About Atieno
Phone 202.550.5462
atieno@usoni.com
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Connection Programs for Organizations
Atieno Bird helps organizations revitalize and tap the powerful element of human connection through coaching, training, and employee engagement programs such as the Power TribesTM. Atieno’s group work helps the parts of the organization understand the whole, connect across boundaries, and align with their common purpose to allow new futures to emerge. She has done this through leading retreats and team coaching for the World Bank, NASA, the Small Business Association (SBA), Accenture, police departments, public service agencies, hospitals, schools and nonprofits; coaching over 100 private clients, 30 young leaders from the Middle East, and 20 large teams of election campaign volunteers, and providing experiential training for over 150 activists, students, prisoners, and professionals.Coaching for Social Entrepreneurs
Atieno is an experiential and intuitive coach with 11 years experience in facilitating strengths-based transformation in corporate, clinical, law enforcement, nonprofit, and multilateral settings. Her private clients are primarily social entrepreneurs, such as alternative health providers, who have small businesses and world-changing ideas. They hire Atieno to achieve breakthroughs in growing their businesses and often accomplish breakthroughs in happiness as well. Joining a Power TribeTM is a key asset for these entrepreneurs.Related Training
Atieno has a unique set of tools acquired through an extraordinary tradition practiced by only a handful of experts. Founder JL Moreno believed in the goodness and expansiveness of the human spirit, the power of stepping into roles rather than talking about them, and the capacity of each person to tap into infinite possibility and energy. Atieno was certified in Moreno’s techniques after a two-year full-time apprenticeship and uses them in the Power TribesTM. Other accomplishments include:MA in Conflict Transformation, Eastern Mennonite UniversityBA in Comparative Religion, Kenyon College, Magna cum Laude
Certified Coach, Coaches Training Institute, International Coaching Federation
Certified Yoga Instructor, National Yoga Alliance
Related Experience
As a Senior Consultant at SRA Touchstone Consulting Group in 2008 and 2009, Atieno designed and delivered training at FEMA for stakeholder alignment with strategy, using stop-action simulations. As a Consultant at the World Bank from 2002 to 2008, she coached and facilitated for the Leadership Development Program, the Disaster Recovery Secretariat, the Poverty Strategy team, a Country Office team, an HR Officer performance program, and the Management Curriculum.As the Founder and Principal of Usoni from 2003 to the present, she designed peer coaching groups for cross-functional learning, trained US State Department officials in interpersonal skills, coached small business owners and the staff of various organizations, and trained police to use least force with the mentally ill.
Atieno has also been an Advanced Coexistence Facilitator at Seeds of Peace International Camp, a group therapy director at St. Elizabeths Hospital, an Adjunct Professor of Conflict at Eastern Mennonite University, a Mediation Associate in Fairfax Co. Public Schools, a Watson Fellow, and an Educational Performer.
Testimonials
My experience working with Atieno has been profound and life-changing. I was embroiled in an intense community conflict and wanted someone to help me keep my head above water. I've become much more effective, with new skills that let me maintain my balance in the face of huge passions (mine and others'!) In every session she offers some insight that helps me unlock something important and has given me practical tools. As Atieno helped me explore, I began making some shifts. I started feeling lighter, more flexible and balanced. -N., Community Activist
Working with Atieno helped me plan a retirement that will make a difference in the world and to achieve breakthroughs in my family relationships that I never imagined possible. The process was a gentle journey into personal insights. Her work is absolutely extraordinary. -Fred Nunes, Sr. Facilitator, Leadership and Organization Effectiveness unit, The World Bank
That day was an amazing experience for me and will stay with me always. I thought of it as finding my voice... Thank you for letting me jump into my life with two feet! That practice was a breakthrough for me! -Cheryl Voyles, Psychodrama Workshop at Nosara Yoga Institute, Costa Rica, January 2007
