MIR STRATEGIES GROUP - Key Persons
Allison Kenny received her coaching certification through Leadership that Works, Coaching for Transformation in 2020. After 15 years of experience as a Co-Founder + Creative Director of an award-winning B-Corp, she became a coach to stand with folx ready to deepen their impact. She's coached corporate and non-profit leaders through her work at Be the Change Consulting and Hella Social Impact. When Allison's not coaching, she's creating antiracist theater with her wife of 20 years and building forts with her neurodivergent daughter along the Rio Grande.
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Founder of Conspire for Good
Benjamin is the founder of Conspire for Good, a strategy firm that helps progressive organizations and social impact companies achieve their goals and scale their impact. He's consulted to clients including UNICEF, Ford Foundation, Illumen Capital, NAACP, SEIU, MoveOn.org, Free Speech TV, and The Inter-American Development Bank. He also provided counsel to The White House Office of Public Engagement under President Obama.
As a coach, Benjamin works to understand his client's needs and opportunities for personal growth and leadership development, creating a blueprint to guide sessions. He also serves as a strategic thought partner-drawing on his diverse background in strategic communications, organizational development, conflict resolution, and business intelligence research.
Benjamin believes our best, most impactful work in the world comes about when we're deeply connected to a sense of mission or purpose. Toward that end, some coaching sessions may focus on forging greater internal alignment-helping clients find clarity and cultivate confidence in their capacities to create change.
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Consultant
- Coach & Facilitator
Christine Wang is a coach, consultant, and facilitator who is fiercely committed to creating a more just and equitable world. She is a first-generation Chinese-American woman who was raised in Texas, found herself in NYC, and currently lives in San Francisco. Over the last 10+ years in the corporate and nonprofit sectors, Christine has worn many hats-team member, manager, volunteer, board member, grantee, funder. These identities and experiences (and many more) have shaped her collaborative, asset-based, and feedback-driven approach to supporting individuals and organizations.
Prior to starting her independent practice, Christine was an associate director for a philanthropic programs focused on leadership and organizational development for nonprofit grantees. In addition to client work, Christine is a licensed Awaken delivery partner, providing modern and experiential diversity and inclusion trainings. She also chairs the board of the Asian Women's Shelter, a multilingual, multi-ethnic organization working to eliminate domestic violence by promoting the social, economic and political self-determination of women. Christine holds a B.S. from New York University and is a certified coach through Leadership that Works.
Deena combines her background in Public Relations, Acting, and Clinical Social Work to help companies build strong, impactful leaders. Through values-driven coaching and formal trainings, she helps her clients electrify their executive presence, establish and achieve professional growth goals and enhance their communication style in order to achieve lasting impact.
Deena has extensive experience and knowledge in the fields of women's leadership development, executive presence, influencing without authority, and assessment. Deena has worked with executives in the world of Real Estate, Finance, Media, Biotech and Pharmaceuticals. Clients include executives at PGIM Real Estate, Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, Sanofi Pharmaceuticals, Buzzfeed, CNN and Mt. Sinai Hospital.
A member of the International Coaching Federation and the National Association of Social Workers, Deena received her BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, her Masters in Social Work from New York University and her Coaching Certification from The Coaches Training Institute. Deena is also certified in the Hogan Assessment
Laura Gale (she/her) is a change-maker who works with change-makers. She is a champion of mission-driven leaders and a passionate cultivator of spaces for reflection, experimentation, strategy and growth. As a coach, Laura partners with leaders working on social, civic and organizational change. She has extensive experience in the areas of change management, team development and organizational culture and works with leaders across a range of industries and sectors. Laura also routinely partners with clients designing and launching new programs/initiatives/teams and enjoys coaching leaders as they step into new roles, challenges and seasons of life. She brings an interdisciplinary perspective to her work and an approach that is informed by her background in the arts and her deep commitment to equity and inclusion.
Laura is the founder of Nightingale Coaching & Consulting and serves an adjunct professor at NYU and The New School, where she teaches graduate courses on leadership and change. Laura previously worked at Coro New York Leadership Center, serving as Senior Director of Training and Consulting, and prior to that, as Director of the Coro Fellows Program. She holds a Master's degree in Nonprofit Management and a Post-Master's Certificate in Organization Development from The New School, along with undergraduate degrees in Theatre and Sociology.
Allison Kenny received her coaching certification through Leadership that Works, Coaching for Transformation in 2020. After 15 years of experience as a Co-Founder + Creative Director of an award-winning B-Corp, she became a coach to stand with folx ready to deepen their impact. She's coached corporate and non-profit leaders through her work at Be the Change Consulting and Hella Social Impact. When Allison's not coaching, she's creating antiracist theater with her wife of 20 years and building forts with her neurodivergent daughter along the Rio Grande.
Nitika Raj is a queer South Asian immigrant, spiritual seeker, and lifelong learner. She is founder and principal at Moksh Consulting whose vision is to shift collective consciousness towards greater peace, connection and joy. Nitika's work is infused with the values of courage, compassion, resilience, authenticity, dignity and joy. She loves co-creating spaces with her clients to unfurl their essential wholeness, purpose and bliss, while navigating challenges with grace. She brings an equity lens to everything, everyone, everywhere.
Nitika holds a Masters degree in Social Work and is an ICF Certified Professional Coach. Her background is in anti-violence movements using arts-based organizing for change, and ending the gendered racial wealth divide. Born in India and raised in Kuwait, Atlanta, and Seattle, she now lives on Lenape lands in Brooklyn, New York City. In her free time Nitika loves to immerse in science fiction and fantasy, music, healing waters, divinity, and beloved community.
Shannon Wheatley, founder of Lane 9, supports leaders, teams, and organizations working towards multi-generational change. Wheatley has over a decade of experience leading schools, school systems, and nonprofits. He's passionate about facilitating experiences that enable leaders to reimagine the future while developing the hard and soft skills needed to lead transformational change. He lives in Sacramento and enjoys cooking, Jazz, coaching youth sports, and spending time with his family.
Job Titles:
- Coach & Facilitator
- Founder of Persist Education Group
Terrill Thompson works with coaching clients at the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual levels to overcome blocks to reaching individual and collective aspirations. Goals range widely from owning individual and collective power, to equitable leadership, to compassionate boundary setting. Terrill supports leaders to develop their emotional and cultural intelligence, which is key to their ability to promote vibrant, resilient, and sustainable lives inside and outside of work. Terrill lives in community on a permaculture farm and brings their life experience as a white trans nonbinary person and a member of a multiracial family to their commitment to build a more equitable world. Terrill holds a Masters degree in organization development from American University, a coaching certificate from Teleos Leadership Institute, and is trained in Parts Work - a coaching approach that promotes sustainable behavior changes through inner healing.
Sharifa Edwards, founder of Persist Education Group, is passionate about coaching and developing leaders to think, believe, and act differently so that those they serve will be empowered to do the same. With over 15 years of experience leading, coaching, and driving transformation in schools, organizations, and non-profits, she deeply believes that transformation is not only aspirational but actionable and attainable through the persistent examination of self, systems, and impact combined with the development of the skills and tenacity to boldly act.
Terrill Thompson works with coaching clients at the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual levels to overcome blocks to reaching individual and collective aspirations. Goals range widely from owning individual and collective power, to equitable leadership, to compassionate boundary setting. Terrill supports leaders to develop their emotional and cultural intelligence, which is key to their ability to promote vibrant, resilient, and sustainable lives inside and outside of work. Terrill lives in community on a permaculture farm and brings their life experience as a white trans nonbinary person and a member of a multiracial family to their commitment to build a more equitable world. Terrill holds a Masters degree in organization development from American University, a coaching certificate from Teleos Leadership Institute, and is trained in Parts Work - a coaching approach that promotes sustainable behavior changes through inner healing.