Songya Kesler joins Seven Stones Leadership as a leadership consultant and executive and team coach. She is a three- time Silicon Valley entrepreneur with 15 years of business experience spanning North America, Europe, and Asia. She works with leaders, innovators, and disruptors on a mission to find their inner truths and unlock their highest potential. Her clients are ambitious, hyper-intelligent founders and tech leadership teams with 30 to 3,000 employees, addressing a range of industries such as SaaS, Health-, Space-, Fin-, Food-, Crypto-, and Retail-Tech.
She supports her clients with a comprehensive suite of offerings that includes executive coaching, team coaching, offsite facilitation, leadership consulting, and management training. Songya works closely with leaders and their teams to develop the necessary leadership competencies to reach their next significant milestone. She helps individuals to 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. Some of her recent clients include Aztec, Contentful, Formo, Zalando, and N26.
As an adjunct faculty at the University of Colorado, she teaches Leadership & Ethics to the next generation of socio-environmental and sustainability leaders in the Masters of the Environment (MENV) program. Her curriculum equips students to practice leadership as changemakers grounded in social responsibility. She approaches leadership as a practice that calls for alignment of vision, action, and impact, which requires intrapersonal, interpersonal, and collective skill and insight.
She received two engineering degrees from Stanford University and her MBA from the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. In 2021, she relocated back to the US from Germany and lives with her family in Boulder, CO. When not working, Songya can be found making pottery or sitting in tea practice.
For this learning path, you will participate in the 4 virtual learning sessions and be enrolled in one of three Racial Affinity Groups:
1) People who identify as People of Color (Black, Indigenous, Asian, Hispanic)
2) People who identify as Bi-Racial or Multi-Racial
3) People who identify as White
*More specific affinity groups may be formed upon the completion of course registration
We believe that it is important to do our own work with people with similar racial experiences to build capacity for cross-race dialogue that supports authentic relationships and deep belonging for everyone. We will ask you to self-select into the group that best aligns with your racial identity. We recognize that for some this is not a simple choice and we are available to have a conversation with you to support your selection.
Together we will:
Where: Online Zoom Sessions
Time: 11am-12:30pm ET/8am PT/4pm GMT*
When: 5-Sessions scheduled between Sept 28, 2023 – Jan 26, 2024 (see below)
*All sessions will run from 11am-12:30pm ET.
Racial Affinity Group Schedule | |
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Thurs, September 28, 2023 — 11am-12:30pm ET | Kick-off/ Authentic Communication |
Thurs, November 2, 2023 — 11am-12:30pm ET | Unpacking Our Racial Autobiographies |
Friday, November 17, 2023 — 11am-12:30pm ET | Self-Compassion |
Thurs, December 7, 2023 — 11am-12:30pm ET | What is Sustainable Abundance? |
Thurs, January 25, 2024 — 11am-12:30pm ET | Inclusive Leadership |
Upon registration, you will be directed to our online community space, where all aspects of your program will live, including: pre-work, event links, and a space to connect with fellow participants.
These four learning sessions will provide you with a new view and innovative framing of the problem as we see it. Below is a brief description of what will take place in each session:
Where: Online Zoom Learning Sessions
Time: 11am-1pm ET/8am PT/4pm GMT*
When: 4-sessions scheduled between Sept 21, 2023 – Jan 18, 2024 (see details below)
*All sessions will run from 11am-1pm ET.
Learning Session Schedule | |
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Thurs, September 21, 2023 — 11 - 1pm ET | Why Context Matters |
Thurs, October 26, 2023 — 11 - 1pm ET | Unpacking Trauma |
Thurs, November 16, 2023 — 11 - 1pm ET | Global Anti-Black Racism: A History Lesson |
Thurs, January 18, 2024 — 11 - 1pm ET | Understanding Power |
Upon registration, you will be directed to our online community space, where all aspects of your modular program will live, including: pre-work, event links, and a space to connect with fellow participants.