Meet the Coaches
Suzanne Roberts
Contact email: suzanne@unifyingsolutions.com
Suzanne Roberts began studying Polarity Therapy almost 50 years ago. She/they developed Polarity Therapy for Human and Social Development applying Polarity Principles to personal and collective sustainable transformational change. The need for Polarity Coaches emerged and we are excited to be offering a skilled group of diverse coaches.
Suzanne completed training at Strozzi Institute, (The Center for Embodied Leadership and Mastery) and earned the title of Master Somatic Leadership Coach, where she served on the faculty. Early in her career, Suzanne combined studies in pre-med, psychology, and dance/movement and earned a degree in Holistic Health. She is certified in the FEBI (Focus Energy Balance Indicator), an organizational and leadership assessment tool, Decision-Wise 360, and the Enneagram.
Suzanne Roberts is the Principal of UnifyingSolutions and the co-founder of Safe Conversation About Race. As an Executive Coach, she has worked with leaders, teams, and organizations large and small to lead on purpose. Suzanne is dedicated to anti-racism, cultural diversity, social equity, and social justice. She educates how social systems of oppression got designed, and incorporates an intersectional lens in her work, in order to bring about sustainable change. The process illuminates how historical forces operate today to limit human dignity and contribution in some groups of people, while benefiting an elite group of people. While she cares about all marginalized communities, her primary focus is on interrupting and reducing racial harm due to systemic racism.
Anne Santilli
Contact email: 4santilli@gmail.com
Anne Santilli, President of Santilli Coaching and Consulting has over 30 years of professional experience which includes leadership and life coaching, social services management and consultation (non-profit and governmental), business development, program development, strategic planning, counseling and case management, polarity therapy & coaching (path of growth and healing through energy principles) massage therapy, trauma-informed care and training experience. Anne uses all of her experience to support the coaching plan for each client and to fulfill the consulting contract for organizations. Anne provides accountability, professionalism and a collaborative style within her interactions and services.
In 2017, Anne started Santilli Coaching and Consulting (SCC) to provide consultation for social services providers with an emphasis on self-care and secondary trauma. Through coaching, SCC provides a supportive environment for clients to identify their potential as well as the barriers that can impede success. Clients take the lead in their growth process and have within them what they need to succeed. Organizations and individual clients develop goals to ensure the process is on track and moving forward. Anne has experience leading individuals, leading teams, leading collaborative projects, leading organizations and leading her own life. Anne endeavors to lead out loud. She is committed to her own practice to ensure who she is inside and who she is on the outside is in balance and in alignment.
Sharonda Crome
Contact email: heysharonda@gmail.com
Polarity has been a path that has allowed me to become reacquainted with my inner knowing, use my voice and practice something other than my historical patterns created for survival. It has taught me to choose my hard. That being the hard path of continuing to live in survival and disconnected from Life or the hard path of learning to thrive.
I have been a student of Polarity Therapy for Human and Social Development as my personal life path since 2013. As a Certified Life Coach and Polarity Coach, I seek to support others in learning to rest at the center of their being, find deeper trust and voice in their own knowing and turn to thriving in all areas of Life
Maurice Stevens
Contact email: maurice.e.stevens@gmail.com
Maurice Stevens is Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at the Ohio State University and an adjunct faculty member for the Pacifica Graduate Institute in the Department of Depth Psychology’s Community, Liberation, and Eco-Psychology Program. In addition to working in community mental health and psychiatric emergency services in San Francisco for many years before moving to Columbus and becoming a professor, Maurice is also a writing coach for the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity. In other domains, Maurice coaches and consults with individuals, groups, communities, and organizations designing interdisciplinary and engaged research methodologies, participatory leadership models, and community-driven social justice and equity-informed teaching/learning practices. Having received degrees in Religion and Anthropology as well as History of Consciousness, Maurice has a very deep interest in how people find the ‘more that’s possible’ in periods of transformation. And that’s where Polarity Coaching comes in!
Whether working with individuals, groups, communities, or organizations, Maurice’s Polarity-focused and Polarity-informed coaching has two main goals. First, to collectively build our capacity to experience our individual and shared vitality, the Life within us. Then, to orient around that awareness as we reflect on ourselves and make choices about how we interact and what we build together in the world. Maurice’s coaching starts with the belief that Polarity offers the opportunity to remember and enact practical and effective strategies to return to Life again and again.
Rachel Woods
Contact email: ishmay9@gmail.com
Rachel Woods, Licensed Massage Therapist, has been in practice offering massage, bodywork, Polarity, and other modalities since 1999. She trained in Polarity Therapy under Suzanne Roberts since 2011. Rachel listens deeply to her clients to provide benefit to their personal commitments. Through Polarity Coaching, she brings the skill of facilitating her clients through partnership to join with their longing and aliveness. The combination of Polarity principles with her bodywork competence provides a powerful opportunity for engagement and healing.
Aisha Allen
Contact email: aisha@aallenconsulting.com
Aisha Allen has over 20 years of human resources and organizational development experience. Aisha has a unique and diverse background that includes organizational development, executive coaching, human resources management, and business consulting. In addition to her corporate leadership, she is the founder of A. Allen Consulting, LLC, a coaching and organizational development firm focused on business, community, and personal leadership.
Aisha began her Polarity journey in 2016. Through Polarity: A Pathway to a Vibrant, Purposeful, and Liberated Life, Aisha learned principles and techniques to attune to her inner wisdom and strength to be a more effective leader both professionally and personally.
Through Polarity coaching, Aisha will become a partner in your journey to living your life authentically and aligning your impact. Aisha’s passion is coaching women and people of color who are seeking self-care and rest in a world where they are not always seen.
In addition to studying Polarity: A Pathway to a Vibrant, Purposeful, and Liberated Life, Aisha obtained her coach training through Hudson Institute of Coaching. She holds an Associate Coach Certification (ACC) from the International Coach Federation.
Arnesia McMillan
Contact email: arnes_32@hotmail.com
Arnesia is the Founder and CEO of Alive2living Coaching and Consulting. She is a Heidelberg University Alumni where her focus was in psychology. Arnesia is a Certified Personal Trainer and Fitness Nutritionist, and due to her fascination with energy work she became a Reiki and Polarity therapy Practitioner. Arnesia embodies the gifts she shares with her clients and integrates practical strategies and other forms of modalities when coaching. Her approach allows for seamless communication and space for one’s personal awareness and growth. She believes that “There is no separation.” The correlations between mind, body and spirit are infinite. She effortlessly infuses passion, purpose and discipline when working with others. She has a way of transferring the simplicity of LIFE to all of the complexities we experience as humans. What she has coined as “Connecting, Creating & Cultivating” has been a staple in her life journey to preserving her overall wellbeing and health. Her approach guides you on an internal journey bringing awareness to what is possible, increasing your depth and capacity to live in full vibrancy. You will develop and cultivate governance, agency and residence of and with yourself.