Professional Faculty
Management of Organizations
Embodied leadership for social transformation
About
Nathan Shara is therapist, writer and educator whose work focuses on embodiment as a pragmatic approach for aligning our values and actions, as well as a path for individual and social transformation. He is a senior teacher with the national organization generative somatics, offering leadership development, capacity building and trauma healing to U.S.-based social and environmental justice movement leaders and organizations. He is also a senior faculty member at Strozzi Institute, leading transformative, experiential courses on embodied leadership for individuals, teams and organizations.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Embodied Leadership
- Social Power
- Privilege & Oppression
- Trauma
- Resilience
- Transformative Conflict Mediation & Accountability
At Haas since 2019
2019 – present, Lecturer, Leadership Under Pressure, Haas School of Business
2012 – present, Lead Teacher, Strozzi Institute
2012 – present, Therapist and Facilitator, Shaping Change: Social Justice and Therapy Consulting
2008 – present, Lead Teacher and Program Strategy Consultant, generative somatics
2009 – 2013, Community Advocate and Program Coordinator, Northwest Network of Bi, Trans, Lesbian and Gay Survivors of Abuse
2008 – 2009, Children, Youth and Family Therapist, Asian Counseling and Referral Service
2007 – 2008, Intern Therapist, Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities
- Brian M. Day Award, Pride Foundation of Seattle, WA.
- Sarah Schaar Clinical Social Work Award, Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work
- MBA 291T, Leadership Under Pressure