Winnie Odhiambo, MBA

Winnie Odhiambo is a personal and executive coach, keynote speaker, and founder of Powerful Presence™, where she supports high-capacity women leaders in recalibrating identity, strengthening self-trust, and leading from a more grounded internal state. With an MBA and ongoing PhD studies in Transpersonal Psychology at Sofia University, she integrates leadership experience, psychology, and coaching to help clients move beyond pressure-driven performance into aligned, sustainable leadership. Her work centers on helping women become rooted in themselves so clarity, decision-making, and presence feel more natural and less effortful.

Before founding her coaching practice, Winnie served 20 years in the United States Air Force, retiring as a Major after rising from the enlisted ranks into senior healthcare and operational leadership roles. Her military career included managing complex healthcare operations, multimillion-dollar logistics and budgets, and cross-organizational coordination in high-stakes environments. This experience shaped her perspective on leadership, particularly the importance of calm authority, emotional regulation, and creating environments where teams can operate with trust, clarity, and psychological safety.

Today, she brings that leadership foundation into her coaching and speaking work, focusing on identity recalibration, nervous system awareness, and what she describes as “Powerful Presence”—a state where individuals are no longer overextended by internal pressure or misalignment. Through one-on-one coaching and group programs, she helps clients reduce internal friction, improve decision-making, and expand capacity without burnout. Her approach blends positive psychology, neuroscience-informed coaching, and lived leadership experience to support women in building lives and careers that feel both successful and internally coherent.