For Founders on the Leading Edge
Coherence is Your Competitive Advantage
A clear founder and an aligned team attract the right capital, talent, and opportunities. Misalignment costs energy, time, and momentum.
I work with founders and teams to align leadership, strengthen culture, cultivate relational intelligence, and bring clarity to the next chapter of growth. — so you scale with integrity.
I partner with conscious leaders shaping the future
I work in 2 primary formats:
Founder Partnership
1:1 advising and coaching to help you:
+Cultivate clarity, presence, and energy
+Sharpen strategy, vision, values and creativity with a trusted thought partner
+Align your inner and outer worlds so you lead with integrity
+Reclaim attention, focus and align with what matters
Team Development & Alignment
Facilitation, custom behavior change/culture programs and coaching for leadership and executive teams to:
+Build trust and coherence
+Resolve tensions and surface what’s interfering with collaboration
+Align culture, strategy, and execution around a shared vision
+Strengthen leadership and design effective organizational systems
Both pathways create the same outcome: a clear, energized, trustable founder at the center, leading a team that’s aligned, resilient, and capable of scaling what matters.
My work is about Integrated Flourishing — aligning the entire ecosystem of your life, from your innermost state of being to the businesses, relationships, investments and communities you shape.
1.
Courageous Leadership:
The Inner Game
Courageous leadership is at the heart of holistic success. When you upgrade your inner operating system, your decisions and presence arise from deep clarity, resilience, and integrity. This is about living in alignment, getting out of your own way, and bringing your mission fully to life.
2.
Relational Intelligence:
Flourishing Relationships,
Teams & Communities
The quality of your relationships determines the quality of your life. We don’t grow alone — we actualize our potential in teams, partnerships, and communities. Relational intelligence unlocks fulfillment, trust, and impact at scale.
3.
Business Ecosystem
& Flourishing
Futures: The Outer Game
True success is more than profit. It’s building businesses and cultures that feel alive on the inside and create flourishing futures on the outside. I help leaders design coherent ecosystems — where vision, values, and vitality converge to serve people, grow income, and embody the future you believe in.
This is the bigger vision: to co-create life-affirming, flourishing futures—ecologies of abundance.
Coming Home to
Your Life
You’re carrying a lot.
The weight of decisions, the growth of your business, the wellbeing of your team and family, and the quiet truth that your own energy isn’t limitless.
You may be:
Clear on your vision but stretched thin by execution
Leading alone, without a trusted partner who sees the whole system
Experiencing disconnection, reactivity, or lack of presence
Wishing your leadership team operated with more coherence and trust
Aware that the operating system that got you here isn’t the one that will get you there
And yet, you know what’s possible:
A business that reflects who you are now, not just who you were when you started
A leadership team aligned around vision, values, and excellence
Renewed energy and grounded clarity
A way of working that scales with integrity and feels alive, not draining
A legacy you’re proud to lead into the future
This is the inflection point.
You’ve built a life and business that works. Well done!
But are you fully in it—awake, alive, and in relationship with the deeper current beneath it all?
Can you actually relax? If not, you’re not living, you're surviving.
Charlene was my most reliable and steady creative partner for a very transformative year. She stood for my greatness with unwavering support. I felt both cared for and called forward to be a better leader. She helped me create my most successful launch, develop a world class new program and create my novel signature experience (a long time coming). She encouraged me to develop my body of work, helping me see my unique genius and how to bring it forward to the world more powerfully. She helped me develop a team that will support the evolution of my mission, and my business foundation is set to scale. I’ve also grown significantly over the last year of working together. I even met my life partner! Charlene elevates every space she’s in and raises the standard.
-Adam Roa
Entrepreneur, World-renown thought leader
Hi, I’m Charlene
—advisor, coach, and facilitator for visionary founders and their teams. For over 13 years I’ve guided leaders at pivotal moments: scaling, expanding team, navigating leadership transitions, evolving culture, climbing the “second mountain” following an exit or professional athlete retirement, reclaiming vitality after burnout, starting a new venture.
My gift is seeing the whole system: you, your relationships, your team, your business. I help bring it all into coherence so your impact flows from a clear, trustable center, and your whole life is thriving.
13+ years advising and coaching founders
Master’s in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Harvard
Co-founded 3 companies (one successful exit)
Built global communities of conscious leaders
Facilitated 100+ transformational experiences worldwide
Thousands of hours in training across leadership, communication, relational intelligence, experience design, meditation, breathwork and human flourishing
I am equal parts soul + strategy. My clients say I’m in a “league of my own” for my commitment to what Eric Kaufmann beautifully describes:
“The work of a conscious leader is where an unrelenting commitment to results combines with an unyielding regard for spirit. “
Known for my ability to see others with uncommon clarity, I help people remember who they are, why they’re here, and how to build lives and legacies that reflect it. I will walk beside you as your confidant and ally, challenge you, and call you into a way of living and leading that is worthy of your incarnation.
I am an integral practitioner, working at all levels of the ecosystem: individuals, couples, co-founders, teams, communities and organizations. All my engagements integrate the principles of: courageous leadership, evolutionary purpose, care for the soul, exemplary acheivement and whole-system coherence.
I bring grounded presence, strategic insight, and a rare mix of science and soul to every stage and space. My work sparks clarity, courage, and connection — leaving people inspired to act and equipped to lead with more heart and integrity.
I don’t just talk about transformation — I create the conditions for it. From executive teams to global communities, I design experiences that foster alignment, collaboration, and creative breakthroughs.
Ways I Engage
Keynotes & Panels — Inspiring talks that combine intellect and heart
Podcasts & Interviews — Real conversations with depth and energy
Live Facilitation & Teaching — Immersive workshops and programs that activate behavior change, culture shift, and collaboration
Visioning & Innovation Labs — Creative spaces for ideation, strategy, and breakthrough thinking
Masterminds & Councils — High-trust peer containers that amplify leadership and accountability
Team & Community Experiences — Alignment, coherence, and culture-building through shared practices
Plant Medicine Immersions — Conscious, curated experiences for teams, couples and communities seeking accelerated clarity, connection, and healing
The heart of my work lives at the intersection of leadership, purpose, and flourishing. I guide conversations and experiences around courageous leadership grounded in heart and integrity, the art of a life well lived with purpose and fulfillment, and integrated flourishing across self, relationships, and business. My teaching and facilitation also center on relational intelligence and cultures of care, holistic thinking that moves us beyond division, and the quiet revolution of everyday practices that create real transformation.
Wherever I’m invited — on stage, in boardrooms, or in community — my role is to bring clarity, coherence, and courage, so leaders and teams can actualize their mission.
Speaking, Courageous Conversations & Facilitation
The Mystic CEO Community
A Home for shaping your contribution in a world full of pain and promise
A Companion and creative partner to lead courageously and live fully, leaving nothing on the table
A Calling to live the question "How can I be of greatest service?" while actively creating your best life ever, personally flourishing and living all in every day.
