Nanci Luna Jiménez
Nanci Luna Jiménez founded Luna
Jiménez Seminars & Associates (LJS) in 1994, focusing on
training, facilitating, coaching and speaking through unique programs
to encourage individuals in their process of personal healing and
transformation. With a commitment to end oppression, LJS’
powerful events help release individual initiative that transform
organizations and create a more just and equitable workplace and world.
Nanci is recognized regionally, nationally and internationally for her highly effective and insightful training, inclusive facilitation and dynamic speaking with groups of diverse ages, industries and cultural backgrounds. Bringing personal passion and commitment, Nanci works with individuals, schools, government agencies, non-profit organizations and business groups. She facilitates dialogue and understanding between participants around emotion-charged topics, and brings people together as committed and informed allies. Nanci has led hundreds of programs in Transformational Communication: Building Authentic Cross Cultural Relationships, Transformational Leadership: Developing Leaders as Change Agents, Transformational Women: Reclaiming Our Minds & Bodies through Physical Power, Transformational Teams: Creating Connected and Committed Collaboration, and Transformational Partnerships: Men & Women as Natural Allies. She has custom designed and facilitated hundreds of meetings, retreats and events—large and small—including complex events with international groups and multiple languages. In addition, she has presented scores of memorable keynote speaking programs.
Nanci is trained in methodologies developed by: Lillian Roybal Rose, a recognized expert in the field of Cross Cultural Communication; The Institute for Cultural Affairs (ICA)—an international organization which provides training and facilitation in participatory group leadership processes for sustained organizational and social change; and United to End Racism (UER)—an international organization dedicated to the global elimination of racism. She has also been trained by Marshall Rosenberg in Non-Violent Communication and Jim Rough in Dynamic Facilitation. Through these skills, Nanci expertly assists organizations realize the changes they envision by facilitating group consensus, planning, and implementation.
Nanci is a Certified Professional Facilitator©. In 2006 she completed the Executive Leadership Program through the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Center for Creative Leadership in Brussels, Belgium as a National Hispana Leadership Institute Fellow. In August 2001 she attended the United Nations World Conference Against Racism Non-Governmental Forum in Durban, South Africa as a delegate with UER. In 1995 she served as an international observer for the Haitian presidential elections. She was a Ford Foundation Fellow and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and received her BA cum laude from Yale University. She also attended the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras and completed El Programa Interdiciplinario de la Mujer at the Colegio de México in Mexico City. Nanci also chairs the Board of Directors for World Pulse, an organization dedicated to empowering women’s voices around the world through PulseWire.
Of Puerto Rican and Chicana heritage, Nanci was born in Detroit, MI, and raised in Detroit and Tucson, AZ. She now lives with her partner in Portland, Oregon, USA and enjoys yoga, weight training, marathons and triathlons, knitting, and time near the water—ideally with friends and family.
Nanci is recognized regionally, nationally and internationally for her highly effective and insightful training, inclusive facilitation and dynamic speaking with groups of diverse ages, industries and cultural backgrounds. Bringing personal passion and commitment, Nanci works with individuals, schools, government agencies, non-profit organizations and business groups. She facilitates dialogue and understanding between participants around emotion-charged topics, and brings people together as committed and informed allies. Nanci has led hundreds of programs in Transformational Communication: Building Authentic Cross Cultural Relationships, Transformational Leadership: Developing Leaders as Change Agents, Transformational Women: Reclaiming Our Minds & Bodies through Physical Power, Transformational Teams: Creating Connected and Committed Collaboration, and Transformational Partnerships: Men & Women as Natural Allies. She has custom designed and facilitated hundreds of meetings, retreats and events—large and small—including complex events with international groups and multiple languages. In addition, she has presented scores of memorable keynote speaking programs.
Nanci is trained in methodologies developed by: Lillian Roybal Rose, a recognized expert in the field of Cross Cultural Communication; The Institute for Cultural Affairs (ICA)—an international organization which provides training and facilitation in participatory group leadership processes for sustained organizational and social change; and United to End Racism (UER)—an international organization dedicated to the global elimination of racism. She has also been trained by Marshall Rosenberg in Non-Violent Communication and Jim Rough in Dynamic Facilitation. Through these skills, Nanci expertly assists organizations realize the changes they envision by facilitating group consensus, planning, and implementation.
Nanci is a Certified Professional Facilitator©. In 2006 she completed the Executive Leadership Program through the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Center for Creative Leadership in Brussels, Belgium as a National Hispana Leadership Institute Fellow. In August 2001 she attended the United Nations World Conference Against Racism Non-Governmental Forum in Durban, South Africa as a delegate with UER. In 1995 she served as an international observer for the Haitian presidential elections. She was a Ford Foundation Fellow and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and received her BA cum laude from Yale University. She also attended the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras and completed El Programa Interdiciplinario de la Mujer at the Colegio de México in Mexico City. Nanci also chairs the Board of Directors for World Pulse, an organization dedicated to empowering women’s voices around the world through PulseWire.
Of Puerto Rican and Chicana heritage, Nanci was born in Detroit, MI, and raised in Detroit and Tucson, AZ. She now lives with her partner in Portland, Oregon, USA and enjoys yoga, weight training, marathons and triathlons, knitting, and time near the water—ideally with friends and family.
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