We spend roughly 100,000 hours at work
For many people, those hours are marked by anxiety, disengagement, and a quiet sense that work is something to endure rather than something that adds to who they are. The data is sobering: only one in five employees are genuinely engaged, burnout affects the vast majority of the workforce, and the leading reasons people leave organizations have nothing to do with pay. They leave because they don’t feel they matter, don’t feel they belong, and can’t find meaning in what they do. I refuse to accept that the experience of work should be this way.
Work can be one of the most powerful dimensions of a human life.
When it’s designed and led well, work is where people grow, where they find purpose, where they build something alongside others that they couldn’t build alone. The research is unambiguous: job quality is now as significant a determinant of physical, mental, and emotional health as income or education. Organizations that take well-being seriously, embedding it into how work is designed, led, and measured, see stronger performance, deeper engagement, and cultures that actually last. The gap between where most organizations are and where they could be is not a mystery. It is a leadership problem. And it is solvable.
I partner with leaders and organizations who feel the discomfort of that gap and want to do something about it.
Over the past thirteen years, I have worked alongside leaders across sectors. coaching, advising, designing development programs, helping build cultures where people feel seen, significant, and supported to do their best work.
If you believe that work should be a place where people feel they matter and are becoming more of who they are meant to be — I’d love to work with you.
My Credentials
Experience: 13+ years in leadership development, coached and advised thousands of leaders across several sectors.
Education: Master of Applied Positive Psychology, University of Pennsylvania BA Psychology, Carleton College Certificate in Positive Psychology, University of Copenhagen.
Education: Master of Applied Positive Psychology, University of Pennsylvania BA Psychology, Carleton College Certificate in Positive Psychology, University of Copenhagen.
Frameworks and Influences: Positive psychology, systems change, industrial/organizational psychology, and organizational development
Current Work: Founder and Principal Consultant, Anton Ledesma Consulting; Founder, Project Bayani.
Based in Chicago, USA, and working globally with a focus on the Philippines and Southeast Asia.