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Acosta Institute Transformational Leadership Coaching Program

Expand Your Capacity, Transform Your Leadership

Unlock your leadership potential with the Acosta Institute’s Transformational Leadership Coaching Program, where capacity building meets healing-centered practices. Designed for both seasoned executives and emerging leaders, this program nurtures resilience, relational depth, and the skills to navigate today’s dynamic and complex world.

Rooted in the Acosta Institute's values of healing, inclusivity, and future-facing leadership, this personalized coaching program integrates our approach to capacity building, which holistically address physical, emotional, psychological, financial, and spiritual dimensions of leadership. Through tailored coaching, somatic practices, and actionable strategies, we empower leaders to create sustainable growth for themselves, their teams, and their organizations.

Our coaching program is available in three tailored formats—1-month, 3-month, and 6-month options—offering one-on-one guidance, innovative tools, and healing-centered insights. 

1-Month Intensive Coaching Program

Accelerated Leadership Capacity Tier 

This accelerated experience provides high-impact coaching for leaders seeking immediate transformation, focusing on short-term challenges with long-term benefits.

Key Features:

  • Live Sessions with Dr. Angel Acosta: Two 60-minute sessions focusing on capacity-building strategies, immediate leadership challenges, and healing-centered goal setting.
  • Somatic Coaching with Maria Tan: One 90 minute session to integrate leadership learning through embodied, healing-centered practices.
  • Unlimited Voice Memo Communication: Real-time support and feedback to ensure continuous momentum.
  • Learning Dashboard: Curated self-paced resources, including reflective exercises and content on leadership, healing-centered approaches, and capacity building.
  • Final Reflection & Action Plan: A personalized action plan for sustaining your growth and addressing key needs.

Best For: Leaders ready to tackle pressing challenges and achieve rapid, meaningful results while laying a foundation for healing and relational leadership.

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3-Month Leadership Development Program

Deepened Leadership Tier

This balanced coaching program supports sustained growth through a combination of one-on-one coaching, self-paced learning, and somatic and relational practices.

Key Features:

  • Live Sessions with Dr. Angel Acosta: Five 60-minute coaching sessions to deepen your leadership capacity and integrate healing-centered practices into your work.
  • Somatic Coaching with Maria Tan: Two 90 minute sessions to help embody leadership through mindful and somatic techniques.
  • Unlimited Voice Memo Communication: Continuous access to support for on-the-go guidance and reflections.
  • Learning Dashboard: Modules include topics like emotional intelligence, slow work, and the Matrix of Needs Framework to help you align your goals with your values.
  • Monthly Reflection & Progress Check-Ins: Regular evaluations of your progress, ensuring alignment with your leadership vision and needs.
  • Leadership Roadmap: A customized plan for long-term growth, integrating resilience-building and relational strategies.
  • Access to Mastermind: Access to one mastermind session with high-performing social entrepreneurs and leaders to brainstorm your next breakthroughs. 

Best For: Leaders seeking to refine their skills and align personal and organizational goals over three months of focused development. 

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6-Month Transformational Leadership Journey

Visionary Leadership Tier

This immersive coaching experience provides the time and tools to develop profound leadership transformation through healing-centered frameworks and capacity-building methodologies.

Key Features:

  • Live Sessions with Dr. Angel Acosta: Twelve 60-minute coaching sessions (two per month) focused on sustained leadership development, navigating paradoxes, and fostering organizational alignment.
  • Somatic Coaching with Maria Tan: Four 90 minute sessions to integrate physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of leadership into a cohesive practice.
  • Unlimited Voice Memo Communication: Ongoing support to address challenges and deepen your learning in real-time.
  • Learning Dashboard: Engage with self-paced modules on capacity building, somatic awareness, and relational leadership, incorporating principles like slow work and emergent design.
  • Quarterly Reflection & Strategic Planning: Bi-monthly sessions to recalibrate your strategies and maintain alignment with your goals and needs.
  • Comprehensive Leadership Blueprint: Co-create a long-term actionable plan with Dr. Acosta to guide your ongoing leadership journey.
  • Access to Mastermind: Access to one mastermind session with high-performing social entrepreneurs and leaders to brainstorm your next breakthroughs.
  • Virtual Observation: Optional virtual observation of the participant in action, followed by detailed feedback to improve real-world application of coaching insights.
  •  VIP Access to Acosta Institute to Two Acosta Institute  Events: Complimentary passes to two exclusive Acosta Institute events, such as a summit, workshop, or conference.
  • Year-End Review: At the end of the year, participants will have the option to meet with program faculty to assess growth and challenges. 

Best For: Leaders committed to long-term, transformational growth, seeking to align their leadership practices with healing-centered principles and capacity-building insights.

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Common Features Across All Programs:

  • Matrix of Needs Integration: Holistically address the interconnected dimensions of well-being—physical, emotional, psychological, financial, and spiritual—using the Acosta Institute’s innovative framework.
  • Healing-Centered Leadership: Foster resilience, trust, and well-being through practices that align leadership development with relational and restorative approaches.
  • Somatic Integration: Incorporate embodied practices for grounding, balance, and stress resilience in leadership.
  • Learning Dashboard: Access tailored content to deepen your understanding of capacity building, healing-centered practices, and leadership strategies.
  • Continuous Support: Unlimited access to voice memo guidance ensures you stay connected and supported throughout your leadership journey.

Why Choose the Acosta Institute’s Transformational Leadership Coaching Program?

At the Acosta Institute, we see leadership as an opportunity to build capacity—for yourself, your team, and your community. Our coaching integrates cutting-edge research, healing-centered methodologies, and over a decade of expertise to support leaders in navigating complexity and fostering innovation. Whether you opt for the 1-month intensive or the 6-month journey, you’ll emerge as a leader who not only achieves excellence but creates space for healing, connection, and growth.

Speakers

 Dr. Angel Acosta

For the last decade, Angel Acosta has worked to bridge the fields of leadership, social justice and mindfulness. He recently received his doctorate in the Curriculum and Teaching Department at Teachers College, Columbia University. Angel has supported educational leaders and their students by facilitating leadership trainings, creating pathways to higher education, and designing dynamic learning experiences. His dissertation explores healing-centered education as a promising framework for educational leadership development.

Steve Saint Fleur

Steve Saint Fleur is a dynamic, innovative, and creative visionary setting the standard for digital branding and innovation. He is a proven talent with a unique ability to develop brand awareness and grow messaging through innovative digital marketing. Steve has built a proven track record for creating quality designs through beautiful aesthetics, working with a deep knowledge of design, combined with an understanding of creative software tools.


With over a decade of creative experience, Steve has worked with the top brands in the Fortune 500. He has extensive experience with Estee Lauder, Bloomberg, the NFL, MLB, Ford, AT&T, CITI, Starwood, and Unilever, among others. Through these experiences, he has built strong relationships with global creative teams, managing projects and delivering results that exceed all expectations.


Steve is a graduate of Baruch College with a bachelor's degree in business marketing and has completed his Future of Interaction Design UX UI with NYU.


Steve enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling, racing, cycling, and art. He is committed to giving back to his community through volunteering with charitable organizations, most notably the Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation.

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