The soulful is strategic.

We’ve tried to think our way out of the global problems we face — it hasn’t worked. Social change requires growth, healing, and transformation on both a personal level, and on a collective level, and we must tend to both to achieve real impact.

“Vanessa helped me navigate the first big challenges I had in growing an organization and assuming a leadership role. She did it with a huge amount of empathy and warmth. She coached me through difficult moments while also providing technical advice on organizational structure, leadership models, and the division of labor within my organization. She has excellent interpersonal instincts and I trust her deeply.”

— TESSA KHAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, UPLIFT

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  • Meeting Facilitation

  • Strategy Midwifery

  • Centered Leadership Cohort

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I am a coach, trainer, and facilitator. I am also a wife, a mother, and a daughter and I’m keenly aware of how those identities have influenced and shaped the difficulties and joys of leadership. 

I work with progressive leaders and teams to achieve deeper impact. I started my career in the U.S. and in that context, served as an executive director, board member, manager, and community organizer. I’ve now spent over 20 years in the social change space, and for the past decade, I’ve mentored, supervised, and coached leaders across Europe, Australia, Asia, India and the US.

My work springs from the underlying belief that when leaders embrace authenticity and vulnerability, they cultivate safer, healthier, more aligned teams — and greater social good.