Shenandoah Weiss is…

a somatic leadership and career coach, mindfulness teacher, and corporate learning specialist with over 20 years of experience developing, managing, and evaluating education programs. Her passion for promoting embodied learning, creativity, and prosocial awareness in the workplace led her to found mindfulness practice programs at Uber and several other hypergrowth tech companies where she also coached software engineers and developed training programs focused on improving team dynamics, people skills, and career growth.

Shenandoah has a private coaching and facilitation practice, Sculptural Everyday, and partners with executive training companies, like ExecOnline, to provide leadership coaching to their clients. She recently served as the Director of Embodied Learning & Development at Mindful Life, Mindful Work: a boutique coaching and training firm focused on improving the leadership capacity of corporate professionals. In the past, Shenandoah was based at UC Berkeley’s Center for Executive Education where she developed curriculum and managed training programs for corporate professionals on topics such as leadership, innovation, communication, and change readiness. Shenandoah is also committed to promoting education equity and has managed projects and published articles on the use of open-source educational resources and collaborative teaching and learning practices in high schools and community colleges as part of the research team at the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education.

Currently she is most excited by her emergent work in a few different realms: 1. Helping clients align with the seasonal cycles found in nature to cultivate more contentment, creativity, and flow in how they live and work, and 2. Exploring the intersection of somatic practice and pathways toward body inclusivity and liberation as a way to unlock untapped wisdom in the body and cultivate more depth in our relationship with ourself, others, and the communities we serve.

Shenandoah is accredited by the International Coaching Federation as a Professional Certified Coach and received her coaches training from the Strozzi Institute. She also received her M.A. in social science from the University of Chicago and B.A. from UCLA in anthropology and communications. Outside of her professional activities, she spends a lot of time dancing, enjoying nature, and making art.