Hi, I'm Mina - a coach and facilitator living in San Francisco and Olympia.
Executive Coach
Executive cOACHING
I support leaders in creating a life of greater connection, authenticity, and enjoyment. With themselves, their family, and their organizations. I integrate business, neuroscience, and ancient wisdom for holistic and rapid transformation.
Team Facilitator
team coaching | Founders are Human Group coaching program
I help teams build more trust. I design and facilitate leadership and board retreats, team workshops, and year-long group coaching programs. I facilitate difficult conversations between people — founders, teams, couples, and family members — toward greater vulnerability and breakthrough. I work on the root causes of miscommunication for true interpersonal progress.
East-West Bridge
US-China Bridge | Mapping | Tea Ceremony
I translate transformation across cultures. I host leadership convenings and provide strategic insight to support the growth of the global well-being ecosystem. Clients include non-profits, well-being tech and education companies, retreat centers, and philanthropic funds.
Hosted first-time gathering of US and China CEOs in the consciousness and wellbeing sector.
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Hear from current and past clients...
Executive Coaching
Testimonials
“Being CEO of a mission-driven company while
investing in personal relationships and self-care is not an easy balance.
Mina brings immediate relief and greater connection to the most important relationships in my life. If you are willing to self-examine and want rapid and effective transformation, I cannot recommend Mina highly enough.”
“What’s unique about Mina is that she can work with all parts of me — the CEO, mother, wife, daughter, sister, and inner 2-year-old and teenager. She helps me integrate these roles, experience deeper vulnerability, and relate to the one beneath the roles - without a mask.
Working with Mina, I feel more connection, alignment and self-love. I’m able to balance serious execution with relaxation, rest, and joy. She is an incredibly powerful coach that will welcome your whole person and stretch the perspective you have of yourself and the world.”
“After scaling multiple tech companies, I realized my intellectual intelligence was ahead of my emotional intelligence.
After much external success yet still feeling like some aliveness is missing, Mina helped me slow down, feel, and wonder into what really makes me happy and what my true purpose is.”
“Executive coaches over the years have brought new levels of awareness and empowerment, boosting performance and business results.
Mina is extraordinary and took things to a new level. She is relatable, deep, and intense with impressive intellect, business experience, and Far East spirituality. A superpower is that Mina is always present and in the moment – she tracks conversations, makes insightful comments, asks the right questions at the right times, raises awareness, moves things forward, and gets results. The process and results are crazy good in often new and surprising ways.
I feel I’m a more effective executive and more importantly, a better person.”
“She is the best l coach I ever worked with - and I have worked with quite a few.
Mina helped me transform my fears and anxieties into power and passion.”
"Working with Mina and the voices in my head has made me a happier, more centered, and less reactionary person. I’ve tried to change my life before: weight loss, reconnecting with my wife, and connecting more deeply with my daughter. I gained insight into how I was sabotaging that change with how immensely critical I was towards myself and the self-loathing and hurtful ways in which I was trying to get myself to change - which of course worked against me.
Now, I can differentiate myself from these voices, love myself and find empowerment in that love. I’m not saying life has become perfect - but because I love myself more as I am, it’s easier to implement change when I’m deeply encouraging myself. I changed my experience of life from the inside out which has given me more happiness, peace, and control.
Speaking specifically to one example: I lost 15KG last year and it wasn’t the next training or diet plan that did it. I’ve technically known all the things, but I needed to repair the emotional relationship with myself first. I’m finally giving myself the unconditional love that I give my children to encourage their growth.”
Hear from previous teams...
Team and Group Coaching
Testimonials
GitHub 3-month Empowerment Group Coaching Program (Online)
Three-month Online Breakthrough and Empowerment Workshop for GitHub
Supernova’s Annual Leadership Retreat (Online, Entire Exec Team)
Five-Day Year-End Virtual Annual Leadership Strategic Retreat
Founders Are Human Annual Group Coaching Intensive
Next COHORT STARTS March 2023: Applications Now accepted
“Before the program, I thought setting boundaries or communicating why my wants are important were rude and aggressive. To be honest, I also felt quite different from other founders being based in Europe and being earlier stage, and I was skeptical.
From the first day I sat in a Founders Are Human group, I felt connected, understood, and heard, both by others and by myself. I learned a lot about what types of events or personalities trigger my emotions and how I can find myself serving everyone else except for myself. I finally understood that to be the person I wanted to be for others, I had to create space for myself. Basically, I learned to stop being so fucking nice to everybody all of the time!
Since participating in the program, I’ve become a lot more thoughtful and deliberate in my response to work and personal life. I’m continuing to experiment, and I’ve made a lot of progress in becoming a better leader with clearer expectations. Outside of work, I made some great friends and even grew out of my chronic migraines with a more controlled approach to managing my thoughts and my nervous system.
This program is for you if you want to level up as a founder or want to find a more controlled and calm oasis in the life of being a founder. I can’t recommend working with Mina enough – the biggest opportunity here is the opportunity to work with her.”
~ Aaron Hannon, CEO & Co-Founder of Luminate Medical, Thiel Fellow, FAH ‘22 Alum
Forte Lab’s Annual Leadership Retreat
“We worked with Mina for 1 day of our 5 day in-person annual retreat. In that brief time, she somehow enabled us to break through many months of withheld communication and repressed emotions that were distorting our decision-making and fueling conflict and stress across our team. We went on to spend the remaining 4 days creating some of our most ambitious goals ever, with a level of clarity and alignment I’ve never seen in any organization I’ve worked in or with. I can’t recommend her coaching and facilitation enough.”
“Its rare for someone to be gifted both as a facilitator and as a business strategist.
In my work with Mina both one-on-one and in groups, she can seamlessly weave the two where even the process of creating a business plan together has been deeply transformative, guiding me more firmly into my sense of purpose and deepest vision.”
The daily ritual...
Tea Ceremony
Tea can help us cultivate stillness, beauty and deep connection with ourselves, others, and nature. Tea has over 5,000 years of history in China, originally used by Taoists to deepen their meditations. For several years, Mina has been training with a Chan (Zen) monk who forages in old, wild, and unpolluted tea forests in China for tea to use in their ceremonies. The ceremonies can enhance one's awareness of body, mind, heart and energy, and serve as a portal to the subtler energies and dimensions of life.
“I usually think offerings online are good, helpful, interesting...but this was mind blowing and life changing. I've felt stuck in knowing how I want to move forward with the myriad of practices and ceremonies I've connected with over the years. I feel, from this morning's ceremony, that tea will be the anchor and the start to the day…”
“The gratitude meditation (cup 2 out of 4) was a huge awakening for me. The shift from searching my mind for what I'm grateful for to going to my heart and letting the feeling of gratitude arise is a total consciousness shifter. I heard my heart saying with joy "Finally, here you are!". Here's where I need to go to listen, to allow, to open. Yes!”
Latest
Research
Funders of the Consciousness Movement
What do they give to and why?
What does success mean?
What are the biggest challenges and opportunities for collaboration?
STORIES
Integrating Zen and Business
What does it look like to build a business from, of, and for love? How do you live Zen 禅 principles in business?
Stories from my two month residency at the Xilai Zen 禅 temple and co-building Innerland - the ‘Disneyland for Zen’
EXPERIENCE
Lessons from Tea Ceremony
Opportunity to learn Chan Tea - a sensory and embodied practice that brings you back to the now.
They are limited in quantity and cultivated for meditation purposes by Zen Monk Mudeng in Xilai China.
“Mina Lee is a rare combination of a precise strategic mind coupled with a highly skilled ability to facilitate open inquiry. This merger of skills enables her to both ask AND allow the right questions to help her clients uncover the answers that they seek.
I’ve experienced this personally on a recent project of mine — and Mina’s strategic inquiry made the difference for me. These skills also make her an ideal workshop and conference facilitator.
Mina is a community builder and is able to help people connect to the resources that they need. She’s done business in both the US and China and as such is a strong cross-border bridge. I’ve often been impressed by the quality of her network in both places - as I too have worked in China.
Lastly Mina, is a high integrity person and her desire is to see the best outcome for all. You cannot go wrong partnering with Mina or having her help you accomplish your mission. I certainly have not.”
