Learning Architect for Dignity & Belonging

I design learning journeys that transform how people show up, lead, and flourish.

  • “Staff across several departments now approach undocumented student support with increased empathy, confidence, and cultural responsiveness.”

    Dr. Sara Johnson, Superintendent, HDESD

  • "The experience you created didn’t just meet our hopes—it exceeded them. Your compassion, cultural awareness, and bilingual facilitation created a space where young people felt truly seen and supported."

    — Violeta Bluitt, Kitsap Immigrant Assistance Center

  • "Vincent is the most effective, resonant, strategic, empathetic, and community-minded leader I have ever collaborated with."

    Luis Ortega, Director & Founder, Storytellers for Change

  • "Vincent at his core is a true visionary."

    James S. Layman, Director, Association of Washington Student Leaders

Keynotes & Workshops

Interactive keynotes and trainings designed to challenge assumptions, build capacity, and catalyze lasting culture shift.

Facilitator Training

Practice the art of transformative facilitation—grow your skill, embody your values, and lead spaces that matter

Mental Fitness & Leadership Coaching

Build the resilience to stay grounded in every storm.

Equity Audit

Measure what matters. Transform your culture through dignity-driven equity strategy.

Bilingual Leadership

Harnessing the brilliance of bilingual youth.

Healing-Centered Masculinity

Unlearning silence. Growing emotional fluency. Creating spaces for boys and men to feel, lead, and heal.

A learning journey for organizational health.

Comprehensive, Transformative Insights for Sustainable Change

Navigating today’s dynamic and interconnected organizational landscapes:

Every great journey requires a reliable navigation system—a way to set course, track progress, and adjust as conditions change. The Dignity Compass™ is that tool for organizations seeking to cultivate dignity-centered leadership, service, and culture. It is a strategic rubric that guides organizations to measure, celebrate, and improve the overall health of their organization, the quality of its service impact, and its support for team members’ growth.

The Dignity Compass™ is both straightforward in structure and profound in impact—so much so that its core concept can be explained by simply drawing a Tic-Tac-Toe grid on a napkin. Like a captain’s compass, this framework provides clarity in decision-making, ensuring organizations stay on course toward meaningful, data-driven change.

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    • A Comprehensive Framework for Organizational Growth
      The Dignity Compass™ helps leaders assess, track, and strengthen dignity-centered leadership, service, and workplace culture.

    • A Practical, Data-Driven Approach
      The Dignity Compass™ integrates three dimensions of dignity (Organizational, Relational, and Personal) with three degrees of implementation (Policy, Action, Impact) to create a nine-part structure for sustainable change.

    • Customizable for Any Organization
      Designed for schools, healthcare systems, corporations, nonprofits, and public institutions, the framework adapts to diverse industries and leadership structures.

    • Guided by Implementation Science
      The Tier 1 Team / Data & Implementation Team ensures continuous progress through six-month cycles of reflection, action, and impact assessment.

    • A Leadership Tool for the Future
      The Dignity Compass™ provides leaders with the clarity to navigate challenges, build trust, and cultivate a humanizing organizational culture.

A learning journey for systems leaders.

Mental Fitness & Leadership Coaching

“As a clinical therapist I am introduced to a lot of concepts, tools, skills for self management and regulation. I have engaged in personal and professional work and thought my repertoire was solid. Then, this spring my brother invited me to do this program with him. Life changing. I am still working this daily. My practice, businesses, family, hobby, and social lives have improved 💯. Give it some consideration.” - Marla Madrid, LCSW, LAC, LMFT, RPT-S

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  • School & District Leaders – For principals, superintendents, and cabinet members leading through complexity.

    Nonprofit EDs – For executive directors navigating mission, burnout, and bold vision.

    Department Heads & Managers – For mid-level leaders balancing people, projects, and purpose.

    Management Teams – For groups seeking alignment, trust, and shared resilience.

    Public Sector Leaders – For civic leaders shaping policy and service with clarity and care.

    Healthcare & Mental Health Professionals – For those carrying others’ pain and needing space to recalibrate.

    Higher Education Leaders – For faculty and admin creating cultures of dignity and learning.

    Philanthropy Professionals – For leaders stewarding change through trust-based giving.

    Faith & Community Leaders – For those holding sacred space and collective responsibility.

    Social Impact Founders & Coaches – For changemakers ready to lead from within.

Program Overview

Positive Intelligence (PQ) is profoundly impacting my life. It was so transformative that I shared it with my wife, my sister (a clinical therapist), my adult sons, and their partners. That’s how much I believe in its power.

I’ve since built Lead Within—a coaching experience designed specifically for system leaders and teams navigating high-stakes decisions, emotional exhaustion, and the pressures of leadership. It’s about building the clarity, resilience, and balance we all need to lead well.

It all starts with a Saboteur Assessment—a powerful first step in understanding what might be holding you back in the areas of wellness, relationships, and performance.

Includes:

  • 1:1 or Team Coaching

  • Full 7-week Positive Intelligence® program

  • 1-year access to the PQ Mental Fitness app

  • A personal reset for leaders navigating high-stakes decisions, emotional exhaustion, or culture change.

    Executive Track$1,595 (10 sessions + app)

    • 10 weekly 1:1 live coaching sessions

    • Saboteur assessment + personalized growth plan

    • Resources and weekly practices tailored for your leadership context

  • Peer-powered growth for leaders ready to connect, reflect, and lead with resilience.

    Leadership Pods$1,395/person (2 to 4)

    • 10 weekly 90-minute group coaching sessions

    • Peer-supported discussion and real-time application

    • Pod-based in-app discussion board

  • Support your entire team in building healthy habits for performance, wellbeing, and relationships.

    $895 / $795 / $695 per person
    (Tiered by team size: 5–12 / 13–22 / 23+)

    3 live 3-hour professional development sessions:

    1. Foundations of Mental Fitness

    2. Disrupting Saboteurs & Building Team Trust

    3. Integration & Sustaining Culture

  • Deeper connection and accountability to sustain culture and performance.

    Team Integration Upgrade – $2,495 flat per team

    Includes:

    • 8 weekly 1-hour live debrief sessions with your team

    • Group reflection, application, and integration

    • Optional coaching check-ins for team leads

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  • Educators & Instructional Coaches: For those leading classrooms, circles, and professional learning with presence and care.

    Nonprofit & Program Staff: For frontline staff and facilitators designing spaces for healing, growth, and community engagement.

    Youth Development Professionals: For mentors, advisors, and after-school leaders fostering connection, belonging, and leadership.

    Restorative Justice Practitioners: For facilitators holding circles and conversations around harm, accountability, and healing.

    School Counselors & Social Workers: For practitioners guiding difficult dialogues and supporting youth through trauma-informed approaches.

    Team & Department Leads: For internal leaders designing meetings and retreats that actually build trust and momentum.

    Community Organizers & Cultural Workers: For facilitators moving hearts and minds toward justice through story, art, and collective reflection.

    HR & DEI Professionals: For those building inclusive, human-centered cultures through intentional group experiences.

    Faith-Based & Spiritual Leaders: For those stewarding sacred space and guiding spiritual inquiry in community.

    Peer Support & Mental Health Facilitators: For wellness and support group leaders creating emotionally safe and affirming spaces.

Free Facilitation Tips & Guiding Principles

A learning journey to create spaces of value and trust.

Facilitation Training for Connection, Clarity & Collective Growth

A one or two-day immersive training (6–12 hours) for those who guide, lead, and hold space.

Designed for team leads, educators, nonprofit staff, and cultural workers, this experience equips participants with the tools to:

  • Develop engaging, purpose-driven learning experiences

  • Lead meetings with clarity and presence

  • Build and sustain relational trust

  • Navigate complex group dynamics with confidence

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A learning journey through story and inspiration.

Bring depth and heart to your next event Vincent’s keynotes and workshops.

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Bilingual, communal learning journeys rooted in language, culture, and purpose.

I founded La Cima in 2003.

Offerings:

  • La Cima (High School & College-age Leadership Cohorts)

  • La Chispa (Workshops for educators and programs)

  • Custom packages for schools, conferences, orgs

Highlight:

  • Packages (1-6 days)

  • Outcomes: identity, advocacy, cultural pride

A learning journey for boys and men seeking to grow resilience and end violence in their lives.

Healing-Centered Masculinity

Offerings:

  • Young Men’s Circles (schools, orgs, juvenile systems)

  • Men’s Circles & Retreats

  • Men’s Healing Network (the vision)

Our Mission: Healing & Liberation

Rethink Manhood is calling for a renaissance in male culture across the globe. Humanizing masculinity counters a culture of domination founded in male supremacy, patriarchy and misogyny. Historically and globally, the greatest threat to women and children is men. Our culture's rigid forms of masculinity discourage men from showing any emotion but anger while promoting false coping or numbing practices like substance abuse, sex addiction and dominating behaviors. Freeing oneself from the false man-creed is a liberatory practice that improves our health, helps us connect with our children and deepens intimate relationships.

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“You didn’t change my life, you taught me I could change my own.”

-Green Hill Student