Nathanael Chawkin

For over fifteen years, Nathanael Chawkin has been a trusted executive coach and spiritual guide to leaders, leadership teams, and leadership coaches who are seeking to realize their full potential and make a conscious impact in the world.

The felt sense of presence that opens up in coaching sessions with Nathanael allows leaders to awaken to conditioned patterns and relationship dynamics they have been asleep to, oftentimes for decades, resulting in radical shifts in mindset and behavior that can occur from a single moment of realization. These sessions are said to have a lasting, exponential impact that is psychoactive in and of itself.

In his work with Palæstra Leadership, Nathanael specializes in transforming organizational culture by coaching executive team dynamics. By turning development into a team sport, leaders learn to approach tough conversations with heart, which creates radical new levels of trust, alignment, high-performance, and team flow. Once this cultural cornerstone is set, Nathanael helps clients build Deliberately Developmental Organizations (DDOs) that scale leadership development through in-house peer coaching practice so that “Everyone is a coach.”

As a martial arts and mindfulness meditation instructor, Nathanael’s practice-based approach has helped hundreds of executives from growth-minded, midmarket companies traverse the path to their next level of leadership development. His culture transformation work with Palæstra Leadership clients has been covered by Entrepreneur magazine and the Financial Times. He has been a repeat guest on the Greatness Machine, a top 13 business podcast in the United States.

Nathanael completed his BA from Maharishi International University in 2002, and MA in Integral Psychology & Coaching from JFK University in 2009.  He earned his 2nd degree blackbelt in Aikido in 2005 while serving as the senior director of an internationally renowned uchideshi (live-in training) program, and is a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He founded Integral Martial Arts, “The Gentle Art of Mixed Martial Arts,” to coach human performance both on & off the mat, in 2011. He lives with his loving life partner, Elizabeth, a priestess of the sacred feminine, in Santa Barbara, California. 

Elizabeth Huebner

Elizabeth is the founder of the Bee Divine Hive Temple Collective. She is a Priestess within the Divine Mother Church and the Temple of Isis, and an initiate of the Pythoness (a feminine shamanic tradition that originates in Western Europe). She is also a certified hypnotherapist and holds a BA in Philosophy and an AD in Theater. She serves as a spiritual mentor and leadership coach, bringing forward Sacred Feminine pathways of spiritual awakening.

Her trainings and coaching utilize embodiment practices, ceremonial work, initiatory experiences, the Work of Byron Katie, parts-work and shadow work. Her work integrates the spiritual and the worldly, supporting individuals in their awakening and becoming a force for good in the world.

Jordan Santoni

Emerging from a diverse industry background in clean-tech, health-tech, neuro-tech, corporate hospitality, and leadership education, Jordan leveraged his upbringing in “consciousness-based education” and his western business training into a commitment to “business as a spiritual practice.” His early career experience in HR, outdoor education, and performance management provided a solid foundation for his successful transition into executive leadership coaching and organizational development in 2016. 

Dedicated to transforming company cultures from the inside-out, Jordan’s leadership and organizational development consulting work has supported human development initiatives and successful corporate scaling within numerous Y-Combinator startups including Lyft, and Zesty, midmarket companies such as Nfluence, Chanje and Perigon, and within non-profit and research organizations like The David Lynch Foundation, Dream Logic, UNC-Chapel Hill’ Institute of Marine Sciences, FireTenders and The Digital Detox. 

Starting in 2019, Jordan took the role of Executive Director of FireTenders, a non-profit organization providing therapeutic men’s work programs. Influenced by his years of leadership and conscious culture coaching, he worked alongside the Founding Director to co-create a powerful, growing movement of heart-centered, community-minded men in California, Oregon, and Colorado. As a FireTenders’ facilitator, he has co-led numerous 5-day wilderness retreats, 9-week embodied trainings, and 3-day therapeutic intensives, and led hundreds of men’s circles while providing leadership oversight for the inception of ongoing, leader-full men’s circles—the majority of which are still meeting to this day. By blending nature therapy, somatic psychology, and elemental practices, his team of therapists and coaches have provided hundreds of men with the tools and experiences necessary to cultivating healthy relationships with themselves, with each other, and most importantly, within their families and communities. 

Jordan holds degrees in International Business, Economics and Spanish from Appalachian State University and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. An avid meditator, surfer, martial artist, and father, he bridges elements of mindfulness, competition and play as a means for teammates to strive together to build trust and organizational efficacy. He now works and resides in Santa Barbara, California with his family.

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