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Meet the team

Michelle

Moore

Hernandez

CEO.

Breakthrough Coach. Org Culture Geek.

Secret weapon

Michelle gets at the heart of complex leadership challenges, surfacing unspoken conversations in ways that bring healing and possibility.



Specializations

Executive leadership. Leadership teams. Human centered change management. Organizational culture. Facilitation.



Her story

Michelle founded Leading Elephants to provide a proof point that achieving great impact and caring for the humans involved don’t have to be exclusive. As CEO, she champions the head, heart, and backbone method across our practices and directs the organization toward its human centered mission. Prior to forming Leading Elephants in 2010, Michelle served as Senior Leadership Director for The Broad Residency, a fellowship program designed to place, train and develop talented leaders in urban education. In this role, she designed the Residency’s comprehensive leadership curriculum, led a team of transformational leadership coaches and managed communities of practice to support residents in maximizing their impact and development. Michelle began her career at PwC where she was one of only two women partners in the Firm’s US Mergers and Acquisitions practice.



When not at work

Michelle lives with her husband and twin boys in Charlottesville, Virginia. She is obsessed with farflung global adventures and thrives on the adrenaline rush of a good skydive or powder day on the slopes.



AmbeR

Mackay

Managing Director.  Strategic Leader.  Jane of All Trades.

Secret weapon

Amber turns messy, ethereal ideas into concrete, achievable realities.



Specializations

Heart-centered, systems level leadership. Strategic planning. Complex organizational change. Operationalizing and impact monitoring.



Her story

As Managing Director at Leading Elephants, Amber helps to extract the magic in human-centered leadership and create products that meet the array of organizational needs. Prior to working at Leading Elephants, Amber served as a leader in several capacities at Achievement First. In her early years at the charter management organization, she led a team of data strategists and supported many cross-cutting initiatives. Later, Amber served as a chief of staff in the COO Office. Amber has also served as a coach, strategy consultant, and interim Chief of Staff with charter networks across the US. Amber’s early career was as an economic consultant at Analysis Group where she supported expert witnesses testifying in corporate litigation.



Amber is passionate about

Helping leaders thrive. She was first exposed to the transformative work at Leading Elephants as a coachee, and she loves to share how her ongoing journey toward greater human-centered leadership enriches her life.



When not at work

Amber is based in Menlo Park, California. She loves her family, travel, her faith, and good food. And (to the chagrin and begrudged appreciation of her recipients!), she enjoys infusing work with cheesy memes and impromptu celebrations.



Marion

biglan

Coach. Community Builder. Working Group Magician.

Secret weapon

Michelle gets at the heart of complex leadership challenges, surfacing unspoken conversations in ways that bring healing and possibility.



Specializations

Executive leadership. Leadership teams. Human centered change management. Organizational culture. Facilitation.



Her story

Michelle founded Leading Elephants to provide a proof point that achieving great impact and caring for the humans involved don’t have to be exclusive. As CEO, she champions the head, heart, and backbone method across our practices and directs the organization toward its human centered mission. Prior to forming Leading Elephants in 2010, Michelle served as Senior Leadership Director for The Broad Residency, a fellowship program designed to place, train and develop talented leaders in urban education. In this role, she designed the Residency’s comprehensive leadership curriculum, led a team of transformational leadership coaches and managed communities of practice to support residents in maximizing their impact and development. Michelle began her career at PwC where she was one of only two women partners in the Firm’s US Mergers and Acquisitions practice.



When not at work

Michelle lives with her husband and twin boys in Charlottesville, Virginia. She is obsessed with farflung global adventures and thrives on the adrenaline rush of a good skydive or powder day on the slopes.



Miwa

Kamras

Leadership coach.

facilitator.

talent guru.

Secret weapon

Miwa grounds her work in trust, connection, and celebrating strengths to support leaders in reaching their goals.



Specializations

Management. Talent Practices. Leadership Development. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.



Her story

Miwa is a coach and consultant at MPKamras Consulting and is a longstanding member of the Leading Elephants corps. Miwa spent fourteen years developing and leading teams at Teach For America, including serving as the Executive Director of Teach For America DC and a Senior Managing Director on the Human Assets team. She began her career as an elementary school teacher in the DC Public Schools and Atlanta Public Schools. Miwa is a Certified Professional Diversity Coach through CoachDiversity Institute.



Miwa is passionate about

Miwa is passionate about building relationships, cultivating community, and coaching and developing leaders to maximize their impact. Throughout her career, she has partnered with a range of mission driven leaders and organizations to build more diverse and inclusive teams and to ensure that equity is the foundation of the work.



When not at work

Miwa lives in Richmond, Virginia with her husband and sons. She loves playing touch football with her family, making playlists for every occasion, and recommending amazing children’s books.



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