About us

As a transformational leadership coach, facilitator, trainer, and founder of Axiom Quest LLC, Luann partners with leaders ready to transform success into significance.

 

Drawing on decades of experience leading and developing others in complex, high-stakes environments, Luann helps leaders navigate pressure, uncertainty, and change with clarity, resilience, and grounded presence. Her work focuses on a vital shift many leaders seek though few achieve alone: moving from insight to sustained, embodied action.

 

Through coaching and experiential learning, Luann guides clients to reconnect with their embodied wisdom, the often untapped source of clarity, intuition, and aligned decision-making. Together, we co-create practical, repeatable, practices that translate awareness into meaningful behavior change.

 

The result: leaders who learn faster, respond rather than react, and transform challenges into opportunities for growth, connection, and impact.

 

Her Approach: Luann's coaching integrates neuroscience, interpersonal neurobiology, adult development, and body-oriented practices to support lasting transformation beyond temporary breakthroughs. She works through the body as well as the mind, helping clients:

• Recognize and shift automatic patterns under pressure
• Expand their range of responses in critical moments
• Strengthen emotional regulation and resilience
• Align actions with values and purpose

By cultivating embodied awareness, clients develop the capacity to bring unconscious patterns into conscious choice, enabling more effective leadership in real time.

 

Experience & Credentials: Luann brings deep expertise supporting leaders across government, military, and industry.

• 600+ hours of coaching; 200+ clients

• Adjunct Faculty in coach education, Georgetown University

• Senior Fellow & Leadership Coach, The George Washington University

• Lead Faculty, NEXT Leadership Academy
• Former Chair and Faculty, National Defense University

She is an International Coach Federation (ICF) Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with advanced certifications in:

• Leadership Coaching & Facilitation (Georgetown University)

• Master Somatic Coaching

• Leadership Embodiment

• Emotions-Centered Coaching

• Conversational Intelligence®

• Positive Intelligence®

She is also certified in the Leadership Circle Profile, MBTI, EQ-i, and FEBI, with additional training in neuroscience of change, adult development, and trauma-informed practice.

 

Her doctoral research at The George Washington University explored:

Exploring, Embodying, Enacting: Transforming Through the Experience of Integrating the Body in Learning.

 

Beyond the Work: Luann is a lifelong practitioner of embodied well-being and lives her philosophy of Embodying Life Fully—mindfully, gratefully, resourcefully, playfully, and joyfully.

She practices Qigong to cultivate clarity, energy, and grounded presence. As a PADI Divemaster, she volunteers as a diver at the National Aquarium—what she calls her version of “bubble therapy.”

 

 

As a volunteer Alumni Board Member of Armed Services Arts Partnership (ASAP), Luann embraces creative stretch practices such as improv, storytelling, and stand-up comedy to expand perspective, resilience, and human connection.

 

Who She Works With: Luann partners with leaders who:

• Are successful and seeking deeper meaning and impact

• Lead in complex, high-stakes environments

• Want to strengthen presence, resilience, and decision-making under pressure

• Are ready to translate insight into sustained, embodied action

 

She welcomes those who are willing to grow with curiosity, courage, and heart.