About Helen Amery

Why I work with leaders who carry responsibility

Since starting Wild Fig back in 2014 I’ve had a passion for great leadership and great cultures.

Now, my work removes internal interference so that being a leader under pressure doesn’t diminish your impact.

I work with leaders whose internal state has become a risk factor in what they want to deliver. They’re still externally achieving, but they’re also carrying a weight of responsibility and complexity that most people never experience.

These people are leaders who care deeply about how they lead.

And who refuse to sacrifice their values, relationships, or integrity just to keep performing.

This work didn’t come from theory

For a long time, I lived inside the same paradox many of my clients now recognise.

From the outside, I looked capable, composed, and successful.
On the inside, I was running on pressure, over-responsibility, and self-control.

I could lead.
I could deliver.
But the way I was doing it came at a cost.

I was:

• Over-giving and under-receiving
• Managing myself constantly to avoid letting anyone down, and to avoid any negative thoughts, feelings or behaviours causing problems
• Carrying responsibility that wasn’t actually mine
• Holding it together professionally while leaking pressure through reactions in personal relationships

Although nothing was  fundamentally breaking. Indeed people commented on how well I was doing. But I knew something was out of integrity.

I did what most high-capacity people do

I assumed the answer was more work on myself.

Over more than a decade, I immersed myself in:

• Mindset and personal development
• Coaching and leadership training
• Spiritual and psychological frameworks
• Books, programmes, certifications, and modalities

There was insight.
There was awareness.
There was growth through unlearning.

But still the same internal patterns ran the show.

I knew better.
But I still reacted.

That gap is what eventually breaks leaders.

What I eventually realised

Most leadership work assumes our internal system can be managed, controlled or overlaid with something better.

But what I was experiencing wasn’t a self-management or discipline problem. (I’d tried that route – it was tiring, and ultimately unsuccessful.)

The truth is internal interference was the cause.

Subconscious reactions and identities from the past – quietly draining energy, clarity, and choice.

As long as they were present, no amount of insight or intention could override them. Especially when it mattered.

When I encountered the Mace Energy Method, something different happened.

We didn’t analyse.
We didn’t process.
We didn’t build practices.

We removed the interference at source.

What changed

When the interference was gone:

• I stopped managing myself to perform
• Decisions became clean and unforced
• Boundaries clarified without effort
• Pressure no longer dictated behaviour
• Leadership felt steady instead of effortful

I didn’t learn tactics, techniques or strategies.

I didn’t acquire new language or behaviour.

I didn’t learn new theories.

It was simply that nothing was hijacking the system anymore.

In the absence of interference I became more coachable (even though I thought I’d always been very coachable!). I learn faster. I fail and pivot with more ease. I decide and take action without rumination. I enjoy rest without guilt.

How this shapes my work now

I don’t coach.
I don’t provide emotional support.
I don’t work on behaviour or mindset.

I work directly at source. No story-telling about life. Facilitating my clients to remove what destabilises them under pressure.

That’s why this work is:

• Fast
• Precise
• Irreversible

Why I work with leaders under pressure

The leaders I work with are typically:

• Founders, CEOs, MDs, Directors and senior decision-makers
• Responsible for people, outcomes, and systems beyond themselves
• Trying to lead in a more human, relational, conscious way
• Aware that their internal state shapes trust, culture, and results

They are not broken.

But they are operating at the edge of capacity, holding responsibility and complexity.

They want to focus on their purpose without internal distortion.

Because they are creating and leading the businesses the world is ready for. And I am their partner in that.

If you’re here

You don’t need convincing.

If this resonates, you already recognise yourself in this.

The next step is a private conversation to establish whether this work – and this timing – is right.

If it is, I’ll recommend the right entry point.

If it isn’t, you’ll leave clear either way.

“True freedom comes from removing the negative imprints of the past, not just managing them.” John Mace