Esther Wyss-Flamm’s passion is enabling people to thrive and live into their life purpose. Whether one-on-one or with groups, she helps her clients integrate and adapt mindfulness tools that increase effectiveness, reduce anxiety, and clarify next steps. Key areas where Esther offers support include:
- mindful leadership development
- group (work team) effectiveness
- change and transition management
- stress relief (multi-tasking and digital fatigue)
As Professional Group Facilitator in Leadership Development, Team-Building and Change Management, Esther has a PhD in Organizational Behavior, a Master’s Degree in Education, and over 20 years of teaching and training experience with organizations. She leads seminars, teaches courses, and provides coaching using an experiential learning approach that emphasizes mindfulness skills in context, at the level of the individual leader, the team and the organization.
Esther discovered the power of mindfulness early in her career as a result of back injuries and stress-related illness while working with international and United Nations organizations. She has integrated mind-body awareness into her work ever since. Certified as an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT) in the Kripalu tradition, Esther has extensive additional training in breath awareness, mindful learning, and mindfulness meditation.
She is Co-Founder of Ignite Leadership Philadelphia, an inter-generational networking and skills-building hub for leaders across sectors in the Delaware Valley region. She is Mindful Leadership Consultant and steering committee member of the Mindfulness at the Bar initiative organized by the Philadelphia Bar Association and board member of The School Mindfulness Project in Philadelphia. Esther is a member and former Co-Chair of the Weavers Way Health and Wellness Committee, and a practitioner teaching at the Healing Arts Studio in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia.
Before landing in Philadelphia, Esther was a professor of Organizational Behavior at Alliant International University in San Francisco. At the time, she chaired the Village Residents Association, a membership organization advocating for 800 families living at UC Berkeley, California. She has also taught MBA and Executive Master’s students at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management in Cleveland, Ohio. Esther was Country Office Training and Organization Development Advisor for UNICEF (East and Southern Africa); Regional Program Coordinator for the Salvation Army World Service Office; USA for Africa Program Manager at the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, and Master Trainer for the U.S. Peace Corps.
Fun Facts: Esther has two teen-aged kids who regularly roll their eyes at her “lame” attempts at humor; she grew up speaking a Swiss German dialect, and rode camels for transportation one summer while working in the West African desert!