Anjali has coached & led workshops for hundreds of individuals, leaders, change-makers & teams.
Anjali Sawhney is a Certified Integral Life Coach, New Ventures West (2006) & a trained international Leadership Embodiment Teacher (Wendy Palmer founder, based on Aikido and Mindfulness, 2011) in Somatic Coaching. For over a decade, Anjali has had a deep and diverse life & leadership coaching practice serving non-profit, corporate, business, movement, and educational individuals and teams. She has been working with the leaders in embodied transformation, Strozzi Institute, since 2018 including teaching somatics and embodied transformation courses on numerous in-person and online teaching teams (she has also recently joined Strozzi Institute’s board).
Anjali has coached & led workshops for hundreds of individuals, leaders, changemakers & teams including UCSF, Greenpeace, East Bay Meditation Center (where she is on the board), & Richmond Community Foundation where she is a leading Embodiment Coach for Contra Costa Non-profits. She also worked with Van Jones & The Dream Corps’ Social Justice initiatives in Oakland in the last decade. Prior to that, Anjali was a Director of Product Development at Charles Schwab & Company where she led a cross-functional team of hundreds for new products & services including marketing & sales training.
Anjali received her BS degree in Civil-Environmental Engineering from UCLA & an MBA from the University of San Francisco. She was born in South Asia, 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. She loves body surfing as well as sunsets & sunrises, live music, working with untapped populations from those without homes to youth, and dancing. Anjali is sometimes allowed to groove with her beloved teenagers, Aanika born in San Francisco & Jai from South Asia.
Education & Credentials
- Strozzi Institute Teacher/Facilitator Training (Part of teaching team, 2019 on-going
- Certified Somatic Coach via Leadership Embodiment 2011
- Certified Integral Coach via New Ventures West 2006
- BS Engineering UCLA 1991
- MBA Finance USF 1996