Reboot Podcast Episode Extras #5 – Women’s Conversations: Making Space for Your Own Truth

After working in a variety of startups and a life-time of soul-based explorations, Ali helped bring forth Reboot.io in 2014 when she co-founded the company. She knows the ways of soul, savvy, and magic and she has brought those deep skills and her big heart into her work as COO of Reboot. In that role, she executes and manifests deftly, with clarity and grace. More, too, as a coach, she moves with ease from ally to challenger to guide. Her superpower is getting her clients (and her colleagues) to tap into their innermost being, their source of creativity and innovation, in order to bear the rigors of work/life existential challenges. And, all the while, making you laugh from the very core of your belly.

She knows that regardless of what you’re going through, whatever situation you’re in, the most important conversation you can have is the one with your own heart and the most important relationship you have is the one you have with yourself. She helps clients hear the clarity of their own voice and trust their inner knowing so that they can then align their life with purpose and lead from that place. So that you can manifest what it is you are here to do in this lifetime. Creating humane workplaces of safety and connection is an inside job that begins within each of us.

Ali seamlessly and deftly weaves together her business acumen with the innate wisdom of the body, the philosophies of the world’s wisdom traditions, and the way of the horse to help clients find their voice so that they can find themselves. She draws on her more than a dozen years in business as an operator managing projects, teams, and human resources, and developing brands. Before Reboot, she worked with Jerry Colonna to create the life-changing CEO & Founder Bootcamps in the US and abroad.

With a Masters degree in religious studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Ali has studied Transformational NLP at NLP Marin, completed the facilitator program at the Center for Collaborative Awareness, and is a certified EQUUS Experience Facilitator in Equine Facilitated Coaching. She is an avid horsewoman. Her popular newsletters on ‘The Art of Being Human at Work’ live primarily at the Reboot Blog but have also been published by spirituality and meaning experience called OnBeing.

Heather’s sweet spot is at the intersection of entrepreneurship, purpose, and human actualization.

She followed this narrative thread throughout her career, first as an indie bookstore owner, and then as a therapist and coach, before becoming an executive. At Etsy, she was SVP of Members and Community, building and leading Etsy’s member operations, community and policy teams in supporting Etsy’s 20 million sellers, and later worked in an executive role that focused on integrating values into Etsy’s business and culture. She is known as a highly skilled manager, with deep experience growing and scaling large operational teams and developing mindful leaders and cultures. She has a BA in English and an MA in Counseling Psychology.

Heather believes that building a great business or developing as a leader is equal parts art and science, metrics and intuition, idealism and pragmatism, and her coaching honors these dual aspects. She supports her clients in both addressing the operational and managerial aspects of growing a business and the deeply soulful work of discovering one’s identity as a leader.