Author & International Speaker

About Aang.

Aang Lakey is an accomplished speaker, leadership expert, and advocate for equity, whose personal journey from adversity to empowerment fuels their mission to redefine leadership. With a background shaped by resilience, Aang leverages their expertise in inclusive leadership, intersectionality, and consciousness to inspire audiences to lead with intention and empathy. 

Through their work, Aang emphasizes the importance of cultivating self-awareness and creating equitable spaces where all voices are valued. Aang’s story of overcoming childhood poverty and trauma has become a powerful foundation for their vision of fostering connection and compassion in corporate environments and beyond.

As the Founder and CEO of Increasing Consciousness, Aang has developed a unique approach that blends mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and equity-centered leadership to create meaningful, lasting change in organizations. 

Aang's dedication to promoting conscious leadership has not only helped individuals embrace their roles as inclusive leaders but also enabled businesses to transform their cultures into spaces of psychological safety, belonging, and growth. 

Their work empowers leaders to recognize their influence and the ripple effect they create in their teams and communities, with a focus on dismantling systemic biases and fostering sustainable, inclusive environments.

Leadership Reflexivity is the first book in a 6 volume series titled "Leadership Consciousness Essentials"

Leadership Reflexivity invites leaders to do more than reflect on what’s happening around them. It asks them to take an honest look inward, evaluate the alignment between their values and behaviors, and make intentional adjustments to lead with greater congruence, clarity, and care.

This book is a guide to increasing your leadership consciousness by reviewing and acting on key areas that support your leadership evolution. Through stories, reflective prompts, and practical tools, readers will learn to:

• Identify patterns and beliefs that shape their leadership decisions

• Align actions with deeper values, even under pressure

• Rebuild trust through honest self-evaluation and repair

• Integrate reflexivity into team culture, systems, and leadership habits

• Develop a grounded, conscious leadership presence

Designed for executive leaders, team builders, and change agents navigating complexity, this book introduces the Leadership Reflexivity Cycle (LRC) as a powerful framework for becoming more self-aware, adaptable, and trustworthy in practice.

Conscious Intentionality is the second book in a 6 volume series titled "Leadership Consciousness Essentials"

Conscious Intentionality is a practical, thought-provoking guide for leaders who are ready to move beyond awareness and into consistent, values-aligned action. In this second volume of the Leadership Consciousness Essentials series, Aang Lakey walks readers through the six dimensions of intentional leadership (thought, emotion, behavior, action, process, and community) offering a grounded framework for aligning what we care about with how we show up.

With practical tools, reflective prompts, and relatable examples, Aang shows leaders how to build habits that last, disrupt unconscious patterns, and lead with clarity and integrity. Whether you're an executive navigating complex systems, a coach guiding others toward change, or a leader simply seeking to live your values more clearly, Conscious Intentionality provides the structure and support to help you deepen your leadership from the inside out.

You’ll learn how to:

• Apply the Conscious Intentionality Framework to real leadership challenges

• Bring intention to your values and how they play out in your daily leadership behavior

• Create rhythms of reflection and accountability to support sustainable change

• Move from isolated insight into congruent action

This is a book for those committed to leading well.

Consciously Congruent is the third book in a 6 volume series titled "Leadership Consciousness Essentials"

Consciously Congruent is a powerful guide for leaders who are ready to close the gap between what they believe and how they show up. As the third volume in the Leadership Consciousness Essentials series, this book introduces the Consciously Congruent Framework (CCF), a practical and human-centered model for aligning values, beliefs, and behaviors across personal, relational, and systemic dimensions of leadership.

This volume is about living your leadership in ways others can trust and feel. From building an internal compass to modeling course correction, this book equips you with the structure and guidance to lead with clarity, accountability, and relational depth. Whether you're a seasoned executive, team leader, facilitator, or leadership coach, Leading with Congruence gives you the tools to:

• Identify misalignment between values and behavior

• Practice real-time recalibration that restores trust

• Embed congruence into habits, team rituals, and systems

• Use feedback loops and reflection to strengthen presence

• Reinforce trust through repetition, repair, and rhythm

If you're ready to move beyond good intentions and into visible, trustworthy leadership, this book will help you make congruence a lived rhythm through conscious choices, courageous conversations, and intentional recalibrations. 

Leadership Presence is the fourth book in a 6 volume series titled "Leadership Consciousness Essentials"

Leadership Presence invites you to move beyond conceptual awareness and into the embodied discipline of presence. This book guides you in cultivating focused attention and regulation practices so that your tone, energy, and decisions reflect coherence. Through the Leadership Presence Model and the Pause Practice Framework, you’ll learn to integrate attention, attunement, and pause as daily leadership rituals that build trust and stability across any environment. 

In this volume, you’ll explore how to regulate your nervous system under pressure, focus your attention when the world is consistently scattering it, and refine your attunement to yourself and others to for energetic and emotional steadiness. Whether you’re navigating conflict, leading teams, or managing complexity, this work helps you sustain clarity and coherence when it matters most. 

Inside, you’ll learn how to:

• Strengthen focus and attunement for clear, grounded communication

• Regulate your mind, body and emotions to lead with calm authority

• Practice intentional pause to ensure alignment before acting

• Build relational trust through coherence and emotional safety

• Embed presence and rhythm into your leadership culture

Aang is one of seven extraordinary thought leaders who share insights in "the Conscious Leader".  This book is a powerful guide that challenges outdated leadership paradigms and equips you with the tools to lead with integrity, vision, and impact.

Leadership is no longer about authority, it’s about purpose, emotional intelligence, and the ability to inspire transformation. Through compelling personal stories, research-backed insights, and actionable strategies, you will learn how to:

✔ Cultivate self-awareness and authenticity in leadership

✔ Build emotional intelligence and resilience

✔ Navigate complexity with clarity and purpose

✔ Create inclusive, ethical, and impact-driven leadership practices

✔ Amplify your thought leadership and influence

✔ Lead with courage, even in the face of adversity