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Eveline Shen hosting a workshop.
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Transform your leadership.

I support changemakers who are on a journey of individual and collective transformation. I offer programs, executive team culture, and coaching. I bring leaders together from across the country who are hungry to grow and build together.

Learn more about how my offerings can help you in your leadership journey:

The Courageous Operating System™

Seven puzzle pieces that interlock to form a circle.

Finding the Right Purpose

  • Avoiding Purpose Pitfalls
  • Developing a Purposeful Mindset
  • Putting Yourself in the Purpose Picture

Creating Momentum

  • Building a Springboard
  • Leveraging Strengths and Values
  • Harnessing the Wave
  • Building Critical Mass

Cultivating Success

  • Defining Success on Your Terms
  • Identifying the Multidimensions of Success
  • Aligning Success Metrics With Core Values

Building Your Well Of Courage

  • Big Acts of Courage
  • Everyday Acts of Courage
  • Growing Your Courage

Taking Care of Yourself. Taking Care of The World.

  • Exploring Difficult Emotions
  • Connecting With Community
  • Committing to Transformation Over Time
  • Contextualizing Experiences

Transforming Failure

  • Embracing Failure as Part of the Landscape
  • Understanding How Oppression Impacts Failure
  • Exploring the Benefits of Failure
  • Working With Failure

Powering Up Your Leadership

  • Assessing Your Dashboard of Needs
  • Growing Your Set of Internal Resources
  • Using Your Superpower of Self-Growth

The Courageous Operating System is designed to bring us back to ourselves in a world constantly pushing us to the sidelines or diminishing our value. It honors the courage we use every day and calls forth the courage within us that is still hidden and not used. It acknowledges the oppressive forces we contend with on an ongoing basis. It connects us with a moral compass to ensure our purpose and actions align with our deeply held values. It shines a light on our strengths and helps us nurture our superpowers.

It helps us navigate systemic oppression and complex challenges with exponentially more impact as we move toward our ambitious social change goals. The Courageous Operating System is a developmental system that helps us access our full selves, inviting us to nourish our mind, body, and spirit to strengthen and expand our leadership.

It helps us navigate systemic oppression and complex challenges with exponentially more impact as we move toward our ambitious social change goals.

Read my book to learn more about the Courageous Operating System and how to use it.

Read my book to learn more about the Courageous Operating System and how to use it.

Programs

Courage Is a Collective Practice.

I design immersive multi-session leadership programs, such as Stepping Into Power, that engage participants through breath, movement, music, storytelling, and interactive small and large group activities.

I bring leaders together across issues, strategy, movements and sectors so that cross-fertilization, creativity and innovation can happen.

These core in-person or remote leadership trainings can be adapted to a range of organizations, networks and groups.

Ready to get started?

Group of people participating in an immersive workshop.
Melanie Demore leads a group in stick pounding. Photo: Bethanie Hines.
Tiled view of various people on a group video meeting.

It’s a hard time in this world and it was so helpful to have this space that Ev created. We were able to build in a deep way with other folks and deepen our understanding of leadership, purpose, and how to deal with conflict. It’s hard to find a space like this in philanthropy. I had many aha moments and am transformed by this experience!

KIYOMI FUJIKAWA, Former Co-Director of Third Wave Foundation

She has always taught me to think about not just the present, but the long term, and to envision what is possible, to dream about what is possible for our communities.

ROCIO CORDOBA, Executive Director of Funders for Reproductive Equity

Executive Team Culture

I work with high-performing executive leadership teams who already have a strong foundation of communication and trust and are committed to building an ongoing, effective team culture.

I also take newly established executive teams and Co-directors through Courageous Operating System bootcamps, which are individually tailored to create a robust team and leadership culture.

Moving and breathing together. Photo: Eugene Eric Kim.

Having had the privilege of working directly with Eveline and her transformative Courageous Operating System (COS) during the early stages of our co-directorship, we can attest to its profound impact. The time we spent working through the COS laid a solid foundation for our successful partnership, enabling us to explore our similarities and differences with openness and respect.

MARIKO MIKI AND DENISE TOMASINI-JOSHI, co-directors of If/When/How

I have been fortunate to know Eveline Shen for over two decades. Many of my leadership skills that I apply in my work I have learned from her. The Courageous Operating System is a resource that new and experienced changemakers can use to strengthen their own leadership and their organizations. I can’t wait to integrate these practices into my day-to-day and to share these with my leadership team.

LOURDES A. RIVERA, president of Pregnancy Justice

Coaching

I coach executive leaders who have been through my leadership programs. I support those who are interested in making deep internal transformations so they can claim the full power of their inner resources and strengths.

I work with leaders who are interested in identifying patterns and habits that are inhibiting them and adopting new behaviors that enable them to have greater impact and live a more fulfilling life.

I currently have a waiting list.

Eveline coaching
Photo: Isaac Joel Torres.

As women of color leaders, we encounter distinct challenges, including leadership models that feel inauthentic and a lack of safe space to stretch ourselves and experiment with our leadership. Working with Ev and using the Courageous Operating System during a critical juncture in my journey enabled me to take a significant leap forward and expand my vision of what was possible.

KWAJELYN JACKSON, Executive Director of Feminist Women’s Health Center, Atlanta

Ev’s practical insights and wisdom guided my leadership transformation with purpose and love. This book gives us critical examples of moving collectively toward gender, racial, and economic justice while challenging and changing ourselves and our movement-building organizations.

BIA VIEIRA, CEO of Women’s Foundation California