Jonelle’s exceptional education, her 25 years of operational and strategic leadership consulting experience, along with her deep psycho-spiritual practices make her a uniquely effective executive coach and life coach. I feel privileged to call her my colleague.

Dedicated to making the world a better place through raising the consciousness, skill set and effectiveness of today’s startup leaders, it’s Thriving Founder’s shared mission and vision that inspired her to join the team in 2021.

Jonelle’s journey

As an Executive Coach and Leadership Consultant, Jonelle is informed by her international experience in designing Leadership Training, Organization Development and Culture Change processes.

Jonelle has worked with clients at three primary levels:

• At a SYSTEMIC level, helping executives design and mobilize their organizations while experiencing rapid growth and stewarding cultural change.
• At a GROUP level, helping teams become more effective and collaborative in the midst of rapidly changing environments, responsibilities and processes
• At an INDIVIDUAL level by enabling C-suite and VP executives to develop higher levels of self-awareness, taking on behavior change and increasing their effectiveness in measurable ways.

Her partial list of executive coaching and consulting clients include executives and managers in High Tech, Pharma, Financial, Social Enterprises and Retail, such as – Cisco, Gap, Inc., Yellow Pages, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co, UC Berkeley, d.light Design, Hoffman-La Roche, Genentech, Zymergen, Inc. and Salesforce. She has also played business development roles in 2 Management Consultancies — Mercer Human Resource Consulting and Right Management Consultants.

Jonelle’s coaching approach and toolbox are informed by her expertise in Business Leadership and Management, Psychology, Counseling and Secular-spiritual processes.

• She is a certified Executive Coach from New Ventures West, where she has also been Adjunct Faculty. As an Integral Coach she works with clients to fully integrate the various aspects of their personalities as they gain more awareness of their unique strengths and capabilities.
• She also holds an advanced Coaching certification and is faculty coach in a trauma-informed Life Coaching program called Integral Unfoldment. Using this approach she holds space for deep, courageous and liberating inquiry, so her clients can lead with confidence, clarity and purpose.
• She is a Breathwork and Mindfulness practitioner, a Zen student and a certified Reiki Master. She has also studied with several teachers from various contemplative traditions.
• Jonelle’s passion and deep background in various healing modalities that also guide and inform her Executive Coaching and Life Coaching and the leadership consulting that she provides to executives and leaders at all levels

In addition to the executive coaching client list, Jonelle has held internal and external consulting roles in Organization Development and Leadership Development at various companies in the tech, biotech, retail, and education sectors.

Her deep experience in business and coaching is built on the foundation of her formal degrees and certifications.

• An MBA from Temple University; a Masters in Psychiatric Counseling and Social Work; a bachelors in Psychology
• A trained facilitator in the Technology of Participation from the Institute of Cultural Affairs
• A master facilitator of group off-sites and has designed and implemented training on various topics in the leadership management space
• Other certifications include assessment tools such as – Lominger Certified in Leadership Architect ®, Voices 360 and Choices Architect; the 16 PF Personality Assessment
• And yet others include Managing Organizations in Transition – William Bridges; Prosci Change Management; PMI Project Management; Interaction Associates’ Facilitative Leadership.

Jonelle grew up in India and was steeped in various musical and contemplative traditions as a child. These traditions and practices are still a deep source of inspiration and an integral part of her life and what she brings to her clients today. She has made the US her home for the past 25 years, currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. She thinks of herself as a lifelong learner and a deep inquirer into the nature of human development. When not engaged with her clients or developing herself, Jonelle is found connecting with a diverse community of family, friends and fellow travelers with whom she engages in light-hearted, fun adventures and mutually supportive relationships.

In her first career, Jonelle was a Psychiatric Counselor and worked in communities with patients and families of mentally ill adults.