Linda "Elle" Yaven

Founder, Ellevateyou


GENERATIVE Leadership coach . speaker . Educator

With roots as a studio artist, my research based leadership method is applied to the power of human creative drive. My perspective didn’t come from theory alone—it was shaped inside real teams & fast-moving environments where nuance matters & where thoughtful collaboration drive results.

It's the behavioral application of insight.

Clients at IDEO, Pixar, Auto Desk, Allianz, Oru Kayak, Teall Sports & Entertainment, Tipping Point Community, REVEL & Stanford University have brought these practices into their teams & made them their own.


At California College of the Arts I teach in the MBA & Masters Interaction Design programs. I've served as an advisor to The Making Learning Visible Institute at Harvard & the U.S. Department of Defense on feedback-driven learning systems.

In Star Wars, the rebel base is on the fourth moon of the planet Yaven.

Close enough.