Kelley Alexander, Ph.D. is one of the Co-Founders of Center of the Heart. She has extensive experience consulting with corporations and working with individuals in a multitude of settings. She has the unique combination of qualifications necessary to help you meet goals and work with you across disciplines and in your own environment. With over 20 years of personnel and project management experience, Kelley has been managing and coaching employees and resolving conflicts using proven resolution and change management techniques. She is a Certified Mediator, professional facilitator and holds a Master’s Degree in Conflict Management and a PhD in Communication.

Miriam Phields, PhD, co-founder of Center of the Heart, is an advocate of conscious wellness and self-care through yoga postures, breathing, and meditation. As a certified yoga therapist (C-IAYT) and registered yoga teacher (RYT-500), she has a special interest in teaching yoga that is accessible to all bodies, especially persons age 40 and older. She completed additional training in Accessible Yoga, Yin Yoga, and Yoga Nidra. She is a sound bath practitioner who uses quartz crystal singing bowls and instruments to facilitate healing and meditation through vibration. She holds a PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Maryland, 200-hour yoga teacher certification from Kashi Atlanta Ashram, and 300-hour advanced yoga teacher certification from the International Institute of Yoga Therapy.. She worked in HIV prevention for over 30 years.

Pamela Ayo Yetunde, J.D., Th.D., Co-Founder of Center of the Heart, is the author of Casting Indra's Net: Fostering Spiritual Kinship and Community.. She is a board certified pastoral counselor and professor of pastoral care and counseling. She holds degrees in journalism, law, culture-spirituality, and pastoral counseling. She also holds certificates in chaplaincy and spiritual direction. Ayo is educated and practiced in Western & Eastern contemplative spiritualities. Ayo earned a M.A. in Culture and (Catholic) Spirituality at Holy Names University, and a Th.D. in Pastoral Counseling at Columbia Theological Seminary (Presbyterian). She is the co-editor of Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us About Race, Resilience, Transformation & Freedom, and wrote Buddhist-Christian Dialogue, U.S. Law, and Womanist Theology for Transgender Spiritual Care, and Object Relations, Buddhism, and Relationality in Womanist Practical Theology.

With a passion for weaving scientific and spiritual exploration, Anouk journeyed from earning a PhD in Astrophysics and being a NASA fellow to doing a seven-year Vajrayana Buddhist meditation retreat. As a Black Buddhist teacher, Anouk seamlessly intertwines neuroscience, trauma resilience, nondual meditation, and the Aware Ego Process in her executive coaching. In the Trauma Literacy aspect of her coaching, she supports clients in becoming aware of blind spots and learning body-based trauma-responsive systems to foster healing and create environments conducive to equity, inclusion, and belonging. She focuses on timeless awareness and wrote a chapter in Afrikan Wisdom entitled “Coming Home to Embodied Nonduality.” Her guiding passion is supporting individuals and communities in connecting to their innate wholeness as we work together for liberation through an embodied path of self-knowledge. 

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Lana Williams is a financial coach with over 25 years of experience in the banking and financial industry. This includes Sales Management, Bank Industry Consulting, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Investment Advising. Lana has worked with those ranging from college students to small business owners, athletes, and CEOs, and says the number one thing she hears is “No one ever taught me how to manage my money.” She has seen the gripping effects of financial stress; it can be paralyzing causing undue embarrassment and shame. Although Lana centers her practice on helping her clients pay off debt, save, and budget, she feels it is vital to help them shift their mindset about money and align with the energy of money in their lives. Lana has a BS in Economics from Florida A&M University, is certified with the National Financial Educators Counsel, and is VITA/TCE certified with the IRS.

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Barbara is an advocate for survivors of domestic violence. She is deeply committed to wellbeing practice and believes it can be a path for healing individuals and communities. Along with yoga, her decades long meditation practice has been an important anchor, helping her navigate life’s challenges with greater self-compassion and inner stability. Barbara is a 200-hr RYT and Trauma Resource Institute certified Community Resiliency Model trainer. She has also completed Shambhala levels I – III and Cognitively Based Compassion Training. Barbara loves reading, word games, and gardening. Find her guided meditations on the free app, Insight Timer (http://insig.ht/zbarbarag).

Sister Clear Grace is a Buddhist monk who received novice ordination in 2018 as Sister True Moon of Clear Grace in the Plum Village Vietnamese Zen tradition headed by the Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh. In 2020, she received higher ordination and carries forward both the Theravada and Mahayana lineages of her preceptor, Venerable Dr. Pannavati Karuna of whom she was transmitted the name Dayananda. Sister Clear Grace was a successful corporate executive, managing operations, key people training and systems development. Now, Sister Clear Grace manages her mobile monastery operations and TravelingNunk.org as she continues to provide spiritual guidance and training to lay persons and monastics in her travels across the country. She continues to lead retreats nationally each year that are embedded in the Dharma and shares living truths that are deep, yet accessible and profound. Sister Clear Grace advises the cultivation of both wisdom and compassionate action.