Viveka Chen Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

Strozzi Institute offers training for change making leaders, coaches, and organizations to embody pragmatic wisdom, skillful action, and grounded compassion; who use conflict as a generative force. https://strozziinstitute.com

San Francisco Bay Area

Viveka Chen is an organizational development and transformation consultant, certified coach, facilitator, curriculum designer and trainer. For over twenty-five years she has worked for social justice. She specializes in guiding transformational processes: race equity and liberation work, team building and coaching, organizational culture, vision, strategy.

Viveka is partnering with The New School’s Tishman Environment and Design Center and Social Movements + Innovation Lab on the launch of the Environmental Justice (EJ) Movement Fellowship. The Fellowship will support the capacity of leaders nationwide to develop, scale, and implement disruptive strategies to advance systemic solutions to the urgent crises.

United States

Lead design consultant and facilitator, partnering with Community Change leaders Trish Tchume and Aida Cuadrado and evaluator Zuri Murphy, to create a cohort-based leadership program for women of color leaders in power-building organizations across the country. Power 50 completes its 2nd cohort in June 2020 and Viveka's role has shifted to a support and.

https://rockwoodleadership.orgSince 2000, Rockwood Leadership Institute has provided thousands of social change leaders across the globe with tools and skills to help change themselves, their communities, and the world. Viveka is co-facilitator of the Reproductive Rights, Health and Justice Fellowship, Art of Leadership for Women and Femmes of Color, and a.

The O2 Sabbatical Award honors dedicated Bay Area nonprofit executive directors with an essential break for rest and renewal. Viveka is a sabbatical coach working with the executive director and the leadership team at organizations receiving the O2 aware.

Viveka works with people purposefully creating transformative change in their own lives and for a socially just world. She is a certified coach drawing on over twenty years of experience working across a spectrum of cultures, communities, and sectors. Viveka is also a Buddhist meditation teacher offering a spacious and compassionate presence and holding a.

San Francisco Bay Area

Working to advance rights and create opportunities requires a combination of passion, leadership, and practical, can-do skills. The Haas, Jr. Fund launched the Flexible Leadership Awards (FLA) program in 2005 to provide social-sector organizations and their leaders with resources and support to become even more effective.As a Plan Consultant, Viveka is.

Mission District, San Francisco, CA

Viveka is chair of the working board of this community based and community run organization. In her leadership role, Viveka has successfully established a shared leadership model for the Buddhist Center.The purpose of the SFBC is to meet the pressing need for wisdom and compassion in the world through sharing the Dharma, supporting ethical living, taking.

https://www.nfg.org/philanthropyforwardNeighborhood Funders Group (NFG) and The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions launched a new leadership fellowship for CEOs of progressive philanthropic institutions. Viveka Chen is the lead design consultant partnering with Michelle Gislason as project consultants, facilitators and CEO coaches.The first.

United States

Lead consultant and co-facilitator of capacity building assistance for the Ford BUILD initiative's first two years of executive transition capacity building assistance. A central program is WOC Leadership Rising, a leadership development program for a cohort of 19 new executive directors of BUILD grantee organizations.

https://www.movetoendviolence.orgMove to End Violence supports leaders in the U.S. movement to end violence against girls and women to step back from their daily work to envision the change they want to see, imagine new strategies, and build the capacity needed to realize this change. MEV provides the opportunity, training, and resources for individual.

Oakland

RoadMap is a national team of of 69 consultants across the country dedicated to advancing the power and promise of social justice organizations. We bring extensive on-the-ground experience, a range of complementary skills, and a diversity of race and ethnicity, class, sexual orientation and geographic backgrounds that is rare in the consulting field.

http://www.compasspoint.org/CompassPoint intensifies the impact of fellow nonprofit leaders, organizations, and networks as we achieve social equity together. We believe that nonprofit organizations and leaders need relevant support that builds on their strengths, experiences, and achievements and that those individuals and organizations that invest in.

Oakland, CA

https://www.nfg.org/project_phoenixProject Phoenix: Connecting Democracy, Economy and Sustainability (Phoenix) is a year-long cohort collective learning program for funders who are:- Grounded in social and racial justice values and analysis,- Focused on how to practically achieve a just transition to a “new economy” and philanthropy’s role in that.

Oakland, CA

Viveka is lead faculty and design consultant for CoreAlign's leadership development programs including two fellowships that offer in-depth and immersive leadership development in innovation practices and race and power.​ The cohort-based, experiential learning design helps connect a network of leaders who work collaboratively to change policies, culture.

The Strength From Within - Environmental Health and Justice Capacity Building Program (Strength) is a three-year initiative to develop financially strong and organizationally effective and resilient small grassroots “anchor” organizations in the Bay Area region working at the intersection of environment, health and social justice in traditionally.

TCE created this project to support existing grantees focused on health and freight transportation “to strengthen their individual and collective strength in order to effectively address the expected proliferation of massive infrastructure projects (including expansion, road building, bridges, and rail yards)."The project was based around a series of.

• PolicyLink is a nonprofit organization advancing a new generation of policies to fight poverty and achieve social and economic equity.
• Managed human resources (35 employees) including recruitment and interviewing of staff, fellows and interns, compensation plan development, and policy and procedure development.
• Coordinated administrative staff and resources to meet the needs of a growing $4M organization.
• Managed grants reporting (primarily private foundations with one federal grant).
• Managed budgets and expenses for administrative operations.

• Urban Habitat Program (UHP) builds multicultural urban environmental leadership for socially just and ecologically sustainable communities in the Bay Area’s low-income communities of color.
• Played key role in overseeing and defining programmatic strategy with staff and external allies.
• Directed the organization’s management, planning, operations and organizational development.
• Managed grants and fundraising.
• Recruited, hired, and supervised multi-cultural staff with Executive Director.
• Developed budget and provided financial oversight for a $900,000 annual budget (funded by private foundations, federal agencies, earned income, events and contracts).

• EBCRC was a quasi-governmental regional planning body comprising 38 defense conversion stakeholders convened to address military base closures in Alameda County.
• Developed programs, wrote grants, and managed budgets for $4.7M in federal funding, secured $250K local match.
• Advocated and provide TA for community priorities including environmental clean-up, inclusive planning processes, low income and homeless housing and economic development projects.
• Planned public meetings and outreach
• Directed the organization’s start-up and operations.
• Represented agency in negotiations with local and regional governments and public agencies.

ASIAN, Inc. provides 1) small/minority business assistance, 2) affordable housing, and 3) program development services to the economically disadvantaged Asian American communities of San Francisco.

Somatic Coaching Certificate - In Training, Somatic Coaching

Coach Certification, Coaching

International Coach Federation accredited coach training and certification program. Graduated in the first coach training cohort devoted.

Education record

Psychological Safety Certification

Interpersonal Leadership Styles Certification

Eqi-2.0 Emotional Intelligence Assessment Certification