GUEST COACHING HUB

Jennifer Ouyang Altman founded Inner Radio after an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of business and 10 years in sales leadership. As a sales leader she learned to build trust quickly, influence without authority, and ask for what she wanted over and over again. She now helps leaders across industries find the confidence and clarity to do the same. Jennifer facilitates Interpersonal Dynamics, Stanford Graduate School of Business’ most popular elective on building effective professional relationships. Beyond working with MBAs, she facilitates courses on communication and storytelling with GSB’s executive program and is a CEO coach for Berkeley Haas’ CEO program.

Awara Mendy Adeagbo is a values-driven, strategic leader who is passionate about ending educational and health disparities, particularly those that are race, gender and income based. Awara's 15+ year career spans management consulting, Silicon Valley health tech startups, and social entrepreneurship. She currently wears several hats including independent social entrepreneurship coach, nonprofit funder, birth doula, and board member at several maternal health focused nonprofits. Awara typically coaches and advises early stage nonprofits on strategy, business & impact model development, internal organizational development, talent/HR, fundraising, and Board management. Awara holds a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from Stanford University.

Dr. E. Nicole Cummings-Lewis is a transformational leader with 20 years of experience in early childhood education, organizational change, and non-profit leadership. She holds degrees in Early Childhood and Elementary Education, a Master’s in Youth and Family Ministry, and a Doctorate in Learning and Organizational Change. Currently, she serves as the Senior Manager of Coalition Community Voice at United Way for Greater Austin, where she leads strategic planning and promotes racial equity. Nicole is also the Founder of Beyond My Destiny Consulting, where she supports educational organizations in developing restorative and equitable systems. She is committed to empowering communities and fostering environments where students, educators, and families can thrive.

Nerissa Marbury is an experienced marketing executive and consultant with expertise in leading multi-million-dollar marketing and operations projects. As the Founder and CEO of One Epiphany LLC, she provides strategic marketing and operational consulting services to businesses seeking growth, scaling, or operational improvements. Nerissa is a trusted advisor to business and marketing leaders who seek effective strategies that remove obstacles and drive economic growth. Additionally, she trains business owners and academic researchers in practical entrepreneurial skills, equipping them with the tools to identify valuable market opportunities. Her diverse professional experience also includes roles at American Express, R/GA, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she delivered substantial growth and cost-saving solutions.

Over the last 20 years, Dominique Aubry-Morgan has built proficiency in navigating complex landscapes and building strategic partnerships which have been instrumental in her ability to drive million+ sales, lead teams, and build organizational infrastructure. Her career spans government, non-profit, corporate, and social enterprises, and she has experience in managing P&Ls, overseeing teams, hiring and developing staff, project management, setting strategy, and building external partnerships. She specifically has a background in education working for the School District of Philadelphia, TFA, and with multiple districts across the U.S.

Arianna Cisneros (she/her/ella) is a liberatory coach, consultant, and facilitator whose ultimate goal is to see us free in the present as we collectively work toward co-creating a more just, loving, and liberated world. Born and raised in Chicago to formerly undocumented immigrants, Arianna has drawn from her lived experiences to champion social change through her educational pursuits and career. She has extensive professional experience in philanthropy, early childhood, capacity building, policy advocacy, global research, and evaluation, having recently served as a program officer at the Kellogg Foundation and as a consultant to Imaginable Futures. In her own quest for freedom, she shifted toward social entrepreneurship, founding her own justice-oriented consulting and coaching practices where she primarily works with social impact leaders and communities of color. She earned a B.A. from the University of Michigan and M.A. from the University of Chicago.

Dawn Myers is a Founder and CEO in the hardware, CPG, and retail space and a DC region ecosystem builder, having held several leadership positions in nonprofits in the tech and startup sphere. A Howard University Juris Doctorate, adjunct professor of Entrepreneurship at Georgetown University, and lecturer at Carnegie Mellon, she is committed to creating quality programming for founders striving to innovate for their communities. Dawn was named one of Washington, D.C.'s Tech Titans by the Washingtonian and her startup was named one of Washington's top 21 Startups to watch by The Washington Business Journal. She has negotiated partnerships with and secured funding from the world's top manufacturers and retailers including Dow, Procter & Gamble, Sephora, and Glossier for her patented technologies in the personal care and beauty space, and has secured investment from the space's most elite investors including Mark Cuban and Emma Grede.

Julie Asher is an accomplished leader with over 20 years of experience in cross-sector strategy, portfolio management, and program development focused on child and family well-being. Julie has led early childhood and youth programs and policies in city government, philanthropy, nonprofit and university-based roles. Most recently, she was a Partner at New Profit, leading its early learning approach, a public-private partnership with the state of Massachusetts. She has launched her own practice to offer consultation on strategic partnerships, organizational growth, program development and grant making strategy.

Jimena Santillán has extensive experience in implementing, monitoring, and evaluating social impact programs, with a focus on early childhood development. As Director of Co.Persea, she currently provides consultation to social impact initiatives on how to improve their impact through evidence-based learning. At the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, Jimena was part of the team that developed the IDEAS Impact Framework—a learning framework for the development, implementation, and evaluation of early childhood programs—and provided consultation to diverse teams on applying it to their work. In her role as Director of MEAL for Latin America at Sesame Workshop, she designed and implemented monitoring frameworks, accountability plans, and learning agendas tailored to the needs of various programs across the region.