Our Team

Rob Sinclair is a human development specialist in the field of executive leadership and team performance. His passion for heart-centered, evolutionary leadership guides his involvement in various initiatives supporting human maturation and systems evolution.  He spends his days working with leaders and teams all over the globe - from startup founders/ CEO’s and ivy-league MBA students to senior executive leaders at Salesforce, Honda, Ernst and Young, GSK, Conservation International, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Microsoft, Google, and more.

Leveraging insights from his 25+ years in the martial arts, a BSc in biology, and his studies with some of the most cutting-edge practitioners in leadership development and systems change, Rob partners with leaders and organizations combining timeless principles and the latest advances in adult cognitive development, interpersonal neurobiology, agile transformation, and innovative systems evolution to develop more conscious leadership and create healthy, thriving organizations on behalf of a flourishing world.

Rob has been a student of the art of leadership for decades, sometimes knowingly. He is certified as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) from the International Coach Federation, as a Systemic Team Coach under Prof. Peter Hawkins and the Academy of Executive Coaching, as a CPCC from the Coaches Training Institute (CTI) as well as a graduate of their Co- Active Leadership Immersion Program, is a licensed practitioner of the Leadership Circle Profile, Collective Leadership Assessment and the Leadership System, and is a graduate of the Awareness-based Systems Change program at MIT. Rob holds an honours B.Sc. from Queen’s University, has earned black belts in multiple martial arts, is a musician, an avid reader, and a student of mindful meditation. When not traveling for business, he splits his time between Vancouver Island, Toronto, and Latin America.

Kathia is a compassionate and reflective executive coach, organizational development consultant, and facilitator with extensive international experience across North America, Latin America, and Europe. Kathia develops collaboration and innovation capacities for organizational effectiveness and systemic transformation.

As an executive coach, Kathia uses her keen listening and intuitive skills to guide her clients to a deeper understanding of unconscious patterns and assists them in becoming self-aware leaders focused on purpose. She combines her scholarly and professional expertise in systems thinking, feminine and indigenous ways of knowing, regenerative design, mindfulness, and collective wisdom to support leaders in transforming themselves and their organizations from the inside out to enable caring, inclusive, collaborative cultures.

With over 25 years of experience, Kathia has worked with leaders, managers and entrepreneurs addressing a wide range of leadership coaching and organizational consulting needs such as start-up support, leadership transitions, organizational restructuring, diversity and inclusion, racial justice initiatives, team development, conflict resolution, strategy design, program development, and innovation labs. Her workshops and trainings translate systems thinking into experiential practices for transformation and creative problem-solving. Some of her consulting and coaching clients include Accenture, the City of Los Angeles, Kaiser Permanente, Global Education Forum, Earth Justice, Greenpeace International, the Presidio Trust, Pixar, Roche-Genentech, RSF Social Finance, Salesforce, SEIU, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, Sisters of Providence, Twitter, and Verizon.

Kathia was the co-founder of the social enterprises The Journey Network, Global Leadership Lab and Syntony Quest. She was a faculty member at Saybrook University, Meridian University, Presidio Graduate School, and EGADE Business School (Mexico) where she taught systems thinking, leadership, organizational development, strategy and sustainability in their MBA and Ph.D. programs. She is on the Board of Directors of Credo High School and co-hosts the annual retreat Unfolding Wisdom: Re-Membering our Wholeness which integrates the experience of a leadership development training and a spiritual retreat.

Education and Professional Achievements:

Kathia is from Monterrey, Mexico where she earned a BA in Marketing and an M.Ed. in Cognitive Development from the Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM). She came to the USA as a Fulbright Scholar to pursue her PhD in Human Science with specialization in Social and Institutional Change at Saybrook University. Kathia is a certified executive coach in the Leadership Circle Profile, Be Well Lead Well Pulse Assessment, and a Permaculture designer. She is fluent in English and Spanish. Kathia is a mother, yoga practitioner, gardener and a book lover.

The context of professional life in organizations today is characterised by complex ecosystems of relationships, needs and interests that often feel fraught with uncertainty, polarization, and a great deal of anxiety. Leaders of relevance who can be a force for good amidst this reality are those who have maturity, human and heart-centered vision, and the skills to effectively influence diverse stakeholders—within and beyond organizational boundaries. These leaders, and those who aspire to be among them, are Lauren’s clients.

Lauren has studied education, ecological systems, psychology, political science, and contemplative traditions in order to better understand and address the deeply problematic realities of modern organizational life. Her experience as a leader in multiple fast-growing startup environments, and as a transformative leader within an educational non-profit, shaped her direct experience with the struggles and chronic suffering commonplace for leaders today. As a result of her experiences, Lauren has become a companion to leaders and teams who are committed to evolve how they express and share power, communicate, collaborate, and engage in generative conflict.

As a coach and partner, she is insightful, intuitive, and direct. Lauren joins a client’s world without judgement, with deep compassion, and with a keen intellect. For the last 15 years, she has helped her clients to: redesign and implement new governance systems; resolve problematic interpersonal and cultural dynamics; train leaders in the skills and knowledge for participatory leadership; design cascading culture-change programs; develop bespoke leader-development initiatives. She has spent more than a decade co-developing and delivering a renowned transformative training for group dynamics and advanced facilitation that has certified hundreds of coaches and consultants worldwide.

Lauren is a mother of two, parents a child with a chronic life-threatening illness, and has for many decades been engaged in contemplative practice. She is also poet and artist, and most of all, someone who lives genuinely from a vibrant and earnest love for the world. Lauren’s clients are whole humans whose lives she cares deeply about. It is her honor to support their well-being, meaningful work, and clarity of purpose. 

Two questions fuel Larry’s curiosity. “Why do we do the things we do?” And, “Why don’t we do more of what we know to be effective?”  Said another way, helping people close the gap between what they know to be effective and what they actually put into practice is for most of us our developmental growth edge and the focus of his work.

This focus on coaching grew out of decades of experience helping leaders implement change initiatives including: process improvement, technical change implementation, cultural transformation and team building.  One primary learning is that there is much more to sustainable change than cognitive knowing and having the requisite skills.  Effective leadership is as much about who we are as it is about what we do.

This leadership and coaching experience spans a wide variety of circumstances, represented by the following.  He has worked or consulted at:
   -AT&T transforming the mammoth (over 1 million employees the time) engineering driven monopoly into a much more agile customer focused enterprise in a competitive environment
   -The Panamanian Canal Commission as it prepared to take over control of the Panama Canal from the U.S. government
   -Golder Associates, a global engineering firm, designing and delivering a leadership development program to their principals as they grew from 1800 to over 8,000 people while protecting their culture they held so dearly
   -HP as they prepared for the Y2K debacle and then as they reinvented themselves entering a new century
   -Oracle, developing a leadership team as they created new business processes and structure to create 24/7 global support for their customers across 140 countries
   -Roche as they reimagined their leadership structure and process for the clinical trials that develop new medicines
   -The United States Federal Judicial Center as a faculty member in their Leadership Development Program
   -General Electric in their Leadership Development Program
   -The United States Naval Academy preparing newly commissioned Naval officers for their first military assignment

Along the way he has had a lot of fun.  About a decade ago, Larry embarked on an intensive journey studying developmental coaching specifically in the leadership arena. This has included extensive coursework in Adult Development Theory, the Immunity to Change model, Growth Edge Coaching, Conscious Leadership, the NeuroScience of change, Dialogue as a communication structure, and much much more. (He is known as a bit of a learning nerd.). A superpower of his is taking the complex and making it available to people.

At this stage of Larry’s life his energy has shifted to this work of supporting impact initiatives and organizations doing the work that will result in a better world in which his grandchildren can thrive.

Larry lives in Walnut Creek, CA with his wife of 35 plus years and their cats. Their passions are spoiling grandchildren, adventure travel, native plants, photography and sailing.