Meet our coaches

Ashly is a North Carolina-based lead/organizer, campaign manager, and is passionate about public narrative and using shared values to invite folks into action.

Beth is a Chicago based facilitator, storyteller, and advocate for global justice. She currently works for an international, faith-based, NGO where she supports church parters in deepening their engagement through fundraising and advocacy campaigns. Beth completed the Leadership Coaching Program for Public Narrative with Leading Change Network (LCN) in 2025. She is passionate about equity in storytelling and helps leaders tell their story with courage and dignity. When she is not consumed with full-time work, she keeps busy writing regular blog content, planning her next public storytelling event, or dreaming about international travel adventures.

Over the past 20 years, I have worked in student affairs across small and medium-sized liberal arts and community college institutions on the East Coast. These experiences — alongside ongoing engagement with staff, students, and faculty from diverse backgrounds — have shaped my commitment to developing practices that center community building as a driver of organizational health and equity.

Carlos is a behavioral researcher and storyteller fueled by the belief that people can reclaim power even in the most constrained systems. Trained in Public Narrative under Marshall Ganz’s teaching tradition, he guides students, organizations, and emerging leaders to build power through storytelling and collective agency. His work sits at the crossroads of ethics, decision-making, and organizational behavior—always driven by one question: How do people reclaim agency in systems that try to take it away?

Since 2023 when she graduated from LOA, she has been a passionate and active Leading Change Network member.
She is a true believer of the power of stories to bring people together around common purposes and organize to make changes happen. For over a decade she has designed, implemented and evaluated social and educational innovation projects to ensure that women’s empowerment needs are met, and potential is unlocked through organizational development, expansion strategies and strong alliances with organizations in Mexico and Central America.
Within LCN, Cynthia is a coach and a hub leader, who is currently leading the Women’s Empowerment Hub (which has a snowflake plan in place 😉).

Community organizer, political activist in Jordan, one of the coordinators of the Jordan BDS movement. I lead several campaigns on the ground, for example, Boycott Carrefour Campaign, which supports the genocide in Gaza, and the Jordan Eco Park campaign for its role in normalization with the occupying state. I also lead the Al-Aqsa Mosque All the Wall campaign, which is to strengthen the Jordanian guardianship over the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. I believe in the power of the people and their ability to change.

Gorana Jovanović is a leadership educator, holds an MA in food technology. She spent 8 years in an international company, in the contact and customer care sector. The opportunity to improve her skills, create new experiences and contribute to the community got under her skin completely, so she enrolled the course program by Prof. Marshall Ganz: Leadership, Organizing and Action in 2015 at Harvard University, the John F. Kennedy School of Government Executive Education. Since then, she has held over 40 community organizing trainings in various areas, such as women's rights, patients' rights, culture, democracy. One of the campaigns in which she participated was "P/Bravo za mame" which fought for the law amendment to allow all mothers regular maternity benefits in Serbia. She is a trainer of the UNICEF UPSHIFT program and a member of the LCN (Leading Change Network), where she also holds community organizing trainings for teams from Europe and the world.