Yael's Bio

Author of Learning for Leadership: A Facilitative Approach for Training Leaders, Dr. Yael Hellman guides private- and public-sector executives, instructors, and advancement candidates towards inclusive leadership. Her experiential exercises and reflective debriefings enable them to create a workspace community that values—not just tolerates—intersecting diversities of culture, race, gender and gender identity, orientation, physical and mental ability, class and credential, and age. 

Dr. Hellman has designed and taught introspective and relational leadership programs linking academic institutions with business and service organizations, notably the Los Angeles Sheriff’s, Fire, and Police Departments. Her years teaching in Woodbury University’s Bachelor and Master of Organizational Leadership programs prepared many leaders to build difference-supportive teams and enact community-based policies and alliances. She currently administers educational development in the Inmate Services Bureau of the Sheriff’s Department, overseeing academic, vocational, and therapeutic offerings for bias transformation and diversity enrichment. Widely published in executive arts, she consults and assesses works for leadership publishers (SAGE, Oxford Press, Journal of Leadership Education) and organizations, such as the Association of Leadership Educators and the International Leadership Association.