Fatima Mann
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Fatima Mann, J.D., is a visionary consultant who believes great work should not come at a human cost. By blending her expertise in law and social justice with healing-centered principles, she partners with organizations to redesign their cultures and systems, making them engines for well-being and positive impact.
Great work must be healing and human centered. We achieve sustainable success not through self-sacrifice, but by being culturally mindful, honoring our humanity, and creating spaces where no one is harmed in the process.
Popular Talks
Doing Great Work Without Harm: The Art of Consent & Curiosity
This keynote introduces the foundational framework for conscious & transformative leadership. We will explore how the simple yet profound art of asking questions—first of ourselves, then of others—creates a culture of consent and inquisitive engagement. Participants will learn how this practice is the gateway to being culturally mindful, allowing you to understand your own drivers and impact. We will practice how to gain consent from yourself, co-workers, peers, and management, shifting teams from feeling like numbers to valued, functional humans. Participants will be guided to create personal and professional community engagement guidelines, embedding human-centered practices that prevent harm and foster self-actualization for all.
Healing & Human-Centered Systems: Redesigning Work for the Human Spirit
For decades, we glorified burnout, treating people as cogs in a machine. Now, we know better. This session is for leaders ready to consciously redesign their culture. We will explore why our current systems, built solely for the bottom line, cause harm and how to transform them into engines of well-being and performance. You will learn how to move from being trauma-informed to actively healing-centered, creating space for employees to honor their journey without stigma. We will provide a concrete framework for building human-centered systems that honor the human experience, giving people a voice in the processes that impact them. Leave with a practical strategy to embed intention, mindfulness, and a clear plan into your organization’s structure.
The Culturally Mindful Leader: Building Self-Awareness to Prevent Harm
Why do you lead the way you do? Unpacking our internal operating systems is the first step toward culturally mindful leadership. This session guides participants through an exploration of their own beliefs, values, and whys. By understanding where these drivers come from, leaders can make more conscious choices, reduce unintended harm, and align their actions with their stated values. This self-awareness is the critical foundation for practicing the art of consent and building truly human-centered teams.
From Mandate to Consent: A Human-Centered Approach to Change
What if every major decision considered the humans it would impact? This talk challenges top-down mandates and presents a practical model for implementing change through consent and participation. Learn how to create decision-making processes that are transparent and inclusive, honoring the agency of your team. By practicing this human-centered approach, you build widespread buy-in, reduce resistance, and foster a culture where people feel respected and seen, a core component of a healing-centered environment.
The Leader as a Healer: Integrating Advocacy, Mindfulness, and Action
Drawing from Fatima’s unique journey from law and activism to leadership development, this talk explores how leaders can become forces for restoration in a fractured world. Learn how to integrate culturally mindful advocacy, strategic thinking, and deep compassion to address systemic challenges without burning out. This session provides a powerful model for how your personal healing journey is not separate from your professional impact, but the very source of it.
Speaking, Consulting, & Coaching
Workshops
How to Leverage White Privilege
Is am interactive transformational learning experience for people that identify as white and/or white passing to deconstruct their consciousness regarding race without experiencing shame and/or guilt for being white. How to Leverage White Privilege is a six-part learning experience centered in consent and non-harmful engagement.
Cultural Mindfulness
Cultural Mindfulness is an interactive learning experience that invites participants to connect, learn, reflect, and practice self-awareness to engage in a non-harmful and consensual manner within their personal and professional lives. After this six-part experience participants have a deeper awareness of themselves and the ways in which their culture impacts how they experience life.
Consulting
Love and Healing Work provides guidance for leaders, people in managing positions, CEOS, General Managers on embracing consensual non-harmful practices within their businesses, organizations, and personal lives. We guide people in honoring their human experience, and the experience of others while still meeting their quarterly goals.
Coaching
Love and Healing Works delivers equitable and joyful experiences. Our coaching services are grounded in culturally mindful, healing and human-centered practices. We guide people to recognize and embrace their needs consensually, non-harmfully, and with grace.
“It is difficult to find people who are teaching on decolonizing consciousness and social equity who are offering this work from a trauma-informed perspective. Fatima guides people to work with their nervous systems, their bodies, and their hearts as much as with their minds. She holds such a beautiful space where we can do the hard work of looking at systems of inequity and injustice while being reminded of our humanity and our inherent goodness. I have learned how to stay open and grounded in unpacking these mindsets within my own conditioning while also being guided to clear, impactful action within my communities and my work. She reminds me daily that our liberation is connected to our bodies, our hearts and to each other.”
– Jenn Wooten, Waking Yoga
“Fatima has trained my whole organization and most of our clients. Our company works in the world of mental wellness AND we are a diverse company so it is critical that we create safe environments for people with all kinds of bodies and backgrounds. Diversity and inclusion has become a box to check but for us, our business would fail without these skills. If you care about this work more than just checking a box I highly recommend working with her. She is an embodiment a socially just world. Every single moment of the training was an opportunity to humanize ourselves and each other, leaving no room for bias.
I have attended many trainings and lectures that intended to dismantle racism and promote equality. Almost all of them were divisive. This kind of work often leaves the white-bodied people feeling guilty, trying to be “good” or defensive. The black and brown-bodied people’s experience then comes second to all the white-bodied people’s feelings. I can honestly say that everyone in my company felt like the class was for them, for their benefit, because it was. Fatima’s work has changed my life, it changed the culture of my company and I know that her work at large has changed our city. I will keep working with her as long as she will have us.”
– Lillian Moore, Cofounder of Mindlight
“Undoubtedly, one of the most beautiful and affirming energies to bring forth the convergence of exploration, education, connection, and genuine curiosity, to any group/ space, however large or small. Ms. Mann has a talent that cannot be taught or mimicked or modeled. Simply, it is grace manifest in a way that removes fear, diminishes discomfort, and promotes relational capacity building among and for others.
I have had the distinct pleasure to know, witness, learn alongside, and learn from Ms. Mann for roughly 4 years now. She has successfully convened the most diverse, unfamiliar participants in a space into an organic community through an identified shared purpose. She does this so seamlessly because her work is borne of authenticity and informed by not only theoretical concepts, but most effectively, the heart work of human dignity. I have sought out and witnessed her talents in mental health retreat spaces, within the walls of institutions like UT Austin and Texas State University, and even in presentations through the virtual realm that reached national audiences- all of which left those fortunate enough to engage with or learn from her feeling renewed and effervescent. In closing, the inimitable Fatima Mann has a gift that the world would only be better for receiving through her humble delivery and sincere desire to connect the beauty of the human spirit in boundless ways to advance justice.”
– Skyller Walkes, Ph.D.
Fatima Mann is a visionary in the field of conscious leadership, dedicated to a singular, powerful mission: empowering people and organizations to do great work without harming themselves or others. She guides leaders to build cultures of sustainable impact through a framework that is culturally mindful, healing-centered, and human-centered.
Fatima’s journey began in 2013 with AmeriCorps Vista, where her commitment to serving systematically oppressed communities took root. This foundation has fueled her trajectory as a relentless advocate for social equity and a pioneer of transformative leadership practices.
As a co-founder of the Austin Justice Coalition (AJC), Fatima led the charge against police brutality and was instrumental in developing the Austin Police Department’s body-worn camera policy. Her powerful advocacy earned her the 2018 National Association of Social Workers Public Citizen of the Year Award and the 2018 Measure Austin Big Data & Community Policing Appreciation Award.
After earning her Juris Doctorate from Southern University Law Center in 2018, Fatima seamlessly wove together law, social justice, and healing. She co-founded Counter Balance: ATX, an organization focused on self-care and social justice, and as its Executive and Policy Director, played a pivotal role in advancing the landmark Sandra Bland Act. Her work during this time was honored with the 2017 Austin Community College Equity Activist Award.
A trailblazer by nature, Fatima’s path evolved into the creation of the Community Advocacy and Healing Project, which integrated advocacy with a healing-centered perspective. Her deep understanding of cultural nuances led her to launch the Community Restoration Project (CRP) during Hurricane Harvey, where she redefined disaster relief through a human-centered prism. Under her guidance, CRP rescued over 400 individuals, prioritizing the dignity of families by placing them in hotels instead of shelters.
Throughout numerous hurricane seasons, Fatima’s leadership provided culturally mindful resources and direct aid to devastated communities, from managing distribution centers during the 2021 Austin winter freeze to orchestrating relief for Hurricane Ida.
Her extraordinary contributions have been widely recognized, including Austin’s 40 under 40 nomination, the New Leaders Council Progressive Leadership Award, and the Louisiana State Bar Student Pro Bono Award.
Today, as the co-founder and Chief Visionary of Love and Healing Work, Fatima forges ahead as a consultant, trainer, and facilitator. She seamlessly integrates her legal background with yoga, mindfulness, and her core framework to empower individuals and organizations. She creates the space for profound self-discovery, compassionate leadership, and systemic change, proving that when we honor the human experience, we unlock our boundless potential for growth and positive impact.
Let’s collaborate to ensure a transformative experience.