Lorena Tamayo
Lorena Tamayo is a speaker, facilitator, Business and Life Coach endorsed by ICF focused on conscious Leadership and purposeful organizations, with 15+ years of corporate experience in Sales, Trade Marketing, and Marketing in Latin America. Her passion is to empower individuals and organizations to lead their lives and their teams with meaning and direction. Lorena is a self-starter and catalyst defined by curiosity, authenticity, and her contagious energy to make things happen. She is bilingual (English & Spanish), and is a native Spanish speaker. Lorena is also an NYC & Berlin Marathon Finisher.
Micah Frumkin
Micah Frumkin is a Senior-level monitoring, evaluation, research, learning, and adaptation (MERLA) expert in the field of international development. He has more than seventeen years of experience supporting U.S. government agencies, multinational corporations, NGOs, philanthropic organizations, and implementing partners in designing, maintaining, and improving MERLA approaches at policy, portfolio, and activity levels. His experience includes a proven track record of identifying and developing innovative, data-driven solutions to organizational challenges for clients, enabling evidence-based decision making. Mr. Frumkin’s areas of expertise include facilitation, coaching, performance monitoring, evaluation, intentional learning, organizational development, program design, project management, proposal development, stakeholder engagement, capacity strengthening, and training in the sectors of food security, resilience, private sector engagement, sustainable supply chains, environment, and governance, among others. He emphasizes utilization of technology and innovation to ensure modern solutions for modern challenges. Micah has extensive experience supporting initiatives virtually and in-person in over 20 countries.
Armando X. Orduña
Armando X. Orduña, Ed.D. is a visionary leadership and team development facilitator, and systems thinker dedicated to helping people and organizations lead with clarity, humanity, and impact. As Founder & Principal Consultant of Inspira, Ltd CO, he designs transformative learning experiences that bridge reflection and action for leaders across private, public, and social-impact sectors. A Senior Pahara and American Leadership Forum Fellow, Armando partners with leaders and teams to reimagine what’s possible—cultivating adaptive capacity, equity-centered practice, and durable change in complex systems. He is also a licensed practitioner of Insights Discovery, a personality assessment grounded in Carl Jung’s psychological theory. Drawing on this framework, Armando helps teams understand how differences in perception, communication, and collaboration styles often sit at the root of workplace friction, enabling more self aware leadership, stronger relationships, and more effective collective performance.
Sailu Sethia
Sailu Sethia started her career supporting talent initiatives for the D.E. Shaw Group. Her most recent corporate role was as a Training Manager for HighPoint where her team planned and executed all facets of training design & development for a multi-million federal healthcare contract. As an organization development consultant, she has successfully designed and deployed talent solutions, facilitated leadership development programs, and guided strategic planning and organizational change efforts. Her work is rooted in trust, intuition, and a belief that growth is possible. As an Associate Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), her coaching journey has been enriched by working with a diverse clientele including entrepreneurs, academia, early to mid-career professionals, leaders, C-suite executives, and women returning to work. Sailu holds a master’s in I/O psychology from the University of Maryland and a certificate in organization consulting and change leadership from Georgetown University. She is also certified to administer the MBTI and Hogan suite of personality assessments.
Mara D’Amico
Mara D’Amico is an experienced facilitation consultant, having worked with a diverse range of partners to achieve their goals by designing and facilitating events where participants connect in thoughtful and engaging ways. She has built meetings and events through a participatory model with nonprofit organizations, government agencies, colleges and universities, community groups, faith-based organizations, corporations, and others. Mara works for the Michigan Women’s Health Initiative at Michigan Medicine within the University of Michigan. Mara leads engagement with physicians, practices, communities, and patients and works to improve women’s health so that it’s responsive to their needs, respects their preferences, and supports them in leading safe, healthy lives. She previously worked as Program Manager on the Strategies for Health Equity team at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to ensure all women can access the full range of reproductive health care options in the United States. Mara also served as a McLarty Scholar and the Hillary Rodham Clinton Communications Fellow at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, and served two terms as an AmeriCorps member in Miami, Florida. She graduated from the Clinton School of Public Service, earning a Master of Public Service degree, and earned a B.S. in International Business and Spanish from Central Michigan University. Mara lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is a volunteer crisis counsellor with Crisis Text Line, a board member for OAR of Arlington (an anti-racist and restorative justice organization), a board member for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan, a committee member with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Maternal Infant Health, Health Equity Action Committee and the Optimal Birth Spacing Action Committee, and a member of the Vital Voices Young Leaders Council. She is also a New Leaders Council DC alumna and a graduate of the American University Women in Politics Institute WeLead Program.
Nana Yaa Boakyewaa Amoah
Nana Yaa Boakyewaa Amoah is a Macro-Economist focusing on strategic planning and providing creative-problem solving approaches to start-up and organizational challenges; she advises a wide range of private and public sector clients on socio-economic and human capital investment for growth and impact in sub-Saharan Africa. She has built her expertise in strategic advisory and business coaching over 13 years leading regional & country portfolio management, policy analysis & implementation, private sector engagement, governance, strategic communications and marketing, resource mobilization and advocacy, capacity and systems building, trade and investment, business development, ESG compliance, corporate governance and leadership. Nana has managed regional USAID programs and UN humanitarian field operations centered on crafting tailored leadership methods across Africa. She works with local and SMEs and MSE businesses, regional economic communities, governments, communities, and donors providing support in capabilities such as strategy and operations, leadership and management, agriculture, food and nutrition security, climate change, resilience-building, women and youth economic empowerment, regional integration and trade and investment. Nana is actively involved in initiatives that promote human capital enhancement through investment, training, and coaching. Branching out on her own in the capacity as an Independent Consultant, Nana currently serves as the Senior Advisor to the Executive Director of CORAF – the West and Central Africa Council of Agriculture Research and Development – where she conceptualizes mechanisms to develop partnerships and attract private sector investment to collaborate in building the resilience of the regional food system and agri-science industry as well as improving the livelihoods of farmers and growth of agribusiness. She was instrumental in developing winning proposals and facilitating stakeholder engagements to secure over $500million for the implementation of a West Africa Regional Food Security Resilience Program funded by the World Bank as well as the Agricultural Technologies and Innovations Scaling Up Project for Increasing the Resilience of Production Systems and Family Farms in West and Central Africa (TARSPro) funded by the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC). Nana is active in initiatives that contribute towards her mission of a transformed, better developed and more humanitarian-conscious society in Africa. She served as Head of Field Office with the United Nations’ World Food Program (UN-WFP) in Bertoua, Cameroon where she was responsible for managing field operations in the East of Cameroon and ensuring the effective and efficient delivery of food assistance programs to over 100,000 CAR refugees and local vulnerable populations. Nana led networking and partnership building initiatives to improve assistance packages for beneficiaries, developed and sustained liaison with local government authorities, other UN agencies, and other partners engaged in improving food security. Before joining the UN, Nana provided management and capacity building expertise when she served as the Regional Program Manager for the $69-million USAID-Feed the Future Building Capacity for African Agricultural Transformation (Africa Lead II Program). She was responsible for the design and implementation of the West Africa Institutional Capacity Strengthening and Leadership strategy and leveraged financial resources from USAID to enable West Africa’s public and private sector actors to increase agricultural productivity, improve agricultural and trade policies, regulations and standards, improve food and nutrition security, while positioning the region and its member states to become self-reliant. Nana has an affinity for strategic communications and marketing which she further mastered while at a PR consulting firm in Europe. She is fascinated by the power of information and media communications to influence trends throughout the world, ultimately beginning with the consumer. As an Account Manager in Weber Shandwick Brussels, Nana advised C-suite clients and high-level executives to invest in emerging markets, establish a strong company brand to subsequently increase revenues and ROI. She not only gained solid insights in e-communications and crisis management, but developed capabilities across automobile, corporate finance, healthcare and lifestyle industries in Germany, UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg, Spain, Italy. She executed Communications/PR programs on clean tech and auto issues for clients tackling second-generation biofuels and low global warming products challenge. Prior to this, Nana worked as an Executive officer at the Embassy of the Republic of Ghana in Washington DC, honing her diplomatic skills and voicing the concerns of citizens abroad to the attention of decision makers in Ghana. To enhance investor relations between Ghana and the United States, she developed a “Doing Business Guidebook” to attract potential investors to Ghana and supported the department to build key partnerships. Nana is a native English speaker and fluent in French with a working knowledge of Spanish. She holds a Masters’ in International Political Economy from the Brussels School of International Studies at the University of Kent and Bachelor’s degree in Economics and French from Mount Holyoke College, USA.
Stephan Dohrn
Stephan Dohrn is a change facilitator and remote work expert. He believes a better world is possible and loves creating processes and systems that transform people and organizations from the inside out. Stephan envisions a future of work, where we use technology to live empowered lives based on trust and kindness. He began his career managing and curating communities of practice inside international organizations on topics like poverty reduction, food security, natural resource management, and gender equality. In this role, he started experimenting with online tools to connect people and help them collaborate across time zones and organizational boundaries. In 2009, Stephan co-founded Radical Inclusion as one of the first consulting companies to offer remote team development when companies still thought that online collaboration was just another fad. His experience as a leader, consultant, and advisor is that in high-level complex scenarios, there are no instructions. Sustainable change is about understanding what holds us back from realizing our potential and engaging with those around us to co-create our emergent future. Originally from Germany, Stephan lives in Belo Horizonte, Brazil with his wife and 2 kids.