Ariela Morgenstern

Ariela Morgenstern is a certified executive coach and communications lecturer who specializes in bringing intention and vitality to professionals' leadership presence. As a member of the professional faculty at the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley, she teaches Leadership Communication and Active Communicating classes for the MBA and Executive Education programs. Pulling from her 20+ years of professional performance experience at the highest level across the country, she uses her expert knowledge of actor training, codified body movement analysis, and vocal pedagogy to help others authentically communicate with confidence and clarity.

Her executive coaching work leverages her experience working with teams across a breadth of industries to help people unlock for themselves new possibilities and growth within their leadership. Her coaching and facilitation clients range from emerging leaders to senior executives, tech entrepreneurs, doctors, seasoned salespeople, data scientists, and biologists at companies such as Salesforce, PayPal, UCSF, BAE Systems, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Eightfold.ai, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Blackhawk Genomics, and the U.S. Geological Survey.

Ariela is a program manager and lead faculty member for the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute (BECI), where she manages and facilitates custom programs to help lead change, diversity, and authentic leadership within organizations. She is also a master’s degree candidate in Communication Studies at San Francisco State University, where she is currently researching the effects of dominant norms surrounding executive presence. In addition to her leadership communication work, she teaches acting for singers at Stanford University, Berkeley Repertory School of Theatre, and her own long-standing Singing Actor Studio in San Francisco.