Songya Kesler joins Seven Stones Leadership as a consultant and coach who has 15 years of business experience spanning the US, Europe, and Asia. She offers Executive Coaching, Team Coaching, and Leadership Consulting. She works with leaders, innovators, and disruptors on a mission to find their inner truths and unlock their highest potential. Her clients are founders and tech leadership teams with 50 to 5,000 employees, addressing a range of industries, including SaaS, Consulting, Healthcare, Space, Financial Services, Crypto, Food and Tech companies. Some of her recent clients include Aztec, Progressive, Zalando, and Contentful.

She also teaches “Leadership and Ethics” as part of the core faculty at the Masters of the Environment program at the University of Colorado Boulder. Each fall, she guides over 100 students across three sections through a practical and rigorous curriculum to enable their leadership effectiveness to address some of the world’s biggest social and environmental challenges. She also weaves stories between industry and the classroom, between theory and application.

Songya works closely with leaders and their teams to develop the necessary leadership competencies to reach their next significant milestone. She helps individuals develop key leadership skills and self-awareness to uncover who they are and what they want so they can lead with confidence, certainty, and authenticity. She helps businesses to design and deliver leadership training programs that increase employee engagement, motivation, and overall productivity.

Songya is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Her leadership and coaching training comes from AOEC, CoActive, Happy Ltd, and LEVEL7. She began her career as an engineer and entrepreneur, but surrendered to the latent artist and creative within, offering her clients a unique approach that is as stimulating and mindset-altering as it is understandable and practical.

She received two engineering degrees from Stanford University and her MBA from the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. She recently relocated back to the US from Germany and lives with her family in Boulder, CO.