“I highly recommend Valerie for her exceptional coaching skills in mindfulness for peak performance. Through our sessions, I learned valuable techniques for cultivating mindfulness and enhancing my performance. She created a supportive and non-judgmental space that allowed me to explore my thoughts and emotions freely. Thanks to her coaching, I now have practical skills I can apply both in my work and personal life.”
/ Lionel Lim, Director at Avnet /
“Valerie is a skilled professional with great communication skills. She co-led an Employee Resource Group (ERG) and using her experience and organizational expertise, was able to help her colleagues engage in thoughtful, reflective, and constructive conversations about race, equity, inclusion, and belonging. She has the ability to both gently challenge and be challenged by others, able to reshape her own views as well as help others view the world through different lenses.”
/ Tom Wagner, Senior VP of Business Integrity at Advocates /
“Valerie’s leadership in antiracist work at Cambridge Insight Meditation Center was both as a facilitator and an organizational change agent. Valerie is confident, authentic, and candid in groups - able to hold space for messiness while continually pointing the way towards courageous investigation, growth, and action - and her vision for personal, interpersonal, and organizational change that leads to liberation - informed by deep accountability relationships with People of Color and her own spiritual practice - has been a north star for white antiracist work at CIMC.” different lenses.”
/ Benjamin Pittman-Polletta, Assistant Professor /