You spent years succeeding by everyone else’s rules.
Now it’s time to author
your own.
Most high-achieving women don’t lack discipline or ambition. They lack authority over where all that effort is taking them.
I provide first-principle advisory to help you dismantle inherited definitions of success, clarify what is genuinely worth choosing, and build the capacity and conditions to live it.

Work With Me
Private Advisory
For women who have outgrown where they are and need guidance on what to change, what to keep, and what to build next.
Career Change Guidance
Going through a major career transition? See more possibilities, recognize the choices you have, and find new ways to think, act, and move forward.
What People Say
Working with Val changed how I see myself, my choices, and my leadership.
Her approach is both strategic and deeply human. She challenged me to look beyond achievement and reconnect with clarity, energy, and what truly matters. That shift changed how I make decisions, how I show up for others, and how I lead under pressure.
R. Donaldson, VP
Hi, I'm Val Margarit
I help high-achieving women who look successful on paper but have outgrown their work become the authority over what they want to do next.
You don't have to start over. You need to see more clearly what no longer fits, what else is possible, and what choices you have now.
Your experience matters. So does your judgment. The question is how to use what you have built in a way that gives you more freedom, more options, and a definition of success that is truly your own.
Here’s what I’ve learned from 20+ years of teaching, leading, advising, and training people around the world: success can become limiting when you stop questioning whether the path you are on still fits.
When you see more possibilities, you have more choices. You can use your experience differently. You can change how you work. And you can create a life that feels more like your own.
Become the authority in your work and life and build success on your own terms.
