For over 15 years, Anjali Sawhney has had a depthful and diverse leadership coaching & facilitation practice serving non-profit, corporate, government and educational change makers, teams and organizations. She is a Certified Integral Life Coach, New Ventures West (2006), a trained Leadership Embodiment Teacher (2011) & a Certified Somatic Coach from the Strozzi Institute for Somatics (SIS), leaders in embodied transformation. She has also completed a 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training and has been practicing Yoga for over two decades which is also part of her heritage.
Working at SIS since 2018, Anjali has been part of the teaching team for numerous leadership somatics and embodied transformation courses in person and online (she was also on the Strozzi board in 2023 when it transitioned from founder lead to a non-profit). Additionally, she has facilitated trainings for hundreds including the City of San Francisco, Santa Rita Jail Counselors, University of California, San Francisco, Beloved Communities, California Endowment, East Bay Meditation Center (where she was on the Leadership Sangha, aka Board, for 4 years), & Richmond Community Foundation (RCF) among other non profits. At RCF, Anjali is also an embodiment coach for Contra Costa Non-profit leaders & Housing First:Standing on Your Own Feet program for unhoused persons. She is also a leading somatic coach for a)plan coaching company.
Prior to coaching and facilitating, Anjali was a Director of Product Development at Charles Schwab & Company where she led a cross-functional team of hundreds for new products & services. This included marketing & sales training. Anjali was also an engineering consultant for two engineering companies on both coasts of the US. Anjali received her BS degree in Civil-Environmental Engineering from UCLA & an MBA from the University of San Francisco.
She was born in India, raised in a multi-ethnic area of Los Angeles, and has lived on the east coast of the United States as well as in South & East Asia. Her lineage informs how she works with clients and fosters an inclusive, warm, and depthful space. She enjoys working with untapped populations including youth, and besides yoga, she enjoys dancing to live music. Anjali is sometimes allowed to groove with her beloved young adult children, Aanika born in San Francisco & Jai from South Asia.