Shelli Roberts
Life Alchemist, Transformational Coach
Expert Contributor | She Owns Success
Meet The Expert
Shelli Roberts
Shelli Roberts is a defining voice specializing in authentic authority, embodied leadership, and feminine identity reclamation. She helps women reclaim their power, navigate patriarchal workplace dynamics with emotional coherence and presence, and redefine success on their own terms. Through her programs and teachings, women leaders overcome burnout, overperformance, workplace conditioning, and self-abandonment by integrating spiritual intelligence, emotional coherence, and grounded leadership practices.
As the creator of Inanna’s Way Feminine Leadership Academy, Shelli guides women in how to lead from inner authority rather than external validation, transforming the way they experience leadership, visibility, success, and personal power. Her work bridges ancient feminine wisdom mystery school teachings with modern leadership and workplace challenges, offering a new paradigm for conscious success in life and career.
Professional Background & Training
- Lifetime of narcissistic abuse trauma, overcome
- 25 years+ experience leading enterprise-wide initiatives spanning strategic planning and execution, operations management, and culture transformation.
- PESI, Inc Somatic Therapy for Complex Trauma Certification Level II, 2026
- Avaiya University Trauma Healing Courses, 2024
- Psychospiritual Institute Certified Coach, 2021
- Roger Hamilton, Genius U Flow Consultant Certification, 2021
- American Management Association, Women’s Leadership Certification, 2019
- LEAN Six Sigma Process Improvement Green Belt Certification, 2019
What I'm Known For
Philosophy
Success is not just what we achieve – the outward vestiges of accomplishment and credentials. It is also the degree to which our lives, leadership, relationships, and choices reflect who we actually are and what we most value.
I have spent years observing high-achieving women do everything “right” while quietly feeling empty and unfulfilled in their lives. They were capable, committed, intelligent, and strong, but they were also exhausted from proving, over-functioning, and wearing the mask of acceptability. They had built success, but somewhere along the way, they discovered their ladder was leaning against the wrong wall, and it was draining them and their passion for life. For a long time, I was that woman. Lightning Bolt Moment: We are not here to live and lead by the old rules. We are here to forge a new way of living and leading in soul-aligned authenticity.
In my experience, the way out – to freedom – is inward. I believe women do not need to become more acceptable, more productive, or more polished in order to lead. They need to reclaim and take a stand for the parts of themselves that were buried beneath others’ expectations, perfectionism, fear, shame, and inherited assumptions of worth.
I believe deep self-awareness and embodied sovereignty are the foundation of our inner authority. It is what allows a woman to recognize the old scripts she is still living by, release what once protected her but is now choking and exhausting her, and choose from her own values and passion instead of from her conditioned reactions. In doing so, she takes a stand for herself and cultivates the power and presence that others inherently recognize as leadership.