MICHAEL KOEHLER | CEO
Michael partners with his clients to choreograph powerful leadership development programs. A former national champion in Rock ‘n’ Roll Acrobatic Dance, he is attuned to tensions between technique and creativity, between order and improvisation, and the critical importance of timing.
TIM O'BRIEN | co-Founder and learning & development specialist
Tim is a lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he has won multiple teaching awards for his leadership and adult development courses. He also chairs the popular Leadership for the 21st Century executive program. He serves KONU’s clients by bridging best practices in leadership development to the day-to-day reality they face as practitioners.
NETALY OPHIR FLINT | PARTNER
Netaly loves working with individuals, executives, and organizations to help them adapt and thrive as they tackle complex challenges in a rapidly changing world. Before KONU, Netaly was the CEO of the Reut Group - a cutting edge strategy and leadership Think Tank based in Tel Aviv.
ELISABETH HEID | COO
Elisabeth loves supporting and coaching purpose-driven executives as well as designing and running leadership development programs that help change agents maximize their impact.
JUDIT TEICHERT | Associate Partner
Judit seeks to help her clients untangle complex challenges and to implement new and sustainable behaviors. She holds a Master in Psychology from Marburg University, Germany and has been working as a licensed cognitive behavioral therapist and consultant with individuals, teams, and organizations in Germany and Switzerland for more than ten years.
Joshua Albert | Associate Partner
Josh is passionate about supporting mission-driven individuals and teams to make real progress on the things that matter by applying adaptive and developmental practices in their work. His coaching, facilitation, and organizational development practice is intended to help his clients do just that. He partners with clients as they think systemically about the challenges they face and exercise creative leadership to discover new possibilities and latent capabilities. He draws on the tools of organizational management, political and economic development, Adaptive Leadership, and adult learning.
ANDY CAHILL | Associate Partner
Andy Cahill is a transformative coach who works with purpose-driven leaders and entrepreneurs to do their greatest work. His coaching and facilitation help executives create bold and adaptive organizational cultures, so that they can attract and retain top talent, innovate at scale, and make a difference in the world. His coaching is steeped in both ancient wisdom and modern psychology, and his approach emphasizes patience, self-compassion, and a commitment to personal growth.
ARIANA ABADIAN-HEIFETZ | Engagement Manager
Ariana believes sustainable change is a collaborative adaptive process that is co-created by communities. She brings with her a social-emotional learning expertise and is a facilitator on adaptive leadership, organizational development, conflict resolution, and identity-based discrimination. Ariana is passionate about supporting individuals and organizations break cycles of constraint through redefining identities and changing our relationships to authority, uncertainty, vulnerability, and our personal hungers.
Emily Wyner | Engagement Manager
Emily is a skilled facilitator and communicator who finds joy and meaning in building capacity with and within mission-driven leaders and organizations. Her approach is grounded in frameworks from applied positive psychology, systems thinking, and organizational development and leadership. An improv school graduate, Emily believes that play can be transformative.
Michal Levy | Senior Associate
Michal’s passion is to provide the best leadership training available, even to those who do not hold positions of authority in organizations or communities, and to assist them in developing the ability to face complex challenges and drive change in the systems in which they operate, their lives, and beyond.
Krish Jaiman | Senior Associate
Krish believes that to grow as leaders, we must be willing to confront and shape the most neglected parts of ourselves with love and intention. His work as an Equity & Inclusion Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education turned the lens in on himself, where he learned that being a leader starts with the practice of challenging one’s own assumptions, loyalties, and traumas within small and large-scale groups.
Gai Ben Dor | Senior Associate
Gai is passionate about empowering individuals and teams in fostering growth and positive change. His focus lies in encouraging personal growth and cultivating harmonious relationships, as he devotes his efforts to empowering others to become the best versions of themselves. Drawing from a diverse range of expertise, Gai delivers unique perspectives that resonate with and uplift those he works with.
April Nunes Tucker (PhD) | Senior Associate
April is passionate about cultivating spaces where her clients feel supported in diving deep into challenging adaptive and developmental work. She does this through a commitment to bringing awareness to the physical body to help highlight underlying beliefs and patterns with an aim to create conditions for choice and change.
Gentry Doane | Senior Associate
Gentry loves the beautiful mess that is human relationships. With the understanding that, at our core, humans are imperfect beings seeking meaning and connection, Gentry finds joy in exploring precisely that with his clients to unleash new possibilities.
Elise Alexander | Associate
Elise is passionate about supporting people and organizations to develop new capacities and make purposeful change.
CANDICE A. CRAWFORD-ZAKIAN | AFFILIATE CONSULTANT
Candice A. Crawford-Zakian, Psy.D. is a psychoanalytically oriented consulting psychologist and executive coach with expertise in the convergence of leadership, social identity, and unconscious group dynamics. Her practice is interdisciplinary and draws from principles of psychology, design thinking, and the creative arts.
ROSI GREENBERG | AFFILIATE CONSULTANT
Rosi is passionate about helping people make the internal and external shifts they need to lead with more clarity, creativity, and effectiveness in a changing world. Rosi is a Leadership Coach and Facilitator and has worked with groups across the US, including Bloomberg City Leadership Program mayors, female philanthropists of Women Moving Millions, fellows of Neiman Foundation for Journalism, youth activists, campaign organizers, and more. Rosi also draws on her skill as an artist to develop new visual models of Graphic Coaching and Graphic Facilitation.
Kate Neville | AFFILIATE CONSULTANT
Kate Neville is an experienced leadership coach with expertise helping highly accomplished professionals move from thought to action, speak up effectively, and develop relationships across differences as they move into more senior roles in management and leadership of offices, departments, teams and functions.
Laura Bailey | Affiliate Senior Consultant
Laura is committed to unleashing the potential that lies in most teams and to supporting leaders as they untangle the obstacles in their path. Her journey in service of communities and teams seeking to move towards resilience and peace has taught her that she is most content when working at the intersection of differing perspectives, happiest when she is asked to listen, query, and hold space for conversations that may feel difficult, because her heart knows that’s where learning happens.
DR. DOROTHEE KAISER | Affiliate Consultant
Dorothee is a certified Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and holds the certification of PCC with the International Coaching Federation. She loves providing individual coaching, as well as designing and running leadership programs and giving keynotes. She enjoys working with clients who want to overcome their fears and self-limiting beliefs and who search for the courage to leave their comfort zones and transform crisis into personal growth.
Nicolás Parra-Herrera | Affiliate consultant
Nicolas is a philosopher and lawyer passionate about dialogue and jazz. He is a doctoral candidate and fellow at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School where he is a lecturer on negotiation, mediation, and leadership. He loves to facilitate difficult conversations, teach curiosity and engage in Socratic self-examination practices to transform our relation with ourselves, others, and our surroundings.
Caroline Kiarie | Affiliate Consultant
Caroline has a passion for supporting leaders and organizations to maximize their impact and presence. She has over 11 years’ experience leading teams and social programs in the non-profit, philanthropic and intergovernmental sectors across Africa, working most recently with the United Nations Development Program. As a leadership coach, Caroline partners with clients in a journey of self-awareness, discovery and embodiment.
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Nikola Ilic | Affiliate Consultant
Nikola is a leadership development and citizen engagement professional, Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, social entrepreneur, and executive coach who has led and participated in various community-building and leadership development projects in government and private sectors worldwide. Nikola brings innovative frameworks, including Adaptive Leadership, Adult Development, Community Organizing, and Just in Time Leadership, into his practice and coaching.
Gabriel Wilson | Affiliate Consultant
Gabe Wilson is a KONU affiliate whose work helps unlock the power of radical collaboration in service of enacting greater freedom, fairness and compassion. He is a facilitator, advisor, and co-author of the book Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart. His work takes us to the intersection of social justice and purpose driven enterprises, design thinking, human psychology, and group dynamics.
ERICH NUSSBAUMER | Affiliate Consultant
Erich is driven by a commitment to helping others find and act on their unique purpose to create thriving organizations. Grounded in curiosity, he empowers innovators and teams to challenge the status quo and achieve their full potential.