Leaders Who Can Bring Ideas and Values to Life.
Aang Lakey speaks to leaders and organizations ready to turn their values into the everyday behaviors, relationships, and systems that make meaningful impact possible.
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Aang's Speaking Profile
Aang's ideal audience is composed of forward-thinking, purpose-driven leaders who are not only open to, but are actively seeking transformative change.
They are often high-level executives, founders, HR leaders, and DEI advocates who are deeply invested in integrating consciousness and reflexivity into their leadership style.
They value holistic and integrated approaches to leadership and are eager to challenge and move beyond traditional leadership paradigms.
They are committed to personal growth and willing to engage in uncomfortable conversations and self-reflection to drive systemic change.
They are characterized by their readiness to leverage their influence to create ripple effects of positive change, both within their organizations and in the broader community, becoming fierce allies and champions for equity, inclusion, and social justice.
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Aang is a transformative leadership coach and advocate for equity and inclusion, specializing in the integration of consciousness and reflexivity into leadership practices.
Aang’s unique journey and extensive background in social work empower leaders to navigate complex social dynamics and drive meaningful systemic change.
Working with Aang for speaking engagements means accessing a thought leader who inspires transformative change.
Their sessions combine a mix of personal stories, academic rigor, and practical application that encourages individuals to challenge their beliefs and implement effective strategies for equity and inclusion.
With lived experiences of overcoming adversity, a Masters in Social Work, and a Masters in Human Relations and Organization Development, Aang approaches leadership with empathy and integrity.
They help leaders recognize their influence and implement strategies that foster inclusive environments, challenging conventional leadership paradigms to create lasting impact.
Aang's Speaking Topics
This session explores consciousness as a functional leadership capacity, showing how awareness, emotional regulation, intentionality, and behavioral alignment directly shape decision-making, trust, and organizational stability. Leaders learn how to move from good intentions to consistent, values-aligned action under real-world pressure.
Key Concepts
Consciousness as a practical leadership skill, not a philosophical ideal
How internal awareness shapes external leadership behavior and culture
Translating insight into intentional, congruent decision-making
Leading effectively under pressure, complexity, and competing demands
Building trust and credibility through aligned presence and action
This session focuses on reflexivity as a repeatable leadership practice, examining how leaders notice their internal responses, evaluate impact, and make real-time adjustments in behavior and decision-making. Participants learn how reflexivity strengthens accountability, adaptability, and trust across complex systems and relationships.
Key Concepts
Reflexivity as an active cycle: awareness, evaluation, and adjustment
Identifying unconscious patterns that shape leadership behavior
Using feedback and tension as data, not threats
Aligning values, decisions, and actions in dynamic environments
Applying reflexive practice at personal, relational, and systemic levels
This session examines intentionality as the bridge between awareness and action, helping leaders clarify what is driving their decisions and how those intentions show up in behavior, processes, and relationships. Participants learn how to set and sustain intentions that hold under pressure, complexity, and competing priorities.
Key Concepts
Intentionality as a stabilizing force in complex leadership environments
Distinguishing stated intentions from lived leadership behavior
How intention shapes emotional response, decision-making, and follow-through
Maintaining clarity and direction amid urgency and disruption
Building consistency and trust through intention-led leadership practice
This session centers on congruence as the alignment between values, intentions, and observable leadership behavior. Leaders learn how credibility, trust, and ethical decision-making are strengthened, or undermined, by the consistency between what they say, decide, and do.
Key Concepts
Congruence as the foundation of leadership credibility and trust
Identifying gaps between stated values and lived behavior
How pressure, power, and performance distort alignment
Repairing misalignment through conscious adjustment and accountability
Modeling integrity in decisions, relationships, and culture
This session explores presence as the internal state that shapes how leaders perceive, interpret, and respond to people and situations in real time. Leaders learn how mindset, emotional regulation, and attention directly influence judgment, communication, and the ability to lead effectively under pressure.
Key Concepts
Presence as a leadership capacity, not a personality trait
How mindset shapes perception, bias, and decision-making
Regulating attention and emotional response in high-stakes moments
Interrupting reactivity to increase clarity and choice
Sustaining grounded leadership in complex and demanding environments
This session reframes pause as a practical leadership discipline that creates space between stimulus and response, allowing leaders to regulate emotion, regain clarity, and choose aligned action. Participants learn how to integrate pause into real leadership moments, especially under pressure, urgency, and conflict.
Key Concepts
Pause as a functional leadership skill, not a moment of disengagement
Interrupting reactivity to increase choice and decision quality
Using pause to regulate emotion and nervous system responses
Distinguishing performative pause from integrative pause
Embedding pause into daily leadership rhythms and high-stakes moments
This session examines how leadership consciousness shapes organizational culture through everyday decisions, norms, and relational dynamics. Leaders explore how awareness, emotional regulation, and alignment influence trust, psychological safety, accountability, and long-term institutional health.
Key Concepts
How leadership consciousness translates into cultural norms and behavior
The relationship between internal leadership patterns and organizational climate
Culture as an outcome of repeated choices, not stated values
The role of awareness and regulation in trust, safety, and collaboration
Shifting culture through consistent, embodied leadership practice
This session explores influence as a relational leadership capacity rooted in trust, integrity, and conscious engagement rather than authority or position. Leaders learn how to increase their impact by building credibility, navigating relationships and stakeholders effectively, and modeling inclusive, values-aligned leadership.
Key Concepts
Influence as a product of trust, credibility, and relational consistency
Relationship building and stakeholder engagement as foundations of impact
Integrity, transparency, and ethical behavior as sources of influence
Inclusiveness and empathy as catalysts for collective intelligence and buy-in
Communicating with clarity, awareness, and political savvy across contexts
This session explores how leaders develop the ability to see patterns, power dynamics, and unintended consequences across complex systems. Participants learn how collective awareness strengthens coordination, ethical decision-making, and resilience by shifting leadership from isolated action to shared responsibility.
Key Concepts
Understanding leadership impact beyond individual roles and silos
Recognizing systemic patterns that shape behavior and outcomes
Power, feedback loops, and unintended consequences in decision-making
Cultivating collective awareness across teams and institutions
Leading for coherence, adaptability, and long-term system health
This session focuses on intentional self-leadership as the foundation for sustainable, values-aligned leadership in every area of life. Participants learn how self-awareness, presence, mindset, strategic vision, and reflexivity work together to translate insight into consistent action and long-term growth.
Key Concepts
Self-awareness as the starting point for intentional leadership and growth
Presence and mindset as daily practices that shape perception and behavior
Clarifying values, vision, and goals to guide conscious decision-making
Translating insight into action through strategic planning and alignment
Reflexivity as an ongoing practice of evaluation, adjustment, and learning
This session helps leaders understand inclusive leadership as an active, ongoing practice and explores how intersectionality deepens equity, belonging, and effective decision-making. Participants examine how overlapping identities shape lived experience and learn how inclusive leadership behaviors create psychological safety, trust, and more responsive organizational cultures.
Key Concepts
Inclusive leadership as a commitment to equity, belonging, and shared responsibility
Recognizing and addressing bias at personal, relational, and systemic levels
Intersectionality as a lens for understanding compounded experiences of privilege and marginalization
Inclusive behaviors that foster psychological safety, engagement, and collaboration
Adapting leadership approaches to meet the diverse, intersectional needs of teams
This session teaches leaders how nervous system regulation directly shapes presence, decision-making, communication, and resilience under pressure. Participants learn practical, body-based tools to recognize dysregulation, restore balance, and lead from a grounded, responsive state rather than reactivity.
Key Concepts
Understanding regulation and dysregulation within the autonomic nervous system
How nervous system states influence leadership presence, behavior, and culture
Breath, movement, sound, grounding, and touch as regulation pathways
Co-regulation and environmental factors that shape collective nervous system states
Building a personalized regulation toolkit for sustainable leadership resilience
This session explores leadership consciousness as a practical pathway for fostering unity across difference in a fractured, interconnected world. Leaders learn how reflexivity, intentionality, congruence, and embodied presence support trust, equity, and authentic connection across cultural, social, and systemic divides.
Key Concepts
Leadership consciousness as a lived practice, not an abstract ideal
Reflexivity, intentionality, and congruence as foundations for unity and trust
Moving beyond performative inclusion toward authentic, equity-centered connection
Embodied presence and pause as tools for navigating conflict and difference
Collective leadership practices that sustain belonging and global collaboration
This session equips leaders with a practical emotional agility framework grounded in pause practice, helping them work skillfully with emotions rather than react to them. Leaders learn how to notice, label, regulate, track, and capitalize on emotional information to lead with greater presence, resilience, and integrity in real leadership contexts.
Key Concepts
Pause practice as the foundation for emotional clarity and choice
Noticing emotional signals in both the mind and body without judgment
Building emotional literacy through precise labeling and granularity
Regulation strategies that support grounded, values-aligned leadership
Applying emotional insight to decision-making, communication, and culture
This session explores authenticity as a visible leadership practice demonstrated through congruence, presence, and intentional action rather than personal disclosure alone. Leaders and facilitators learn how embodied alignment between values and behavior fosters trust, psychological safety, and spaces of genuine belonging and co-creation.
Key Concepts
Authenticity as visible congruence between values, words, and actions
Modeling trust and psychological safety through honest presence and repair
Reflexivity and intentional adjustment as foundations of integrity
Making values tangible through everyday leadership and facilitation behaviors
Designing and framing spaces that invite belonging, participation, and co-creation
This session explores why meaningful change is so difficult for human beings and how leadership consciousness provides a practical pathway through resistance, habit, and misalignment. Leaders learn how reflexivity, intentionality, congruence, and presence support personal transformation and collective change in times of division and complexity.
Key Concepts
The physiological, psychological, and social forces that make change difficult
Conscious leadership as the bridge between intention and sustained behavior change
Reflexivity, intentionality, and congruence as tools for navigating resistance
The role of presence and nervous system awareness in change and adaptation
How self-leadership becomes the foundation for unity and collective transformation
This session equips leaders with practical, behavior-based tools to build inclusive work environments where trust, psychological safety, and belonging are consistently experienced and not just stated. Using leadership consciousness as the foundation, participants learn how everyday decisions, emotional regulation, and visible alignment between values and behavior shape inclusion at personal, relational, and systemic levels.
Key Concepts
Inclusion as a leadership practice, not a policy or program
How reflexivity helps leaders identify bias, blind spots, and unintended impact
Intentionality in shaping communication, decision-making, and participation
Congruence as the visible alignment between equity values and daily behavior
Creating psychological safety through presence, pause, and emotional regulation
Applying an intersectional lens to understand differing needs, access, and experiences
Designing systems, norms, and meeting practices that support belonging and accountability
This session equips leaders with grounded, repeatable practices for engaging difficult conversations with clarity, presence, and integrity. Using leadership consciousness as the foundation, participants learn how emotional regulation, reflexivity, and congruent communication transform discomfort into an opportunity for trust, accountability, and forward movement.
Key Concepts
Why discomfort is a normal and necessary part of leadership, not a failure
Using pause and nervous system regulation to stay present under tension
Reflexivity as a tool for noticing triggers, bias, and defensive patterns
Intentionality in choosing language, timing, and purpose in difficult dialogue
Congruence as aligning values, words, and follow-through during and after conversations
Applying emotional agility to name, work with, and respond to strong emotions
Holding power, difference, and impact with awareness and responsibility
This session explores how empathy functions as a collective leadership practice that shapes trust, collaboration, and belonging across difference. Leaders learn how valuing diverse perspectives and lived experiences (through presence, reflexivity, and intentional action) strengthens decision-making, reduces harm, and creates cultures where people feel seen and respected.
Key Concepts
Empathy as a leadership and cultural skill, not an individual disposition
Valuing diverse perspectives as essential data for better decisions and outcomes
Reflexivity as noticing whose experiences are centered, dismissed, or overlooked
Emotional agility and regulation as prerequisites for empathic engagement
Intentional listening practices that move beyond agreement toward understanding
Congruence in translating empathy into visible behaviors, policies, and norms
Building systems and rituals that normalize curiosity, dignity, and shared humanity
This session uses personal narrative as a pathway to conscious leadership, exploring how lived adversity can deepen empathy, responsibility, and commitment to equity. Through story, reflexivity, and facilitated reflection, participants learn how personal experience, when integrated with awareness and accountability, becomes a foundation for authentic allyship.
Key Concepts
Personal experiences as a source of insight, not authority or comparison
Creating psychologically safe containers for story-sharing and collective learning
Honoring difference without requiring disclosure, trauma-sharing, or consensus
Reflexivity as the bridge between lived adversity and responsible allyship
Moving from empathy to action through intentional, values-aligned behavior
Understanding power, privilege, and access without guilt or defensiveness
Congruence as making allyship visible through consistent choices and repair
his session equips leaders and teams with practical bystander intervention strategies grounded in presence, pause, and conscious choice. Participants learn how reflexivity, intentionality, and congruence support safe, effective intervention that addresses harm, strengthens trust, and reinforces inclusive workplace culture.
Key Concepts
Bystander intervention as a shared leadership responsibility, not an individual hero act
Using pause and nervous system regulation to interrupt freeze, fear, or reactivity
Reflexivity to recognize impact, power dynamics, and personal hesitation in the moment
Intentional intervention choices based on context, safety, and relationship
Congruence in aligning values, words, and follow-through before, during, and after intervention
Distinguishing intent from impact while responding to harm with clarity and care
Building team norms that support accountability, repair, and collective responsibility
Speaking Fees for Events $3500
The speaking fee for Aang or Increasing Consciousness includes all preparatory work for the presentation, including meetings with organizers, audience research, customized presentation materials (e.g., slides, videos, visuals, etc), and content development tailored to the event’s needs. This fee includes a presentation duration of up to 120 minutes with small group activities and Q&A session.
Equitable Access
At Increasing Consciousness, we believe equity begins with access. To support financially struggling organizations, nonprofits, and those serving marginalized communities, we offer sliding-scale fees for our speaking engagements. This commitment reflects our core values of fostering inclusivity and ensuring every team has the opportunity to benefit from conscious leadership practices, regardless of financial constraints. If this is something you'd like to explore, please reach out to Aang directly.
Why Choose Aang Over Someone Else?
Aang’s blend of personal experiences and professional expertise offers a unique perspective. Their ability to translate complex concepts into actionable insights distinguishes them from other speakers. Aang’s sessions not only inspire but also equip leaders with tools to enact real change.
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Company Training Packages
This training package covers 3 sessions provided over the timeline that works best for your team. The sessions offered with this package are:
3 Session Package Option 1:
1) Intentional Self Leadership
2) Culture of Communication and Trust
3) Leading with Influence and Impact
3 Session Package Option 2:
1) Self Care for Leaders
2) Intentional Self Leadership
3) Reflexivity
3 Session Package Option 3:
1) Reflexivity
2) Intentionality
3) Congruence
This training package covers 6 sessions and can be provided over the timeline that works best for your team. 1 to 4 sessions a month or three sessions a day over two days. The sessions offered with this package are:
1) Reflexivity
2) Intentionality
3) Congruence
4) Communication and Trust
5) Inclusive Leadership and Intersectionality
6) Socialization and Adaptive Leadership
This training package covers 12 sessions provided over the timeline that works best for your team. The sessions offered with this package are:
1) Consciousness as a Leadership Imperative
2) Leadership and Culture
3) Intentional Self Leadership
4) Presence and Mindset
5) Inclusive Leadership and Intersectionality
6) Reflexivity
7) Intentionality
8) Congruence
9) Communication and Trust
10) Socialization and Adaptive Leadership
11) Leading with Influence
12) Systemic Insight and Collective Awareness
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