Before you decide, pause.
Whether you're facing a career crossroads, a leadership transition, or a season of organizational change, the choice that matters most rarely comes from moving faster. Kesha Lee offers coaching, consulting, and facilitation built around discernment: slowing down, listening carefully, and choosing with integrity.
How we might work together
This is one-on-one work, built for social impact leaders and newer executives, especially the first five years in a C-suite or senior role, when the job changes faster than anyone prepared you for. It's the room to think out loud with someone who isn't your board, your direct reports, or your funder, a real thinking partner for the decisions you're carrying alone right now. It might be a Discernment Pause, a single session for the choice that needs room to breathe, or a longer container for the kind of transition that keeps unfolding rather than resolving in an afternoon. Either way, my process includes listening first, staying present with what's actually true, and helping you find your way back to your own clarity, so you can lead from a place of integrity.
Alongside ongoing coaching work, I welcome a select few individual clients embarking on sabbatical each year, through a dedicated Sabbatical and Transition Discernment series.
I work with agencies, teams, and mission-driven organizations on strategy, expert advisory, and program/policy design, from nonprofits and school systems to government agencies and multinational institutions. Whatever the setting, I bring the same listen-first process to institutional decisions that I bring to individual ones. Every engagement starts with understanding what's really going on before any recommendation gets made, whether that means sitting with a board through a strategic planning process, advising a government team through a policy shift, or helping an organization redesign how it actually makes decisions. From there, the scope is built around your organization's specific goals, timeline, and context, not a fixed package.
My facilitation practice is grounded in presence over performance, the belief that the most useful thing I can bring into a room isn't a perfect agenda, but real attention to what's actually happening in it. I design leadership retreats, virtual engagements, team reflection sessions, conference facilitation, and multi-session series for organizations and teams, often in education, philanthropic and social impact/entrepreneurial spaces. I draw on practices from Courage and Renewal, Human-Centered Design, and Liberatory Design not as rigid frameworks, but as ways of making sure the people in the room, the collective and individual humanity, is not lost in the plan making.
I also believe play has a place here, even in serious work. Some of my favorite sessions have made room for open exploration alongside reflection, because insight and innovation doesn't only come from talking something through in a circle. Whatever the format, my goal is to create a safe space where a group can leave the room with exactly what they needed to receive.
Have Questions? Let's Talk
Have a question, a decision you're sitting with, or a project taking shape, send a quick note and I'll get back to you soon.