Guts & Grace exists to offer a different way.
Across industries, leaders are facing challenges that run deeper than market disruption or personal burnout, calling us to evolve how we lead – from the inside out.
We bring ancient, embodied and feminine wisdom into the heart of business, helping women and diverse leaders marry strategy and soul, intellect and intuition, ambition and grace.
We value humanity over hierarchy, modeling new way of leadership that heals, transforms, and sustains.
Our Mission, Vision & B-Corp Commitment
Birthing the New Paradigm of Leadership
Our mission at Guts & Grace is to steward the evolution of business by supporting women and diverse leaders across industries to rise with courage, clarity, wholeness and well-being, while bringing their most impactful and innovative ideas to life.
As a Certified B Corporation, we are committed to equity, ethics, and conscious business practice. We help organizations advance female and diverse talent to promote organic innovation, retention, and sustainable success while restoring humanity to the heart of work.
Our vision is a world where fully-embodied feminine leadership shapes the systems that shape humanity — a world where love, connection, integrity, respect, compassion, and courage guide decisions at every level.
We believe inner transform fuels outer change.
When women reconnect with their bodies, values, and ancestral wisdom...
They lead with resilience, vision, and authenticity, catalyzing their workplaces to take care of both people and the planet.
Rooted in modern mindfulness, neuroscience, positive psychology research, and ancient feminine wisdom traditions, Guts & Grace offers an embodied approach to transformation that bridges the practical and the profound.
Together, we’re building a future where power is balanced, leadership is human, and business becomes a force for good.
Guts & Grace is More than a Methodology. It’s a Movement.
The Ripple Effect
Through our leadership programs, retreats, and executive coaching, women learn to:
- Cultivate embodied presence and boundary setting
- Lead from intuition and clarity, even under pressure
- Build self-trust, resilience, and vision
- Create initiatives that spark systemic change
Our graduates go on to launch new ventures, mentor others, and lead culture change inside their organizations.
The result is a growing network of women redefining leadership in tech, finance, education, healthcare, and beyond — shifting entire industries toward more conscious, compassionate, and sustainable ways of working.
When women lead with Guts & Grace, the results of their actions ripple far beyond their own success.
LeeAnn's Story
A Wake-Up Call: Why I Created Guts & Grace.
Since I started coaching women leaders in 2006, I’ve worked with founders, executives, and innovators across sectors, helping them face bottom-line business challenges while reconnecting with meaning, wholeness, and integrity.
Again and again I met brilliant women who were burning out in systems not designed to sustain them. They were climbing the ladder – succeeding by conventional standards but losing touch with their own vitality and true inner voice.
Over time, I saw a pattern: the less they ‘sold out’ on themselves, and the more they were willing to risk listening to the wisdom of their own bodies and intuitions, the more genuinely impactful they became.
That realization became the seed of Guts & Grace.
Drawing from my background in mindfulness, embodiment, psychology and organizational leadership – plus lessons learned from my own mental health crisis in my early 20’s – I began weaving together a feminine-forward leadership methodology that blends courage (Guts) and compassion (Grace). The goal was to restore the balance between our masculine drive to achieve and our feminine capacity to nurture, feel, and connect.
What began as a small experiment has become a movement, a living example of what happens when women return to wholeness and dare to lead.
The Paragon Council
Women Leading the Way Forward
Founded by CEO LeeAnn Mallorie, Guts & Grace is evolving into a co-owned, council-led company guided by a diverse circle of visionary women.
In 2024, we transitioned from a founder-led organization to a shared leadership council, reflecting the very principles we teach: collaboration, embodiment, and shared power.
What is a Paragon?
A Paragon is a woman who embodies the Guts & Grace methodology in action. She has journeyed through our core programs, integrated the teachings, and become a living expression of Full-Bodied Feminine Leadership.
Each Paragon represents a unique archetype of leadership, proof that there is no single mold for success. Together, they form our Wisdom Council: a circle of women who speak for the body, the planet, the spirit, and the human heart in this new era of innovation and AI.
These women are founders, executives, educators, healers and creatives. They are the living bridge between the ancient feminine and the future of leadership.
Meet the Guts & Grace Team
Jennifer Reyes Moran
Paragon
About Jennifer
Jennifer (Jen) Moran is co-founder of Community Well, a wellness center in San Francisco, COO of Second Nurture, a nonprofit dedicated to building community around foster families, and holistic bodyworker on the Guts & Grace Founding Council, where she supports women in their personal and professional growth and creates pathways for systemic change.
She is committed to catalyzing healing and transformation in the world, embodying the archetype of The Mother, The Nurturer, and feminine leadership sourced from her body’s wisdom, intuition, inner strength, spiritual grounding and emotional clarity.
Kimberly Greenberg
Paragon
About Kimberly
Kimberly, dream oracle and founder of Boutique Strategy Consulting Firm. She serves as a Paragon for Guts and Grace, where she uses some of her hidden spiritual gifts, including as a dream weaver and intergenerational healer. As a mama to two daughters who are her greatest teachers, she ‘lets the light and joy in’. Through her work with Guts and Grace, Kimberly is actively building a world in which working women can pursue their dreams while showing up as the parent they desire to be, while in community (i.e. bring your baby to work and thrive).
Yuwen Chu
Paragon & Executive Coach
About Yuwen
Yuwen Chu is a seasoned leadership coach and facilitator with a passion for empowering women to lead with confidence, balance, and purpose. With 20+ years in biotech and a non-linear path from engineer to business leader to solopreneur, she helps clients navigate transitions and align with their values.
Yuwen is the founder of Quality of Presence, a practice grounded in the belief that cultivating one’s inner presence shapes outer impact. Yuwen supports teams and women to explore their purpose, embrace their introverted strengths, and find balance amid competing demands.
Jacki LaFrance
Paragon & Executive Coach
About Jacki
Jacki Lafrance is an executive somatic coach who helps leaders slow down, listen deeply, and lead with presence and purpose. She partners with individuals and teams to cultivate embodied presence, authenticity, and a deeper sense of purpose in how they lead and live.
With 25+ years in biotechnology leading large-scale operations and culture change, she bridges high performance with humanity. Grounded in somatic awareness and emotional intelligence, she guides clients to build resilience, authenticity, and grounded confidence—integrating who they are with how they lead.
Elizabeth Blissett
Executive Coach
About Liz
Liz Blissett is a leadership and somatic transformation coach who helps purpose-driven leaders align their inner truth with their outer impact. With a foundation in organizational leadership and embodied practice, she brings both strategy and soul to her work.
As part of the Guts & Grace community, Liz guides leaders in reconnecting to the wisdom of body and intuition. To her, Guts & Grace is a way of being, the harmony between courage and compassion, structure and flow, and leading from wholeness.
Rebecca Hale
Executive Coach
About Rebecca
Rebecca Hale is a professionally certified coach with expertise in facilitating inside-out transformation. Rebecca brings ten years of experience as an executive coach as well as a background in strategic planning and working in-house as Chief of Staff/Head of People. Her wise, compassionate, direct and intuitive approach helps leaders and teams surface and overcome barriers in the way of how they want to lead and what they want to achieve.
Jennifer Reyes Moran
Paragon
About Jennifer
Jennifer (Jen) Moran is co-founder of Community Well, a wellness center in San Francisco, COO of Second Nurture, a nonprofit dedicated to building community around foster families, and holistic bodyworker on the Guts & Grace Founding Council, where she supports women in their personal and professional growth and creates pathways for systemic change.
She is committed to catalyzing healing and transformation in the world, embodying the archetype of The Mother, The Nurturer, and feminine leadership sourced from her body’s wisdom, intuition, inner strength, spiritual grounding and emotional clarity.
Kimberly Greenberg
Paragon
About Kimberly
Kimberly, dream oracle and founder of Boutique Strategy Consulting Firm. She serves as a Paragon for Guts and Grace, where she uses some of her hidden spiritual gifts, including as a dream weaver and intergenerational healer. As a mama to two daughters who are her greatest teachers, she ‘lets the light and joy in’. Through her work with Guts and Grace, Kimberly is actively building a world in which working women can pursue their dreams while showing up as the parent they desire to be, while in community (i.e. bring your baby to work and thrive).
Yuwen Chu
Paragon & Executive Coach
About Yuwen
Yuwen Chu is a seasoned leadership coach and facilitator with a passion for empowering women to lead with confidence, balance, and purpose. With 20+ years in biotech and a non-linear path from engineer to business leader to solopreneur, she helps clients navigate transitions and align with their values.
Yuwen is the founder of Quality of Presence, a practice grounded in the belief that cultivating one’s inner presence shapes outer impact. Yuwen supports teams and women to explore their purpose, embrace their introverted strengths, and find balance amid competing demands.
Jacki LaFrance
Paragon & Executive Coach
About Jacki
Jacki Lafrance is an executive somatic coach who helps leaders slow down, listen deeply, and lead with presence and purpose. She partners with individuals and teams to cultivate embodied presence, authenticity, and a deeper sense of purpose in how they lead and live.
With 25+ years in biotechnology leading large-scale operations and culture change, she bridges high performance with humanity. Grounded in somatic awareness and emotional intelligence, she guides clients to build resilience, authenticity, and grounded confidence—integrating who they are with how they lead.
Elizabeth Blissett
Executive Coach
About Liz
Liz Blissett is a leadership and somatic transformation coach who helps purpose-driven leaders align their inner truth with their outer impact. With a foundation in organizational leadership and embodied practice, she brings both strategy and soul to her work.
As part of the Guts & Grace community, Liz guides leaders in reconnecting to the wisdom of body and intuition. To her, Guts & Grace is a way of being, the harmony between courage and compassion, structure and flow, and leading from wholeness.
Rebecca Hale
Executive Coach
About Rebecca
Rebecca Hale is a professionally certified coach with expertise in facilitating inside-out transformation. Rebecca brings ten years of experience as an executive coach as well as a background in strategic planning and working in-house as Chief of Staff/Head of People. Her wise, compassionate, direct and intuitive approach helps leaders and teams surface and overcome barriers in the way of how they want to lead and what they want to achieve.
Our Coaching Team
The Coaches Behind the Movement
The Guts & Grace coaches are the heartbeat of our programs. Each coach is a trained practitioner who embodies this work — bringing Full-Bodied Feminine Leadership principles into every conversation, circle, and coaching session.
Our coaching team serves across many Guts & Grace offerings, including:
- Guts & Grace: Our flagship leadership coaching and cohort experience for women evolving their personal and professional power.
- ACTIVATE at Work: A dynamic training program for companies, helping high-potential leaders cultivate courage, clarity, and resilience.
- Retreats & Events: Our live experiences for visionary women ready to expand their influence and shape systems-level change.
Each coach brings their own lived wisdom, professional experience, and intuitive skill to this work, creating spaces where women can lead from authenticity, balance, and truth.
Together, they model what it means to live with Guts and Grace — and to lead from the inside out.
Our Core Values
The Principles We Embody
Our values are lived, not listed. They are the heartbeat of our work and the compass for every decision we make.
- Wholeness: We lead from integration, honoring body, mind, and spirit.
- Truth: We speak with clarity and courage, even when it’s uncomfortable.
- Grace: We choose compassion and presence over perfection.
- Innovation: We reimagine systems through creativity and collaboration.
- Resonance: We trust intuition, energy, and connection as true intelligence.
- Courage: We take bold, heart-centered action in service of what matters most.
These principles guide us in creating environments where women can thrive and where Full-Bodied Feminine Leadership is recognized as a vital force for progress.
Join the Movement
The world is calling for a different kind of power, one rooted in wisdom, wholeness, and grace.
If you’re ready to redefine leadership and rise as the kind of leader our world needs now — one who leads from strength and sensitivity, strategy and soul — your next step begins here.
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