Angella Okawa, PCC is a leadership and team coach and facilitator who helps leaders and groups navigate complexity, difference and difficult relational dynamics with greater clarity, connection and effectiveness. She works particularly well where teams need to engage differences directly, repair strained relationships, communicate more skillfully and build genuine collaboration.
Angella brings a multidisciplinary and multicultural lens to her work. She helps individuals and teams recognize patterns that keep them stuck and develop new ways of communicating and relating when familiar approaches are no longer working. Her work supports greater leadership presence, more productive difficult conversations, stronger relationships and increased capacity to work through uncertainty and difference.
Her approach integrates adult development, mindfulness, somatic awareness and relational practice. Drawing from training in Integral Coaching, the Enneagram, Hakomi and other developmental approaches, Angella works with what is happening in the moment rather than relying solely on abstract models. Her background as a licensed psychotherapist adds depth to her understanding of human behavior, while her coaching and facilitation remain focused on leadership, teams and organizational life.
Before moving fully into coaching and psychotherapy, Angella spent six years at IDEO, working across web development, design and internal systems in its highly collaborative, nonhierarchical culture. Her broader professional background spans technology, design, health and social impact. She has supported leaders and teams at startups and larger organizations including Google, Dropbox, Ford Motor Company, Blue Shield Foundation, Stanford University and UC Berkeley.
Raised between the United States and Japan, Angella draws on her lived cross-cultural experience to help people work more skillfully across different perspectives, identities and ways of communicating. That perspective is especially valuable when differences that enrich a team also become sources of friction or misunderstanding.
Angella is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and an EMCC-accredited team coach. She trained in Integral Coaching® through New Ventures West and in mindfulness-based body-centered psychotherapy through the Hakomi Institute, with additional training in the Enneagram and developmental approaches.
Angella is a lay Zen monk with Roshi Diane Musho Hamilton of the Two Arrows Zen Sangha and is based in San Francisco, California.
What Sets Angella Apart
Particular strength in team dynamics, difficult conversations, rupture and repair, and collaboration across difference
Integral Coaching practitioner trained through New Ventures West, integrating adult development, mindfulness, somatic awareness and relational practice
Combines leadership coaching, team coaching and facilitation rather than working only one-to-one
Multicultural perspective shaped by lived experience between the United States and Japan
Deep human-behavior expertise spanning coaching, psychotherapy, mindfulness and somatic development
Six years at IDEO, bringing firsthand experience of collaborative, design-oriented and nonhierarchical organizational cultures
Experience across technology, design, health, social impact, startups and larger organizations