Marina Illich PhD is co-founder and Principal at Broad Ventures Leadership, a leadership coaching practice for women. She helps executives and leaders develop the agility, vision, integrity, and authenticity needed to succeed in today’s global marketplace. A certified coach, Marina previously trained as a scholar of Buddhism and Tibetan interpreter. For two decades, she researched how Tibetan Buddhist leaders leverage self-awareness to maintain resilience, cultivate positive emotions, and inspire followership under conditions of uncertainty and duress.
Marina and her co-founder Karen Gifford started Broad Ventures Leadership with the goal of supporting women to become exceptional forces of political, economic and spiritual transformation. They blog on issues relating to women and leadership.