Services

Coaching

"Who do you get to be?" We will spend a disproportionate amount of time exploring that question, which will then resource the what and the how. Two major outcomes of coaching is competence and fulfillment. In our work together, you will develop a new enduring capacity, while having a felt experience that how you’re going about your life and who you’re becoming is worthwhile. My wish is that after our engagement, you’ll become self-generating in your own growth without me.

Increasingly, I am working with clients for whom the following provocation is very alive, “what if the way we respond to the crisis is part of the crisis?” (Báyò Akómoláfé) It appears in questions about the impact of world events on one’s daily contributions, the splitting undercurrents experienced when making personal decisions, the oscillation between overwhelm and numbness, as well as anger and grief. Our work together then becomes one of deep accompaniment, learning to be in uncertainty without immediately fixing and creating spaciousness for change that’s wider than one’s own terms.

Deliverables:

  • A personal development plan with purpose & outcomes, as well as instructions for embodied practices and self-awareness activities designed specifically for you

  • 1:1 coaching sessions every other week for 12 sessions

  • Asynchronous follow-ups as needed

  • New behaviors, beliefs and discernment

  • Optional somatic integration with yoga teacher Disha Gupta (RYT-500) and/or other specialists

  • "Serena helped me see myself, my values, my priorities, and my abilities in a very different light. I thought myself largely uncoachable, but she convinced me otherwise."

    —Lena Zakharova, Head of Model and AI Risk Governance, Wells Fargo

  • “Serena is the most transformative coach I have ever had the privilege of working with. Through our partnership, I learned something I never thought possible: how to be truly safe in my own body. She showed me how to give my anger breathing room and voice, how to feel confidence in my body, and how to explore these feelings with precision and curiosity. If you're ready to come home to yourself in the deepest way possible, Serena is the guide you've been searching for.”

    — Sharon Ng, Former Director of Community Engagement, The Children's Day School

  • “I would highly recommend Serena to anyone considering or in the midst of a major career or life transition. Her perceptive inquiries, attentive listening and wise challenges and recommendations were invaluable in helping me begin transitioning my passion project into a new career.”

    — Rasa (Mark Dresser), Holistic Health Business Owner & Exited Tech Entrepreneur

Consulting

Visioning, Strategy & Prototypes: A future of XYZ? Scenario planning? A more generative strategic planning process?

  • Assessment of your organization, stakeholders, ecosystem of players and external dynamics

  • Exploring future possibilities through signals of change and future scenarios with internal and external stakeholders

  • Backcasting from desired future and defining a strategy for today, in consideration of your offerings, value exchange, delivery, communication channels and people operations

  • Co-creating prototypes to deliver on strategy

  • Executive summary and support to gain buy-in


Organizational Change & Implementation:A new approach to roll out? A culture shift that needs to take root? Forming a community of practice?

  • Assessment of your organization’s change readiness

  • Methodology development and codification

  • Experiential learning and participatory design to earn buy-in, adapt change to local contexts and unblock resistance

  • Establishing change agent communities that distribute ownership, encourage feedback loops and iterate

  • Influencer mapping and communication strategy

  • Team dynamics support and team health rhythms implementation

Convenings: A new leadership team coming together? An annual meeting? A deepening with high-potential funders? A retreat?

  • Understanding needs, opportunities and desired outcomes

  • 1:1 interviews with participants to diagnose and identify opportunities

  • Agenda and workshop design

  • Facilitated experience for collaboration and making together

  • Post workshop synthesis and roadmap

  • "Serena’s ability to pick up complex subject matter, to internalize it, then restate it, and/or ask a logical follow up question or provocation–IN REAL TIME–is truly amazing. In so doing she brings everyone in a workshop to the same place and fosters broader understanding… I have not witnessed this ability in anyone else I have worked with in my career."

    —Rob Zand, Director, UX Design Head, BNY Mellon

  • “Serena is great at bringing creative perspectives and processes that challenge the way we think, incorporate humility and even moments of joy and fun. But what’s powerful about this is the way she never wavers too far from the business goal or the need at hand. Everything feels purposeful and organic.”

    —Former McCann Worldgroup Colleague

  • "Being an epic thinker- Serena is full of interesting knowledge and always brings a fresh perspective to our conversations, and is always in the know of the latest thinking.”

    —Former McCann Worldgroup Colleague