Susan
Misra
Pronouns
She/her
Location
New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA
Organization
Aurora Commons
Website
Demographic Composition of Leadership
Queer BIPOC
Languages
English
Skills, Expertise, and Areas of Practice
Evaluation and Learning, Racial Equity / DEIB, Strategy Development / Strategic Planning, Coaching, Executive Transitions / Succession Planning, Governance, Embodied Leadership Practice, Change Management Processes, Organizational Development, Liberation / Liberatory Leadership, Shared leadership, and Team Development.
Approaches
Assessment / Tools, Consulting: Long-Term, Consulting: Short-Term / Project-Based, Coaching, Facilitation.
Key Values/Pillars
Weaving liberation for all living beings (human, non-human kin, and the planet).
Values/Pillars Embodied
We align our practices and policies with our values, spending time developing a collective vision, having difficult conversations, and tending to our collective well-being, growth, and liberation.
Worked with LLC In the Past
Yes
Catherine
Labiran
Pronouns
She/her
Location
New York, NY
Organization
Catherine Bisola Labiran Consulting
Website
Twitter & Instagram
Languages
English
Skills, Expertise, and Areas of Practice
Evaluation and Learning, Racial Equity / DEIB, Strategy Development / Strategic Planning, Coaching, Conflict Resolution / Mediation / Transformation, Embodied Leadership Practice, Personal Resilience / Wellness / Self Care / Mindfulness, Narrative and cultural organizing, Liberation / Liberatory Leadership, Healing.
Approaches
Assessment / Tools, Consulting: Long-Term, Consulting: Short-Term / Project-Based, Coaching, Facilitation, Training / Workshops.
Key Values/Pillars
A core pillar of my work is building and nurturing relationships. I care about the people that I have the honor to work alongside and this care is reflected in what we are able to accomplish together. For me, leading from a place of love also means making room for forgiveness, conflict transformation, and grace.
I center rest by creating spaciousness in my offerings and by infusing somatics into the spaces that I create so that we can collectively engage in healing practices. All of my work centers people at the margins — their safety, perspectives, needs, desires and dreams.
Values/Pillars Embodied
My everyday practice involves connecting with my communities both locally and globally. I understand my interdependence with my family and I prioritize nurturing that bond. As I connect with people, I am always interrogating my own intentions to ensure that I am speaking from my deepest well of love and compassion. I make a lot of room to daydream, nap, and sleep — I am most creative and open when I’m rested.
Worked with LLC In the Past
Yes
Ana
Polanco
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
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