Dr. Tori Ellis, PsyD, is a leadership psychologist, executive coach, author, and entrepreneur with over ten years of experience helping individuals and organizations achieve sustainable success.

Her work sits at the intersection of psychology, leadership strategy, and real-world design, supporting women building meaningful careers while carrying the mental, emotional, and operational load of motherhood.

Before becoming a mother, Dr. Ellis believed depletion was the price of ambition. After motherhood, she recognized it as feedback. That insight reshaped her work and led to the creation of The Mom Behind The Business, a coaching and consulting practice designed to help women stop succeeding at the expense of themselves.

Rather than focusing solely on motivation, Dr. Ellis helps clients build structure, clarity, and psychological safety into their work and leadership systems. Her approach blends positive psychology, self-awareness, emotional regulation, and identity-aligned strategy to help women move from burnout and over-functioning to clarity, confidence, and capacity.

She partners with founders, executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals who are highly capable yet quietly exhausted, women who are ready to replace survival-based success with intentional, repeatable progress.

Areas of Focus

Leadership psychology & emotional intelligence

Self-awareness and identity-aligned decision-making

Sustainable habits, routines, and systems

Confidence, clarity, and self-trust

Motherhood, leadership, and boundary design

Building success without self-sacrifice