Yoo-Jin Kang (she/her) is an integrative leadership strategist, facilitator, and executive coach who helps leaders and teams build leadership that is sustainable, grounded, and deeply human. She works with founders, executives, and organizational leaders who are navigating complexity, pressure, and rapid decision-making and want to lead with greater clarity, steadiness, and intention.

With more than a decade of experience across public health, equity work, organizational consulting, and leadership development, Yoo-Jin supports leaders when surface-level productivity strategies are no longer enough and when the real work involves shifting patterns, not just improving performance. Her approach focuses on the connection between nervous system regulation, decision-making, communication, and culture, helping leaders move from reactive survival mode into more strategic and sustainable leadership.

Yoo-Jin’s work is informed by her training in public health and integrative frameworks, which emphasize prevention, root-cause understanding, and whole-person leadership. Just as integrative medicine treats the whole person rather than isolated symptoms, her approach to leadership looks at how strategy, identity, nervous system state, power, and purpose interact. She blends evidence-based leadership development with trauma-informed practice, somatic awareness, and systems thinking to help leaders increase capacity, reduce reactivity, and lead more effectively under pressure.

She holds a Master of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley, and dual bachelor’s degrees in Sociolinguistics and Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her early career included work in public health, gender-based violence prevention, and community-based organizing, partnering closely with BIPOC communities and survivors to advance equity and access to care. Over the past 12+ years, her consulting and facilitation work has spanned philanthropy, nonprofits, higher education, and mission-driven organizations, where she has designed and led trainings, leadership programs, and organizational strategy sessions for teams across the country.

Through Yoo-Jin Kang Consulting, she partners with leadership teams and organizations to build cultures of care, accountability, and sustainability while still meeting ambitious goals. Her facilitation style is known for being both rigorous and deeply human: practical enough to apply immediately and reflective enough to create lasting change. She is particularly interested in helping leaders build the internal capacity required for clear thinking, sound decision-making, and healthier team dynamics in high-pressure environments.

Trystan Reese first learned about keeping cool in high-stakes situations when he worked as an organizer fighting to pass gay marriage in California. He was part of an elite team whose job was to find anti-gay voters and change their minds about gay marriage. He has had hundreds of these types of conversations, typically on the doorsteps of avowedly anti-gay people.

The same skills he used in those high-pressure conversations are being taught here: self-awareness, nervous system regulation, and the ability to find clarity... even in times of stress.

Trystan spent nearly 10 years working on the frontlines of the fights for marriage equality, transgender non-discrimination protections, and an end to the death penalty.

From there, he went on to become a Qualified Administrator for the Intercultural Development Inventory, study Somatic Abolitionism with Resmaa Menakem, and achieve certification to teach Brene Brown's Dare to Lead frameworks.

He has coached, trained, and consulted with companies as diverse as Maybelline, Dropbox, Advanced Micro Devices, Cambridge Associates, and Harry’s.

Trystan's formal educational background is in theatre, which means he brings a high-energy, interactive style to all of his work. Learners regularly describe his sessions as “the most engaging online workshops” they’ve ever attended.