The Path Here

My journey to this work wasn't linear, but every piece connects.

Wildlife Research

My MSc in Biological Sciences trained me to observe the nuances of wild mammalian behavior patterns. By nuances, I mean the subtle ways they interact with each other and their environment to ensure survival.

After years of researching social dynamics, what struck me was that wild animals communicate directly and clearly, in response to their authentic needs rather than from programmed perfection like we humans tend to do.

Nonprofit Leadership

For over 25 years, I was on leadership teams of mission-driven organizations. I learned to look beyond the strategies and processes to uncover the cultures that nurtured well-being and created fulfilled, dedicated staff and grantee partners (internationally and nationally), as well as those that depleted their teams and grantee partners, and their morale, and the consequences.

I watched countless people (including myself) burn out trying to fulfill a mission because it felt more important than themselves.

I saw the gap everywhere: leaders who knew their teams were depleted but didn't know how to change the systems causing it, organizations with inspirational vision statements operate unknowingly on extractive models, and people who understood the problem intellectually but couldn't shift their behavior. Even while staff turnover, mental health, and sick leave grew.

The Breaking Point

When my health crashed, I had to wake up. There was a gap between knowing what I needed and doing it. My body had been sending signals for years, and I had perfected deluding myself about their importance.

Health Coaching

This led me to become a certified holistic health coach, where I learned how to bridge biological wisdom with behavioral change. I did not discover this through self-help books or discipline (though I used both), but by understanding our nervous systems and how to redesign our internal and external environment.

What I Bring Together

The wildlife research taught me to see what authentic regulation and communication look like when not overridden by cultural conditioning.

The nonprofit leadership showed me how these patterns scale—how individual override becomes organizational dysfunction, and how even the best intentions can't overcome systems designed against human thriving.

The health coaching gave me practical tools for closing the gap between knowing and doing, for working with biology instead of against it.

What I Do Now

I work with three categories of people:

1. Individuals navigating burnout and behaviors that deplete rather than sustain them,

2. Philanthropists wanting to ensure the impact of their giving matches their vision,

3. Organizations ready to build cultures where people and missions thrive.

I bring together biology, behavioral science, somatic wisdom, and systems design to help you close the gap between knowing and doing and to create changes that stick.

Let's Talk

Whether you're an individual trying to stop the depletion cycle, a philanthropist wanting to maximize your legacy's impact, or an organization ready to redesign your culture from the ground up, there's a different way forward.

Please reach out for guidance that works with how humans truly function.

Be Well. Kézha