Meet the Team!

Our Mission:

To empower leaders to embrace their unique qualities and strengths so they can create change within themselves, their organizations, and their communities.

At When You Lead, we are dedicated to working closely with exceptional leaders and organizations currently navigating growth challenges. We recognize that these growing pains can sometimes be frustrating and overwhelming.

Our passion

To help you unearth the inherent strengths of the individuals within your team. By shining a light on these unique capabilities, we provide a transformative experience that empowers your team to overcome hurdles, embody their potential, and feel valued for their contributions.

We guide you on a journey of unleashing the incredible natural power of your team, propelling your organization toward success.

✨ Our Values:

Curiosity, Connection, Equity, Plenty, Collaboration, Comprehensive Health (Physical, mental, financial, emotional, systemic)

✨ Our Motto:

When You Lead, the world changes.

✨ Our Core Beliefs:

We are an antiracist and equity-centered organization
Cycles are natural
Health is true wealth
There is plenty for everyone
Change on a micro level affects change on the macro level

WORK WITH US

Heidi Metro

Heidi Metro is the visionary & CEO of When You Lead: Coaching & Consulting, a dynamic community fired up to effect change on a global scale by tending to individual and team strengths.

When You Lead is a foundational program that connects individuals with themselves FIRST! Heidi believes that when high-achievers & deep feelers Connect, Communicate, and Collaborate from a place of inner leadership, they become the conscious leaders of their lives, careers, communities, and the world.

In a sleepy Midwestern town, you’ll find Heidi with her crew... partner Mike and their 3 kiddos, along with their two pooches. She loves a lazy day of reading in a hammock, hiking the local trails, or planning her next trip to everywhere.

Mike Metro

Mike is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at When You Lead: Coaching & Consulting. Mike lives in River Falls WI with lovely wife Heidi and three beautiful children.

Mike has a BA in Political Science/Mass Communications from Winona State University. Mike is also a Certified Kolbe Consultant as well as an IDI Qualified Administrator. Mike's work as trainer and coach has led to the firm belief that “self-awareness” and “curiosity” are the keys to making meaningful and sustainable change. “I believe that there is something to learn from every interaction.”

Mike also loves to travel and is a HUGE Astronomy Nerd. So when traveling or at home, you can find him gazing up at the night sky.

Carly Clark Zimmer

Carly Clark Zimmer is the Director of Leadership Development for When You Lead:Coaching & Consulting. She specializes in leadership communication training, strengths-centered Kolbe consulting and has been coaching business owners and executives for seven + years.

Carly’s training includes BodyMind Coaching Method™ Certification, The International Coach Federation, Institute For Equity-Centered Coaching® and she’s a Certified Kolbe™ Consultant.

Carly is on a mission to bring the powerful tools of communication into the lives of others so that they can communicate honestly and openly with their families, their colleagues, and themselves. These tools bring awareness and choice to create powerful, win-win solutions in all areas of life.

Carly spent her childhood in Upstate New York and throughout the first few decades made her way down to NYC and Long Island. A few years back, a job presented an opportunity for her and her husband Devin to move to Galway, Ireland for six months… They fell in love with the culture and haven’t left yet! In her free time she loves traveling, exploring the stones of antiquity, Irish Folklore, and taking an icy sip along the Wild Atlantic Way.