Leadership EQ: An Experiential T-group Workshop
is led by highly experienced facilitators who are dedicated to your learning!
Your facilitator pair has served as facilitators, instructors and coaches for 100+ T-groups (and counting!),
teaching professionals and graduate students at each of the institutions below.
We keep returning to this work because we find T-groups to be uniquely gratifying, impactful and learning-filled –
not only for participants, but for ourselves too. In T-groups we constantly learn, hone our instruments, and remind ourselves what it’s like to be in your shoes. We're excited to share our experiences with you!
teaching professionals and graduate students at each of the institutions below.
We keep returning to this work because we find T-groups to be uniquely gratifying, impactful and learning-filled –
not only for participants, but for ourselves too. In T-groups we constantly learn, hone our instruments, and remind ourselves what it’s like to be in your shoes. We're excited to share our experiences with you!
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Stanford University
- Business School - Executive Education - Continuing Studies - @ Peking University |
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Business Enterprises Non Profit Organizations |
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May 2025 Facilitation Team
Jana Basili, MCC
FOUNDER and PROGRAM DIRECTOR
I'm a Master Certified Leadership and Team Coach who brings compassion and curiosity to our learning edges (yours and mine). Having served Stanford Business School’s Leadership Development and Executive Education for 20 years as an Executive Coach and Master Facilitator, I now bring experiential learning to business settings through my private coaching business, Learning with Experience LLC. In these engagements I help people bring more trust, collaboration and high performance to their teams and individual roles—largely inspired by my work with T-groups. I challenge myself to keep learning too! A few years ago I dared myself to be more courageous and vulnerable than ever in an intense 10-month leadership cohort. This included balancing 30' above ground, singing to a live audience (1st time in 25 years), and learning to create even deeper levels of trust & collaboration, which I share with clients today. Recently my husband and I moved across the country for a new adventure, which requires us to forge new relationships ... and 100% draws upon skills I've learned in T-groups! Camping in the redwoods remains a lifetime favorite, along with mastering new languages and savoring dark chocolate. |
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Briana EvansSENIOR FACILITATOR
As a facilitator for Stanford Business School’s Women in Management and Interpersonal Dynamics programs, I love supporting individuals to build interpersonal connections and make mindful choices about their impact as leaders. In my work and in my own life, I help turn aspirations into experiments, making big goals into behaviors we can test and tweak over time. Outside of T-groups, I work with public sector teams to co-design strategies that even opportunity and help us all thrive. I help leaders and teams re-think strategy, have tough conversations, and update management approaches in health systems, city governments, and prosecutor’s offices. Elsewhere in my life, I spend my time building block towers with my niece, experimenting with new ways to eat habanero peppers, systematically hiking every public park within 50mi of my home (there’s lots!), and pausing to take pleasure in daily delights. |
Additional facilitators in our pool ...
I've been facilitating experiential interpersonal dynamics and diversity workshops for the past 12 years at Stanford and HAAS Business Schools, USF Law School, and elsewhere. I love helping others connect across difference, work through conflict, and understand what builds, trust, connection, and high functioning leaders and teams, including finding innovative ways to bring this to the corporate setting.
Along with doing related work in personal life coaching and interpersonal mediation, I'm a trained psychotherapist who somehow manages to be Vice President of Analytics at a small non-profit direct mail fundraising firm.
When not doing all of the above, you can find me
enjoying wine with my girlfriend, on the tennis
or basketball court, in the outdoors, at music festivals, or relaxing with the NY Times crossword.
Along with doing related work in personal life coaching and interpersonal mediation, I'm a trained psychotherapist who somehow manages to be Vice President of Analytics at a small non-profit direct mail fundraising firm.
When not doing all of the above, you can find me
enjoying wine with my girlfriend, on the tennis
or basketball court, in the outdoors, at music festivals, or relaxing with the NY Times crossword.
I'm a Women’s Circles Master Facilitator and senior facilitator for “Interpersonal Dynamics”, a popular elective at Stanford Business School. I also facilitate experiential learning courses at Stanford Continuing Studies and UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. I hold a BA in Mechanical Engineering from University of Washington and an MBA from Seattle University.
In addition to facilitation work, I'm a leadership and executive coach, and a prior career coach. I've helped hundreds of leaders and startup founders through career and life transitions from industries including software/technology, management consulting, media, non-profit, and creative agencies.
As part of my bucket list, I jumped off the tallest building in Auckland, New Zealand ... twice! It was one of the scariest things I've done, but the experience gave me new-found courage to face my fears. In my free time I love to cook, hike, and read a good book.
In addition to facilitation work, I'm a leadership and executive coach, and a prior career coach. I've helped hundreds of leaders and startup founders through career and life transitions from industries including software/technology, management consulting, media, non-profit, and creative agencies.
As part of my bucket list, I jumped off the tallest building in Auckland, New Zealand ... twice! It was one of the scariest things I've done, but the experience gave me new-found courage to face my fears. In my free time I love to cook, hike, and read a good book.
