Eliza Ramos is a facilitator, leadership coach and organizational development consultant. She is the founder and Chief Integrity Officer at Circles International. CI supports social justice leaders and organizations to cultivate wellbeing and prevent burnout. Their work focuses at the intersections of wellbeing, leadership development, and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

During her previous career as a social worker and global health practitioner, she witnessed a high rate of fatigue and burnout, and realized that burnout prevention was crucial in order to sustain any social change movement. She began to focus her energy on wellness and resilience circles for those in high-impact leadership roles, and soon after CI was born. She believes that leaders thriving is our greatest asset; in order to create lasting change, a trauma-informed and healing-centered approach must be prioritized as a leadership skillset, and is a skillset that can be learned and cultivated by every leader working toward social justice.

Prior to CI, she was a strategy consultant for various social impact organizations in the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, India, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. She has developed mental health and community engagement programs for organizations such as Global Health Corps, Partners in Health, New York Presbyterian Hospital, and UNICEF.

Eliza is an instructor of leadership development at the Harvard School of Public Health, a co-instructor of the Collective Leadership Certificate Program at Rootwise Leadership, has been a keynote speaker for the Stanford Social Innovation Review, BlueCross BlueShield Foundation, Apple, and 1440 Multiversity, and facilitates workshops and trainings on D.E.I. and wellbeing at universities such as UC San Francisco, UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, and University of Minnesota. Her writing has been published by the United Nations, UNICEF and the Columbia Social Work Review. A believer in the power of collective impact and cross-pollination, she serves on the board of the Center for Courage and Renewal. She is bilingual in English and Spanish.

Eliza holds an M.P.H. from Harvard University and an M.S.W. from Columbia University. She is a certified leadership coach through the International Coach Federation, and holds additional certifications in mediation and conflict resolution, and Reiki. Originally from Beaverton, Oregon, she currently resides in Oakland, California, where she enjoys being part of the bay area’s arts, activism and healing communities.

IG: @circlesinternational
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizaramos/
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Email: eliza@circlesinternational.org