certified integral coach

About Mariana Vélez —

I believe that our inner and outer landscapes are one. What we organize within ourselves strengthens us to move with more resources in our contexts. As a certified Integral Coach, I am committed to helping you develop emotional, embodied and relational capacity, and reclaim territories of peace within yourself so you can move meaningfully through your life. 

I bring ten years of experience in the non-profit and public sectors to my coaching practice, including work with the United Nations Development Program and in Mexico City’s Human Rights Commission. In all of these roles, I have effectively utilized leadership coaching to catalyze change. My extensive experience facilitating cross-sectoral leadership networks and promoting socio-environmental sustainability enables me to support individuals and teams towards clarity of purpose, trust-based partnership and generous collaboration and action.

Originally from Mexico, my strong intercultural background — including time living in Panama, Ecuador, Canada and the United States — informs my coaching work.

I am a certified Integral Coach from New Ventures West in San Francisco, California and a highly skilled process facilitator. In addition to my role as a coach, I currently work at The Nature Conservancy, strengthening leadership networks around Indigenous and community-based conservation. I also serve as a mentor for New Ventures West’s Professional Coaching Certification Program and support young entrepreneurs for the Byron Fellowship. I am a Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholar, and earned a Master of Science in Environmental Policy from the University of Michigan. I also hold a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.

I coach in English and Spanish, in-person or virtually.

Mariana Vélez | Integral Coach
gmail | marianavelezlaris

“It is not humankind after all, nor is it culture that limits us. It is the vastness we do not enter. It is the stars we do not let own us."

-Simon Ortiz
"Culture & The Universe"