Hi, I'm Mina - a coach and facilitator living in San Francisco and Seattle.
Executive Coach
Executive cOACHING
I specialize in empowering CEOs and founders to craft lives of heightened enjoyment, wisdom, and meaningful connections—with themselves, their families, and their teams. By integrating cutting-edge business strategies, neuroscience, and timeless wisdom, I facilitate rapid, holistic transformation, resulting in deeper relationships, self-mastery and enhanced leadership effectiveness.
Team Facilitator
team coaching
I specialize in fostering trust and accountability within teams, designing bespoke leadership and board retreats, workshops, and year-long group coaching programs. I facilitate transformative conversations—whether among founders, teams, couples, or family members—addressing root causes of miscommunication to achieve breakthroughs in collaboration and understanding.
East-West Bridge & Tea Master
Tea Ceremony
I facilitate cross-cultural transformation between East and West. Experience the ancient wisdom of Chan through tea ceremonies, enhancing joy, vitality, and deeper connections with oneself, others, and nature. Join me on a group expedition to the tea mountains of China to better understand the culture and wisdom in 2027.
First-ever US-China CEO Summit in Consciousness and Wellbeing Hosted by Mina Lee
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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.”
“Mina is extraordinary and took coaching 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.”
“After scaling multiple tech companies, I realized my IQ was ahead of my EQ.
After much external success yet still feeling like aliveness was missing, Mina helped me slow down, feel, and wonder into what really makes me happy and what my true purpose is.”
"Working with Mina has made me a happier, more centered, and less reactionary person. I’ve tried to change my life before: weight loss, connecting more deeply with my wife and daughter…I learned how I was sabotaging that change with how immensely self-critical I was and the self-loathing and hurtful ways in which I was trying to get myself to change, which worked against me.
Now, I can love myself and feel empowered 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 deeply encourage myself. I transformed my experience of life from the inside out, which has brought me more happiness, peace, and control.
One specific 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.”
“I worked with Mina for over a year 1:1 and via joint co-founder coaching sessions.
Mina made a profound impact on my thinking and how I process my emotions today. Her approach to coaching is so warm, genuine and intuitive.
I’ve integrated her teachings into my personal and professional life with clarity and ease. I cultivated practices that feel authentic to who I am. Through her eyes, I’ve come to see that being effective isn’t limited to the ways I’ve known — she opened up a world where effectiveness is enriched by authenticity and self-care, rather than constrained by trade-offs and self-sacrifice. ”
“Hands-down one of the best coaches I’ve ever worked with — and I’ve worked with many.
A high rate of revelation and a masterful weaving of pointers to both the mind and the body in every session.
Mina’s had a life-changing impact on my life, work, and relationship — I feel so much more empowerment and clarity in how to proceed.”
“I’ve been on this journey for half my life, yet the transformation I’ve experienced in just two years with Mina is unparalleled. I’ve gained deep insights into myself, my relationships with my family, work dynamics, and my emotions. If you’re seeking genuine change, I can’t recommend her coaching enough.
I’m continually amazed by Mina’s ability to meet me exactly where I am. Her coaching expertise spans from leadership challenges and decision-making to emotional fluidity and dissolving limiting beliefs, and even delves into profound realms of deep love and non-dual experiences.
I’ve transformed my relationship with my anger and helplessness. My authority issues have balanced out. I’m able to show up more vulnerably and authentically. I feel deeply empowered. And I enjoy my work and my life a lot more. Yet, these changes are just a glimpse of my journey with Mina. The past two years of coaching have been a gift for which I’m profoundly grateful.”
“Working with Mina was game changing - in 4 months I was able to focus on what I had to work on to align my company and not die trying. It helped me become a better leader, strategist, take care of my boundaries, grow emotionally, and to tackle my impostor syndrome. ”
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
Principles Workshop
A one day team workshop to define your culture and how you make decisions
“Mina’s in-person principles workshop helped us define our team principles in a bottom-up way that got everyone’s buy-in. It elicited stories and values that sparked connection across the team and gave everyone a deeper sense of ownership and agency.
She unveiled a level of vulnerability and openness that we hadn’t felt before and our communication with each other created a deep sense of trust. She also role modeled boundary setting and asking for our needs and wants in a way that team members didn’t realize they could.”
Phoebe Yao
Founder and CEO of Pareto.ai, Thiel Fellow
“We did Mina’s Principles Workshop online from Ireland and it was powerful.
We added many people between our seed and post-Series A. The ways we used to work as a small group weren’t functional for this new, larger group. We weren’t clear on what our new identity was or how to best work together.
Mina’s workshop helped us define a set of working principles that were organic and authentic. I stressed about whether people would be open and if I had spent enough time seeding ideas. But the way that Mina gathered information on how we currently work and then embedded that into a live brainstorm - helped us create principles that reflect our high-performance needs in a more personal, meaningful, and authentic way to our group. Now there’s buy-in.
I was struck by how open our team was and I attribute that to the environment she created. The way people showed up and shared the full range of their emotions and experiences was powerful. It encouraged calm, connection, and vulnerability, and has made us a much stronger team.”
Forte Lab’s Annual Leadership Retreat
“We worked with Mina to kick-off our in-person annual retreat. In that first day, she enabled us to break through 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.”
Founders Are Human Group Coaching Program
“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
“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 helps us cultivate stillness, beauty, and 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 makes tea from ancient, wild, and unpolluted forests in China. The ceremonies enhance one's awareness of body, mind, heart and energy, and serve as a portal to the subtler 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…” - ServiceSpace Attendee
“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!” - ServiceSpace Attendee
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’
“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.”