About us

Accessing her vast experience working in diverse assignments, across geographies, and in challenging professional and personal situations, Luann guides explorers as they transform success into significance.  As Founder of Axiom Quest LLC, she co-creates training and coaching to guide leaders to reconnect embodied wisdom with skilled action. Luann aspires to help clients discover what they really care about and then co-creates practices that transform new awareness beyond breakthrough insights into actions.  Tapping into embodied wisdom increases capacity to learn quickly, lead masterfully, and transform challenges into unexpected opportunities.

Luann’s coaching philosophy focuses on client development through embodied inquiry and body-oriented practices.  Working through the body, she helps clients uncover new distinctions and meaning.  Cultivating embodied awareness, clients are able to move unconscious embodied wisdom into conscious embodied understanding expanding choice for goal-aligned responses rather than automatically reacting in ways that may be contrary to our values.

A lifelong learner, Luann completed her doctoral research  Exploring, Embodying, Enacting: Transforming Through the Experience of Integrating the Body in Learning at The George Washington University Executive Leadership Program in Human and Organizational Learning. Recognizing the importance of neuroscience in coaching and learning, her passion is furthering our understanding of the relationship between embodied practices and awareness, cognitive functioning, emotional regulation, interactive resonance, and energy patterns.  Integrating body and mind through practice is essential to effectively accessing and applying the suitable energy at the appropriate time.  Understanding and engaging embodied awareness increases our potential to access actionable learning so critical to thriving in our increasingly challenging world. Luann practices and is certified to teach Qi Gong.

As a retired US Coast Guard Captain (O6) with Command experience, Luann is a proud veteran, married to a veteran, mother of a US Army soldier and a US Navy sailor.  She is also a PADI Divemaster and volunteer diver at the National Aquarium.

Education

• Doctor of Education in Human and Organizational Learning, The George Washington University
• Master of National Security Strategy, National War College
• Master of Military Art and Science, US Army Command and General Staff College
• Master of Science in Information Management, The George Washington University
• Bachelor of Science in Management, US Coast Guard Academy