Erica partners with individuals in all stages of life and career to develop the skills, resilience, commitment, and courage, to manifest their leadership aspirations, personally and professionally. Her coaching and teaching is founded on hands-on skills practice to cultivate "internal" grounded awareness and presence, along with “external” interpersonal and influence skills, critical for leading effectively in today’s diverse and dynamic global context. She integrates somatic (whole body) approaches with research and conceptual frameworks in areas including: emotions, neuroscience, interpersonal and group dynamics, management theory, diversity and inclusion, systems thinking.
Having lived, worked, and traveled extensively in Asia, Latin America and Europe, Erica brings nuanced awareness and skill to issues of social identity and diversity as she supports leaders and teams to create open and inclusive work environments. Currently, Erica teaches a course, “Interpersonal Skills and Embodied Leadership," and UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. Her coaching and consulting focus is working with leaders, teams, and organizations to build cultures of learning and collaboration across language, culture, power and status, and other dimensions of diversity and difference.
From 2008-2015 she helped deliver the most popular class on leadership and interpersonal dynamics at Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), as well as coached senior leaders through an Executive Education Advanced Leadership Program. She has been part of a team of senior facilitators who have designed and delivered a workshop on unconscious bias for full-time Stanford MBA students. She is also a speaker for Stanford Design School's "Mindful Activism" class.
Erica holds a MA in Organization Development from Sonoma State University and a BA from Stanford University. Her work and approaches have been deeply informed by the following mentors, colleagues, and methodologies:
Having lived, worked, and traveled extensively in Asia, Latin America and Europe, Erica brings nuanced awareness and skill to issues of social identity and diversity as she supports leaders and teams to create open and inclusive work environments. Currently, Erica teaches a course, “Interpersonal Skills and Embodied Leadership," and UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. Her coaching and consulting focus is working with leaders, teams, and organizations to build cultures of learning and collaboration across language, culture, power and status, and other dimensions of diversity and difference.
From 2008-2015 she helped deliver the most popular class on leadership and interpersonal dynamics at Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), as well as coached senior leaders through an Executive Education Advanced Leadership Program. She has been part of a team of senior facilitators who have designed and delivered a workshop on unconscious bias for full-time Stanford MBA students. She is also a speaker for Stanford Design School's "Mindful Activism" class.
Erica holds a MA in Organization Development from Sonoma State University and a BA from Stanford University. Her work and approaches have been deeply informed by the following mentors, colleagues, and methodologies:
- Systems leadership – Joanna Macy, Larry Dressler (Blue Wing Consulting), Linda Smith (Reading Village)
- Interpersonal and group dynamics – Scott Bristol, Leslie Chin (Stanford GSB)
- Somatic approaches to leadership development and healing trauma - Tommy Woon, Richard Strozzi (Strozzi Institute), Staci Haines (generative somatics)
- Interpersonal neurobiology and neuroplasticity – Daniel Siegel (UCLA School of Medicine, Mindsight Institute)
- Relationship between neuroscience and leadership development – David Rock (NeuroLeadership Institute)