“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
- Roy T. Bennett
About Me.
I believe we are all LEADERS in our lives. My work is grounded in deep experience designing and delivering leadership development within complex, multi-layered organizations. Drawing on systems thinking, adult development, behavioral science, and human-centered design, I support leaders and organizations to navigate complexity, build real capability, and create sustainable change.
As an experienced certified facilitator and ICF Certified Professional Coach, I create spaces for real conversation, insight, and movement. My work invites leaders and teams to engage more fully, relate more honestly, and act with greater awareness and intention.
With a background in organizational leadership, adult learning, and theatre, I bring presence, warmth, and energy into every room. I blend evidence-based practices with storytelling, dialogue, and reflection—moving groups beyond surface learning into meaningful shifts in how they think, connect, and lead.
I partner with clients to design and facilitate workshops and offsites, customize established leadership programs, and deliver speaking engagements that engage, transform, and expand what’s possible.
Hanna Richards-James, ICF Certified Coach, CPTD, CPC, MAOL
Education + Certifications
Masters, Organizational Leadership
Organizational Systems Renewal (OSR) Program
My graduate work centered on how leaders and organizations grow their capacity to evolve. The Organizational Systems Renewal program blended systems thinking, human development, and experiential learning. My capstone focused on designing impactful leadership development engagements—creating learning experiences that support real behavior change, collective insight, and sustainable transformation.
Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD)
Association for Talent Development (ATD)
A globally recognized credential demonstrating expertise across the full talent development capability model, including instructional design, learning measurement, coaching, performance improvement, and organizational development. This certification anchors my work in best practices and rigorous standards for enterprise learning and development.
ICF Certified Professional Coach, ACC
International Coaching Federation (ICF)
International Coaching Federation (ICF) designates professional coaches who have met stringent education and experience requirements and have demonstrated a thorough understanding of coaching ethics and core competencies. ICF Credential-holders are obliged to follow the ICF Code of Ethics, and complaints about Credential-holders can be registered through the Ethical Conduct Review (ECR) process.
iPEC Certified Professional Coach (CPC)
iPEC Coaching
Rigorous coaching training program focused on conscious leadership, mindset, and energy dynamics—supporting leaders in shifting internal patterns that influence decision-making, performance, and leadership presence.
Crucial Conversations Certified Facilitator
Crucial Learning
Certification in facilitating high-stakes communication skills that enable leaders to navigate conflict, accountability, and performance conversations with clarity and respect.
Everything DiSC Certified Facilitator
Epic Wiley
DiSC is a holistic solution that is designed to help organizations improve performance by enhancing employee interactions at scale. It supports every employee in understanding who they are, applying that understanding to solve interpersonal challenges, practicing their skills, and growing their impact.
Intercultural Development Inventory® (IDI) Qualified Administrator
Qualified to assess and support intercultural competence development, helping organizations build inclusive leadership capability and effectiveness across differences.
Energy Leadership™ Index (ELI) Master Practitioner
iPec Coaching
Certified to administer and debrief the Energy Leadership Index, an attitudinal assessment used to increase self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and leadership effectiveness—particularly under pressure and change.
Generating Transformative Change Program (GTC)
Pacific Integral
A 8-month intensive experience designed to expand one's own capacity so they can tap into and grow their potential. For over 20 years across three continents, Generating Transformative Change (GTC) has developed into one of the most powerful, awakening, and mature developmental journeys available today.
Emergent Leadership
Pacific Integral
Emergent Leadership is a 9-week journey into becoming the kind of leader who naturally creates conditions for emergence—where new possibilities arise not from forcing outcomes, but from a transformed relationship with yourself, others, and the complexity we face.
Re-imagine Leadership
Coaches Rising
The program brings together some of the most innovative leadership coaches in the world. These remarkable teachers sit at the evolutionary edge of the field, and have both tremendous expertise as well as the palpable ability to transmit the heart of this work to you.
Developmental Gifts and Confusions
Stages International
Terri O'Fallen's 4-week course is designed to teach about the more detailed dynamics of developmental growth, caused by the shifting of the three parameters from each perspectival development stage to the next. This is a continuation of the Human Development Model, Stages.
Developmental Gifts and Confusions
Stages International
Terri O'Fallen's 4-week course is designed to teach about the more detailed dynamics of developmental growth, caused by the shifting of the three parameters from each perspectival development stage to the next. This is a continuation of the Human Development Model, Stages.
