Renee Metty

About Renee

Her work spans executive coaching, leadership development, team effectiveness, culture, strategic facilitation, and organization-wide change. Renee studies the people, context, and system, makes underlying patterns visible, and designs work around what the organization actually needs. Her recent work has increasingly brought her alongside Product and Engineering teams, helping leaders navigate cross-functional complexity, strengthen alignment, and move from recurring conversations to clearer decisions.

Before founding With Pause, Renee worked in corporate environments and education, including teaching students in a self-contained emotional and behavioral classroom, multiage elementary settings, and preschool. She also founded and led businesses in event planning, childcare, and early childhood education. These experiences give her an unusually broad view of human behavior, learning, leadership, and the conditions that influence performance. Her client experience includes work with leaders and teams from organizations such as LinkedIn, Alteryx, and Key Works.

Renee’s developing body of work around Human Coherence, explores how conditions within individuals, between people, and across environments within systems affect access to clarity, courage, curiosity, discernment, connection, and effective action. This inquiry is evolving into Availence, a philosophy focused on the relationship between human capacity and availability.

Renee is a PhD candidate in Business Psychology with a focus on Organizational Health and Leadership Development. She holds master’s degrees in Early Childhood Education and Special Education and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration . She is a Board Certified Coach, certified Equine Gestalt Coach, and Master Gestaltist, with additional training in mindfulness, emotional intelligence, conversational intelligence, somatic experiencing, body language, mental performance, energy work, and leadership assessments including Hogan, Kolbe, Temperament Sorter, DISC, and Leadership Circle. She is known for grounded facilitation that meets people where they are while keeping the work connected to the larger organizational context.