ABOUT
WHO WE ARE
WAOC MISSION
We came into being in 2017 based on the principle of giving it forward; to inspire action through sharing change theories/frameworks and to collaborate across boundaries to improve the world.
Our mission is to empower women in creating lasting impact with more ease.
Our intention is to connect women online to transformational knowledge, practices and communities of mutual support so they can find better ways of taking action for lasting individual, organizational or societal change.
OUR COMMUNITY OF ADVISORS
THE GIFTS AND INSIGHTS OF A RANGE OF EXPERTISE, PERSPECTIVES AND EXPERIENCES
WAOC CREATIVE TEAM
Dorian Baroni | Founder
Executive Coach, Leadership Retreats Faculty & Organizational Advisor
Dorian founded Women Agents of Change in 2017 as a creative project, a purpose-driven social enterprise and a community, so as to democratize access to high quality, transformation leadership upskilling for women across geographies, career stages and socio-economic contexts.
One of her core beliefs is that a change agent’s individual journey towards personal wholeness and a systemic awareness is critical to addressing today's complexity and many challenges. As a business coach and consultant, she knows that the source of all lasting change starts from within and then expands into the capacity to co-create with others. That is why all WAOC practical emphasize the 3 levels of capacity: self-knowledge, interpersonal effectiveness and systemic fluency.
“How you do anything tells you how you do everything. Be more intentional with who you are. Be the mentor you have been wishing for. Consider what stories about yourself you are choosing to bring to life.”
Her experience and research have shown that the core capacity of high-performing teams is their ability to trust each other. Yet building trust across differences is often a low priority. She wants to change that and therefore focuses much of her team and organizational work on those dynamics, as well as a senior team member’s capacity to see the intricacies of the ‘system’ or webs of interdependence they are accountable for guiding.
And as a business woman, she is particularly passionate about the role and power of women’s leadership to support the evolution of reactive global mindsets, inequitable social systems and unsustainable models of economic impact.
Lilia Abreu-Mawson | Creative Partner
Leadership & Organizational Developer
Lilia is a seasoned coach and behavior designer who specializes in leadership development, organizational effectiveness, career transition and conflict resolution. She brings a unique approach to her engagements and interventions, applying 20 years of experience in various multinational companies, such as Unilever, Pernod Ricard, Mondelez, and Rohm and Haas.
She facilitates self-directed learning using techniques grounded in research in areas including the science of human performance, experiential learning, human interaction, intentional change models and whole-brain approach.
Before becoming a coach, Lilia enjoyed an accomplished career in B2B & B2C marketing and strategy. She held several global leadership roles, including Head of Consumer Insight & Strategy and Marketing Director. Currently, she is working with organizations to optimize learning cycles, improve collaborative leadership skills and enhance team effectiveness as well as with senior executives in transition and leadership development. She is also part of Yale School of Management faculty, providing leadership coaching to MBA and Executive MBA students.
Specialties: High-Performing Teams; Leadership & Organizational Development; Change; Transitional and Change Leadership.
OUR GOAL
To make change mastery skills available to 100,000+ women through the power of connections, who then go on to apply their new know-how in their own initiatives, leadership decisions or everyday choices.
OUR GIVE IT FORWARD COMMITMENTS
We encourage you to donate to these three organizations. And if these aren’t the organizations that align with your values, we encourage you to find your own unique ways of paying it forward. What matters most to you? No contribution is too small. No effort is wasted. We wish for you to find the pathways of growth and action for societal contribution.
OUR FEATURED SOCIAL IMPACT NON-PROFIT
Meet Brio, our featured social impact nonprofit. Founded by Daisy Rosales and Aaron Rosales.
Together, their passion for thriving communities, mental health, social innovation and building cultural bridges led them to launch Brio’s first pilot in 2018.
Throughout this journey, they have learned from their partners and their communities that compassionate healing is mutual and courage is essential.
Learn more about their work and donate to their effort at Brio
OUR 7 GUIDING PRINCIPLES
1 - The world is an inherently abundant and awe-inspiring place, a garden of Eden.
We must find our way back to seeing the world and of ourselves as both innately unique filled with potential and fundamentally interdependent, so as to solve the real challenges of our times.
2 - We are not broken. Our potential is accessed through reclaiming our wholeness.
We do not need to be fixed, be more assertive, be less emotional, be good, be sexy, be quiet, etc, etc.
3 - There is no point in self development efforts if they are not also in service of those around us..
The choice of how far we define our interdependence is up to us.
4 - The way forward begins with an inward journey: to reclaim our center, our fullest agency and our callings.
So as to be our most creative selves while sharing our gifts and our power with others.
5 - We seek to encourage change to emerge with ease while being ambitious in our intentions for impact.
It is not about pushing for change, imposing change or mandating change.
6 - Generosity, empathy and innovation are core human capacities.
We will build and grow Women Agents of Change guided by those core capacities.
7 - There is power in a collective community of equals, while also appreciating that we are uniquely different individuals and change agents.
Each is invited to join what we offer at their own preferred pace and in their own way. All women are welcome to discover their own rhythms and free themselves of cultural, societal or gender expectations that may be limiting.