.