Leadership Development Archives - UFacilitate: We make collaboration work!

Virginia Cinquemani

Virginia Cinquemani

Steven Hart

Steven Hart

Nina Bhatia

Nina Bhatia

Julian Johnson

Julian Johnson

Jenifer Gager

Jenifer Gager

Norah Bwaya

Norah Bwaya

A pioneer in, and veteran of, the coaching industry in East Africa. Norah believes in the vast potential of people. She is known for her effectiveness in leadership development and for spearheading advocacy for improving work culture and ethics in Uganda. She is a multi-skilled Certified Executive Coach, Organization Development Consultant, Facilitator/trainer, public speaker and…

Lara Konditi-Rabala

Lara Konditi-Rabala

Lara Konditi-Rabala is a Facilitator-Trainer and Executive Coach who has a passion for working with individuals who want to lead better, manage others more effectively and experience transformational change in themselves and those around them. She specialises in Management & Leadership Development, Programme Management & Development, Training and Facilitation, Organizational Strengthening, Culture Change, Facilitated Dialogues,…

Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken

Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken

Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken has offered leadership development including coaching, change management and facilitation to leaders of international organizations, NGOs and foundations for 30 years, in practice, in academia and as an independent consultant. Tosca has delivered 25+ leadership development training programs and consulted with INGOs on change management since 2006. Tosca enjoys facilitating leadership level meetings as…

Jennifer Berman

Jennifer Berman

Jennifer Berman is an experienced coach, facilitator of multi-stakeholder groups, and network weaver. Over the past twenty five years she has worked in a variety of settings as a community organizer, philanthropic advisor, leadership coach, and designer and facilitator of transformative learning journeys. Jennifer’s approach to work is deeply informed by her immersion in systems and…

Marta Agnieszka Bednarczyk

Marta Agnieszka Bednarczyk (Maz, they/them) is an expert in intercultural education with more than eight years of experience developing and delivering training courses, workshops, and e-learning activities on human rights, global citizenship, non-formal education, and more. She holds two Bachelor’s degrees in International Security and Ugrofinnic Studies, and a Master’s degree in Crisis Management. At the…

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Alexandra (Alex) Gaspar Martins Teixeira

Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships

Alexandra (Alex) Gaspar Martins Teixeira (she/her) is a collective intelligence enthusiast, master facilitator and technical strategist with over 25 years of experience designing and facilitating participatory meetings and convenings for high-performing teams and organizational collaboratives including FHI 360, Ipas, MSI Reproductive Choices, the Urgent Action Fund, the World Health Organization and UNFPA among others.

Prior to consulting, Alex spent 11 years advancing access to safe abortion at Ipas where she partnered with global teams and led organization-wide initiatives as a Senior Advisor for Technical Innovation and Excellence, the Associate Director for Community
Engagement and Policy Advocacy and as the Senior Advisor for Organizational Learning. Alex has also served as the Philanthropic Partnerships Officer for the Astraea Foundation, as a Global Research & Policy Advisor for the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (now OutRight Action International) and as a Program Fellow with the Global Fund for Women. She has served on the board of directors of the Safe Abortion Action Fund (UK), The Stone House (NC), the Third Wave Foundation (NY) and Resource Generation (NY).

Alex has designed and led over 70 high-stakes participatory workshops, retreats and convenings for over 2000 stakeholders across Africa, Asia and North America. She is among the most seasoned facilitators, globally, of Abortion Values Clarification for Action & Transformation (VCAT) Workshops where she has led community members, activists, health care providers, ministry officials, multilateral donors and embassies—all with wide ranging positions on abortion—through a process that shifts their orientation from one of contentious debate to an opportunity for empathy and principled collaboration to advance bodily autonomy. She has trained and mentored over 150 emerging facilitators

and team leaders globally on designing and facilitating inclusive, liberatory and participatory meetings.

With two decades of experience advancing equity and justice through philanthropy and global health programming, Alex approaches facilitation as a strategic opportunity to practice high-impact, equity-based collaboration skills that live on beyond our convenings. Alex brings skillful attention to transforming personal, interpersonal and systemic barriers to meaningful participation. She is passionate about helping groups connect, navigate principled disagreement, prioritize, focus, and align towards powerful actions that advance justice, joy and wellbeing in the world.

Alex is a recipient of the Wildacres Leadership Initiative William C. Friday Fellowship (2014-2016), holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and French Literature from Connecticut College and a master’s degree in International Affairs with a focus on gender, sexuality and international human rights from Columbia University. As the first member of her family to attend university, she is humbled to stand on the shoulders of self-taught entrepreneurs, savvy dissidents, survivors of Portuguese dictatorship and lovers of learning. She currently lives in Durham, North Carolina, in the Southeastern United States, in a beloved cross-class, multi-racial intentional community of gorgeously imperfect humans trying to build deep interdependence.