for women ready to use their energy with purpose
You care about how you live. You show up, step up, and handle what’s in front of you. But somewhere between the responsibilities, the anticipating, and the scrolling, your “like-tos” slip to the edges. Days turn into months. Months into years. And somewhere along the way, you stopped asking what you actually want — because it felt easier to just keep going.
The Soft Skills Way™ helps you shift from reaction to intention — so you can own your time and live and lead with clarity and ease.
What is Sway?
Sway evolved naturally out of The Soft Skills Way™!
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.
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.
The ease, clarity, and confidence happen when you choose to use them.
Over time, small, well-placed shifts in habit and mindset transform you choose, lead, and live.
What You Get
Live coaching twice a month
Join 90-minute sessions on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at 6:30pm Pacific. Each gathering blends coaching, conversation, and connection around tools and practices that support reflection and intentional action.
Your personalized Sway Map
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 without pressure or comparison.
Connection between sessions
Stay connected through shared reflections and encouragement. This is where accountability feels supportive, relational, and human.
Quarterly one-on-one coaching
Each quarter, one member receives a private 60-minute coaching session with me.
Why I Created the Soft Skills Way™
Michelle Ornat, ACC, 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.
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. Through coaching, goal mapping, and community, you’ll use soft skills that strengthen confidence, clarify values, and free up energy for what matters most.
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.
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.
