How A Mentorship Between Two Women Executives Is Changing The Way We Define Leadership To Increase Firepower

The Spark That Ignites

In the high-pressure world of executive leadership, where performance is paramount, and vulnerability is often viewed as a liability, two powerhouse women are modeling a radically different path, one rooted in mentorship, authenticity, and a new kind of firepower.

Maureen Power Sweeny is no stranger to transformation. A five-time Chief Revenue Officer with a legacy of scaling complex organizations, she’s spent decades helping companies unlock growth and bridge the gap between strategy and execution. Her leadership style is revered: strategic, empathetic, and inclusive. Often described as equal parts a "force for good" and a "badass," Power Sweeny was recognized not only for professional accomplishments but also for personal ones. Beyond career achievements, she considered her greatest accomplishment to be raising three successful daughters who are forging their own paths in life with grace, confidence, and conviction. But behind the accolades, Power Sweeny had been carrying a heavy truth.

After years of leading and caring for everyone around her, teams, boards, stakeholders, and family, she realized she didn’t know another way but to put herself last. She came up in a generation of leadership where women were told to man up, leave emotion at the door, and never mention marriage or motherhood unless they were prepared to pay a price. Power Sweeny had learned how to lead in a man’s world. But somewhere along the way, she had lost connection with herself.

She was still the lighthouse for others. But her own light was starting to flicker.

When Fire Meets Grace

Enter Jaime Konzelman, a rising sales leader known for brokering nine-figure enterprise deals and delivering results for Fortune 500 companies. On paper, Konzelman was a textbook success story: a master dealmaker with a reputation for bold moves. Privately, she was starting to question whether the success she had built required her to trade away too much of herself in the process.

Driven by a passion for executive coaching and a desire to lead differently, Konzelman was navigating the tension between who she was and who the system expected her to be. Widely recognized in private-equity and enterprise technology circles as a growth catalyst and value-creation architect, Jaime Konzelman is known for bringing clarity, pace, and judgment to moments of market disruption and change. Beyond the boardroom, she is deeply devoted to animal rescue, actively supporting large-breed dog and horse rescues with the same conviction and leadership she brings to business. She believes the measure of success is not only what you build, but what—and who—you protect along the way.

Konzelman had reached the top of her game, but the game itself no longer inspired her.

When the two women met, it wasn’t so much an introduction as it was a moment of recognition. Over morning coffee and evening glasses of Cabernet, through bold ideas and vulnerable conversations, they created a space that was equal parts mentorship and mirror. There were no hierarchies. No posturing. Just two seasoned leaders asking each other harder, more human questions, starting with, “What do you need?”

From Growth Model to Personal Awakening

Today, the two present and teach The Growth Helix, a strategic framework developed by Power Sweeny to help companies align strategy with execution and transform into growth engines. Used by executive teams and boardrooms across industries, the model delivers tangible business outcomes, but it also does something else.

Through Konzelman’s lens as an executive coach, The Growth Helix becomes a roadmap for personal transformation. Applied to people, it magnifies the connection between internal alignment and external performance.

“When C-suite leaders model the kind of leadership where they’ve completely abandoned themselves—their passions, their dreams—they subconsciously broadcast the message that career success at the highest levels requires giving of yourself at all costs,” Konzelman says.

This is the belief she works to disrupt in her coaching work, helping high-performing executives reconnect with their sense of purpose and power, without sacrificing their well-being or identity.

The Mentorship Multiplier

What began as mentorship quickly evolved into something more: a shared mission to redefine what it means to lead.

Power Sweeny gave Konzelman permission to rise, without self-editing. Konzelman gave Power Sweeny permission to remember her personal side, without apology. Together, they’ve brought their message and methodology to private equity firms, growth-stage companies, women’s leadership forums, sales organizations, and boardroom strategy sessions.

Their partnership is built not on performance metrics, but on mutual transformation. And the ripple effect of that authenticity, on their work, their clients, and their impact, is undeniable.

A Model for the Future of Leadership

As the business world evolves, leaders are being called to evolve with it. That doesn’t just mean new strategies, it means new ways of being.

The Growth Helix offers both.

Developed by a seasoned operator and activated through the lens of a coach with an acute ability inspire bold, transformation in others, the model bridges the business case for growth with the human case for wholeness. It challenges old paradigms that equate leadership with self-sacrifice—and replaces them with a framework rooted in clarity, cohesion, and connection.

As Konzelman says, “The future of leadership isn’t about climbing faster.

It’s about rising without losing yourself along the way. And as a result, entire organizations can ignite consistent, sustainable growth.”

Sidebar: The Growth Helix — Strategy, Execution, and the Human Element

Created by Maureen Power Sweeny and brought to life through Jaime Konzelman’s coaching practice, The Growth Helix is a strategic framework designed to transform both organizations and their leaders.

At the organizational level, it helps companies:

•       Bridge the gap between strategy and execution

•       Break down silos across revenue functions

•       Build scalable, accountable growth systems

•       Align teams under a shared vision and purpose

Through Konzelman’s coaching lens, it supports leaders by:

•       Reconnecting them with their passions, purpose, and voice

•       Linking personal development to business performance

•       Redefining leadership as a path to alignment, not burnout

•       Helping executives rise with clarity, presence, and soul

Power Sweeny reminds us that, “Sustainable growth is never an accident. It’s the product of a deliberate operating model that aligns strategy with flawless execution. The Growth Helix is that blueprint—a system designed to turn vision into results and results into enduring market leadership.”

The Growth Helix is not just a growth model.

It’s a blueprint for transformation from the inside out.