Helping people and organizations build what matters.

Leezá Carlone Steindorf

For more than twenty years, I have worked alongside Fortune 500 companies, nonprofit organizations, universities, healthcare systems, labor organizations, government agencies, and international institutions across more than thirty-five cultures.

My work focuses on helping people communicate more effectively, navigate conflict constructively, strengthen leadership, and build organizations where both people and performance thrive. Over the years, a consistent pattern has emerged in my work: beyond resolving critical issues clearly, I help people reduce defensiveness, build trust, simplify complexity, and strengthen the systems that shape how they work together.

My practice brings together executive coaching, mediation, organizational development, strategic planning, leadership education, communication, and large-group facilitation into one integrated approach.

Organizations typically invite me in when communication has broken down, change has become difficult, conflict has escalated, or leaders need a trusted partner who can help people think more clearly, work more effectively, and move forward together.

Across industries, cultures, and sectors, clients consistently describe the same qualities in my work:

  • Builds trust quickly
  • Clarifies complexity
  • Facilitates thoughtful dialogue
  • Remains steady during emotionally charged situations
  • Recognizes patterns others overlook
  • Helps people discover practical, lasting solutions

Whether I’m coaching an executive, facilitating a strategic planning process, designing a conflict management system, guiding a leadership team, or facilitating large-scale community conversations, my purpose remains the same:

To create the conditions where people think more clearly, relate more honestly, (re)discover their capacity to shape what comes next—and together build what matters.

Professional affiliations and credentials include:

  • Forbes Coaches Council Member
  • ICF Executive Coach
  • Certified Mediator
  • Corporate Trainer
  • Trainer & Group Facilitator
  • Senior Trainer in Nonviolent Communication
  • Bohm Dialogue Facilitator
  • B.S. in Business Management

While credentials matter, they’re not what impacts my clients most. They remember leaving difficult conversations with greater clarity, seeing possibilities they hadn’t previously recognized, feeling genuinely heard, and discovering solutions they could confidently move forward on together.

This has been, and remains, the purpose of my work.

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With Respect

Our Indigenous elders — and the wisdom taught on the native path — have become my teachers. I listen, I follow, and I do my best to live what I learn. Whatever wisdom or kindness I offer comes from that commitment: to Spirit, to nature, and to all our relations.

I have the honor to call home the ancestral, stewarded, and unceded lands of the Multnomah, Tualatin, and Clackamas peoples.

Some of My Affiliates