Leona Ba Email & Phone Number

Currently Executive Coach, Senior Change Management Specialist with Social Impact and Faculty Fellow at Georgetown University, Walsh School of Foreign Service. Experienced organizational development professional and executive coach with more than 25 years of experience in improving the performance and effectiveness of organizations, teams and individuals using culturally responsive approaches. Design and implement customized interventions based on thorough assessments. Particularly effective at supporting organizations, teams and individuals during organizational change. Prosci Certified Change Manager. Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, Intercultural Development Inventory Qualified Administrator, Certified DiSC Practitioner.Customized interventions may include executive coaching, strategy development with detailed action plans, change management plans with implementation strategies, program/project design, establishing systems (e.g., monitoring, evaluation, and learning), training, and mentoring, and/or the development of communities of practice to promote learning and the application of newly acquired knowledge and skills. Countries of work experience include Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada, Côte d’Ivoire, England, Ghana, Guinea, Haiti, India, Kenya, Mali, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Peru, Senegal, Spain, Tanzania, United States and Zambia.Coach, trainer, and speaker in culture-related areas. Delivered a TEDx talk at Northwestern University focusing on several of these topics: https://youtu.be/hg-i94owzEw. Teach the Culture, Evaluation, and Equity course since 2012 at the Evaluators’ Institute of Claremont Graduate University: https://tei.cgu.edu/people/leona-ba-edd/Fluent in English and French. Intermediate level in Spanish.