Asila Calhoun's coaching and consulting firm focuses on partnering with leaders and organizations who are ready for change. Asila facilitates this change during one-on-one and group coaching sessions with her clients and through her customized consulting services of delivering leadership training, team retreat facilitation, and diversity, equity and inclusion coaching, consulting and training. Asila enjoys partnering with her clients to customize and deliver leadership development programs that are followed by group coaching cohorts.

Asila has clients from several industries, including biotechnology/clinical research, healthcare, and property management, as well as several non-profit organizations. Asila's work with these organizations includes facilitating leadership training and team retreats through a racial equity lens, conducting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) focus groups, facilitating DEI training, and coaching all levels of employees around inclusivity.

During Asila's 25+ year career as a strategic HR business partner in the engineering, clinical research, healthcare software development, and research industries, she effectively worked with senior leaders to enhance the skills, tools, and learning opportunities they need to positively impact employee performance.

Asila earned her Bachelor's degree in Sociology from UC Berkeley, and she holds PHR and SHRM-CP Human Resources certifications. She is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and an Associate Certified Coach (ACC). Asila is a Certified Inclusion Coach (CIC) and on the faculty of the Inclusion Coaching program, a certification course for certified coaches that intersects DEI and coaching. Asila is an Adjunct Faculty member at UNC School of

Government's Center for Public Leadership and Governance, where she teaches leadership and DEI courses to public sector employees who work across the state of North Carolina.

She is certified in DiSC, TILT True Personality Profile Assessment, Multidimensional Inventory for Personal Intelligence™(MIPI), 360 feedback, and the Emotional & Social Competency Inventory Assessment (ESCI) – an emotional intelligence based 360 feedback assessment. Asila is also certified in the Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team. In addition, Asila is a davidji Certified Masters of Wisdom & Meditation teacher.

Asila is committed to allyship in action. She serves on the national Board of the Autism Society and is interested in employment for adults with autism. Asila is on the Board of Extraordinary Ventures, which employs adults with intellectual developmental disabilities, and she is also an Advisory Board member of birdSEED Foundation, which provides down payment grants to first-time Black and Brown homeowners in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia.

Visit Asila's website at www.calhouncoaching.com and contact Asila at asila@calhouncoachingconsulting.com or (919) 360-9366.