Arina Isaacson

For the past 30 years Arina Isaacson has brought her expertise to the field of executive coaching and inspirational leadership communication. She has consulted internationally with senior management teams across the globe. Her experience includes working with corporate, educational and government organizations. Her specializations are: executive coaching, building leadership presence, communication skills and storytelling for leadership. Arina has been a senior consultant with Corporate Scenes, Inc. and Mark Rittenberg Enterprises over 27 years.

Arina has provided executive coaching and leadership communication programs for corporations including, VM Ware, Stryker, Johnson & Johnson and Janssen Pharmaceutical Asia Pacific, Baxter, Shanghai, Radix Consulting, Hong Kong, AT&T, The Gap, Adobe, Salesforce, Peterson Caterpillar, McKinsey, Capital One, Mozilla, Women Leading Technology, Learning as Leadership San Francisco, Leader Styles International, Shanghai, Visa, Kaiser Permanente, Genentech, Pandora, Mubadala,, Avis South Africa, Quaker Chemical Corporation, Shanghai, Thailand Management Association, Bangkok, SIS Conference Consulting Shanghai, Leader Styles International Shanghai, Fattal Company Beirut, Societe Generale Paris and San Francisco, Deloitte & Touch International Partners, Amgen Pharmaceuticals, US National Laboratories: Sandia, Livermore and Berkeley Lab.

She is on the professional faculty at UC Berkeley/Haas School of Business and is a senior faculty member at Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute (BECI).

Arina creates interactive environments where she challenges participants to identify and transform their communication weaknesses into strengths. She has taught at Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, Olin School of Business at Washington University,UC Davis Graduate School of Management and HKUST/ Hong Kong Business School.

Arina is the principal of Arina inc, an executive coaching and consulting practice that specializes in developing authentic presence and creativity through communication, storytelling and speaking coaching. Through Arina inc, she coaches Hipower, a select group of women corporate leaders, from Silicon Valley, focused on accelerating leadership roles to wide-ranging significance.

She received her MA degree in Education, Linguistics and Communication from New York University. Arina is an internationally recognized, and award winning, improvisational actress; master puppeteer and storyteller; a painter, a vision board collage artist, sculptor and creativity coach. She founded and was the longtime artistic director of the San Francisco School of Improvisational Theater.