A Strategic Coach for Leaders Navigating Change

Megan D. Walker, BSN, MBA is a strategist, systems thinker, and leadership coach who helps people grow what matters with clarity, integrity, and intention. She built Magistra Ambulatrix on the belief that growth is only meaningful when it is intentional and only sustainable when it is supported by structure. Whether she is coaching a leader at a career crossroads or advising a founder scaling a team, her mission remains the same. She brings clarity to complexity and helps people move forward with insight, purpose, and momentum.

Professional Experience Rooted in Strategy and Systems

Megan’s professional background spans clinical care, operational leadership, and cross-functional team development. She has built her career inside mission-driven environments across academic medicine, corporate healthcare, and digital health startups. In each setting, she has earned rapid promotions and consistently led high-performing teams through moments of growth, complexity, and change.

With a BSN and an MBA, Megan brings both clinical empathy and business acumen to her work. She is uniquely skilled at balancing strategic vision with implementation discipline, and is often described as someone who sees the full picture quickly. Her coaching and advisory work is grounded in emotional intelligence, supported by operational clarity, and shaped by systems thinking that turns insight into sustainable progress.

Coaching for High-Performing Professionals

Magistra Ambulatrix offers executive coaching and leadership development for professionals who are navigating growth, transition, or recalibration in their careers. Megan works with high-performing individuals who are stepping into bigger leadership roles, recovering from burnout, or seeking alignment between their work and their values. Her coaching creates the space to think clearly, lead intentionally, and move forward with greater presence and confidence.

The coaching process is structured yet personalized. It blends deep reflection with clear action, helping clients name what matters and build the mindset, tools, and systems to support long-term leadership growth. Clients often say they leave with more clarity, renewed momentum, and a framework that finally makes forward motion feel possible.

Strategic Development for Founders and Leadership Teams

In addition to individual coaching, Megan partners with founders and senior leadership teams to support strategic development and organizational alignment. Her advisory work focuses on people systems, leadership development, and decision-making support during moments of change. This includes team growth, shifting structures, and evolving culture.

Megan brings a calm, clear presence to complex challenges. She helps teams focus on what matters most, surface unspoken tensions, and move toward shared goals. Her approach combines coaching methods with systems design, supporting leaders as they build the internal infrastructure to lead effectively and scale sustainably.

Who We Work With

Magistra Ambulatrix works with professionals and organizations who are navigating meaningful inflection points. These clients are typically high-achieving, thoughtful, and motivated by a desire to grow with integrity. They are not seeking surface-level solutions. They are looking for trusted partnership, strategic clarity, and the structure to move forward with confidence.

Areas of specialization include:

• High-performing women in leadership transitions

• Career recalibration and burnout recovery

• Clinicians moving into operational or executive roles

• Neurodivergent professionals navigating leadership environments

• Founders and executive leaders scaling teams or navigating culture change

The Story Behind the Name

Magistra Ambulatrix is named in honor of Megan’s mother, Deetzie Walker, a lifelong Latin teacher known for her quiet strength, deep emotional intelligence, and unwavering commitment to the growth of others. *Magistra* means “teacher,” and *Ambulatrix* is a Latin translation of “Walker.” Together, they represent a philosophy that growth that is reached by walking alongside others.

This legacy is the foundation of everything we do. At Magistra Ambulatrix, we believe leadership is deeply human and that sustainable growth requires both vision and structure. Through coaching, strategic development, and systems design, we help people and organizations lead with intention and scale with purpose.