Molly thrives at the intersection of inevitable complexity. She has spent the last 15 years serving across industries as a leader, facilitator, consultant, coach, convener and strategist with the goal of helping people, teams and movements own their stories, build intentional community, center humanity, and tackle their most pressing challenges.

Molly brings expertise in Adaptive Leadership, complex team management, human behavior, somatics, systems theory, change management and design thinking to her work. Molly has had the privilege of supporting dozens of cross sector organizations including New York University, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, The New York Community Trust, The New York City Mayor’s Office, Google, Vimeo, Sephora, Brooklyn Public Library, and The New York City Criminal Justice Agency.

Prior to founding Collectively, Molly served as a non profit executive, and most recently as the Head of People and Operations at a fast growing startup. Molly holds a Masters in Social Work and a B.A. in English and Creative Writing. She finds balance in life with vegetarian cooking, works of fiction, restorative yoga and lots of time in nature.

Meet our Team

Sarah’s approach to coaching is informed by her educational background in social work and work experience as a leader and facilitator with grassroots organizations. Her practice is grounded in curiosity and exploration as critical tools towards both self and systems transformation. She encourages vulnerability, risk-taking, and patience, and is gifted at building deeply empathic relationships. Sarah's experience coaching has largely been with traditional power holders situated across the food system, in addition to a diverse representation of leaders working at the intersections of social, racial, and economic justice. She is committed to identifying strategies that center healing, mitigate harm, and promote collective accountability rooted in impact.

Nitika Raj is a queer South Asian immigrant, spiritual seeker, and lifelong learner. She is founder and principal at Moksh Consulting whose vision is to shift collective consciousness towards greater peace, connection and joy. Nitika’s work is infused with the values of courage, compassion, resilience, authenticity, dignity and joy. She loves co-creating spaces with her clients to unfurl their essential wholeness, purpose and bliss, while navigating challenges with grace. She brings an equity lens to everything, everyone, everywhere.

Nitika holds a Masters degree in Social Work and is an ICF Certified Professional Coach. Her background is in anti-violence movements using arts-based organizing for change, and ending the gendered racial wealth divide. Born in India and raised in Kuwait, Atlanta, and Seattle, she now lives on Lenape lands in Brooklyn, New York City. In her free time Nitika loves to immerse in science fiction and fantasy, music, healing waters, divinity, and beloved community. 

Molly Rodau (she/her)
Founder & CEO

As a career generalist, Grace brings a diverse background in startup operations, nonprofit development, client services, and project management. Her career spans industries including HR Tech, AI/ML, environmental conservation, and the performing arts. She is especially passionate about designing and implementing systems and processes that enhance team efficiency and foster effective stakeholder collaboration.

Previously, Grace served as a fundraiser at the University of Chicago and played key roles in early-stage startups where she supported founders in operations and strategic initiatives. She has a BA from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the University of Illinois. Outside of work, Grace finds joy in exploring art at local museums and theaters, engaging in various craft projects, and indulging her love for baking.

Allison Kenny received her coaching certification through Leadership that Works, Coaching for Transformation in 2020. After 15 years of experience as a Co-Founder + Creative Director of an award-winning B-Corp, she became a coach to stand with folx ready to deepen their impact. She's coached corporate and non-profit leaders through her work at Be the Change Consulting and Hella Social Impact. When Allison's not coaching, she's creating antiracist theater with her wife of 20 years and building forts with her neurodivergent daughter along the Rio Grande.

Sarah Perlmeter (she/her)
Coach

Grace Wong (she/her)
Project Manager

Nitika Raj (she/they)
Coach & Facilitator

Allison Kenny (she/her)
Coach

Christine Wang (she/her)
Coach & Facilitator

Christine Wang is a coach, consultant, and facilitator who is fiercely committed to creating a more just and equitable world. She is a first-generation Chinese-American woman who was raised in Texas, found herself in NYC, and currently lives in San Francisco. Over the last 10+ years in the corporate and nonprofit sectors, Christine has worn many hats—team member, manager, volunteer, board member, grantee, funder. These identities and experiences (and many more) have shaped her collaborative, asset-based, and feedback-driven approach to supporting individuals and organizations.

Prior to starting her independent practice, Christine was an associate director for a philanthropic programs focused on leadership and organizational development for nonprofit grantees. In addition to client work, Christine is a licensed Awaken delivery partner, providing modern and experiential diversity and inclusion trainings. She also chairs the board of the Asian Women's Shelter, a multilingual, multi-ethnic organization working to eliminate domestic violence by promoting the social, economic and political self-determination of women. Christine holds a B.S. from New York University and is a certified coach through Leadership that Works.

Sharifa Edwards (she/her)
Coach & Facilitator

Sharifa Edwards, founder of Persist Education Group, is passionate about coaching and developing leaders to think, believe, and act differently so that those they serve will be empowered to do the same. With over 15 years of experience leading, coaching, and driving transformation in schools, organizations, and non-profits, she deeply believes that transformation is not only aspirational but actionable and attainable through the persistent examination of self, systems, and impact combined with the development of the skills and tenacity to boldly act. 

Jordan Huller (he/him)
Coach

Terrill Thompson works with coaching clients at the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual levels to overcome blocks to reaching individual and collective aspirations. Goals range widely from owning individual and collective power, to equitable leadership, to compassionate boundary setting. Terrill supports leaders to develop their emotional and cultural intelligence, which is key to their ability to promote vibrant, resilient, and sustainable lives inside and outside of work. Terrill lives in community on a permaculture farm and brings their life experience as a white trans nonbinary person and a member of a multiracial family to their commitment to build a more equitable world. Terrill holds a Masters degree in organization development from American University, a coaching certificate from Teleos Leadership Institute, and is trained in Parts Work – a coaching approach that promotes sustainable behavior changes through inner healing.

Jordan’s coaching begins with the belief that we as individuals are creative, powerful, and adaptive; and once someone has harnessed that awareness, anything is possible. Each session with Jordan is co-created between him and the client to ensure it is meeting the client where they are in the here and now. Focus for sessions can range from the incredibly tactical, working to solve day-to-day problems at work or at home or both, to the deeper & more abstract, discovering passions and pursuing fulfillment. Jordan has spent his career growing and developing leaders to drive change by bringing their most authentic selves forward. Working across industries including tech, education, and nonprofits, Jordan's sweet spot is coaching others to meet their full potential while achieving ambitious goals, both personally & professionally. 

Jordan holds a bachelor's degree in psychology, as well as two master's degrees in education and systems leadership, respectively.

Terrill Thompson (they/he)
Coach 

Deena Goodman (she/her)
Coach 

Deena combines her background in Public Relations, Acting, and Clinical Social Work to help companies build strong, impactful leaders. Through values-driven coaching and formal trainings, she helps her clients electrify their executive presence, establish and achieve professional growth goals and enhance their communication style in order to achieve lasting impact.

Deena has extensive experience and knowledge in the fields of women’s leadership development, executive presence, influencing without authority, and assessment. Deena has worked with executives in the world of Real Estate, Finance, Media, Biotech and Pharmaceuticals. Clients include executives at PGIM Real Estate, Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, Sanofi Pharmaceuticals, Buzzfeed, CNN and Mt. Sinai Hospital. 

A member of the International Coaching Federation and the National Association of Social Workers, Deena received her BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, her Masters in Social Work from New York University and her Coaching Certification from The Coaches Training Institute. Deena is also certified in the Hogan Assessment

Benjamin Canyon (he/him)
Coach 

Benjamin is the founder of Conspire for Good, a strategy firm that helps progressive organizations and social impact companies achieve their goals and scale their impact. He’s consulted to clients including UNICEF, Ford Foundation, Illumen Capital, NAACP, SEIU, MoveOn.org, Free Speech TV, and The Inter-American Development Bank. He also provided counsel to The White House Office of Public Engagement under President Obama. 

As a coach, Benjamin works to understand his client’s needs and opportunities for personal growth and leadership development, creating a blueprint to guide sessions. He also serves as a strategic thought partner—drawing on his diverse background in strategic communications, organizational development, conflict resolution, and business intelligence research.

Benjamin believes our best, most impactful work in the world comes about when we’re deeply connected to a sense of mission or purpose. Toward that end, some coaching sessions may focus on forging greater internal alignment—helping clients find clarity and cultivate confidence in their capacities to create change.

Laura Gale (she/her)
Coach & Facilitator

Laura Gale (she/her) is a change-maker who works with change-makers. She is a champion of mission-driven leaders and a passionate cultivator of spaces for reflection, experimentation, strategy and growth. As a coach, Laura partners with leaders working on social, civic and organizational change. She has extensive experience in the areas of change management, team development and organizational culture and works with leaders across a range of industries and sectors. Laura also routinely partners with clients designing and launching new programs/initiatives/teams and enjoys coaching leaders as they step into new roles, challenges and seasons of life. She brings an interdisciplinary perspective to her work and an approach that is informed by her background in the arts and her deep commitment to equity and inclusion.

Laura is the founder of Nightingale Coaching & Consulting and serves an adjunct professor at NYU and The New School, where she teaches graduate courses on leadership and change. Laura previously worked at Coro New York Leadership Center, serving as Senior Director of Training and Consulting, and prior to that, as Director of the Coro Fellows Program. She holds a Master’s degree in Nonprofit Management and a Post-Master’s Certificate in Organization Development from The New School, along with undergraduate degrees in Theatre and Sociology.

Principal Consultant & Coach

Jose Dominguez’s approach to coaching is based on appreciative inquiry, emotional intelligence, personal choice, and commitment to action. Jose has a background as a nonprofit executive and Board member, and has led DEI initiatives as both a leader and a facilitator. He has coached leaders in the non-profit and for-profit, as well as in the Education, Social Justice, Real Estate and Tech Sectors. He believes in using questioning, reflection, support and challenge to help create a new understanding of the situation, and exploring the opportunities, aspects and dynamics in the situation to decide on the right course of action.  

Jose Dominguez (he/him)
Coach

With over 25 years of experience, Monique organically weaves the wisdom of earth-based traditions with sound organizational change theory to create holistic transformation for individuals. Her love for the natural world is integrated into all that she does and invites you to tap into your inner knowing as we transform in ways that are electrifying and vital. This transformation births healing and deeper connections for clients. At the core, her work is as a healer. This core, combined with being a black, queer, US-born woman moving through the world with an invisible disability, allows her to center empathy and compassion in her work with individuals. She is featured in The Spirit of Social Change: Love, Hope, Faith and Joy in Intersectional Activism and a published author in Spirited: Affirming the Soul and the Black Gay/Lesbian Identity. She earned a Master’s degree in Organization Development from American University and a coaching certificate from the Teleos Leadership Institute.

Monique Meadows (she/her)
Coach 

Katie Gage (she/her)
Coach 

Katie is the founder of KG Coaching where she empowers clients to lead with grounded confidence in all areas of their lives. Integrating her experience in entrepreneurship, technology, emotional intelligence, mindfulness, professional development, non profit management, recruiting, farming, spiritual practice, non-traditional family and personal growth, Katie’s holistic approach helps deliver deep insights that help empower clients to achieve major life and career goals and feel more fulfilled in life and work.

With a personal growth-oriented and mindful approach, she has helped hundreds of career professionals over the past decade from entry-level to C-level, to build the confidence they need to go after their most ambitious and aligned career and life goals. She has helped clients develop greater leadership capacity, launch entrepreneurial endeavors, ace big interviews, tackle major career transitions, manage the anxiety and stress of intense work demands, go after big promotions, build better relationships and live more fulfilled, balanced and joyful lives. Katie helps clients unearth and clarify their strengths and articulate their unique value, get to the core of what they want, identify blocks in thinking and offer proven resources, tools and ideas to discover potential paths and start taking action. She has a BA in Corporate Communications and Public Affairs from Southern Methodist University, did a three year Emotional Intelligence apprenticeship with the Possibilities coaching team and is ICF certified with a CPCC from Co-Active Training Institute. 

Shannon Wheatley, founder of Lane 9, supports leaders, teams, and organizations working towards multi-generational change. Wheatley has over a decade of experience leading schools, school systems, and nonprofits. He’s passionate about facilitating experiences that enable leaders to reimagine the future while developing the hard and soft skills needed to lead transformational change. He lives in Sacramento and enjoys cooking, Jazz, coaching youth sports, and spending time with his family.

Shannon Wheatley (he/him)
Coach

Stephanie supports the management of multiple client and strategic projects. Prior to joining Collectively, Stephanie developed a wide range of knowledge of all areas of HR, including organizational planning and strategy, talent acquisition and development, employee relations, and day-to-day operations. Stephanie previously worked at NYU and Stevens Institute of Technology, as well as at a number of companies outside of academia, and she holds a Masters in Labor Relations and a B.A. in Labor Studies and Sociology from Rutgers. In her free time, you can find Stephanie running with friends, plotting her next beach vacation, spending way too much money on audiobooks and exploring local parks with her family. 

Stephanie Trombino (she/her)
Administrative Manager