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As an Executive Coach and Change Consultant, Beata provides focused, pragmatic guidance to facilitate intentional transformation. Beata works with highly accomplished individuals and teams to achieve new levels of mastery for effective and wise leadership that promotes sustained, creative and energized collaboration. She helps clients call forth their capacity to unleash and direct human potential and aliveness in leading ventures that thrive and succeed.

With greater self-awareness, skill and presence, clients approach new opportunities and challenges with clarity, resilience, compassion, grace and power. Women and men learn to embody their unique, authentic, and creative leadership. In 2003, she conducted a qualitative study (The Feminine Face of Leadership in Science) inquiring into the experiences and insights of women leading in scientifically-oriented businesses. Clients value Beata's expertise in guiding and facilitating complex, sensitive conversations and processes for change with depth, insight, focus, humor and balance.

Coaching, consulting and seminar clients range from:

High-Tech and Bio-Tech Companies
Boards of directors
Individual Entrepreneurs
Professional Service Providers
Professional Associations
Non-Profit and Arts organizations
Educational institutions
Municipalities
Federal and state agencies
Specific examples include leaders in organizations such as: Bayer, Glaxo-Smith Kline, Cisco Systems, Aerovance, Entelos, Sandia National Laboratories, National Science Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, Calvert Foundation, Monitor Consulting, CalSTRS, University of CA-Berkeley, US-EPA, Stanford University Graduate School of Business (Management Communication Program) and the Women's Technology Cluster.

Beata's expertise as a Master Somatic Coachcombines elegantly with her field-tested experience in communication, negotiation, conflict resolution, change management and collaborative process facilitation . Her professional range includes perspectives and expertise gained from nearly two decades combined experience as an attorney, mediator, facilitator, coach and consultant. The somatic framework is integrative, ontological and holistic in nature. Beata is certified as a Master Somatic Coach™ by (and is an Associate with) the Strozzi Institute in Petaluma, CA.

Beata works creatively with the resources and wisdom available from the whole, evolving self and organizational system. Beata is certified to administer instruments developed by The Leadership Circle™ (www.TheLeadershipCircle.com ) and those related to the Reina Trust and Betrayal Model™ (www.TrustinWorkplace.com ). She is also qualified to administer FIRO-Element-B, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI), and the Human Energy Hologram™. Beyond her academic education, has studied with leaders in the fields of leadership, communication, conflict resolution, group process and strategic alliance structuring, including Angeles Arrien, Marshall Rosenberg, Kenneth Cloke, William Lincoln, Robert Lynch and Interaction Associates.

Beata draws on cross-cultural experience, having lived and worked in several countries and being multi-lingual (native fluency in German and Swiss-German). She also draws from experience as a visual artist, musician, dancer, instructor of Hatha yoga and alpine skiing, and as a practitioner of healing arts (e.g. Somatic Bodywork™, Breema, Reiki, etc.). Beata graduated from Pomona College with a B.A., cum laude, in International Relations, including overseas study at the Institute for Graduate Studies in International Relations in Geneva, Switzerland, and research at the United Nations Commission for Trade and Development. While earning her J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, Beata studied at Queen Mary College (University of London). She is a member of the State Bar of Texas.

Beata works in association with:
Pachmama Alliance, as a Facilitator of the Awakening the Dreamer: Changing the Dream Symposium
The Strozzi Institute
The Women's Technology Cluster, as a Mentor/Coach (featured as 12/05 "Mentor of the Month")
Holographic Solutions: Tools for Life (Amayea Rae)
Leuin Management Group (Barbara Leuin, Ph.D.)

Professional affiliations and memberships include:

North Bay Coaches
Conscious Business Institute
International Coach Federation (ICF)
International Association of Facilitators (IAF)
Bay Area Organizational Development Network (BAODN)
Association for Dispute Resolution of Northern California (ADR-NC)
Bar Association of San Francisco, Mediation Committee (BASF)
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Alumni Network
Women of Vision and Action (WOVA)
- former Interim Board Member (2001-2002)
Women of Color Action Network (WCAN)

The Pachmama Alliance

 
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For more information, please contact:

Beata C. Lewis, JD, MSC
Executive Coach & Change Consultant


Bridging Lives
P.O. Box 3146
Sausalito, CA 94966

T: 415-332-8338
E: Beata@BridgingLives.com

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