Create a World-class Company People Are Proud to Build With You.
The kind that attracts top talent, unlocks exceptional team performance,
and expands your own capacity as a leader—without losing yourself or what makes your org culture special as you scale.
Hi I’m Charlene,
The Team Psychologist
for Conscious Founders and Executives Leading High-Growth Startups
I help growth-stage founders and executives build companies people brag about working for by becoming leaders others want to follow. Together, we develop leadership teams that decide faster as high-performing units and create connected, high-trust cultures that maximize talent and keeps great people all-in on the mission for the long haul.
Evolve Your Leadership. Elevate Your Team.
Culture starts with you. Personal coaching is the fastest way to breakthrough in your leadership, create a world class organization, build the capacity required to steward the mission at your leading edge.
I create behavior change culture programs and off-sites that facilitates organizational coherence. When coherence is strong, everything accelerates and flows. When it breaks down, everything slows and becomes chaotic.
For Founders
and Teams on
The Leading Edge
Capitalism shapes our shared future.
As a leader, you influence an entire ecosystem - the people within your org and who they come home to, everyone that interacts with your service/product, and all that is touched by your choices. This is a huge responsibility.
I partner with leaders shaping the future because my mission is to help you build it intentionally. Business as a force for good is one of the best ways we make change.
I’m here to help you create a world-class organization that enriches your people, delivers meaningful impact, and models a better future for business.
Where a culture of care and team as community becomes your most powerful competitive edge.
Charlene was my most reliable and steady partner for a very transformative year. She stood for my greatness with unwavering support. I felt both cared for and called forward to be a better leader. She helped me create my most successful launch and develop multiple new products. She helped me build a team that will support the evolution of my mission, and my business foundation is set to scale. I’ve also grown significantly over the last year of working together. I even met my life partner! Charlene elevates every space she’s in and raises the standard.
-Adam Roa
Entrepreneur, World-renown thought leader
Hi, I’m Charlene
I help growth-stage founders and executives become leaders others want to follow while building teams that decide faster, perform better, and stay longer.
For over 13 years I’ve guided leaders at pivotal moments such as scaling, expanding team, navigating leadership transitions, evolving culture, climbing the “second mountain” following an exit or professional athlete retirement, rebuilding after loss, starting a new venture.
10 years advising and coaching founders
Master’s in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Harvard
Co-founded 3 companies (one successful exit)
Built multiple global and local communities
Facilitated 100+ transformational experiences worldwide
Thousands of hours in training in leadership, communication, relational intelligence, meditation, breathwork and human flourishing
20 years as an Experience Designer
My clients say I’m in a “league of my own” for my commitment to what my colleague Eric Kaufmann beautifully describes:
“The work of a conscious leader is where an unrelenting commitment to results combines with an unyielding regard for spirit.“
I’m a pragmatic optimist and an integral practitioner working at all levels of the ecosystem: individuals, couples, co-founders, teams, communities and organizations. All my engagements integrate the principles of: courageous leadership, evolutionary purpose, care for the soul, exemplary achievement and whole-system coherence.
Ready to Build a Company Worth Believing In?
Let’s create a place where people do their best work,
feel deeply connected to the mission,
and scale with you—
with clarity, coherence, and purpose.
The Pragmatic Optimist
A Home for shaping your contribution in a world full of pain and promise
A Companion and creative partner to lead courageously and live fully, leaving nothing on the table
A Calling to live the question "How can I be of greatest service?" while actively creating your best life ever, building dope things, personally flourishing and living all in every day.
A Return to First Principles. Less Noise. More Signal.
