ARIANA ABADIAN – HEIFETZ

Affiliated Leadership Development Coach and Consultant

Ariana is a writer and consultant on adaptive leadership development, effective communication, and gender and sexuality. She formerly worked for the Rajiv Gandhi Mahila Vikas Pariyojana in Uttar Pradesh as a Program Expert on Leadership and Communications where she led training for young women on menstrual hygiene, discriminatory social myths, and adaptive change relating to women’s health. She authored a graphic novel, Spreading Your Wings, to inspire youth engagement and mindset shifts around menstrual hygiene, which is published by Zubaan Publishers. She has also facilitated leadership development workshops for organizations such as SEWA and I am a Teacher, in addition to working as the Deputy Director at The United State of Women, Washington, D.C. While Deputy Direction she collaborated with the Obama Administration’s White House Council on Women and Girls to launch the first United State of Women Summit. She presently lives in Delhi working as the Head of Social-emotional Learning at the Heritage Xperiential Learning School. In this capacity, she works with adults and children at all levels of the school community to foster mindfulness, emotional intelligence, leadership, and conflict resolution skills.