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Many of the people I work with are carrying more than they feel they can say out loud, at work and at home.

Ayni Collective

Small-group cohort experiences, each limited to 10 participants, built on the Four Gates of Ayni Leadership, the Living Ayni relational model, and current neuroscience. Ayni Collective is for people who sense that the external system shapes the internal system, and vice versa.

The programs follow the natural cycles of life. Each season is devoted to the work that season calls for.

Fall · A Season of Release · 6 weeks
Seeing clearly what you carry and setting down what no longer serves, with gratitude.

Winter · A Season for Nurturing What We Value · 6 weeks
Looking inward: reconnecting with who you are and what you want more of.

Spring · A Season of Possibility · 8 weeks
The complete journey: from honest self-examination to what's genuinely possible, closing with a concrete plan for growth. Participants who completed fall and winter receive a returning rate.

Summer
There is no summer program, by design. Summer is the season of doing: living what you planted, out in the world. We'll be doing the same.

Some cohorts are open to everyone; others are dedicated to specific communities, such as professionals in mission-driven fields or women in leadership. Each cohort's focus is announced with its dates, so you can choose the one that’s right for you.

These programs follow the seasons of the global north. A southern hemisphere pairing is on the horizon: while one half of the world releases, the other regenerates. The whole is always in balance.

A participant, reflecting a month and a half after the cohort ended:

"Now, I am able to find grace in patience and not be anxious with anticipation. I am just learning to surf gracefully. I stumble, I lose my balance, but then I slowly find stability even when the waves billow." Bhakti G., World Resources Institute, India.

The Winter Season begins in January 2027. Join the list to hear first when enrollment opens.

I'm ready to nurture myself

Individual Coaching

For people navigating a meaningful gap: between where they are and where their truth is pointing them, between what their environment rewards and what they know matters. Some arrive in a professional season: a role that no longer fits, a decision that carries real weight, leadership that is quietly depleting them. Others arrive in a personal one: a transition, an identity that no longer feels like their own, a life that works on paper but not on the inside. The work is the same, because who we are at work and who we are in life were never separate.

This work applies emotional intelligence, the neuroscience of behavior change, and Andean relational philosophy to help people develop clarity, make decisions they can stand behind, and live and lead in ways that are sustainable.

"Throughout my career leading international technology, private equity, and finance companies, I have experienced many different approaches and methodologies (...), nothing has quite compared to the approach Ornella takes. Having been involved in numerous investments throughout my career, I can confidently say that working with Ornella was one of the most valuable investments I have made. The returns are not measured simply in financial terms, but in the deeper understanding, awareness, and wisdom gained." E.F., Private Equity Investor, London, UK.

“Working with Ornella was incredibly valuable as I transitioned into a leadership role at a new organization and began leading a team. She helped me approach the role with greater confidence, ownership, and self-awareness, always listening carefully and guiding me toward my own answers rather than telling me what to do. One question that has stayed with me is, “What am I assuming about this situation?”, a simple but powerful tool for recognizing my patterns and responding more intentionally. I always looked forward to our sessions and came away with practical tools and a clearer sense of the leader I want to be.” Giselle Del Carmen, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

“Working with Ornella has facilitated me in living the best version of myself. I am enjoying the strength and clarity I have found through Ornella’s approach. It has been positively transformational.” Vicki Hussain, Leeds, UK.

Engagements are tailored to individual needs. We begin with a conversation.

Group Coaching

Some things become clearer in the company of others. Up to six people meet regularly for 90 minutes, and each person brings what is alive for them that day. I coach one person at a time while the others listen. Watching someone else examine a belief or a pattern often reveals your own more vividly than being asked about it directly, so you leave having done your own work, even in the sessions where you spoke the least.

The rhythm is yours to set. I will offer a recommendation, and you decide how long we walk together. Confidentiality, non-directive inquiry, and full ownership of your own answers all stay the same. Group coaching is offered at a lower investment than individual work, and the two can be combined.

Pricing for individuals is regional, based on where you live and earn your income. How it works.

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Organizations

Systems, not sentiment.

Organizations that come to Living Ayni have capable people and clear missions. And yet the work keeps breaking down between them, in ways that have started to feel normal: teams optimizing for their own goals at the expense of the whole, two groups working on the same problem without knowing it, breakdowns that take longer and longer to surface, and the same people absorbing extra work and risk until burnout clusters in the same roles. Leadership senses something is off but can’t locate exactly where.

The cause is often systemic. Every organization decides what it rewards, what it pays attention to, and whose views are heard before a commitment is made. Over time those choices become defaults, and their costs land quietly on the teams closest to the work. Living Ayni helps leadership find where contribution and benefit have come apart, decide what to change, and measure whether it worked.

The work rests on ayni, the Andean principle of reciprocity, and on sixty years of research in organizational science. Both reach the same conclusion: systems endure and grow only when contribution and benefit stay in balance. Recent neuroscience shows what happens to people when that balance breaks, in their ability to think clearly, learn, and trust each other. The work happens at two levels, in a deliberate order: the conditions first, then the people within them.

The Living Ayni Workshop
In person over one to three days, or virtually across several weeks, built around your timing and deadlines.

A facilitated process for leadership teams and organizations ready to examine what is actually shaping how people coordinate and make decisions. Every workshop involves both leadership and the teams doing the work, and moves through four stages.

Reciprocity Alignment Scan. A short survey and facilitated conversations establish a baseline, the Reciprocity Index, showing where misalignment lives, how trade-offs move through the system, and where collaboration is more form than substance.

Discernment sessions. Facilitated sessions work through the findings at two levels, the patterns across the system and the patterns within teams, and open up new possibilities grounded in the organization’s priorities.

Redesign decisions. Leadership decides what changes in incentives, metrics, and decision processes. Each decision is recorded with an owner, start date, and implementation plan.

Re-measurement. In the months after the workshop, the same survey and the indicators chosen at the start are run again, so progress is judged against the organization’s own baseline. Results are reported either way.

Participants do the mapping themselves, using Living Ayni’s frameworks as the lens. What leaves with them is a shared understanding of what’s actually happening, ownership of the direction forward, and a set of design decisions with measurement around them. There are no personality assessments, no individual evaluations, and no culture programming. The workshop works well on its own and as an entry point for longer work.

Leadership Development Program
Multi-month engagement

For organizations ready to go beyond a single workshop. Leadership teams work with the Living Ayni frameworks as a living practice, building new coordination habits and developing the internal capacity to sustain healthier conditions over time.

Every engagement begins with a conversation about what is happening in your organization and whether working together makes sense.

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FAQ

  • We begin with a conversation. A first session is a space to understand what’s present for you and explore whether working together feels aligned—for both of us. There’s no pressure to decide anything beyond the next step.

  • Coaching works with where you are now and where you want to go: decisions, transitions, the way you lead and live. It does not treat mental health conditions. If something comes up that needs a therapist, I’ll tell you, and help you find the right support.

  • Work with organizations is priced as a fixed fee, agreed after a conversation about scope. For individuals paying for themselves, pricing is regional, and I share rates after our first conversation.

  • Economic realities differ enormously across the countries I work with, and a single price would put this work out of reach for many people. To keep it fair and objective, rates for individuals follow the World Bank’s income classification of the country where you live and earn your income. There are three tiers: one for high-income countries, one for upper-middle-income countries, and one for lower-middle- and low-income countries. You can find your country’s classification on the World Bank’s website. People on international or expatriate salaries pay the high-income rate wherever they live.

  • There’s no fixed timeline. Some people come for a short period of clarity and grounding; others work with me over time as their leadership, work, or life evolves. We regularly pause to reflect and adjust, so the work remains responsive and reciprocal.

  • I work in English and Spanish.

  • Yes. Individual and group coaching take place online, and I schedule across time zones.

  • Rates are in USD and I accept bank transfers, Zelle, Visa, MasterCard, and American Express.