Weave Coaches

The coaches in our community bring decades of experience as consultants to the most remarkable organizations around the world–from small startups to longstanding entities who are leaders in their fields. Some of them even founded and led the very kinds of organizations that they now accompany. Their skills vary, from organizational development, strategy accompaniment, learning and measurement, innovation, team building and facilitation, futureproofing, scaling business models, to crafting winning advocacy campaigns. Get to know their individual superpowers and get in touch with them below.

Amelia Hapsari

Jakarta & Perth

I curate a learning community with the boldest system drivers in Indonesia, as well as coaches that assist organizations around the world to achieve their bold ambitions.

Areas of Expertise: Filmmaking, Communications, Strategy, Innovation

Anca Matioc

Mexico City

I founded La Sobremesa after working in and supporting local civil society organizations in Latin American for over a decade. I’m always curious to meet organizations where they are and supporting them as THEY need!

Areas of Expertise: Project and process design (Futures, Human centered, Systems thinking), Organizational strategies, Financial sustainability plans, Organizational development and Facilitation

Anne Johnson

Mumbai, India

Strategy consultant by trade, anthropology-nerd by training, my passion is helping organizations introspect and uncovering what makes them (and their teams) tick.

Areas of Expertise: Strategy, Organizational Design, Change Management, Human-Centered Design

Badi Zarate

Guadalajara, México

I’m an urban planner committed to (and very passionate about) community capacity building, human rights, and gender equality.

Areas of Expertise: Organizational development, public advocacy, gender and human rights, project management, inclusive communications, conflict resolution, funding management.

Budhita Kismadi

Jakarta, Indonesia

I’m a facilitator, trainer, and systems coach deeply passionate about bringing people together, sparking collaboration, and driving meaningful change in the international development and social impact sectors.

Areas of Expertise: Creative facilitation, organizational development, strategic communications, appreciative inquiry, asset-based thinking, ecosystem-building, presentation skills, interactive event design, visioning

Christine Guchu

Nairobi, Kenya

I am the Director at WMG Management Consultants Limited and the co-founder of Beyond Your Edge™—a personal development program designed to transform leaders from the inside out.

Areas of Expertise: Strategy, leadership development, organizational development, coaching, futures thinking, facilitation, fundraising, mediation

Denise Maellaro

São Paulo, Brasil

I am a partner at Janela 8, a consultancy through which I support organizations that work—or intend to work—towards gender equity through an intersectional lens.

Areas of Expertise: Gender and intersectionality, organizational strengthening, LME, strategy, facilitation

Gillian Hammah

Accra, Ghana

I am a transformative systems change specialist and organizational development coach with almost 30 years’ experience across Ghana and Canada.

Areas of Expertise: AI practitioner, Marketing Executive, Business Strategy Coach, Organizational Strengthener, Leadership Trainer & Facilitator, Culture transformation

Ishtar Lakhani

South Africa

I work as a free(lance) radical collaborating with social purpose organizations, movements, and networks to strengthen their approaches to advocacy campaigning for social and environmental justice.

Areas of Expertise: Facilitation, Strategy, Advocacy, Campaigning, Creative Activism, Movement Building

Janet Mawiyoo

Nairobi, Kenya

I support nonprofit leaders navigating complex challenges in leadership and institution building, collaborate with funders to improve their development approaches, and do OD consulting and executive coaching.

Areas of Expertise: NGO management, board governance, monitoring & evaluation, executive leadership coaching, organization development, institution building, leadership development, community philanthropy, effective corporate social investments, resource mobilization and asset building, team coaching and mentorship, building organizational culture, stakeholder management, and building partnerships.

Kashyap Shah

Mumbai, India

I am a Partner in Bridgespan’s India office. I head the Bridgespan Nonprofit Development Program (BNDP) for Asia and Africa.

Areas of Expertise: Strategy, second line of leadership, MEL, systems thinking, field building, collaboratives, funding models, strategy execution, culture, capacity building, organization development, local leadership, community driven change, knowledge and research, etc.

Krizna Gomez

Philippines & Netherlands

I work with social purpose actors to engineer change and challenge organizations to be innovative and future-ready.

Areas of Expertise: Strategy, Innovation, Futures Thinking

Mariana Ortiz Tirado

Guadalajara, México

I have been working in the public sector for 9 years. Now, I’m working for the Government of Guadalajara with the task of articulating the care system for my city.

Areas of Expertise: Gender and public policy, facilitation, innovation, team building, quickly learning new skills and problem solving, responsive design principles

Nani Zulminarni

Jakarta, Indonesia

I am the founder and chair of the executive board in PEKKA, a member of Ashoka’s Leadership Global Management team and a regional director of Ashoka South East Asia; and co-founded networks of NGOs promoting women’s rights and advancing policy reforms.

Areas of Expertise: Community Organizing and Empowerment, Gender and Inclusion in Development, Adult Learning and Education, Popular Education, Community-Based Organization Development, Changemaking Framework Development, Movement Building

Paula Spieler

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

I am a human rights expert passionate about driving change and strengthening organizations working towards a more just world.

Areas of Expertise: Human rights, cross-cultural collaboration, critical thinking, network building, organizational development, strategy development and implementation, facilitation, Culture change, harnessing learning

Rachel Jones

Johannesburg, South Africa

As a Senior Partner at Reos Partners for the last 16 years, I lead transformative projects worldwide, fostering innovation, and focusing on finding ways to heal collective trauma, deepen understanding between diverse stakeholders, and inspire co-creative processes to tackle global challenges.

Areas of Expertise: Social Innovation Labs, Multi-stakeholder facilitation, Working with collective trauma, Systems coaching, Accompaniment, Team and leadership and individual coaching, Synthesis report writing from dialogue interviews, Learning history reports

Rakesh Rajani

Tanzania & United States

At JustSystems, I work to try to make public systems work better for people.

Areas of Expertise: Systems change, impact at scale, inclusion, gender equality, power analysis, political economy, governance, working with government, working across differences for shared purpose, leadership, organizational strengthening, fundraising with values, learning from silence, strategic coherence

Ramesh Padmanabhan

Mumbai, India

I work with organizations to design strategies that take a systems change approach, grounded in a digital and people first approach, to create non-linear impact.

Areas of Expertise: Strategy, Technology, Organization Development

Renuka Motihar

Delhi, India

I work as an independent strategy, learning and evaluation consultant on gender equality, reproductive health, adolescent health and development, HIV/AIDS, leadership, and social inclusion issues.

Areas of Expertise: Program strategy, Knowledge building and learning, Program evaluation, reviews, qualitative research, Grant making, proposal and portfolio review (technical and from a gender lens), Gender equality and social inclusion, Facilitation, Coaching

Risha Chande

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

I work with change makers who are restless about the state of the world, passionate about their values and curious to learn and turn conventional thinking on its head. My niche is the in-between space — translation, synthesis, connection.

Salone Mithal Ghosh

Mumbai, India

As an independent strategy consultant for the last fifteen years, I am leveraging my skills and multi-faceted experience towards doing deep strategic consulting work across a diverse set of organizations.

Areas of Expertise: Market Entry, Business Growth, Operating Models, Funding Strategy, Knowledge Design & Dissemination

Simone Haf

Mexico City

I consider myself a feminist and citizen of the world. Since 2015, I have been an independent organizational development consultant for NGOs in Latin America supporting peoples and organizational health and wellbeing.

Areas of Expertise: Organizational Development – Assessment of New Work and Leadership Models, Culture of Care, and People Policies, Strategic Planning Facilitation using a Holistic Mind-Body Approach and Joyful Activism, Change Management, Resilience Building, Conflict Transformation, Leadership and Team Development, Coaching for Personal and Professional Growth, Meeting and Retreat Design and Facilitation.

Sneha Menon

Mumbai, India

As a philanthropic advisor at Dasra, I enjoy working through the complexity of human relationships to discover ‘hidden gems’ and unifying forces between individuals, organizations, and cultures.

Areas of Expertise: Innovation, Systems Thinking, Working through Complexity, Scaling up & Scaling Deep, Managing Funders, Influencing Stakeholders

Soumitra Pandey

Mumbai, India

I am co-founder of a boutique firm – India Impact Sherpas that works with social change entrepreneurs to accelerate and amplify their impact.

Areas of Expertise: My skill sets are horizontally focused and apply across sectors. I have a large body of work in areas such as strategy development, organization development, strategy execution, and sector and field building. From a sectoral perspective, I have led several assignments in education, agriculture and livelihoods (focused on women), and RMNCH.

Taaka Awori

Accra, Ghana

I am a passionate facilitator, leadership development specialist, and organizational change expert with a deep commitment to transforming leadership across Africa.

Areas of Expertise: Leadership Development, Organisational Development, Facilitation, Executive Coaching, Strategy Development

Umang Manchanda

Mumbai, India

I am a strategy consultant and a nonprofit coach currently working at The Bridgespan Group.

Areas of Expertise: Strategy, operating model design, talent development, systems change

Vaibhav Gupta

Mumbai, India

I currently work as a Senior Manager at The Bridgespan Group, a global impact advisory firm that collaborates with some of leading global philanthropists, corporates, and nonprofits in advancing their impact journey.

Areas of Expertise: Program strategy and design, Operating model, Organizational development, Funding model, Systems thinking

Varun Behani

Bengaluru, India

My interest and heart lie with organizations and movements where the “actual work” is happening. I trained as a strategy consultant and facilitator with Bridgespan before working more directly with nonprofits. I spent the majority of my career with Jan Sahas, an ambitious, grassroots nonprofit based in India.

Areas of Expertise: Facilitation; strategy development; structuring teams, organizations, and governance

Victoria Wigodzky

Washington, DC

I am a bilingual, binational and bicultural organizational strengthening consultant from Buenos Aires, Argentina, with more than 25 years of experience working with dozens of social justice non-governmental organizations in Latin America and the United States

Areas of Expertise: Organizational development: change management and transformation (culture, relationships, structures, and operations), organizational assessments, Board development, leadership transitions, team management and leadership development, strategic planning, facilitation, individual and group coaching. Thematic expertise: democratic governance, rule of law, human rights (sexual and reproductive rights, migration, economic and social rights, etc.), citizen security, political analysis, coalition-building.

Wairũ Kinyori – Gugu

Nairobi, Kenya

I am an agile network weaver and community builder with over a decade of experience designing and leading high-impact social development initiatives across Africa.

Areas of Expertise: Resource mobilisation, Programme design, Policy advocacy and campaigns, Facilitation, Innovation, Strategy, Financial sustainability for non-profits, Capacity building, Systems practice, Citizen engagement, Community organising and development, Research, Development aid, Women’s economic empowerment and leadership, Civic space, Philanthropy, Economic justice (Public finance management – tax, budgets, and debt), Inclusive urban planning and stakeholder engagement