Corinne Tonry
I help organisations through difficult change by creating understanding, explaining the why, building buy-in, enabling engagement and turning communication into action and behaviour.
10 years in global organisations across tech, travel and fashion, in Europe and the US. American, living and working in Europe.
From two suitcases to a new chapter.
“I paid the price for giving too much. Now I'm designing a life where I have the time, energy and wealth to decide how I live.”
At 18
New York City
I packed two suitcases and moved to New York City for fashion and international business.
At 23
Europe
I packed three suitcases and moved to Europe.
Career
A fast-rising corporate career
Senior exposure, speaking and moderation, executive advisory work, an internal podcast and a women-in-tech community.
The turning point
Success that felt more costly than sustainable
Long hours, external validation, difficult leadership dynamics and burnout gradually made success feel more costly than sustainable.
Today
Ambition wasn't wrong
Achievement without alignment gets expensive. My transition is about redefining success, protecting health and energy, separating worth from title and approval, choosing strategically rather than reactively, and building a life with more time, energy, freedom, creativity and ownership.
My approach
Communication makes transformation possible.
Change is what becomes possible.
Brain & Behaviour is the lens I bring: how people make meaning, respond to uncertainty, form beliefs, decide and turn intention into behaviour. I never claim to be a neuroscientist or clinician.
Transformation is the territory.
Communication is a core mechanism.
ALIGNS is the method.
Alignment is a central condition and outcome.
Keep the ambition. Lose the self-abandonment.
Awareness comes before intentional action.
Doing more isn't always the answer; doing what's aligned is.
What I believe
Values I live by
- happiness
- joy
- achievement
- self-worth
- courage
- trust
- creativity
- playfulness
- freedom
- community
- honesty
- empowerment
My contradictions
A thousand ideas, I contradict myself and change my mind, and that's okay.
- I love to travelbut I love being home.
- I'm ambitiousbut I want a life that feels good.
- I'm a leaderbut I want to be led.
- I'm spontaneousbut I want to know the plan.
- I'm high-maintenancebut happy to get my hands dirty.
- I wear heels,but I'll climb the hill for the sunset view.
- I'm organisedbut can't find my paperwork.
- I have 1,000 ideas,start 5 and lose interest.
- I'm intelligentbut terrible at geography.
- I want to be an entrepreneurbut I also want certainty.
- I'm an extrovertwho needs time alone.
- I'm strongbut sensitive.
Your work. Your relationships. Your life.
Change needs people.