Atieno provides strengths-based coaching and experiential learning to organizations and individuals under stress, fostering sustainable resilience and developing peer knowledge-sharing systems. The Founder and Principal of Usoni, Atieno is a group facilitator and speaker, a certified yoga instructor (200 hrs) and a certified practitioner (CP) of Psychodrama, which she adapts for use in experiential learning for leadership and emotional intelligence. She is experienced in facilitating encounters between parties in conflict (MA, Conflict Transformation) and has lived and worked in the United States, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Atieno has used her facilitation and program design skills to help people transform and thrive in settings ranging from a psychiatric hospital to the World Bank.
Atieno consults from Columbia Heights in Washington, DC, and spends her free time by the Greenbrier River in Lewisburg, West Virginia, where she helped construct a straw-bale house that is available as a venue for retreats.
Madelyn Blair, PhD, is an expert in knowledge management, gender, instructional design, and institutional analysis. She is a nationally known leader in the use of story in organizations and teaches narrative practice. Her clients include the International Monetary Fund, the Bank of Canada, the World Bank, TransAmerican Reinsurance, and Marriott.
Greenleaf Integrative Strategies offers services for trauma workers, humanitarian aid organizations, and caregivers, and promotes staff wellness and relief from job stress in organizations. Founder Siddharth Ashvin Shah is a co-facilitator on mind-body retreats and Resilience Rounds with Usoni.
Jennifer Stanton-Brand, MS, incorporates one-on-one coaching with interactive group processes to achieve breakthrough results that help individuals, teams and organizations go beyond their perceived boundaries. Her offerings include cross-cultural communication and language, conflict resolution, maximizing potential, and teambuilding. Her clients include Choice Hotels, Boeing, Bell Atlantic, Montgomery County Schools and the Canadian Embassy. Jennifer is the co-facilitator of Usoni's Powered by Peace retreats.
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