By sharing her personal story as well as practical tools and tips to create lasting change, Vanessa acts as a catalyst to ignite transformation in others. Prior speaking engagements include TedxFiDiWomen SF, Google, LinkedIn, Stanford Women in Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business and LoveSpring.
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Akoya offers a variety of Corporate Workshops focused on team-building, practical tools for lowering stress & anxiety, and cultivating leadership skills. Akoya also teaches the Mindfulness Based Achievement (MBA) curriculum on-site for Corporate clients in 6 and 10 week programs or 1-2 day workshops.
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It is about uniting the opposing forces inside of you and learning to love and accept both your dark and your light so that you can step into your most Authentic Self: a human being filled with love, power, compassion and joy.
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Part of Akoya’s mission is to empower women & girls in developing countries. We believe it is important to give back and we’re committed to donating 10% of all proceeds to various charities.
We’d love to encourage you to donate as well.