Master Soulful Facilitators
Leslie Ritter
Co-Leader & Master Soulful Facilitator
Leslie Ritter is a certified Co-Active Coach, Enneagram Coach and Facilitator of workshops and programs for individual and group transformation. As the former Wellness Director for the visionary women’s clothing company, Eileen Fisher, Leslie helped to build a culture of wellbeing, connection and caring. She is a mindfulness practitioner and teacher, a professional singer and licensed massage therapist, and she brings her wide experience in life to her work and connection with her clients.
Leslie believes that the path of self discovery, to our deepest humanity, compassion and connection is what will heal our world. This is her passion and purpose. Leslie’s intention in all her coaching and facilitating is to help clients go beyond the superficial and external evidence of their daily lives, to the deeper inner experience of life.
A certified Master Soulful Facilitator and member of the Symponia Institute team, Leslie deeply aligns with the mission to bring a more heart centered, soul inspired approach to facilitation, leadership, bridge building and systems change.
Dena Wiggins
Co-Leader & Master Soulful Facilitator
Dena Wiggins (she/her/hers) is an author, innovator and MBA informed purpose doula. She wholeheartedly believes that purpose is the birthright of humanity referring to humanity as Purpose Peeps. Dena’s sweet spot of service is to transform survival stuckness into thriving lives and places of purpose. This shift is vital to heal systemic oppression and exclusion that are the antithesis of thriving purpose. Dena is a Certified Purpose Coach, Master Soulful Facilitator, and Circle Host through the TED Circles, Lean In and Feel Real platforms. She bridges the art, science and soul of results that matter.
John Scilipote
Master Soulful Facilitator
John Scilipote is an accomplished musician, yogi, poet, and healer, John brings a breadth of talent, passion, and depth to bear in business, facilitation, and whatever else he happens to be plunging into at any given moment. John is a co-founder of Culture Shift Agency (CSA), a New York-based creative agency whose mission is to support culture-shifting businesses scale their message and reach.
CSA projects include Culture Shift Podcast, Culture Shift Conversations, and BreakBread.World, an initiative focused on building a global community by reweaving our common humanity by breaking bread together over active and inspired conversation.
John studied Nondual Kabalistic Healing and Nondual Shamanism and was a founding member of On The Common Ground, an NYC-based organization focused on men’s soul-work. John is committed to helping others to awaken and embrace that which delights and transforms, opening them to living more fully in relationship with themselves, others, and the world we live in.
Kyla Shawyer
Master Soulful Facilitator
Kyla Shawyer is currently working at the intersection of systems innovation and leadership in the social good space, serving as both CEO & Co-Founder of Philanthropy & Fundraising North America (PFNA), a nonprofit executive leadership program that builds nonprofit capacity for transformational growth and innovation, and as an Innovation Leadership consultant for DSIL Global, a social innovation company.
Kyla has served in numerous executive positions in the global nonprofit sector, most recently as CEO for the Resource Alliance and IFC (International Fundraising Congress), a vibrant community of global nonprofit fundraisers and change makers shaking up the social good ecosystem.
Jason Teeters
Master Soulful Facilitator
Jason Teeters is an Industrial Organizational Psychologist, Business Strategist, and Master Soulful Facilitator who uses an evidence based approach to help businesses achieve dramatic and measurable change. Organizations typically hire Jason to help them make work not suck. For the last decade he has not only studied the science of achievement, he’s mastered it by working with hundreds of successful business leaders and collaborating with them all over the world translating theory into bottom-line results for clients.
When Jason's not helping entrepreneurs future-proof their businesses, he follows his wife, an international wedding planner around the globe with their two children.
Sean Harvey
Founder & Master Soulful Facilitator
Sean Harvey, MSOD, MSEd, is the Chief Compassion Officer & Founder of the Sympónia Institute for Global Compassionate Healing and a Master Soulful Facilitator. His work in personal, organizational, and societal transformation is inspired by over 20+years of Talent and Organization Development consulting combined with a decade of college teaching experience at Cornell, NYU, and Baruch College CUNY in the areas of Leadership, Organizational Behavior and Change. Sean is contributing as a writer, speaker, and consultant to an emerging narrative around Compassionate Bridge Building as a New Paradigm for Healing and bringing Spiritual/Soulful practices into Organizational and Leadership Models. Sean most recently served as the head of Personal Transformation and Wellbeing for EILEEN FISHER. Prior to his experience at Eileen Fisher, Sean was the Vice President of Talent Consulting for Partners International, where he launched a Socially Conscious Leadership program for emerging leaders on Wall Street.