Pronouns

She/her/ella

Location

New York, NY, US Remote

Organization

Ana Polanco Coaching

Website

Twitter & Instagram

@coach.ana

Demographic Composition of Leadership

Afro- indigena or afro-latina

Languages

English/ Spanish

Skills, Expertise, and Areas of Practice

Transformational Leadership Coaching, Somatic Practices, Organizational Development, Narrative and Cultural Organizing, Liberation / Liberatory Leadership, Healing, Team Development, Family and Systems Constellations.

Approaches

Coaching, Facilitation, Strategy, Interventions, Training / Workshops

Key Values/Pillars

  • “Yolteotl”- the Nahuatl word for the movements of a divine heart. Our clients are moving hearts. They have often been harmed or experienced a form of dissonance with a world that has refused some part of their identity. By seeing and hearing them, we yoke the heart open.
  • Compassion – to fully acknowledge and witness the client’s circumstances, pain, and the pressures of colonization. The coach applies patience, wisdom, warmth, and resolve in the process of transforming that pain into passion.
  • Liberation – to be free from the limitations and expectations we have taken on in society. We trust our client’s experience 110%, and we believe in 1 million other possibilities. Clients turn their personal narratives, family dreams, and societal expectations into a pulp that helps them reimagine a new narrative fit for authentic leadership.
  • Remembering – We use Indigenous and modern mind-body-energy methodologies from multiple continents to apply movement to a diverse community who needs to remember who they are and find their place in the environment.

Values/Pillars Embodied

My values show up in all the work I do and how I engage with partners, clients, contractors, and allies. They define my engagement as a human being and as a liberatory leadership practitioner.

Worked with LLC In the Past

No