Saman is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), mediator, and facilitator with over seventeen years of experience accompanying leaders, teams, and systems through complexity, change, and growth. Her work is rooted in a systems-based, trauma-informed approach, grounded in the understanding that lasting transformation begins within—and unfolds through our relationships, organizational cultures and structures. She brings a deep orientation toward meaning and purpose, informed by extensive experience living and working in multicultural contexts, inviting individuals and groups to reconnect their work with what matters most.

Vanessa Timmons, CPCC, MMT, is a certified professional life coach, master mindfulness meditation teacher, and organizational consultant with more than 40 years of experience supporting individuals and organizations through change, disruption, and trauma.

Shana Hormann, MSW, PhD, is an author and consultant, whose practice encompasses leading during organizational trauma, uncovering organizational patterns, addressing family violence, and indigenous leadership.

Sherina James is a wellness advocate, grantmaker, and equity consultant. Sherina has been involved in the movement to end gender-based violence for over twenty years as an advocate for victim-survivors of sexual, domestic, and intimate partner violence. Sherina has focused on racial equity in her work in victim services and grantmaking at the local, state, and national levels.

Dimple Dhabalia, is the founder of Roots in the Clouds and a coach, facilitator, and leader of leaders. Dimple’s cutting-edge work supports a holistic approach to unpacking and healing long-standing systemic issues and creating sustainable growth and diversity by weaving equity, inclusion, belonging, and well-being into the fabric of organizational culture.

Born into an Air Force family stationed in Japan, Eleta spent her early years outside the racial landscape of the United States. As a young Black female coming to the American South days before the assassination of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., she was in for a crash course in U.S. race relations.

Pat Vivian, MA, is a consultant in private practice in Seattle. Over the past 40 years she has worked with hundreds of nonprofit organizations and government entities across the United States. For the past twenty years her work has focused on helping clients heal from trauma- whether from single events or ongoing harmful patterns- and create resilient and sustainable organizations.

Mary Dumas is a mediator, facilitator, and community engagement professional offering services to individuals and organizations, including: confidential conflict coaching; private mediation; equitable community engagement consultation for projects of all sizes; and facilitated healing and repair processes for teams and communities (of practice, identity, place).