I’m Ingrid Hu Dahl—leadership development consultant, facilitator, executive coach, author, and speaker.

For more than 20 years, I’ve worked at the intersection of leadership, learning, culture, and human behavior, helping people and organizations navigate change and turn insight into action.

My career has taken me across technology, financial services, retail, academia, nonprofit, media, and social impact organizations. I’ve built and led leadership development experiences inside organizations including Meta, Capital One, and Gap Inc., and have since partnered with leaders and teams across a wide range of companies and communities.

Today, as Founder and CEO of Ingrid Hu Dahl LLC, I bring those experiences together through three interconnected areas of work:

How I Work

I believe leadership development should be practical enough to use on Monday morning and human enough to acknowledge the complexity of being a person at work.

My role might be to help an organization rethink a leadership program, facilitate a difficult conversation, design an experience for a cohort of leaders, coach an executive through transition, or help a team turn an abstract idea like psychological safety, emotional intelligence, or inclusive leadership into observable behavior.

Across all of that work, I’m interested in a fundamental question: What helps people move from knowing something to actually doing something differently?

My approach draws from adult development and learning theory, neuroscience, cognitive behavioral approaches, leadership embodiment, coaching, positive intelligence, and more than two decades of experience designing and facilitating learning.

I’m an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), and my work spans executive and team coaching, leadership development strategy, learning experience design, facilitation, organizational culture, and behavior change.

From Insight to Action

I’m often brought in when something needs to shift.

• A leadership population is stretched and needs greater clarity.

• A team needs to move through conflict or change.

• Managers understand the concepts but struggle to translate them into everyday leadership.

• An executive is stepping into a bigger role.

• An organization wants a leadership experience that people will actually remember—and use.

I help create the conditions for people to see the situation differently, make clearer choices, and practice new ways of leading. My aim is to align people, clear out the mental or relational mess, simplify what feels complicated, and make both the path and the north star clearer.

A Career Built Around People, Leadership, and Belonging

Throughout my career, I’ve designed and facilitated experiences ranging from intimate executive conversations to global programs reaching thousands of employees.

I’ve created leadership development and mentorship experiences, facilitated teams and cohorts, coached leaders through significant transitions, and helped organizations translate values and leadership expectations into meaningful experiences.

I’ve also led and supported large employee communities, including ERGs reaching more than 20,000 people, and curated conversations with cultural leaders including Janelle Monáe, Glennon Doyle, Shantell Martin, Dr. Mae Jemison, and Zoe Saldaña.

These experiences reinforced something I believe deeply:

Connecting and relating across difference is fundamental to leadership.

Author and Speaker

I’m also the award-winning author of Sun Shining on Morning Snow: A Memoir of Identity, Loss, and Living Boldly.

My experience as a mixed-race, queer woman—and my journey through music, leadership, loss, identity, and belonging—has shaped how I think about courage and what it means to lead authentically.

Those themes inform my speaking and facilitation, particularly conversations about identity, belonging, courageous leadership, authenticity, and living boldly.

www.sunshiningonmorningsnow.com

Let’s Work Together

I partner with organizations that want leadership development to be more than another training. If your leaders or teams are navigating change, growth, complexity, or a moment that calls for a different way of working together, I’d love to hear what you’re trying to solve. Let’s start a conversation!

Reach out for a free initial consult. I look forward to connecting and speaking with you and your team.