Shaila serves as the Equity & Inclusion Consultant for Enliven Leadership and provides guidance on building diversity, equity, and inclusion organizational capacity. She is the Director of Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) for Stanford’s School of Medicine. Prior to starting at Stanford, Dr. Kotadia led the STEM Equity & Inclusion Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley where she conducted an institutional assessment of STEM diversity programs and advanced partnerships in DEI to ensure student and research success in STEM academic units. 

Dr. Kotadia received her undergraduate degree in Cell and Structural Biology with minors in Geography and Chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign followed by a Ph.D. in Genetics and Development from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She is also the co-Founder of STEM Dance-ology, an organization that promotes the discovery and translation of science concepts through creative movement for students of all ages, adding to Enliven Leadership’s values of movement and play.

Shaila Kotadia, Ph.D.

Equity & Inclusion Consultant

Lisa Dennen-Young, Founder of LDY Enterprises DEI Consulting, partners with Enliven Leadership to offer Leadership Liberated Executive Edition, a transformational approach to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion that leads with allyship. Lisa was the first woman of color (WOC) to graduate as a forensic linguist in the United States. For 10+ years she’s trained global audiences about cross-cultural communication, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), and human expression across professional and personal relationships. Lisa mentors individuals to be epically expressed as their highest calling leadership for success in their relationships, love, and as the visible leader in their communities.

She combines her lineages of medicine women and healers, Civil Rights activists who supported Dr. Martin Luther King Jr in the 60s, her diversity, linguistic, and cross-cultural communication expertise, and her sound healing to create an unparalleled unique experience of learning, healing, and big bold action taking with greater ease as you expand your leadership.

Her blend of fun and light-hearted depth includes dance, vocals, songwriting, spoken word, sound healing, rhythmic play, poetry, love coaching, and multilingual MCing / presenting. She speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese, with working knowledge of French, Turkish and Italian, and lives with her partner in Monterrey, California.

Lisa Dennen-Young M.A.

Co-Active Coach & facilitator

Gitta is a co-active coach with over 12 years of experience in professional communication, executive presence, confidence, and presentation coaching. Clients also seek to work with Gitta to bring clarity for career change, fulfillment and life purpose. Gitta supports leaders in finding courage, integrity and clear vision during times of transition. Her mission is to change the world by changing the way leaders think. Since 2008, Managers, CEO’s, entrepreneurs and presenter around the globe have delivered masterful, authentic and impactful messages after a coaching relationship with Gitta. Whether in one-on-one settings, or speaking at conferences in front of large audiences, Gitta’s clients experience how changes to their non-verbal communication profoundly impacts their listeners. Having lived and coached in Germany, Sydney, Paris and Rome, Gitta’s international and quadrilingual background brings cultural diversity and a global mindset.

In addition to her coaching, Gitta’s strong background and knowledge of health, nutrition, yoga and mindfulness practices offers her clients a unique and holistic approach for achieving extraordinary results.

Gitta Sivander

DEI Consultant and Leadership Coach

Dr. Carley Corrado works with mission-driven leaders and organizations to catalyze them into their next level of impact and contribution. Her approach engages both sides of the brain as informed by leading edge research in neuroplasticity and epigenetics which is well balanced with her strategic, scientific approach. From her background as a PhD renewable energy scientist and certification in Transformational Facilitation, she is both trained and gifted at working with individuals and groups to navigate challenges creatively. 

Carley is passionate about what becomes possible when a purpose-driven leader and their mission-driven team leads from heart and mind coherence and enters into a state of flow. Guided by their mission and values, they are open to possibility. By going through her own journey of liberation from stress and burnout into greater world-positive impact, Carley developed the Enliven Approach from a place of inspiration and pleasure by using techniques that rewire one’s brain and heart connectivity in a specific proprietary sequence. 

Carley Corrado, Ph.D.

Founder and Director

Our Team

DEIB Strategist & Consultant

Ivy is the Founder of The Independent Consultant Inc., a strategy-forward Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) firm specializing in workshop facilitation that partners with Enliven Leadership. She has a decade of experience helping hundreds of people routinely become proactive allies to marginalized and oppressed groups in and beyond the workplace. Ivy has trained folks in building a routine in their own business by doing an internal audit on contracts, websites, sales copy, imagery, email campaigns, and marketing to make inclusion a cohesive component in a brand. Outside of her DEIB work with community-based organizations, nonprofits, and big tech, Ivy has built and developed in-house DEIB-focused leadership teams and coached yoga instructors, piano teachers, retirees, parents, social media influencers, and more to help them make incremental changes to express allyship in both business and interpersonal parts of life.
 
Aligned with her mission to empower and enable others in learning and development, she offers dozens of event plans for DEIB workshops that coincide with every heritage/awareness month.

Ivy Summer