Amani Legagneur
Amani is a performance and culture coach at Mindful Warrior. She brings a powerful mix of precision and warmth to the nuanced challenges facing her clients. Her practice focuses on high-net-worth individuals and executives seeking both coaching and strategic consultation. She specializes in supporting clients who want to animate their passion projects and philanthropic goals with spiritual focus. Her coaching and culture design approach integrates extensive professional expertise earned, in part, from her decade-long career as System Manager of Spiritual Health and Education in one of the nation’s largest community hospital conglomerates. Considered a pre-eminent coach for those seeking to align wealth and purpose, Amani is a trusted and discrete professional. She is a careful listener who helps clients discern meaningful ways to drive impacts that deliver lasting legacies. She seeks to develop authentic and dynamic partnerships with her clients as a foundation for refining their vision, promoting their self-mastery, and amplifying their resourcefulness in service of their dreams. Her background in spiritual leadership, healthcare administration, and post-graduate clinical education uniquely equips her to assist clients in identifying and advancing their highest aspirations.
Amani stands at the edge of the unknown with people in critical moments of transition, opportunity, learning, and need. She is called to do so faithfully and is trained to do so skillfully. As a result, Amani is able to coach leaders through complex, multidimensional problems. She creates and facilitates workshops to build shared agreements, shared practices, and shared consciousness in teams. Much of her work centers around cultivating more diverse, equitable, and inclusive cultures. She is adept at coaching teams to identify and honor core values through relational covenants, brave space, identity development, mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and leadership impact. As a training facilitator she helps her clients develop greater self-awareness, navigate group and system dynamics, and apply interpersonal communication strategies.
Amani is an ACPE Certified Educator—a specialized spiritual leader who has completed the gold standard program of Clinical Pastoral Education (clinical residency and a minimum of four years post-masters education) in order to train clergy, masters and doctoral degree theological students, and clinicians. As such, she brings rigorous training in crisis response, conflict resolution, education theory, interpersonal neuroscience, intercultural relations, spiritual care, and multi-faith theological studies to her work at Mindful Warrior. She is an experienced retreat facilitator, proudest to have co-led a retreat with Parker Palmer and Marcy Jackson. She cut her teeth in the biomedical sciences, as a research technician in studies aimed at fighting breast cancer and AIDS Wasting disorder. Her science background provides a complementary lens to her perspective as a theological scholar.
Amani graduated from Amherst College with Distinction as a dual major in Interdisciplinary Biochemistry and Spanish Language and Culture. She earned her Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School, completed her ACPE Certified Educator training at Emory Spiritual Care, completed Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT®) through the Center of Contemplative Sciences, and is nearing completion of a Ph.D. program in Spiritual Health and Education at the International University of the Caribbean. She is also an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. A lifelong learner, Amani is enhancing her performance coaching toolkit by pursuing certification as a Co-Active Coach through the Co-Active Coaching Institute. An avid writer, she published a volume of poetry entitled, Cymbals and Thyme, and more recently contributed a chapter entitled, “The Healing Welcomer: A Postcolonial Image of Spiritual Care Response,” to Emannuel Lartey and Hellena Moon’s, Postcolonial Images of Spiritual Care: Challenges of Care in a Neoliberal Age (2020). She is an inspirational speaker and leader whose life story and vocational achievements have been featured in the Atlanta Journal Constitution twice in the last four years. If you are seeking to deepen your spiritual insight, increase your level of fulfillment and sense of purpose in career performance, enliven your enthusiasm through meaningful connection, and enhance your personal life balance—Amani is the coach for you.