Elle Yaven

strategist, Coach, Intuitive

Thousands of coach conversations. Thousands of hours in the painting studio. Two very different ways of learning to read what's real.

Over 16 years I've mapped the patterns of human momentum — what creates it, what stalls it and what's often invisible from the inside.

This fieldwork is now a research-based playbook — a clear map, rapidly applied — built from real client work, real mess-ups, and real results. Brought to life in every session.

Lighthearted. But I mean business.  

I've rolled up my sleeves at IDEO, Pixar, Autodesk & Stanford University -and start-ups like Strong Brew, Oru Kayak & Kreatives as well as motivated individuals -guiding a momentum that went somewhere specific and visible. Cultures shifted. Teams unstuck. Conversations turned generative.

Some days you can find me teaching in the MBA & Masters Interaction Design programs at California Collage of the Arts. I also served as 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. I once told George Lucas my last name. He laughed -he thought he made it up.

Close enough.