The Future Demands a New Kind of Leader.

Leadership Development & Executive coaching rooted in nature’s wisdom - designed to help conscious leaders navigate change, inspire trust, love what you do, and create long-term impact.
Rory Bakke | Hedgehog Coaching

Some of the wonderful clients I’ve worked with...

Rory has coached leaders from Fortune 500 companies, public agencies, and purpose-driven organizations, helping them clarify values, engage teams with confidence, develop a culture of support, and drive purposeful change.

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The Future is Already Here

Future-Fit Leadership is your gateway to mastering change as you embrace complexity with vision and clarity. It's a transformative approach that unlocks courage, serenity, insight, and connection, empowering leaders who thrive on innovation.

Today’s leaders face unprecedented challenges:

  • An urgent need to adapt -- with no clear map

  • Hybrid workforces & eroded connection

  • Rising burnout and emotional fatigue

  • Pressure to balance performance and empathy

And organizations are struggling with:

  • Fragmented cultures and declining trust

  • Siloed teams and toxic internal dynamics

  • Rapid market shifts and regulatory complexity

  • Constant restructuring & shifting roles

What’s Broken in Leadership

Most leadership playbooks were designed for a world that is much less complex than the one we have before us. These systems unintentionally reinforce the very problems they're trying to solve:

  • Burnout, fragmentation, and mistrust

  • Siloed decision-making and toxic competition

  • Innovation-stifling structures and disengaged leadership

These outdated models create internal resistance and unsustainable work environments, where trust erodes and good ideas are stifled.

The pressure now isn’t just to perform — it’s to evolve.

Hedgehog Coaching - Transformative Coaching for a Sustainable Future

What’s Needed Now . . .

Hedgehog's coaching model draws from nature’s intelligence, systems thinking, and values-based leadership — to help leaders, teams, and organizational cultures find more clarity, empathy, integrity, presence, and vision. The framework is designed to help leaders access capacities important to change - the ability to ground, grow, adapt, align, and renew.

Why Nature-Informed Leadership Works

Nature thrives through adaptability, feedback, and relationships. We apply these elements to leadership to create leaders who thrive even under pressure, make ethical decisions that benefit all, and catalyze meaningful change.

Why Nature-Informed Leadership Works | Mountains

Great leadership, like a healthy ecosystem, is adaptive, connected, and self-renewing.

Rory brings 30 years of experience in sustainable business, cross-sector collaboration, and leadership development. Her unique, integrative perspective blends:

  • Proven coaching practices

  • Ecological literacy

  • Organizational systems thinking

  • Emotional intelligence and conscious leadership

FOR INDIVIDUAL LEADERS

Inner Leadership Coaching

Leadership can be lonely — especially when others are looking to you for clarity in uncertain times.

Inner Leadership Coaching

At Hedgehog, we help conscious leaders grow from the inside out. Our nature-aligned coaching blends emotional intelligence, strategic thinking, and the development of a coaching culture to help you lead with clarity, calm, and integrity.

With our support, you’ll learn to:

  • Stay grounded under pressure

  • Lead with empathy, courage, and presence

  • Align your actions with your values and vision

  • Move from burnout to renewal — for yourself and your teams

The result? Leaders who adapt to change with clarity and purpose, elegantly give and receive feedback, lead with more presence & influence, and help shift to cultures of integrity and renewal.

This is for you if you’re:

  • Taking on a bigger role, or refreshing your "big why"

  • Leading through cultural or organizational change

  • Ready to lead with more presence, authenticity, and trust

FOR ORGANIZATIONS

Future-Fit Organizational Coaching & Advisory

Leadership today is a commitment to constant growth. Your organization is navigating complexity — from shifting stakeholder expectations and cultural change, to rapid innovation and rising environmental and social pressures.

Organizational Coaching & Advisory

At Hedgehog, we help organizations evolve — with leadership and culture rooted in clarity, integrity, and feedback.

We help organizations:

  • Equip people to lead with connection, adaptability, and purpose

  • Build future-fit leadership across teams

  • Embed values-based strategy and strategic decision-making

  • Shift culture from burnout and fear to trust and regeneration

The result? Clear strategy. More trust. Greater engagement. Improved attraction & retention. Resilience that lasts.

We Work With:

  • Companies with purpose

  • Corporate People Leaders (L&D, HR, Leadership Teams)

  • Public agencies and institutions, and mission-aligned enterprises

What My Clients & Partners Say…

"Improved My Performance as an Executive"

Coaching with Rory challenged me in a kind and empowering way - she helped me to improve my well-being and performance as an executive.

Lorraine M., Managing Director, Australia & New Zealand Banking Group

"A brilliant practitioner and caring guide."

Working with Rory is a delight! She's an incredible collaborator and draws upon a tremendous well of knowledge and experience that she shares heartfully and compassionately. If you're seeking a coach who can hold a strong heart-first container for your individual or organizational journey of transformation, talk with Rory. She's a brilliant practitioner & caring guide.

Thomas R., Regenerative Coach

"The coaching sessions have been invaluable"

These coaching sessions with Rory have been invaluable to me as they have nudged me to take a look at things from different perspectives and to think in ways that have helped produce positive outcomes.

Deborah O., Director, Americas Global Support, HPE

Accreditations

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Let's Work Together

Whether you’re:

  • An executive seeking clarity and resilience

  • A team navigating transformation, or

  • A mission-driven organization building leadership capacity

We're here to support you to be a self- and Earth-aware human, a wise and inspiring leader, and a catalyst for the change you want to see in our world.

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