“Every single thing they did and said was with such purpose and intention, and they did an excellent job of calling attention to their practice in real-time.”
Commitment.
We are committed to your growth. We are committed to leaving your people co-creating with shifting context, making as a way of thinking, and relating as a way of growing ideas and each other.
Each member of our team is highly-trained as a facilitator, coach, learning designer, and in our arts-based learning methods to best elevate your leaders.
Angella Okawa
Coach. Angella is a certified Integral Coach, Real LIFE facilitator, and DEI consultant with an MA in Counseling Psychology. After a career in tech and design, she followed her passion for development and spent the next 15 years helping leaders with diverse backgrounds to thrive personally and professionally. With expertise in executive presence, conflict resolution, intercultural communication, and diversity and inclusion initiatives, Angella supports leaders into their next evolution in capacity to navigate complexity and design a better future.
Angella’s unique bicultural and multidisciplinary background gives her an ability to connect with, and build bridges between, differing cultures and perspectives. Energized by people expressing their full potential, Angella empowers leaders and teams to both leverage and navigate differences in culture, race, gender, discipline, personality, and thinking style.
Angella has worked with organizations such as IDEO, Dropbox, Instacart, Ford Motors, Blue Shield Foundation, Stanford University, and UC Berkeley. When not working, she practices in the Zen tradition and is learning partner dancing.
Cultures of innovation are lived, not performed.
They're about individuals, not installations. They can be cultivated but they can’t be controlled. They are emergent and evolving. They balance liberation with deliberation in the creative pursuit of brilliant and beautiful outcomes that are unbelievably impactful – on business, on society, on the lives we lead.