Márcia Kodama (Leadership + Financial Health)

Márcia offers coaching in English and Portuguese.

Márcia is a Japanese Brazilian Master-certified Integral Coach™ and Certified Integral Facilitator™. After working as an engineer in the corporate sector, Márcia spent more than two decades supporting and coaching groups and leaders in the social and business sectors. She has also been a part of the Integral Coaching Canada faculty since 2014.

Márcia holds a Master of Business Administration from Fundação Getulio Vargas and an engineering degree from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo. As an ordained Zen Buddhist monk, Márcia’s personal and professional life is deeply informed by her Zen practice. 

She lives in São Paulo, Brazil, with her son and two cats, and speaks Portuguese, English, Japanese, and Spanish. Márcia is also a swimmer, avid reader, Korean soap opera fan, and intensely curious student of human nature.

Archana Deshpande (Leadership + Financial Health)

Archana offers coaching in English and Spanish.

Archana is a creative rights advocate, strategist, communicator, and singer with over 15 years of experience supporting a wide range of human rights and social justice initiatives. At Spring, she leads the design and implementation of virtual and in-person financial resilience, facilitation, and leadership development programs. In recent years, she has overseen the successful delivery of capacity-strengthening programs for hundreds of rights and justice leaders, organizations, and networks globally. 

Previously, Archana led the creation and expansion of OpenGlobalRights — a multilingual, global forum that explores human rights policies and strategies as well as managed and conducted research on human rights organizations and public perceptions of human rights in India, Mexico, and Morocco. She has co-authored various publications on the resource mobilization challenges and opportunities for human rights groups in the Global South and is passionate about finding innovative ways to sustain and expand social and climate justice initiatives. 

Archana holds a master's degree in International Affairs and is a Master-certified Integral Coach™. She is based in Toronto, Canada, and speaks English, Spanish, French, and Gujarat. She gets her creative juices flowing through dancing with her daughter, painting, and singing.

Alex Streubel (Leadership)

Alex offers coaching in English and Spanish.

Alex is a Master-certified Integral Coach™ and facilitator, a Zen Buddhist monk, and a passionate explorer of the human condition. With roots in both Colombia and Germany, his approach is as diverse as the clients he works with in Latin America, North America, and Europe. He believes that human potential is the world’s greatest untapped resource.

After 20 years in telecommunications and heavy industry, he realized his true passion was human development so he decided to change course. After training as a leadership coach, he co-founded the first Center for Mindfulness at Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá. In 2020, in response to the COVID-19 crisis, he initiated "Mindfulness en la Nube", bringing meditation and well-being to all kinds of people, not just in Colombia but throughout the region.

Alex holds a Master of Business Administration from Duke University and a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering. He’s also a qualified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher from UC San Diego’s Center for Mindfulness and the most important foundation of his work is his ongoing training as a Zen practitioner with Two Arrows Zen in Utah, USA, since 2012.

He is also an incredibly proud husband and father of twin daughters, lives in Bogotá and escapes on his bicycle to recharge when he gets the chance.

Denise Portes (Leadership)

Denise offers coaching in English and Portuguese.

Denise is a Master-certified Integral Coach™ and Family Constellations Facilitator with a foundation training in Body Therapy and a BA in Psychology. She is also a mental health coach, helping her clients to better understand and regulate their emotions and nervous system.

In her coaching, she creates a safe non-judgmental environment and brings qualities of deep listening and intuition to her work, which allows her to attune to her client’s needs and support them in reaching their goals. Denise’s approach aims to integrate the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual well-being of her clients. 

Denise grew up in Brazil and has lived in the UK for two decades. She is deeply committed to developing as a human being in her spiritual path as a student of the Ridwan school for over 11 years.