for women ready to use their energy with purpose
The Soft Skills Way™ is a coaching membership for women who value clarity and ease over reaction.
Sway is a practice of using the soft skills we already have as anchor points for clarity, confidence, and intentional action.
Through coaching and community, we practice deeper awareness, cleaner decision-making, and a way of living and leading that feels more aligned, sustainable, and fully ours.
Why This Membership Matters
You care about how you live. You show up and step up, handle what’s in front of you, and keep things moving for work, home, and everyone else. But somewhere between the responsibilities, the anticipating, and the downtime you spend scrolling or letting the day get away from you, your “like-tos” slip to the edges of your world.
Days turn into months, months into years, and even though you keep getting things done, it can feel like you’re living inside the triangle of work, home, and to-dos. You think about what you’d like to start, finish, resolve, change, or experience, but self-doubt, overthinking, overextension, or just plain inaction can creep in.
The Soft Skills Way™ supports that shift by helping you use your soft skills with intention, so you can own your time and live and lead with more clarity and ease.
What You’ll Get
Through The Soft Skills Way™, we choose to live in SWAY—
a state of dynamic being shaped by awareness, choice, and intentional motion.
Own
Your Time
Make more intentional choices that align with your values and energy.
Leverage
Your Soft Skills
You already have them, and you don’t need another system to start using them with intention.
Overthinking
to Action
Make the shift:
Small action creates confidence and momentum.
Lead & Live
with Clarity & Ease
Because time isn’t slowing down and things don’t seem to be getting simpler.
Connect with Women Who Get It
Women who are finding their SWAY and learning to live and lead with it.
Why Soft Skills?
Self-awareness, boundary setting, active listening, creative thinking, conflict navigation, decision-making and follow-through, perspective-taking…
Soft skills are not nice-to-haves.
They’re the power tools behind every choice you make.
They shape how you speak up, set boundaries, handle conflict, and follow through.
You already have them.
The ease, clarity, and confidence happen when you choose to use them.
Why I Created the Soft Skills Way™
Michelle Ornat, CPC, ELI-MP
I was so done holding myself back and waiting. Honestly, I didn’t even know what I was waiting for. I was overthinking, second-guessing, and busying myself with things that seemed like I should do but were really just distractions, because it was easier. Until it wasn’t. I started waking up wondering where my spark had gone.
There was never going to be enough time or the perfect conditions, so I had to figure out how to use what I already had. That’s when I started choosing to use my soft skills differently. That realization came after a coaching session, and it changed everything.
Want to know more about how I became a coach and why this work means so much to me? You can read more here.
How The Soft Skills Way™ Membership Works
The Soft Skills Way™ isn’t a course or a class. It’s an ongoing practice built around reflection, conversation, and intentional action. Over time, small, well-placed shifts change how you lead, decide, and live.
- Meet live twice a month.
- Join 90-minute sessions on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at 6:30pm Pacific. Each gathering blends coaching, conversation, and connection. We explore tools and practices that support reflection and intentional action in service of our individual goals.
- Follow your Sway Map.
- You’ll personalize your own Sway Map to clarify priorities, notice what’s shifting as you evolve, and stay grounded in what matters most. This shared framework helps you stay aware of what’s changing and stay oriented without pressure or comparison, while connecting through shared goals and milestones.
- Stay connected between sessions.
- Between live sessions, members stay connected through shared reflections and encouragement. This is where accountability feels supportive, relational, and human.
- Monthly one-on-one coaching.
Each month, one member receives a private 60-minute coaching session with me, focused on what matters most right now.
What the Soft Skills Way™ Makes Possible
You’re here because you already know why soft skills matter. We need them now more than ever.
The Soft Skills Way™ was created for women who want to live and lead from a place of clarity and intention, rather than reaction. It’s more than a membership. It’s a practice that helps you shift from doing to being, from striving to choosing, and from getting through the day to shaping the life you want.
Through coaching, goal mapping, and community, you’ll choose to use soft skills that strengthen confidence, clarify values, and free up energy for what matters most over time.
Over time, you begin to recognize yourself as the kind of woman who leads her life on purpose. You make more aligned choices, use your voice with clarity, and experience ease where there used to be overthinking.
Because the Soft Skills Way™ isn’t about doing more. It’s about living with clarity, confidence, and ease, so the choices you make support your vision for your work, your relationships, and your life.
Sway (n.)
A state of dynamic being shaped by awareness, choice, and intentional motion.
To have Sway is to live and lead with agency, balancing clarity with adaptability, moving with intention, and creating impact in relationship with others.
