You’ve read the books, built the career, maybe even hit milestones most people dream about. But if you're still running on default settings, instead of intention and design, then you're missing out on life's most rewarding possibilities.
With a decade of experience in high-stakes politics, deep training in the Handel Method, and a life rebuilt from the inside out, I will help you design the life of your dreams.
What I Offer
1:1 Coaching
My mission is to help driven people, whether they lead teams, companies, or families, design lives they’re proud of, to pursue their wildest dreams and achieve massive success.
I'm here to challenge you, hold you accountable to your biggest vision, and walk beside you as you refine how you show up in your life and leadership.
Coaching isn’t just for when things fall apart. It’s most powerful when nothing is on fire, so you the space to upgrade various areas of your life.
From the boardroom to the living room, this work is about creating internal alignment that drives real, lasting results.
Ready to transform alongside your family, friends, or colleagues? Gather a group of 2 to 6 people for a 12-week masterclass focused on your preferred area of life.
Together, you’ll uncover what’s been holding you back, clarify your true purpose, and design the life you’ve been dreaming about. When you watch others get coached on challenges that mirror your own, it hits differently. You easily see where you’ve been negotiating with yourself and gain fresh perspective on your own blind spots.
The collective wisdom, accountability, and shared breakthroughs make this experience as transformative as it is meaningful.
Group Coaching
I’m Viktoria Cornelius. Executive life coach.
Before I stepped into this work, I spent over a decade helping elect some of the most powerful leaders in the country. I built a political fundraising firm and led finance strategy for politicians at varying levels of office. That path led me to one of the biggest stages in American politics—Kamala Harris’ first presidential run, where I was her Deputy Southwest Finance Director. I’ve since expanded into angel investing, backing bold founders with world-shifting missions and the courage to see them through.
By every measure, I had “made it.”
But behind the wins, I was still performing; operating from deeply ingrained survival instincts that no amount of success could fix.
I grew up in a home that was chaotic, abusive, and unpredictable. I’ve dealt with suicide, a mentally ill parent, abandonment, betrayal of epic proportions, and substance abuse. For years, I lived in survival mode—brilliant at performing, terrible at checking in with myself. I learned how to push through anything. But I also learned how to ignore my body, abandon my needs, and live completely disconnected from what I actually wanted. Eventually, my quiet suffering caught up with me in a big way.
Therapy helped. So did EMDR, hypnosis, ketamine-assisted therapy, and plant medicine. But none of it completed the picture. I didn’t just need healing, I needed a total identity shift. So I committed to it.
For the last 13 years, I’ve been in pursuit of my most powerful self. Not just studying transformation, living it. Testing tools. Breaking patterns. Rewiring my mind, my nervous system, my beliefs. And on the other side of all that work? A woman who leads with integrity and lives by design, not default.
Now, I coach others through the same kind of shift. I help people break out of the subconscious loops that hold them back so they can design their ideal life and actually live in it.
If you're ready to stop performing success and start embodying it, I’ve got you.