hello,
I’m Vanessa. I’m an award-winning founder turned leadership coach.
I help founders build culture-defining companies that shape the future.
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I’m a high performer
who feels deeply.
As a daughter of Vietnamese refugees, I have always been powerfully self-motivated in my pursuit for greater heights of success to honor my family’s history. From graduating from Harvard, to landing my first job at Bain & Company, to making my mark at a national level as a Forbes 30 Under 30 founder & CEO of my first company, Omsom — I have not stopped pushing for greater and for more over the past decade.
But throughout this journey, I was constantly at odds with myself. As a sensitive, thoughtful, and empathetic soul, I had become skilled at suppressing and rejecting my internal experience in service of short-term productivity and projecting misguided ideas of confidence and strength.
It wasn’t until I learned to embrace my innermost truth — who I truly am and what I have to offer the world — that I was able to reach the next level of profound personal and professional growth.
Now, I coach and advise visionary founders and leaders to discover their unique zones of genius and honor their own needs — all in service of unlocking the highest potential in their work, inner world, and life.