Issa Guzman

Íssa Victoria Guzmán (she, her, ella) is an organizational health consultant, certified professional coach and Dream Architect based in Brooklyn, NY. She is committed to facilitating organizational health and transformation by cultivating honest, empowered and engaged work environments, supporting collective visioning, and translating big picture dreams to sustainable, practical and actionable steps. As a steward of social change with over 18 years learning, leading and consulting with diverse non-profits and social justice movement spaces, Íssa has partnered dozens of with mission-driven organizations spanning diverse sectors, all working to advance social justice in unique and necessary ways.

Íssa’s primary focus as an Organizational Development Consultant include Culture Change, Strategic Planning, Equity, Anti-Racism and Liberation, Implementation Planning, Values Alignment, Change Management, Leadership Development, Learning and Praxis Support, and Healing-Centered Coaching. She also works to train facilitators and consultants on transformational consulting. At the heart of her work, Íssa believes that cultivating honest and trusting relationships across difference is key to deepening personal and organizational impact. She is a scholar of anti-oppression and anti-racism, Black Liberation, and Emergent Strategy with an embodied commitment to accessing personal power and transforming beyond systems of oppressions.

Some identities that currently inform her approach to this work include being a Peruvian immigrant, a cis-gender, mixed-race Afro-Latina, and experiences living with chronic illnesses. Through these lenses Íssa approaches her work to help unravel how different identities impact power and privilege and our ability to transform and be well.

Íssa holds a BS and a BA in Environmental Science from Santa Clara University and holds credits toward an MA in Sustainable Food Systems from NYU. Íssa is an enthusiastic plant-keeper and co-conspirator to the natural world. She facilitates in both Spanish and English.