Ann Acheson

My life’s journey is a coming home and living into my roots. I landed here in Alstead, New Hampshire over 30 years ago. I had a healing arts practice for 25 of those years. I am currently engaged with tending the land on which I live using permaculture practices to grow fruit and raise chickens. With a collective intention towards cultivating the restoration of the commons, I am also currently engaged with a garden project in which families in my community are growing vegetables together.Bonnie Jo Radasch, Michele Steckler, and I offer an attunement circle on the last Sunday of each month for the CIYO community. A monthly reflection can be found at this link and facebook page. All are welcome to participate.

Dorian-Patrizia Baroni

Dorian is an executive coach, leadership programs and retreats faculty, and organizational advisor. Her business experience has spanned a variety of industries - investment banking, global energy, consumer goods and art retail - and a number of countries - UK, US, Venezuela, Italy, and Belgium.
One of her core beliefs is that a leader's individual journey towards wholeness is critical to addressing today's global challenges. And as a business woman, she is particularly passionate about the role and power of feminine leadership to support the evolution of global mindsets, social systems and models of economic impact.

Karen Bummele

Karen is deeply passionate about empowering mindfulness, conscious leadership, and awakening possibilities and potential. She is the founder of Your Conscious Footprint® and is a certified Conversational Intelligence® and Energy Leadership Coach. She works globally across numerous sectors facilitating conversations, workshops and trainings on how to lead more inclusively, work across cultures, find purpose and alignment and stay resilient.The importance of self-care has been an integral part of Karen’s personal health journey over the past twenty years. Certified in Restorative Yoga, Urban Zen Integrative Therapy (UZIT) and as an ANFT Forest Therapist, Karen enjoys working with individuals, teams, organizations to slow down, find power in pause and come back to BEING by reconnecting with self, nature and community. Her firsthand experience backed by neuroscience shows we lead with greater presence, flow and clarity in all aspects of our lives when we are calmer and grounded. She lives with her husband and son in New York. She enjoys traveling, hiking, yoga, tennis, biking and finding moments of quiet in nature.

Barbara Cecil

Barbara has worked as a thinking partner, coach and guide for leaders in organizations which are involved in renewal processes. For decades she taught core leadership skills for senior executives who are interested in new forms of team governance. Since 1987, Barbara has pioneered the discipline of dialogue as a foundational capacity for large systems change. Barbara developed The Symbols Way process, a tool for discerning one's path forward in a way that reflects calling at current stages of one's life.
Prior to her work as a consultant, Barbara was Executive Director of the American-Soviet Film Initiative, established to dissolve stereotypes sustained by top image makers in the media, (Moscow/Los Angeles); She was Associate Dean of the School of Humanities at California State University, Long Beach. Barbara is also an artist. Currently she is helping people find their footing and work amidst the challenges facing humanity and the earth today.

Peri Chickering

Peri is a coach, consultant, leadership educator and herbalist. Her early career as a mountaineer and wilderness guide took her traveling around the world. Out of these years she created wilderness-based leadership schools in South Africa and Bulgaria. Taking her leadership work from the outdoors inside, her clients now span private, governmental, and nonprofit sectors. Examples of the range of her clients include: Disney Theatrical, USDA Forest Service, World Bank, Stanford Woods Institute, University of Chicago, and Renaissance Reinsurance. She holds a master’s in human development and a PhD in human and organizational systems. Situated in the small town of Hancock, NH, she, her husband, their cat, and two horses steward fifty-five acres of beautiful woodlands passed down from her grandmother.

Lyedie Geer

Lyedie is an intuitive and skillful Integral Master Coach, facilitator, and leadership consultant. She helps people fulfill their potential by bringing proven leading-edge theory about creativity, leadership and human development into practice. As her practice evolved over the years, she developed a focus on the longings of women – approaching these longings as messages from the emerging future. She offers a deeply felt and fully researched understanding of the phases of our lives, how we define and redefine success along the way and what contributes to confidence, creativity, and our sense of connection. Lyedie has been described as a “practical mystic” whose quiet appreciation and deftly wielded insight, clears a path to fulfilling the promise of who we are — giving rise to an ongoing adventure.
Vintage 1958, she stands proud as the mother of three strong and lovely daughters and now four grandchildren. She finds great pleasure in hunting for edible wild greens and mushrooms, yoga, creative writing, hiking, and an active tai chi and meditation practice. In the summer she delights in paddle-boarding on the lakes near her home. She enjoys community life in the Central New England river valley town of Putney, Vermont, USA. 

Tanya Monsef

Tanya is an executive coach and business consultant who provides one-on-one coaching, designs leadership training, and leads workshops with a focus on gender equity. She speaks boldly about the power of leading from authenticity as a way to create harmony in the world.  As a faculty member of "Coming Into Your Own", she leads women's leadership retreats in California for women who are ready to transform their lives: to be fully alive, set aside limiting beliefs and reconnect with themselves.Tanya has 25+ years of diverse professional experience in Silicon Valley high tech, startups and non-profit businesses. As an experienced executive, her areas of expertise include finance, marketing, mergers & acquisitions and strategy. She is known for her ability to navigate complex and rapidly changing environments that achieve results while building deep relationships amongst colleagues. Through her global women's leadership experience Tanya has worked with women leaders from 50+ countries delivering programs in Turkey, India, Africa, and South America. She has been named Outstanding Female Executive in Silicon Valley by the YWCA and a Woman of Influence in Silicon Valley by the San Jose Business Journal. Tanya’s vision is a world in which every individual operates from their full potential.

Laurie Shiparski

Laurie has dedicated her life to bringing hope and healing into the world. She has actively done this for many years as a critical care nurse, healthcare leader, business owner, energy healer, artist and writer. She is currently the principal of Edgework Institute, a leadership and healthcare consulting company where she uses her expertise in dialogue, relationship building, and coaching to help others create their preferred futures. As an artist, she creates hope and healing paintings and facilitates intuitive art experiences that help others find ways to trust their intuition and take bold steps in life. As a faculty member of the "Coming Into Your Own" (CIYO) community, she leads women's leadership retreats in Denver, CO where she lives and serves as board chair for The Ashland Institute which houses the CIYO work.

Michele Steckler

Michele, a human potential producer with three decades of experience leading creative process and collaboration, is dedicated to awakening personal power across all generations. An expansive career in the theatre, from avant-garde stage manager to Broadway producer, provides the foundation for consulting, speaking and facilitating Listening & Story Labs sharing a model of practice called Producing Your Life. Michele is equally comfortable in a conference room, classroom or onstage, offering expertise in leadership development, transitions, communication and mentoring. Her fourteen-years with Disney Theatrical Group began in 1997 as the original Assistant Director on The Lion King, eventually becoming Senior Producer overseeing multiple Disney titles on stages around the world. Passionate about honoring the human instinct to connect, Michele partners on diverse projects in the arts, business and education, creating opportunities for people to develop essential skills to grow and thrive in the 21st century.

Annette Beerens

Open, honest, deeply spiritual, nature lover. Grounded in the art of Being. Annette offers a wide safe natural space to encounter new questions as well as hidden talent in your own life.
Since 2011 affiliated with CIYO, via dear friend Danielle Doeve. As a therapist and solopreneur with over 25 years of experience, she has guided many individuals through life changes by using her connection with Nature.
Licensed Horticultural Therapist, Nature coach, Vision Quest leader, facilitator and teacher. She worked for several health care centers and has taught lessons of Nature in all kinds of educational settings. Annette has also received unique training at the School of Lost Borders in guiding Vision Quests and The Practice of Living and Dying. She recovered from colon cancer in 2019 and is especially experienced in holding space for life in all it’s mystery to flow through her body.

Laura Belluco

Master's degree and background in marketing and communication, since 2010 she is a Professional Coach credentialed by International Coach Federation (ICF). As a generative coach and change strategist facilitator she supports leaders, teams and corporates by adopting a sustainable paradigm and vision, unlocking potential, creating trustful, systemic and authentic culture. Laura is an expert in Theory-U, a holistic technological model for deep innovation on which she designs creative and transformational corporate programs. She believes that the contribution of women's potential is crucial in tackling major crises and social inequalities, which implies an urgent commitment in sustaining and empowering women in order to create a more inclusive and gap free environment. The CIYO had such a deep impact on her life, as a woman and as a professional, that she decided to became faculty of the program. Now she is successfully taking it to large Italian and international corporates dealing with D&I cultural development. She collaborates with prestigious national and international consultancies and she is Coach for the MBA programs of the MIP Politecnico di Milano since 2015. She can’t live without music and facilitates conscious body movement. Nature, art and her family are her primary sources of deep connection, learning and inspiration.

Daniela Cadeddu

Daniela is convinced that no dream is too big if it is supported by preparation and planning. After a degree in law and 17 years as a sales & marketing manager, Daniela has been a specialist trainer, systemic facilitator and business coach since 2013, supporting the development of individuals and teams and the constructive management of change and relationships. She specializes in gender, language, and Diversity & Inclusion.

Daniëlle Doeve

Daniëlle is an experienced holistic coach/trainer and guides people on their path of personal transformation.It is her passion to connect women with their life mission, inner wisdom and authentic power through 1-1 coaching, inner leadership programs and connected breath sessions. She has inspired many people to follow the path with a big beating heart. Danielle is committed to contribute to a more loving and beautiful world where we live in harmony with ourself, each other and with nature. Daniëlle lives in Amsterdam together with her husband and two teenagers. She is also the co-founder of HeartFire that organises ceremonial concerts and conscious events that open the heart and bring people together. It is time to come home to yourself.

Sandra Ermacora

Sandra is a Leadership and Change Advisor, Individual and Organizational Coach, and Transformational Facilitator with a purpose to help make the world a better place to live.
To do this, she puts her competencies, energy, and passion at the service of people and organizations, so that they can take care of themselves, evolve and create their future, for a better world. A world that looks at sustainability and the common good not so much as a final goal but as a way of working and lifestyle.
She has worked for almost twenty years in the HR field, for several large companies, over time dealing with organization, management and, lately, development and training. In 2013, she chose to continue to pursue her purpose as a consultant, facilitator and coach, deepening and exploring innovative methodologies and approaches, to better accompany people and organizations in their evolutionary paths.

Myriam Ines Giangiacomo

Myriam is a philosopher, an entrepreneur, a change and leadership advisor, an executive coach, a counselor, and a facilitator. After having worked for over thirty years within HR, holding management roles in several large companies and in a large multinational consulting firm, ten years ago, she founded Bottega Filosofica, a boutique consulting and coaching company, Certified B Corp, that accompany people and organizations and people in their 360° sustainability trip.
Specialized in business ethics, coaching and, executive reflection, Myriam Ines combines the unique point of view and methods of a philosophical practitioner with a solid corporate background and a deep passion for human sustainability and empowerment.
Now she uses her acquired experience in philosophical practice, counseling, coaching and, systems thinking to help organizations and individuals, mainly in phases of growth, change and, transition, to better understand themselves and reality and to define and achieve their goals, setting free the existing resources and potential developing their leadership, systemic vision and collective intelligence. She lives in Rome. She is married to Renzo and they have a son, Francesco, and a dog, Argo.

Stéphanie Leonard

Stéphanie Leonard, CEO of AIMOTION since 2013, is a seasoned leadership coach and trainer with over 12 years of executive experience. She specializes in individual coaching for business leaders and executive teams, bringing her wealth of knowledge to empower professionals in their careers. With 14 years of training expertise, she has created and managed impactful training programs on topics such as diversity, inclusion, and leadership. Stéphanie also boasts 18 years of experience in the recruitment industry, providing valuable insights into interviews, selection processes, and coaching. Her mission is to rekindle the power and skills of individuals, companies, and organizations.

Lucy Malcheva

Lucy is a strategist, facilitator, and coach, known for her comprehensive approach to inclusion, from conception to implementation, with a special focus on personal and corporate sustainability and wellbeing. As a prominent leader in gender parity initiatives, Lucy founded the Women Inspiration Platform in Bulgaria. She frequently speaks at and participates in women's leadership networking events and initiates various programs to support women in fulfilling their genuine paths and to develop their full potential. Additionally, she serves as a Board member at CIYO, and is an Associate Member of Pluribus Global Consultancy specialising in diversity, equity and inclusion within organisations.
Languages: Bulgarian, English, Russian, basic Greek.

Cécile Masson

Cécile is the author of the novel "Rose, letters of love to life", that invites the reader to ponder on spiritual practices, the presence of human kind in nature and to slow down to reclaim the sense of our sensing. An independent consultant for two decades, she dedicated her energy to bringing harmony and mutual understanding to strengthen cooperation and co-creation. She supports leaders and their team to unfold their potential through dialogue and to being more connected to themselves. She invites them to dare including the intelligence of the heart in all conversations.Cécile is a polyglot, an mBIT Master coach & trainer, weaving neuroscience with old wisdom traditions, and holds a BAH in English Literature and Communication.She has the great pleasure to be working with Pluribus Global a DEI-Boutique as a Senior Associate. As a faculty member and mentor of "Coming Into Your Own", she holds women's leadership retreats in the local language in several European Countries.Cécile Masson was born in Zürich, Switzerland and settled in The Netherlands after having lived and worked in various European countries. She is a mother of two grown-up children and gets inspiration from nature and the Arts.

Laure Massuel

Laure initially started her career in Marketing and Project Management in Germany. After a couple of years she moved back to France and settled down in Brittany, where she still lives. Soon after, she felt her job was senseless and realized that she was not going the right way. She quit and went back to college where she earned a Master Degree in Work Psychology.
Laure is currently a coach in professional development. She is fond of helping people find their own life path and professional way. In other words, helping them find their deep motivation, know themselves, listen to their interior voice, respect themselves and thrive.
She recently trained in mind-body integrated technics: meditation, positive psychology and stress reduction tools.
She is the happy mother of three boys. Confidence, autonomy and non-judgment are strong guiding values for her.

Daniela Mattia

She is a computer scientist, manager, business development consultant, trainer, coach. He has always worked in the ICT world with important forays into the world of culture, holding managerial positions in large companies and in a large American multinational TCT company. Since 2008 he has worked as a freelancer developing and cultivating business development skills: innovation, creativity , technology and attention to human resources. You have always favored the themes of innovation and technology but have developed your own approach to business development, thanks to in-depth studies on topics such as creativity, complexity, diversity management, eco-sustainability and ethics. She is married, mother of two girls. She loves being outdoors where she practices her favorite sports and hobbies: meditation, reiki, jogging, power walking, yoga. She reads, goes to theaters and listens to music.

Francesca Natale

Francesca is a women, wife, mother, philosopher, and dreamer. She has spent most of her professional life in companies operating in complex markets and sectors characterised by continuous and rapid change. Since 2014 she has put her experience, as a consultant, at the service of people and organisations: coaching, team coaching, transformational leadership and organisational innovation.The challenge she is currently facing is to create a space of deep contact between what is happening in reality and the most human part of us and the organisations we are part of, in order to bring out a renewed awareness of who we really are, what we want to achieve and how we want to do it in respect of what is sustainable for the systems we live in.

Simona Orlandi

Simona is passionate about people with almost 30 years’ experience in people and market listening & understanding. She works as advisor and trainer in the field of the marketing research intelligence and as a coach and facilitator for cultural transformation processes with a specific focus on DE&I.She lives in Italy, in the beautiful town of Parma, where she shares her flat with Lea and Mila, two rescue cats. She likes walking, hiking and spend time in the Nature.Since years she’s in a spiritual journey that is where she encountered the CIYO and fall in love with it for the higher self-consciousness that this program brought her. That’s why she decided to become a faculty of this program, pushed by the desire to be there for women pursuing a process of self-awareness and inner leadership unfolding. 

Isabelle Pujol

Isabelle is founder and director of Pluribus, a GloCal consultancy committed to develop individuals, teams and organizations to succeed through diversity, equity and inclusion. She provides strategic consulting, designs and facilitates dialogues with leaders from various global organisations to create a truly inclusive performing culture.
She is committed to support women and men in fulfilling their full potential by understanding and valuing their respective cultural differences. She is passionate about supporting their unique leadership journey and helping them reconnecting with their inner voice and authenticity.
Isabelle lives in the area of Brussels and is married to Jean-Marc. They have 2 children, Raphael and Sarah and a grand daughter Lina.

Nicola Shearer

Nicola is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) who supports individuals and groups to transform themselves, their teams and their businesses through coaching and leadership development. Past and current clients include FTSE100 companies, Public Sector Leaders and Social Entrepreneurs. Nicola’s global coaching and facilitation work is based on over 20 years commercial and organizational development experience living and working in UK, China, Taiwan, South Africa and Sierra Leone. This includes 10 years as a commercial executive in the Energy Sector.
Nicola has been trained by the Coaches Training Institute in Co-Active Coaching and is a member of the International Coach Federation and The Association for Coaching UK and abides by the ICF Code of Ethics. She also holds a Masters degree in Engineering from Oxford University, an MBA from Durham Business School, is accredited in Myers Briggs and FIRO-B.
Life purpose – “I am a fiercely passionate woman, who gently holds your truth and calls forth brilliance”

Maija Van Langendonck

Maija has kindly been named an ‘Inclusion Amazon’ reflecting her energy – enthusiasm and passion for personal and cultural inclusion. For the last 4 years she has set off on her own path as freelance Inclusion – Culture and Change Steward working in both the corporate and community setting. Maija thrives on co-creating leadership programs and experiences which she can then help bring to life. She adds to these insights and experience from her 20+ years as a corporate entrepreneur – mixed with personal views of being a woman in today’s world – a spice of motherhood and a spark of personality. Maija has held various commercial and strategic HR roles across different companies and industries and is grateful to be part of the CIYO faculty and movement. Maija is also author of a children’s alphabet book and finds creative expression in poetry and nature inspired compositions.

Burcu Çakin

Burcu is an International Coach Federation certified professional coach, working with individuals and corporations primarily on change, development and transition. She practices her profession under her company Yalman & Yalman Co. Her niche area is women empowerment. Besides being the Turkey Representative and Faculty for CIYO, she works as a faculty leader and executive coach in Adler Turkey, an ICF accredited coach training institute with HQ in Toronto.
Prior to coaching and training, during her 13 years in finance, Burcu worked at various positions in international and local financial institutions, such as the World Bank, Global Securities and Europhoenix; and as an entrepreneur in her firm Fora Corporate Finance, a boutique corporate finance advisory firm working primarily with SMEs and private equity funds. Burcu has substantial experience in cross-cultural environments: she has worked and managed projects in Turkey, USA, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Kazakhstan.
Burcu holds a BA degree in Business Administration from Bogazici University (Istanbul) and an MBA from George Washington University (Washington DC). She speaks English fluently and has a good command of French. She enjoys music, reading and traveling. As a mother of two children, she likes to spend her spare times with her family in the nature and on the sea.

Özge Kanat

Özge is a Marketing Professional with over 20 years of experience in multinational corporations in consumer goods and financial services, and currently consulting new entrepreneurs on Brand strategies in various industries which makes it fun and enriching for her. She is facilitating corporate workshops and research groups. She is mentoring students from different backgrounds and teaching in a state university. She learned to play piano in her 40s, and started to make pottery in her 50s. She was an active member of Professional Women’s Network in Istanbul between 2014 – 2018, a global network that supports women's sustainable growth and promotion in business.
She grew up and lived in Istanbul. She is in a transition to move to Muğla-Gökova, a town in Soutwest Turkey where her intention is to connect with nature and local products with her passion to create her own brand. She has a 22 years old son who is currently studying and living in Netherlands.

İrem Özbalyal

İrem Özbalyalı was born in Istanbul in 1975. She graduated from Galatasaray High School in 1994, and from Galatasaray University's Public Administration department. After completing internships in various sectors during her school years, she started her career as an Assistant Store Manager at Toys“R”Us. With the consultancy experience gained at Amrop International, she began working as an Human Resources Specialist at Unilever in 2000. She continued her career, which started with Recruitment and Training, by taking on various managerial roles in the areas of Compensation and Rewards, Leadership Development, Human Resources Business Partnership at local, regional, and global levels. Between 2017 and 2022, she held various positions in the "Employee Experience" department, which was established to improve the employee experience. Since 2022, she has been working in the field of Human Resources Consulting and Training.In her Human Resources career, she worked on topics such as recruitment, employer branding, planning activities that would allow mutual benefit - enabling students to choose the right job, creating compensation strategies, process improvement and change management, organizational change and development, leadership development, organizational design, career planning, changing and transforming company culture, and finally, employee experience.With a belief in the holistic nature of individuals, she obtained a certification in professional coaching through ICF Accredited Adler International Learning, which covers career, life, and executive coaching, with a passion for coaching that serves individuals on their journey of change. She also provides training to parents with the Parental Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.)she obtained from Gordon International to improve effective communication in the development of individuals and is progressing towards providing parenting coaching. She continues her journey of enriching and developing herself through various training and coaching sessions, including the Holistic Life Coaching Certificate from Life Design Center Ebru Demirhan, Astrology Training from various schools, Gestalt Individual Development Program from Hanna Nita Scherler, and information obtained from Deep Democracy Modules.She serves on the faculty of the CIYO - Coming into Your Own program, which supports women in rediscovering their inner leadership, and conducts the program. She continues to develop herself by gaining new experiences, observing differences by seeing new places, and nurturing the child within her by spending time with her sons.

Şerife Füsun Temel Ömür

My life, which began in Ankara, continues in Istanbul, where I moved to become a student of Industrial Engineering at Boğaziçi University. In my 34-year corporate career, I worked in various roles and positions in different fields such as Strategic Planning, Finance, and Human Resources. The focus of this period of development was to support my corporate career. In this context, I completed the MIS postgraduate program at Marmara University and the "Business Strategy" program at Columbia Business School. In my corporate career, my focus was on "Change Management" and "The Role of Women in the Workplace."
In 2011, I encountered the "CIYO - Coming into Your Own" Program, which introduced me for the first time to the importance of understanding the depths of oneself, and it led me to place personal development programs in my focus. I crossed paths with practices such as Nonviolent Communication, Shadow Work, and MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction).
I deepened my personal development journey with what the accelerating change and transformation offered worldwide. I had the opportunity to enjoy my inner journey even more with practices such as ancient Native American teachings, Kundalini Yoga, and many personal development programs. In recent years, I started the Sociology undergraduate program at Anadolu University AÖF to better understand social developments and the sources of social transformation, which intrigued and challenged me.
Currently, in addition to serving on the boards of companies, I also engage in mentoring and active committee memberships in civil initiatives aimed at empowering women in the workplace, such as YenidenBiz and the Women on Boards Association. Since retiring from my corporate career in 2018, I have been one of the leaders of the CIYO program, which nourishes my intention to support women.
In 2022, I discovered the healing power of conscious breathing through my experiences. I continue to support myself and those who wish to explore conscious breathing in the path of Breath Coaching.
With the belief that diversity is richness, I continue my journey in the balance of giving and receiving by adding innovations to my pursuits that support my life purpose. My exploration and learning journey, which I eagerly try to nourish, is a very enjoyable and beautiful process for me.

MaryAnne Jorgensen

MaryAnne is an ICF-accredited executive coach and facilitator of leadership development programs working with teams and leaders across Asia from her base in Osaka, Japan, her home for 30 years. She is committed to creating space for meaningful conversations in teams, in organizations, and with oneself.
MaryAnne brings a variety of tools to her practice that allow individuals to more deeply appreciate their unique gifts and safely explore barriers to unleashing their full potential. MaryAnne’s clients appreciate her ability to facilitate a space they can safely challenge themselves and learn from each other. “Approaching conversations with curiosity cultivates a space that values growth and learning, engages strengths and builds deeper connections as people and organizations move toward their purpose. My work inspires me continue my own journey filled with courageous conversations to discover what narratives are influencing my choices and what is seeking to emerge.”