• Healing and Trauma-Informed coaching
• Embodiment, Movement & Breathwork Practices
• Regenerative Cultural Transformation
• Collaborative Leadership
• Group gatherings and retreats

** rownież w jezyku polskim**

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We work together to attune you to your body’s multilayered intelligence. The power of your own inner knowing can be your compass that strengths’ your leadership, your communication, your collaboration style.
My approach reflects my lived experience in the urgency of social and climate work. I’m here to guide you to be in your well-being, be connected to your big purpose and thrive in the collective elements of the job with others.

• Leaders and leadership teams who are ready to look inward to improve their outward results.
• The deep agility that Agile frameworks barely touch. I have been in the Agile world for many years and am considered a thought leader, especially in agile coaching.
• Conflict and change... If it feels stuck and tense I’m your gal.
• Adult development and how that can guide us to increasing our mental complexity to be more of a positive match for the complexity of our world.

I start with you (or your team). What are your goals and focus areas? When we’re done in 6 months (or so), what are you excited to say has changed? We will stay hyper focused on those as I bring methods from a cornucopia of coaching and facilitation philosophies to help you see new possibilities and take committed action toward the change you want to see. 

You don’t need to worry about the schools and theories – that’s my job. Staying in your context and diving into the depths of your understanding to yield new results – that’s your job. It’s like peanut butter and chocolate. Better together.

“Lyssa's approach and impact was spot on and highly valuable at what was a critical inflection point for us as a team. A combination of theory foundational awareness, 360 feedback, cohort coaching sessions and 1:1 coaching program. Highly recommended and thank you Lyssa.”
– Sarah Atkinson, Chief of Staff CXO at Atlassian

“Lyssa helped me to approach my goals in a way that is to who I really am. Her experience and gift of seeing beyond the surface, allowed her to ask provocative questions to identify my own limiting beliefs and to embrace personal agility in a way that I had not truly contemplated.”
– M. Sekel, Leader of the Agile Office

Supporting teams and larger groups in turning their remote or hybrid collaboration into an effective, efficient and enjoyable experience (yes, that includes perfecting your governance and collaborative decision-making processes).

Currently I’m in my sixties. With a lived experience of a societal and economic collapse before and during wars in former Yugoslavia, I want to support adults younger than me in deeply adapting to current and future polycrisis on their local, translocal and global levels of scale.

‍Meet me if you are curious about either of these.

We take an ecosystemic perspective. We work with what is, within capacity. We adapt and move on, within a growing edge. That’s my approach.

Together, we apply Modern Agile principles to your context: 

• Make People Awesome
• Make Safety a Prerequisite
• Experiment and Learn Rapidly
• Deliver Value Continuously

In continuously improving your virtual and hybrid teamwork my focus is on improving synchronous-asynchronous (a/sync) communication and collaboration continuum.

“In you, I witness a singular combination of forthrightness, humour, skillfulness, and care. You bring your gifts with much generosity and selflessness, and aren't afraid to model ways of being that break with established patterns, and disturb people out of their comfort zones. 

I feel this is incredibly precious, as an invitation to personal and collective learning. I have also noticed you are very receptive to feedback, and take it all on board with impressive grace. I have learned so much from you, from collaborative practices to ways of being a decent human.”

Working in the space between coaching and therapy. Seeing the deeper patterns - now called trauma-responses - both in individuals and in teams.
Building on a Masters in Clinical Psychology + extensive training in Emotional Bodywork + Organisational Constellation work + Trauma Healing (Somatic Experiencing). 
Started therapy work (individual and group) more than 30 years ago, mixing it with group/team dynamics and the wider patterns in mainstream society.

My coaching approach is multi-faceted or multi-dimensional: including bodywork / somatics, the emotional, the mental/conceptual and whatever more there is in Life! I work with what is present in the moment, not with a specific method or approach; but choosing that what works for the client/coachee. Using my experience, knowledge and intuition.

"Ria has the rare combination of vision and pragmatism - which sounds obvious for a consultant, but maybe not as obvious for a coach. She always notices the potential and guides towards that discovery."
- Susan B.

"Ria’s presence is so grounding, so calming… It’s impossible not to do great work when you’re with her."
- Mary

• Somatic Experiencing (Year 3 student)
• Nature-based coaching
• Collaborative Leadership
• Gatherings and retreats

** También en Español **

Via somatic and nature-based practices (yes, even when we meet online!), I support your process of reconnecting with yourself, others and your environment, to build capacity to navigate these uncertain times.

Many of us believed that we need to relinquish our independence to find community. But now there is a way to integrate the "I" and the "we". While transforming your leadership may feel like a huge unachievable task, together we will create pathways from knowledge to practice.

"Lucía is very committed to self-care and supporting people to listen and explore their relationship with themselves, others and the natural world. She took the team to difficult spaces, and supported them through their resistance."

"Lucía is an excellent facilitator who has managed to create an awesome team of motivated, focused professionals who have grown much more than they expected."

• Organisational transition & new ways of working
• Collective leadership
• Teams collaboration & performance through participatory processes and ways of working
• 1:1 New leaders coaching

My approach comes from a belief in the potential and possibility in all of us. I know that we are inherently wired to connect and to work together. I have such curiosity about the stories of others; to know more; to relate and to learn together.

My approach reflects my lived experience working in several high performing teams over the past 25 years in organisational change coaching, tech delivery, consulting, leadership and governance roles.

"Her cheerful, friendly way negotiates challenging situations with ease enabling significant change across an organisation.She is awesome"‍

‍"Perfect balance of real-life experience, honesty and humour, makes working through the toughest problems not only seem achievable but almost fun"

‍"She continually challenges traditional thinking in a way that is both humble and grounded in real-world experience"

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• Introducing you to the "felt experience" of being embodied and accessing multiple intelligences that live in the body

• Developing a powerful, authentic leadership presence and ability to manage an increasingly complex world

• Strengthening your capacity to self-educate, self-heal, and self-generate while strengthening relationships and healthy interdependence

• Building resilience, flexibility, agility, self-confidence and self-trust

• Integrating the individual and collective body so you can take new actions in alignment with your purpose & values

• Transforming power and privilege, and how we build belonging across lines of difference in social context, race, class, and gender

• Systems change: equitable and participatory decision-making, systems for feedback, information & resource flow, and generative conflict

When we leave the wisdom of the body out of the equation, change often doesn’t last. My coaching approach transforms the self & relationships through the soma ("the living body in its wholeness") by developing your somatic awareness, introducing powerful new embodied practices, and releasing deeply-held habitual patterns and persistent barriers. When the journey ends you are in a new "shape" — an embodiment that is capable of fulfilling on your longings and your purpose.

“Thanks to JD, I'm more honest about who I am, my strengths and my gaps, and I can articulate this to others at work and at home. His work has helped me immensely, and spread to the leadership and resources I now share with my entire team.”

“It was a privilege to work with JD. He gave me tools that are already helping me move through the world in a way that's more aligned with my principles.”

• Working with founders and CEO's who know they want to lead differently
• Utilising my extensive start-up and corporate background to provide pragmatic business advice
• Helping teams establish agreements and great communication

I don't use a one-size-fits-all methodology, rather focus on the unique potential of every situation.

My extensive experience in the teal/self-management space gives me the ability to surface and relate patterns, and to bring not only my experience as a practitioner, but real-world examples from many sectors.

"I recommend Susan for her incredible knowledge skills and understanding of how to transform the workplace into a space where everyone can learn and grow to their potential"

"Susan is our guide who keeps us on track"

"Susan has always a fresh and innovative approach to the new ways of approaching “work”"

"Susan brings a strong practical skill set combined with an intuitive touch with people".