Testimonials
“NUANCED UNDERSTANDING OF POWER, PRIVILEGE, & IDENTITY”
“Alice has extensive language and a nuanced understanding of the complexities of power, privilege, and identity in the world. She held my experience as a black women in the professional world with deep care and encouraged me to be discerning about what is actually in my power to exercise agency and choice around on a day to day basis and what burdens are not mine to carry or internalize. The actions and approaches we identified together always took into account context and identity. I felt seen and heard as a human being, and as a result of our work together, I am taking more risks and living and leading in a way that feels more authentic and liberated and is more aligned with my values and beliefs.”
– DOMINIQUE TURRENTINE
Senior Manager of Strategic Initiatives @ Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
“HOLISTIC & STRATEGIC APPROACH”
“Alice has been both a personal inspiration and an invaluable thought partner to me as I chart my career. As a woman of color in a largely white field, I’ve had to navigate a number of unpredictable challenges, changing circumstances, and difficult transitions. Alice’s coaching and thoughtful reframing have been integral to my progress – whether I’m grappling with an existential question, planning a team meeting or learning to ask for what I need from the people around me. She supports me to embrace the entirety of my experience – my professional aspirations, personal callings, culture, history, identity, roles as a worker, wife, & mother, what I want today and tomorrow – rather than to sort things into silos. Alice takes a holistic and strategic approach to coaching and encourages me to take a holistic and strategic approach to living and leading.”
– NEHA SINGH GOHIL
Communications Program Officer @ The Hewlett Foundation
“BRILLIANT & TAILORED LEARNING EXPERIENCES”
“Alice creates brilliant and tailored learning experiences. She knows how to create spaces where people can come together to reflect, dialogue and engage with one another around really challenging topics (i.e. like race, politics, emotions, etc.). She creates a warm and welcoming community that encourages people to take emotional & intellectual risks. In her workshops, she seamlessly blends reflection with direct instruction. She invites participants to not just absorb new information, but to really be present to their experience as they are learning. She’s taught me so much about the role of emotions in leadership & the importance of presence and reflection in collaboration & creating impact. I am a more confident, compassionate and effective leader because I’ve worked with her.”“
– GABE RODRIGUEZ
Associate Director of MS Academics @ KIPP NorCal
“LEADS FROM WITHIN & MODELS WHAT SHE TEACHES”
“Alice is one of the most transformational leaders you will ever meet. She leads from within and models what she teaches – reflection, curiosity, experimentation, mindfulness and constant learning. Alice has helped me become both a more effective leader and a better person. She is a fabulous storyteller and is always willing to pull back the curtain on her own journey, which makes her inspirational and relatable. Furthermore, her ability to see what is needed for both individual and organizational transformative change and to make action plans to get there is unparalleled. She helped the team at Mindful Life Project take our organization to the next level culturally and practically at a crucial moment in our growth cycle. I highly recommend her for any organization, company, or individual in need of transformative change!“
– JG LAROCHETTE
Founder @ The Mindful Life Project
“ORGANIZES MY BRAIN SO I CAN EXPERIMENT”
“One of the many transformative takeaways while working with Alice was the importance of experimentation and taking intentional approach towards decision-making. There were many factors (family, external expectations, pride, etc.) that made it hard for me to figure out what my next career move should be. Alice’s questions revealed these factors to me. She helped me organize my brain, design experiments to test pathways and possibilities I was considering, take time to reflect on what I was learning so that I could and ultimately identify my career and life goals and align my decisions to them.”
– KARINA MACIAS SANDOVAL
Talent Acquisitions Manager @ Stanford University
“HELPS ME LEARN FROM, NOT JUST DO LIFE”
“Alice has helped me adapt to change and seize each opportunity that has presented itself. My time with Alice has given me a safe and judgment-free zone to reflect on my personal & professional experiences, identify and internalize learnings, and plan for my next steps. She really helps me learn from life, not just “do” life and this has helped me mature personally and advance professionally…plus experience more joy, even in times of extreme challenge and stress. I feel supported by Alice to step outside of my comfort zone and explore new ways of interacting with the world.”
– CAITLIN POMEROY
Chief Operations Officer @ WorkWave
“BRINGS LEVITY & GRAVITAS”
“Working with Alice has been personally and professionally transformative, not to mention joyful. She brings levity and gravitas to each session. Through reflection, healing, and exercises, I’ve become more self-aware, more capable of leading from a deeper place of my core being, more intentional, and better equipped to manage and lead with spiritual integrity. I can’t possibly recommend working with Alice highly enough..”
– RABBI DR. SHMULY YANKLOWITZ
President & Dean @ Valley Beit Midrash
“3-D PRINTS MY IDEAS”
“Alice is my 3D printer of ideas. I come with an ambiguous concept or jumbled sense of something, and she offers me the language, frameworks, tools & concrete real world examples I need to give my ideas shape. Then she helps me bring my ideas to life with chunked action steps and a reasonable timeline. Alice encourages and affirms me, challenges me to go beyond what I think is possible and calls me into a more mature version of myself.“
– CARLA BERNAL
Democracy Program Officer @ The Hewlett Foundation
“AFFIRMS & CHALLENGES IN EQUAL MEASURE”
“My work with Alice has truly been a gift. She has a unique capacity to both affirm and challenge in equal measure. Whether through an insightful question, provocative exercise, or just an earnest ear, she is able to reveal new dimensions of your values, holdbacks, dreams. Through peeling back the layers, she has helped me stand more squarely as the person and leader that I authentically want to be. Alice is a stunning coach, masterful facilitator, and creative designer of learning experiences. You won’t regret your time with her.”
– ROB STRAIN
Founder & Strategist @ Lemon Battery
“WEAVES WITH WISDOM & LOVE”
“Working with Alice is like constructing a fabulous tapestry – she listens carefully and helps weave together the various threads of my intentions and identity with bits of wisdom and love-based truth to help me construct a more workable vision and narrative. Alice sits with me in beautiful and uncomfortable realities, helps me imagine possibilities I can’t yet see, and pushes me to action so I can clearly direct my intentions and energy.“
– JENNIFER MAYER
Principal Consultant @ Becoming Better Together
“POWERFUL INTUITION + STRATEGIC TOOLBOX”
“Alice brings a rare combination of powerful intuition about what each individual and the group needs at each moment in time, along with an incredible (and ever-expanding) set of strategic frameworks to be able to move those individuals/groups forward. She led my team on a series of workshops that gave each of us the language and tools to develop much stronger awareness of self and others. As a result, our team culture strengthened notably – evidenced by a year-over-year spike in our team’s Great Places to Work survey results. Thanks to Alice’s work, our team was able to build a culture where our whole selves were known, seen and valued – and, equally as important, there was a clear connection between fostering this strong culture and delivering on strong team outcomes.“
– DARYL PEAGLER
Chief Integration Officer @ AERDF
“POWERFUL, EMOTIONAL, INTUITIVE & INTELLECTUAL”
“Alice embodies such a beautiful balance of holding space while also sharing a wealth of diverse knowledge. She has a mind that sees patterns and connections everywhere. She asks deep questions and listens and mirrors back the essence of what I’m saying so I can really hear myself. And she brings in metaphors, examples and wisdom from so many different disciplines, cultures & sources of inspiration – art, music, science, spirituality, leadership. I always leave our sessions with something practical and something conceptual, which I love. She interacts from her head, heart, and intuition and has encouraged and supported me to use all of these different antennae to “sense” what’s right and true for me. Wayfinding my way forward with Alice has been powerful, emotional, intuitive, intellectual and – dare I say? – fun!”
– HELEN TRUONG
Senior Director of Human Assets @ OneGoal
