Stella Mystica Sabiiti

Uganda

Stella Mystica Sabiiti is the UN Women Advisor to the African Union’s Network of Women in Conflict Prevention and Mediation. She has developed an approach to conflict transformation, grounded in her personal experience of war, torture, and refugee life. Previously, Stella served as team leader for the operationalisation of the African Peace and Security Architecture at the AU and in the Gender and Development Directorate in the Bureau of the Chairperson. In 2002, she led a successful peace process with the Uganda National Rescue Front rebel group. Stella taught at the European Peace University in Austria and at the University of Basel in Switzerland.

Miriam Coleman

Tasmania

Miriam is an experienced CFO and Executive leader, with over 30 years’ experience in accounting, finance, business transformation, governance, and strategy. Since stepping out of the corporate world, Miriam has devoted her expertise in coaching and mentoring the leaders that our world so desperately needs. Leaders of compassion, courage, capability, humility, integrity and of great character. The impact of trauma on our ability to lead ourselves and others has been a focal point in Miriam’s work, through extensive research, study, and attainment of practitioner status in The Richards Trauma Process. Facilitating The Mighty Heart in Action program is a profound honour. Connect with Miriam here.

Elisabeth Weilenmann

Austria

Elisabeth Maria Weilenmann studied communication and political science in Vienna, graduating in 2008 with her thesis “The Body in Film, the Film in the Body: On the Body in Feminist Film Theory.” Since 2006, she has worked as a writer and director for radio plays and features, including for DLF, NDR, ORF, HR, SRF, SWR, RBB, BR, and MDR. Since 2015, she has been a lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Since 2024, she has taught at the Max Reinhardt Seminar, and since 2025 at the JKU Linz. She is currently integrating her learnings into a course at JKU Linz on the theme: ‘How to negotiate with yourself.’ Connect with Elisabeth here.

Rhian Sherrington

UK

Rhian is our Founder, CEO and Head Coach of the Women in Sustainability Network (WINS) and Membership. She loves developing strategic partnerships and championing gender equity in sustainability leadership as we won’t solve the climate and biodiversity crisis with it. She co-creates our learning and development programme with our partner coaches and guest experts. Rhian’s passion is supporting women re-connect to how they can be heart-led, resourced by nature. Now writing her third book, Rhian is fascinated about what enables women to flourish and lead, from a place of heart-led intelligence, resourced by nature. Connect with Rhian here.

Grace lu

Taiwan – Japan – UK

Grace is a Taiwanese strategist with over a decade of experience supporting women-centred and sustainability-driven brands across Asia and the UK. Trained as a facilitator of The Mighty Heart by Dr. Scilla Elworthy, she is honoured to share this work with others. Her practice integrates strategic insight with inner clarity, empowering people and organisations to grow with purpose, cultural depth, and peace—believing that lasting impact begins within. Connect with Grace here.

Aleka Vial

Chile

Aleka has worked as a journalist and editor in Latin American media outlets and as an advisor on new narratives for public and private organizations. Since 1999, she has promoted Human Development for a new ethical, ecological and spiritual consciousness. In 2014, she cocreated Fundación Hypatia (www.hypatia.cl), a non-profit headquartered in Chile, that promotes Female Leadership and Spiritual Intelligence to accelerate the transition from an anthropocentric-industrial culture to an ecocentric-regenerative one. She is currently dedicated to teaching Heart Leadership to restore our sacred bond with nature and community of life.

Lisa Barnwell

UK

Lisa is an innovative leader and the Founder of ‘Leadership Redesigned’, working as a heart-centred change-agent, coach, facilitator and trainer. Her warmth, wisdom and candour allow her to work quickly at depth, catalysing transformation at the individual and organisational level and accelerating a new kind of leadership. Lisa is currently leading a collaboration between the Cultural Journey team at Lufthansa Group and Mighty Heart to embed deep listening into the organisation. The developing journey is helping employees reconnect to their emotions and communicate effectively, even in challenging situations. 

Tatjana Cadenovic

Germany

With years as a corporate leader and business consultant, Tatjana brings a wealth of practical knowledge to her role as a coach and facilitator. She is a trained co-active coach, devoted Vipassana meditator and mindfulness expert. Since 2021, Tatjana has been a dedicated Mighty Heart facilitator, combining strategic business insight with deep emotional intelligence to foster transformative growth. Her approach is rooted in real-world expertise, creating spaces where clients unlock potential, overcome challenges, and thrive with clarity and purpose. 

Richard Bellars

UK

As facilitator, coach and mentor, Richard accompanies individuals and groups that lead, for them to embrace future thinking earthed in daily life. He encourages them to be and act with heart-centred openness, to listen to and learn from each other, to serve by example rather than status, to embrace their work in the world as a force for good. He offers space to explore their edges and align ethics to embody what’s authentic and needed; to expand awareness, align values, shift thinking and behaviour; to serve the healthy regeneration of whole systems.