Monica Murarka is an executive coach, transformational facilitator, and embodiment teacher for leaders. Monica spent 25 years of experience advising leaders across numerous industries on strategy, operations, talent, leadership, and organizational challenges. Her most recent corporate role was Head of the McKinsey Talent Network where she led a division of recruiters, career advisors, and coaches working with executives in career transitions. She currently runs a boutique coaching firm, Amplify Yourself, providing executive coaching to leaders in career transitions as well as serves as a Senior Leadership Consultant for Mobius Executive Leadership where she provides coaching and facilitates groups within organizations.
Her personal mission is to help people BE – uncover, connect, transform, and amplify themselves for the sake of living their purpose. She works with executives, coaches, and teams in corporate, non-profit, government, university systems or entrepreneurial environments to help them develop their own skills and practices to continuously embody themselves such that they can feel congruence and alignment with how they walk through the world.
Monica has invested over 20 years in the deep study of embodiment, leadership, personal development, energy practices, personal/intergenerational/collective trauma healing, and interfaith religious practices through various teachers and disciplines. She is currently a teacher at the Strozzi Institute for Somatics where she teaches several courses: Embodied Leadership, Somatic Bodywork, and Somatic Coaching Certification.
Monica also coaches individuals in how they navigate workplace bias and systemic - often unconscious - oppression, racism, and patriarchy, an offering born as a result of her own personal lived experiences as an Asian American woman in corporate America.
Monica lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and enjoys spending her time meditating, diving into personal development and personal growth activities, playing tennis, and spending time with family, friends, and her nephews.
