LinkedIn Voices: Alana Tart
- Bahaa Nuweihed
- Nov 28
- 5 min read
Alana Tart represents a rare fusion of legal excellence, psychological depth, and values-driven leadership coaching. A former Fortune 100 senior counsel, Big-Law attorney, and current General Counsel, she has become a trusted guide for high achievers navigating complexity, career transitions, and the invisible inner patterns that shape professional success.
Through her work as a certified coach, mindfulness teacher, and board director, Alana brings clarity where uncertainty dominates, grounding where change is overwhelming, and agency where leaders feel stuck.
Her mission is simple and profound:
“Help people understand the hidden dynamics driving their decisions, rewire stress patterns, and lead from values, not pressure.”
With a growing online community of over 20,000 LinkedIn followers, international podcast audiences, and leadership circles across legal, executive, and coaching communities, Alana is emerging as one of the most distinctive voices reshaping how modern professionals approach impact, wellbeing, and career design.
Who Is Alana Tart?
Alana Tart is a coach, teacher, and trusted advisor whose career bridges two worlds:
High-stakes legal leadership (Fortune 100, Big-Law, board governance)
Neuroscience-informed coaching and mindfulness training
She is ICF-ACC, CPCC, and NARM certified, and continues to serve as a General Counsel and Board Director while running her coaching practice. This unique combination allows her to help clients rewire stress habits, strengthen emotional intelligence, and regain clarity during pivotal career decisions.
Clients typically work with her when they are:
navigating major transitions or uncertainty
feeling misaligned with their current role or culture
seeking deeper impact, purpose, and self-awareness
wanting practical tools to regulate stress and redesign their careers
Through private coaching, group classes, and mindfulness training, she supports leaders in building lives and careers that feel intentional, aligned, and sustainable.
From Legal Leadership to Inner Leadership
Alana’s story begins in a world defined by pressure, precision, and performance.
She built her early career at Latham & Watkins, then held senior counsel roles before rising to leadership positions such as Legal Director (Group) at Ascential Plc, and later Senior Counsel at Philip Morris International.
On paper, everything looked like success.
But like many high-performing professionals, she saw firsthand how stress, misalignment, dysfunctional cultures, and unconscious patterns quietly shape careers, and how often they go undetected until they become crises.
This realization became her turning point.
Instead of staying within purely legal lanes, she expanded into:
mindfulness teaching
neuroscience-based coaching
NARM (trauma-informed) work
values-driven leadership frameworks
In 2024, she formalized her dual-path career by launching Alana Tart Coaching, while also taking on fractional and board roles.
Today she works at the intersection of law, psychology, and leadership, helping clients shift not just what they do, but how they see, feel, and lead.
Mission: Helping Leaders See the Hidden Dynamics
Alana’s work centers on something she calls the Hidden Dynamics Framework, the patterns beneath visible problems that quietly shape stress, clarity, decisions, and impact.
Where most career advice focuses on external strategy (CVs, transitions, negotiations), she focuses on the internal architecture:
values misalignment
nervous system responses
unconscious drivers
culture dynamics
identity shifts
Leaders often describe working with her as “getting my brain back,” “finally understanding what’s beneath the overwhelm,” or “learning to lead without abandoning myself.”
Her approach integrates:
coaching
mindfulness
nervous system regulation
emotional intelligence
practical routines for living without burnout
This is how she helps clients build careers that are not only successful, but coherent.
Reach, Influence & Impact
Alana’s audience is an unusual mix:
senior lawyers
in-house counsel
executives
leadership development communities
mindfulness & coaching practitioners
youth mentoring and education stakeholders
Her podcasts, webinars, and talks, such as:
“Re-Wiring the Legal Career Playbook”
OISTE Foundation Webinar
“The Surprising Truth Behind Successful Operations”
Extend her reach into global professional communities exploring the future of legal work, leadership, and wellbeing.
With 20,648 LinkedIn followers and growing visibility across YouTube and professional panels, she is shaping conversations around:
legal culture change
fractional GC models
mindful leadership
integrated career design
resilience for high achievers
Themes & Message Pillars
1. Hidden Dynamics & Self-Awareness
Alana teaches leaders how to diagnose the invisible forces behind burnout, confusion, or misalignment. This includes unconscious patterns, values friction, and emotional habits that silently drive career decisions.
2. Nervous System Rewiring
Stress habits aren’t fixed. With neuroscience-informed tools, mindfulness practices, and NARM techniques, she helps clients rewire responses that sabotage clarity, confidence, and presence.
3. The Hybrid/Fractional GC Blueprint
She openly shares practical paths for lawyers who want portfolio careers combining:
fractional GC work
coaching
entrepreneurship
advisory roles
board leadership
Her own career becomes a model that others can adapt.
4. Coach + Counsel Integration
Alana teaches why emotional intelligence is no longer optional in legal strategy. Better leadership creates better lawyering.
5. Culture Risk: What Leaders Often Miss
She speaks frequently about navigating toxic cultures, including:
narcissism
gaslighting
“neck-up” thinking
fear-based leadership
With practical remedies rooted in boundaries, awareness, and personal agency.
6. Designing a Bountiful Week
Instead of glorifying 14-hour workdays, she helps clients build deliberate routines that support impact, calm, and creativity.
LinkedIn Content Strategy: Thought Leadership with Depth
On LinkedIn, Alana’s content is recognizable for its clarity, emotional intelligence, and psychological insight.
Her posts often include:
frameworks for managing uncertainty
lessons from coaching conversations
real stories from legal leadership
nervous system tools for high-pressure environments
reflections on identity, agency, and purpose
Tone & Style: Grounded, intelligent, emotionally precise, never sensational.
What stands out: She writes about success without glamorizing overwhelm, and about leadership without ego.
Some Of Her Posts
Media Appearances
Why Alana Tart Matters
Alana represents a new kind of modern leader, one who combines:
the discipline of law
the depth of psychology
the clarity of coaching
the compassion of mindfulness
the pragmatism of board governance
She challenges the myth that high achievement must come with self-sacrifice, silence, or stress.
Her work is reshaping how senior professionals approach ambition, wellbeing, and meaning.
She shows that:
Burnout isn’t a requirement. Self-awareness isn’t optional. And leadership begins with the nervous system, not the title.
Profile Summary
Info | Detail |
Name | Alana Tart |
Title | Coach, Teacher, Trusted Advisor; General Counsel & Board Director |
Focus | Leadership Coaching, Mindfulness, Nervous System Rewiring, Career Design, Fractional GC Models |
Experience | Former Fortune 100 Senior Counsel; ex-BigLaw; multiple legal leadership roles; Founder of Alana Tart Coaching |
Certifications | ICF-ACC, CPCC, NARM; Mindfulness Teacher |
Platform Reach | 20,648+ LinkedIn followers; international podcast and webinar audiences |
Known For | Hidden Dynamics Framework; integrating law + psychology; hybrid careers for senior lawyers |
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