Leadership Through Uncertainty
Lodestar equips leaders with the essential neuroscience-based skills needed to navigate complexity and rapid change. Our range of services includes advanced leadership development, executive coaching, coach training, acute incident response, and restorative team coaching.
Burnout Gets Blamed…
Today’s leaders need to be equipped to tackle root causes. High uncertainty and an accelerated pace of change is compounding toxic stress and increasing fear and disconnection. All of this shows up behaviorally & attitudinally, masquerading as other things and harming workplace culture and engagement.
Our trauma-informed, neuroscience-based approach helps:
Healthcare professionals navigate chronic toxic stress
Legal teams manage secondary traumatic stress exposure
Government leaders rebuild organizational safety & trust
Corporate executives create robust workplace cultures
...and Burnout Is Not the (Only) Problem.
We Need a New Leadership Paradigm
Organizations that build upon our trauma-informed leadership principles, demonstrate:
Increased ability to navigate high uncertainty
Enhanced psychological safety
Improved professional satisfaction
Sustainable organizational growth
Renewed sense of purpose
Our research-based, advanced methodologies provide leaders with the skills to:
Recognize and manage threat activation in themselves and their teams
Address the traumas of moral injury in professional settings
Build organizational safety, trust and capacity amid high uncertainty
Realign organizational culture with its mission, vision, values
Leaders with advanced, trauma-responsive skills will effectively create high trust, restorative cultures that strengthen both the institution and the individual.
World-Class Faculty
Our faculty brings more than credentials—we bring decades of lived experience. We are physicians, attorneys, psychologists, nurses and educators who have been where you are and know the challenges you face.
Our team has earned international recognition.
What sets us apart? We are the professionals we work with.
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Kemia M. Sarraf, MD, MPH, IOC Fellow, CCC, TIPC
President & CEO
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Ann V. Deaton Ph.D, PCC, CTPC, TIPC
Director, Faculty Development Executive Coach
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Antoinette DuBois Ayers RCC, CPCC, TIPC
Director, Training Development Executive Coach
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Kiana S. Joersz J.D., SHRM-SCP, TIPC
COO/CFO
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Michael Forlenza PhD, MPH, PCC, TIPC
Director, All Of Us Programming Executive Coach
Great Leaders Need a Great Workforce
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Advanced Leadership Development
We help leaders develop the essential skills needed to navigate the impact of high uncertainty, chronic overwhelm, and secondary traumatic stress on today’s workforce.
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Workforce Development
We embed these same skills at every level of the organization, helping to generate the shift that is needed to navigate high uncertainty and chronic overwhelm experienced by today’s workforce.
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Coaching Certification
We offer both foundational and advanced coach training programs. All utilize Lodestar’s proprietary trauma-responsive methodologies, and all are dual-accredited by the ICF and ACCME.
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Professional Coaching
Coaching is not therapy, and great coaching can be incredibly therapeutic. Our restorative approach is deeply relational, addressing your embodied experience while you develop capacity to best navigate your profession.
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Team Restoration & Second Responder Services
We believe that trauma and harm are not individual burdens, but collective ones. Our team provides highly specialized support for acute incidents. Our deeply intensive process helps to restore equilibrium and creates a structure for sustainability.
Client Impact & Success
“As a hospital Chief Medical Officer, I've been through countless leadership programs. Lodestar's trauma-informed approach was impactful in a way others weren't. They understand the unique pressures healthcare leaders face because they've lived it themselves. This isn't just another wellness program—it's a fundamental reimagining of how we lead in healthcare.”
“After two years of unprecedented challenges in public service, our entire department was struggling. Lodestar's team restoration program gave us practical tools to rebuild trust and connection.”
“When your corporate culture is suffering, most consultants offer surface-level solutions. Lodestar helped us understand how organizational trauma was affecting every level of our company.”
“Their government experience meant they truly understood our constraints and challenges. Six months later, our employee satisfaction scores are the highest they've been in five years.”
"I haven't felt this good in a long time. It's like some part of me just cracked open again."
"The 3 days in Washington, DC, really bonded us. Our whole team felt it. We haven't communicated this well in years, and the effect hasn't worn off yet."
“I was skeptical of leadership development programs. But watching our attorneys struggle with secondary trauma took its toll. Lodestar's trauma-informed coaching provided exactly what we needed—practical strategies that work in the real world.”
“I was skeptical of leadership development programs. But watching our attorneys struggle with secondary trauma took its toll. Lodestar's trauma-informed coaching provided exactly what we needed—practical strategies that work in the real world.”
Ready to hear more? Let’s chat.
More than 14,000 clients and professionals have entrusted us with their path to sustainable leadership.
Lodestar's faculty focuses on both the journey and the outcome.
Meet Dr. K.
Kemia M. Sarraf M.D., M.P.H., CCC, TIPC (Dr. K) is a physician, and founder of Lodestar Consulting & Executive Coaching.
With an M.D. and M.P.H. from the University of Utah, she specializes in trauma-responsive engagement and professional development. An Adjunct Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and recipient of the AMA Women Physicians Inspiration Award, Dr. K is known for weaving complex neuroscience into compelling narratives that transform how leaders approach burnout with a focus on trauma mitigation.
Together with her team of highly-experienced faculty members, Dr. K. works to usher in a new era of leadership development.
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