Strategic leadership & organizational wellness
Twenty-five years across school systems and corporations, bridging the gap between human wellbeing and organizational performance — an approach rooted in personal transformation, where outcomes are created with ease and flow.
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Why partner with me
Psychology
I focus on the eighty percent psychology that moves the needle, ensuring the twenty percent strategy actually sticks. Success is built on self-discipline and self-alignment.
Leadership
Shifting the narrative from trauma to human-centered capacity. I help leaders move from reaction to response, creating a welcoming culture of home where talent stays.
Resilience
Building the internal resourcefulness and nervous system regulation required to hold high-stakes responsibilities and close performance gaps.
Narrative
Strategic storytelling and NLP to drive behavior modification and professional growth, including linguistic reframing that aligns institutional language with human understanding.
Key impact areas
increase in parental involvement at the middle-school level, through a family engagement framework that strengthened community partnerships.
reduction in discipline issues in the first year of school administration.
year-over-year growth metrics for ESL and special needs subgroups, consistently achieved despite initial projections of failure.
Increasing institutional resilience and executive emotional fitness.
Creating high-performance environments of psychological safety and belonging.
Advanced linguistic reframing and educational scaling across diverse school systems.
Professional summary
Over twenty-five years of leadership experience advancing student success, family engagement and equitable access — with a deep mastery of the eighty percent psychology behind human behavior that drives leadership excellence and transformational community results.
Expert in designing student-centered programs, facilitating professional development and building cross-functional partnerships to drive organizational growth. Dedicated to leading teams through lived action and transformative mentorship.
Specialized in nervous system regulation and somatic practices that build leadership resilience and high-performance cultures.
Professional experience
Transformational programs bridging education, wellness, leadership and community impact
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Core expertise
What people say
Yamile has helped me get underneath my lack of self confidence after I was laid off and fell out of my career path. She has motivated me to be confident as I change my career path and start my own business.
Mark Browne
The grounding and gratefulness activities, along with mindfulness, while also building up their coping toolbox to work with challenging and sensitive topics in circles.
Amanda Causey · Peace Builders for Justice
She helped me tap into my own power. I have a better understanding of what keeps me stuck. She is very passionate about helping people empower themselves.
Barbara Cruz
Yamile asked me great questions to get me clearer on what I want and how to best move forward. If you want clarity on how to move forward, definitely book with her.
Laura McPhee
How to bring Yaya into your space
Schedule a conversation by email or phone. I work with school systems, nonprofits and organizations across the Triad and beyond — and I am willing to travel.