Helping leaders have impact without burnout.
Lumin/Us offers tailored leadership coaching and education, facilitation, and organizational consulting grounded in 30+ years of leading, coaching, and consulting with mission-driven leaders and organizations. We help you go where it can be hard to go alone - seeing complex challenges in new ways and moving toward meaningful action.
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Leadership Coaching
Develop the capabilities to lead in uncertainty and complexity.
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Facilitation & Training
Create group pathways to transform old problems into openings for change.
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Organizational Consulting
Identify barriers to your organization's success and learn the skills and processes to overcome them.
Coach, Partner and Guide to Mission-Driven Leaders
Mikaela Seligman
Mikaela founded Lumin/Us Leadership to guide mission-driven leaders and teams to collectively advance their goals and to generate effective practices that sustain meaningful change.
Identify barriers to your organization's success and learn the skills and processes to overcome them.
People Are Saying
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"Working with Mikaela Seligman and Lumin/Us on Leadership Greater Washington’s "Leading Bravely Through Chaos" workshop was exactly what our community needed during these challenging times. Mikaela's masterful facilitation combined highly interactive exercises, concrete tools & frameworks, and meaningful small group discussions that created safe spaces for leaders to share their real struggles and find practical solutions. I would highly recommend Mikaela and Lumin/Us to any organization seeking meaningful leadership development that addresses the realities of leading in today's complex environment."
— Doug Duncan, President, Leadership Greater Washington
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"As the founder of a growing nonprofit, I wanted to be challenged and supported to grow in my own leadership. Mikaela is an exceptionally knowledgeable coach and skillfully leans in to challenge and affirm. She’s helped me thoughtfully assess, set meaningful goals and lead through moments of big organizational growth and challenge. I’m feeling a heightened sense of satisfaction, efficacy and impact as a result of my coaching with Mikaela, at a time when the work of leading is even more challenging."
— Kimi Kean, Founder, Families in Action for Quality Education
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"Mikaela’s keen eye and sharp acumen for meeting design and facilitation are unparalleled. I have worked closely with Mikaela in various capacities and circumstances throughout the years and know I can always count on her to help navigate crucial conversations for small and large groups, coaching senior leaders and helping teams imagine new possibilities, especially when no clear path forward seems in sight."
— Marc Goumbri, Deputy Chief of Staff, AFL-CIO
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"I really enjoyed working with Mikaela. My organization hired her to support facilitation of an open space reflection for our staff on a topic that was deeply personal and sensitive to so many. Mikaela adeptly managed JFF as a client, including cross organizational stakeholders to design an open space reflective of the inclusive, empathetic, and learning space we were hoping to achieve. I am grateful for her partnership and would absolutely work with her again."
— Presceia Cooper-Dennis, AVP, Jobs for the Future
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"I had the privilege and pleasure of working with Mikaela during a career transition. She was deeply engaged, supportive, practical, and intellectually generous. Her human-centric approach to exploring the possibilities helped me clarify my goals amidst the complexity of the situation and embrace the value of what I had to gain, not focus on what might be lost. It was invaluable to work with Mikaela as a thought-partner and coach – many thanks Mikaela!"
— David Post, CEO, Little Sprouts
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"Mikaela values curiosity and exploration and the desire to co-create and learn together. I felt like Mikaela was really prepared to customize her content for our group, but it also felt like she was really good at thinking on her feet and adapting to the group's needs. She just got us and got what we were trying to do."
— A. Wells, national environmental organization
