From Survival to Strategic: Nervous System Mastery

Yoo-Jin Kang (she/her) is an integrative leadership strategist, facilitator, and executive coach who helps leaders and teams build leadership that is sustainable, grounded, and deeply human. She works with founders, executives, and organizational leaders who are navigating complexity, pressure, and rapid decision-making and want to lead with greater clarity, steadiness, and intention.

With more than a decade of experience across public health, equity work, organizational consulting, and leadership development, Yoo-Jin supports leaders when surface-level productivity strategies are no longer enough and when the real work involves shifting patterns, not just improving performance. Her approach focuses on the connection between nervous system regulation, decision-making, communication, and cul

Yoo-Jin’s work is informed by her training in public health and integrative frameworks, which emphasize prevention, root-cause understanding, and whole-person leadership. Just as integrative medicine treats the whole person rather than isolated symptoms, her approach to leadership looks at how strategy, identity, nervous system state, power, and purpose interact. She blends evidence-based leadership development with trauma-informed practice, somatic awareness, and systems th

She holds a Maste

Trystan Reese first learned about keeping cool in high-stakes situations when he worked as an organizer fighting to pass gay marriage in California. He was part of an elite team whose job was to find anti-gay voters and change their minds about gay marriage. He has had hundreds of these types of conversations, typically on the doorsteps of avowedly anti-gay people.

The same skills he used in those high-pressure conversations are being taught here: self-awareness, nervous system regulation, and the ability to find clarity... even in times of stress.

Trystan spent nearly 10 years working on the frontlines of the fights for marriage equality, transgender non-discrimination protections, and an end to the death penalty.

From there, he went on to become a Qualified Administrator for the Intercult