Our people are our greatest investment. Liberate Genius.

Hello! I’m Chelsea Wood the founder of Chisel, an award‑winning Master Trainer turned Sales & Leadership Coach. Since 2007, I’ve been designing transformational programs in wellness, resilience, reinvention, and leadership that lasts.

I research—with rigor—the future of work, executive leadership, and the intersecting principles of positive psychology and neuroscience. I combine theory with practice, drawing on emergent fields like positive organizational behavior, neuroleadership, and positive neuroscience to build high‑impact programs that are both evidence‑based and transformative.

Over the last two decades, I’ve built a network of over 30,000+ professionals, facilitating outcomes in sales performance, leadership innovation, and workforce mental fitness. I’m known for bringing energy, clarity, emotional intelligence, and evidence-based insight to every engagement—whether coaching a sales team, keynoting on resilience, or leading transformation across executive suites.
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My specialty? Helping high achievers, founders, and bold builders shift from surviving to surging. I don’t just inspire—I activate sustainable momentum.

What I’ve learned in my research and practice:
👉🏽 Even the strongest leaders benefit from a reset—and need a partner who understands both the science and the soul.
👉🏽 Neuroscience shows that optimism, emotional regulation, and neural resilience support adaptive decision‑making and sustainable leadership under stress 
👉🏽 Psychological safety is the essential infrastructure for team learning, innovation, and trust—and I embed that in every system I co‑create 

If you're feeling stuck, scaling rapidly, or reinventing your trajectory—I help you get clear on what matters, go deep in your strengths, and move fast with integrity.

I deliver:
💥 Story‑Driven Sales & Messaging Workshops grounded in behavioral science
💥 Women’s Leadership Intensives & Keynotes built on positive psychology frameworks
💥 Resilience Coaching for Teams & Executives that integrates brain-based interventions
💥 Community‑Based Reinvention Experiences that align narrative, neuroscience, and strategy

People bring me in to reignite fire and build systems that endure when things get hard. I’ve lived it. I’ve led through it. Now I teach it.

If you’re seeking someone who combines heart, humor, academic rigor, and operational horsepower, and isn’t afraid to dismantle what’s “always been”—let’s connect. I’m a lifelong learner—actively building in brain, body, and soul. I would love to work with you!

My three favorite things are eating my family and not using commas.


Punctuation saves lives.

Communication matters. There are obviously many more lessons to unpack, but it’s Friday.

Let’s make time to laugh.

Chelsea Wood 🌊

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I’m excited to share that I’ve completed my Master of Science in Business, with a focus on Leadership and Innovation.

This journey stretched me, sharpened me, and reshaped me. I’m deeply grateful for the mentors, professors, classmates, and friends who supported me, challenged me, and helped turn the work into something real.

But I'm especially grateful for my kids, who have cheered the loudest. I'm euphoric that they're so proud of me. That kind of support is worth its weight in gold.

Proud to be a learner for life.
It does not happen by accident.

Onward with gratitude and momentum.
Chelsea, In the Area

#Leadership #Innovation #LifelongLearning #Gratitude #Business #LiberateGenius

The best leaders don’t wait for solid ground.
They build it.

Uncertainty is not a passing phase.
It is the terrain we operate on every day.

Markets shift.
Technology accelerates.
Assumptions are hijacked by new realities faster than strategies can be finalized.

In Harvard Business Review’s recent article, “Leaders, It’s Time to Build Your Tolerance for Uncertainty,” Simone Stolzoff offers a powerful image. Leadership, he argues, is less like navigating with a clear map and more like rowing through fog.

You cannot see far ahead.
You cannot wait for the fog to lift.

You move forward by rhythm, alignment, and trust in what has already been built.

That distinction matters.

Because leadership today is less about predicting outcomes and more about forging firm footing while moving forward without full visibility.

For me, alignment on values inside my organization is that footing. It gives me strong ground to move through uncertainty and fog with confidence. When priorities are shared and principles are clear, progress does not stall simply because the path is obscured.

Strong foundations are not accidental.

They are forged through clarity of values, consistency in decision making, and shared commitments that guide action when information is incomplete.

Rhythm, alignment, trust.
It is often Herculean.

Uncertainty reveals the difference between control and composure.

The leaders who thrive are not the ones who promise certainty. They are the ones who fortify stability in themselves, in their teams, and in the systems that support sound decisions under pressure.

When the ground shifts, they do not scramble.

They keep moving, anchored to what they know to be true.

Friends, we do not need perfect visibility to lead well. We need bedrock beneath our feet.

Join me.

Keep rowing.
Unflinching.
Indomitable.

- Chelsea, in the Arena 

P.S. Yes, I realize I’m clinging to bedrock while advising you to row a boat. Leadership metaphors get slippery in the fog too.

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I’m doing a challenge called January.




It’s where you work every day to get through January.

You're doing it too. 
And we're crushing it.

I'm taking a second to take in the moment. The moments of our lives are flecks of gold, and in aggregate, they make a priceless, precious life.

Happy Friday.

And to everyone facing upcoming storms (snow or otherwise): please stay safe.

Bundled and building,
Chelsea

P.S. Hey, cold weather: Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. We like it warm in the South.

I don't really want to be exceptional. I’m not front row. I'm not sure if I want my life to be this way.



She meant it. 

Her eyes could barely contain her pooled tears. 
Woozy, wilted, and somewhat worse for wear, 
she grabbed me.

Half wince. Half whisper. 
Full-hearted but fully-depleted.

Bereft.

Her face was nearly purple from exertion. 
Lips trembling and barely able to form words, 
she shared something that left me gutted, 
but I hope, forever changed. 

Just one hour before, she was face-down on the bathroom floor when a friend called to invite her to the bootcamp I led. 

In an inexplicable tragedy, she had recently lost her only son. 

She did not expect to ever feel joy--or anything apart from pain--ever again. 

Blindsided by emotional blunt force trauma, 
she was drowning, and longed for that call…

*Any call.

Earnest and exhausted, she showed up for class. 

She didn’t need exercise modifications. 
She needed an invitation. 
But she didn’t need a spotlight. 

She needed mercy and a quiet place to go through the motions.

Leading bootcamp brings me immense joy. Thrumming beats on my 🔥 playlist. People setting PRs. A room full of friends and strangers moving as one body, one breath. Choreography, cadence, rapture. Nimble movement. Clumsy lumbering. Propulsion.

But this session created a moment. Gripping. I felt the ground shift under me, a shock wave of reverence.

A mother who could have been any athlete any day was choking on grief. 

Kicking toward shore but ready to quit. 
Spiritual shin splints and soul fractures. 

I realized something powerful that morning:

Some people shine on stage. Leap for joy. 
Some part the crowd and march to the front row, cheering loudly.

Others—like my new friend—stand quietly in the back left corner.

And that is sacred ground, too.

We don’t have to burpee to the brink of failure or squat thrust until we’re vomitous to prove we gave it our all.

Life is that way.

Someone you know soaked her pillow with her own tears, and got up anyway. She showed up for work. She rolled up her sleeves and shelved her pain all day. She may even have been smiling.

I aim to direct my work, my words, my worship, my whole purpose towards lighting life. Mine first, then others.

Can you hear it?

Genius is calling.
Pick up.

Compassion is calling.
Pick up.

Someone today will be so grateful for your light, your voice, your grace.

We are never too successful, 
too accomplished, 
or too Spanxed

to not long to be seen. 
Held. 
Tightly, and in high regard.


"We are here for what amounts 
to a few hours, 
a day at most.
We feel around making 
sense of the terrain,
our own new limbs,
Bumping up against a herd of bodies 
until one becomes home.
Moments sweep past.
The grass bends, 
then learns again to stand."
 -Tracy Smith


Friends--

Read the room.
Make the call. 
Join my search and rescue:

Every soul who laces up,
All rows, and in the back corners

Join me--
 In love and abundance,
 Chelsea, in the arena 🌊

If people feel interchangeable, they act interchangeable.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought and attended to my answer. 
- Henry David Thoreau

That’s the whole play.

\When people feel valued, they don’t just comply, they contribute. They solve problems faster, collaborate better, and stay longer. 

More importantly, they flourish.

I can’t think of a more urgent leadership skill than helping people feel essential and engaged in meaningful work.

It’s good for business.
It’s great for humanity.

I honestly can’t think of a more urgent need.

New article out now.

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There is a version of you that isn’t missing or unfinished.
It’s already capable. Already intact.

You haven’t been stuck. You’ve been operating inside a story you never audited.

What’s been shaping your decisions isn’t a lack of readiness or confidence. It’s unexamined narratives and conditioned beliefs running quietly in the background.

My latest article breaks down why coaching isn’t about reinvention. It’s about removing the cognitive and behavioral constraints that obscure who you already are.

When those constraints fall away, what emerges isn’t change, it’s alignment.

New article out: For leaders who sense more capacity than their current decisions reflect.

If you’ve felt momentum without fulfillment, this is for you. You’ve been fully operational, maybe just under the surface.

What Coaching Really Is (Spoiler: It's Not What You Think) Most people think coaching is about fixing what's broken. It's not. Coaching is about unloc

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Why Upskilling and Credentials Are Your Career Insurance in the Age of AI.

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Good morning, February.
Super chill. Literally.

A blanket of snow brought a hush.

The pause between decisions.
The breath before reacting.
The clarity that only shows up when things slow down.

I’ve been thinking about mastery and its often ignored teachers

the power of surrender
the propulsion of the near-win
patience in trial.

“Work is what we do by the hour.
But labor sets its own pace.

We may get paid for it,
but it’s harder to quantify.

Write a poem.
Raising a child.
Developing a new calculus.
Resolving a neurosis.
Inventions in all forms.

These are labors.”
— Lewis Hyde

Wishing you a peaceful start to February
with maybe just one unhurried moment of clarity…

and the grace to let the real work take the time it takes.

Like me, your growth is a labor of love.

Peace from the Woods’
-Chelsea

P.S. “I AM SUPER CHILL ALL THE TIME.”
—me & Leslie Knope, Parks and Rec

Your leadership style isn’t your personality.
 It’s a pattern. And patterns can be rewired.

Most leaders don’t think they have a fixed mindset. They just dress it up as identity.

They live from the belief that their leadership style is baked in. That they’re either a “natural communicator” or they’re not. Either “good with people” or they’re the hard-driving executor type. Either they can handle ambiguity or they need order and structure.

That’s fixed mindset hiding in sophisticated clothing.

In my latest Rise article, I break down what research and real-world coaching keep confirming: sustainable leadership growth doesn’t start with a new strategy. It starts with the decision to evolve.

Three capacities predict real change:
•  Self-awareness (you can’t change what you can’t see)
•  Relational intelligence (trust isn’t a tactic, it’s an outcome)
•  Adaptive resilience (stay anchored in values, flexible in methods)

The leaders who thrive in 2026 aren’t the ones who “have it figured out.”
They’re the ones willing to update their patterns.

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