Zoë Galle

Facilitator · Brooklyn, NY · she/they

Zoë is a coach and facilitator with a rich background in community organizing and program management, business and the performing arts.

Zoë combines 25 years of dance experience performing and directing, with her business experience working on strategic development and creative innovation design with entrepreneurs in her practice. Zoë also has a private somatic coaching practice working with people to help them see where they are blocked and supporting them in their transformation. Zoë brings this diverse array of experience along with core commitments to equity and justice to her work as a facilitator and coach.

With Inspiring Educators, Zoë has worked with leaders from Teach For America, KIPP, NYC Community Schools, and Mastery Charter Schools.

As a facilitator and coach for the Ariel Group, Zoë has a number of private-sector clients including FTI Consulting, General Mills, Johnson & Johnson, and The College Board.

Zoë brings expertise in the area of psychological safety to all of her facilitation and coaching across both the public and private sectors.

Zoë has always been passionate about working with people to develop their inner leadership skills and engage in creative and courageous risk taking in the name of change. She has developed community performing arts programming with the College for Creative Studies and the Skillman Foundation in Detroit, mentoring young performing artists and producing community arts events.

Zoë completed a Bachelors of the Arts in Community Studies and a Bachelors of the Arts in Fine Art from the University of California Santa Cruz. Zoë is a certified yoga instructor, with additional training in trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness practices (via the Lineage Project), and healing justice and peer support (via the Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective).

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    “Zoë created a safe space for an extremely effective session. Although I was nervous (something that doesn 't happen often) Zoë encouraged me the entire time and was extremely supportive.”

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    “Zoë is very present as a facilitator, which made it possible for us to step out of our comfort zones.”

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    “Working with Zoe has brought more clarity and light in relationship to the parts of myself I typically find difficult to access.”

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    “Zoe facilitated from a vulnerable place and connected very well with the audience. She had a great energy, was very well spoken, and left me with strategies I can actually use in my role.”

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    “Zoe is an ace facilitator and really practiced what she preached, being vulnerable with us and so clear and able to be articulate in the moment!”