About Géraud

I was raised across the US, France, and India, in a family devoted to creating social impact. Questions of identity — who am I to others? — and of purpose — will my life have meaning? — were early companions, though the answers I gave them have changed with time. As a result, I’ve spent a lot of my life connecting the dots: between cultures, between disciplines, between scales of work and of change. I started my career in both design and social practice: first with a leading architecture nonprofit, building hospitals, schools, and powerful memorial projects; then as a consultant to the United Nations and to various city governments. I moved between the human scale of built space, on the one hand, and the abstract scale of policy and systems, on the other. I landed in leadership education and coaching because this is where the two meet: the people inside the structures, and the structures inside the people. As a coach, my disposition is to provide holding and care to the people I work with – without being afraid to challenge them, or to draw nonjudgmental attention to the incongruities in their thinking that point to important knots. I'm influenced by Buddhist meditation practice and somatics: the body is often the first to know what the mind hasn't yet admitted.