True Doing examines both internal conditions (nervous system state, capacity, beliefs) and external conditions (systems, structures, power dynamics) to understand what's keeping change from happening.
This creates a clear path forward: identify the conditions creating dysfunction or challenges, then shifting them.
About the Founder
Kézha Hatier's path to this work began with studying social behavior in wild animals—coyotes in Yellowstone and spotted hyenas at UC Berkeley.
Her Master's of Science research focused on coyote pack dynamics in Yellowstone National Park—observing how the presence of helpers changed what breeding pairs could afford to do. Pairs without helpers didn't fail, but they stayed in survival mode, locked into constant caregiving. Pairs with helpers could flex strategically between nursing, guarding, teaching, and territorial defense.
She also studied spotted hyena social behavior at UC Berkeley, examining how complex social structures and hierarchies influenced cooperation and survival.
Then she spent 25+ years working within teams to create environments for flourishing in humans at the intersection of leadership, philanthropy, and human systems across the human rights, biodiversity and wildlife conservation, education, climate, and social justice sectors.
Her career spans executive leadership in philanthropy, advisory work with funding networks, foundations, and major donors, and the building of international collaborations grounded in partnership and community knowledge.
Most recently, Kézha served as Vice President of External Relations at Global Greengrants Fund, where she helped shape and support one of the early and influential approaches to movement-led, trust-based grantmaking—centering locally rooted solutions for equitable change that understand contextual needs and stick.
She has served in advisory roles with the Human Rights Funders Network, the Biodiversity Funders Group, Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA), and Breakthrough Santa Fe, among others, supporting more equitable, partner-centered philanthropic practice.
She later trained as an integrative health coach, studying behavioral patterns that keep people stuck and how to support holistic and sustainable change.
This combination—wildlife biology research, integrative health training, ongoing studies in neuroscience and behavioral science, and 25+ years of leadership experience—allows Kézha to work at an unusual yet effective intersection: where biology meets leadership and organizational behavior, where stress responses shape leadership patterns, where nervous system dysregulation creates system-wide dysfunction.
She applies insights from neuroscience research, biology, and systems thinking to coach leaders and advise organizations on identifying and shifting the conditions—internal and external—that keep harmful patterns in place.