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About Nora
Nora is a former corporate business leader turned leadership coach and horsewoman, creating transformational experiences that help people access insight and clarity through intentional pause.
After a 10-year career at Under Armour, Nora chose to step away from a fast-paced corporate life and take a sabbatical to Costa Rica. During that time, she attended an immersive retreat with horses. That experience taught her more in a single week than years of traditional education and professional development. Through the horses, she encountered a new language of awareness, presence, and connection. This allowed her to see beyond roles and narratives, and reconnect with a deeper, wiser part of herself that had been cluttered by constant motion.
Inspired by this experience, Nora left her corporate role and embarked on a multi-year journey to study equine-facilitated learning and nature-based leadership development. This path led her across the U.S. and eventually brought her back to Costa Rica, where she became immersed in horse care, herd culture, and life at Tula Vida ranch. The horses at Tula Vida remain an important part of her work, as she coaches and facilitates experiences alongside the herd.
Nora is an ICF Certified Professional Coach with extensive training and certifications in equine-assisted learning methodologies, including E3A, Eponaquest®, and the EQUUS Experience®. Her approach blends equine-facilitated training with a background in corporate leadership, allowing her to create space for greater self-awareness, clarity, and meaningful change.
Nora facilitates coaching, leadership programs, workshops, and experiential retreats, often supporting people navigating transitions and other moments when something needs to shift. Whether someone is preparing for a sabbatical, returning from time away, planning a career change, or leading through uncertainty, Nora creates the space for deeper reflection, greater clarity, and more intentional action. She spends her time between the U.S. and Costa Rica, and is passionate about creating experiences where insight, alignment, and lasting change can emerge.
Systems Theory
Neuroscience
Wisdom from Horses
NORA'S MISSION
Create Purposeful Experiences rooted in safety and authentic connection, introducing clients to new perspectives that inspire more meaningful ways of engaging with the world.
Foster a Supportive Space informed by the wisdom of the natural world, offering insight and reassurance as people navigate uncertainty—and creating value in the space between.
Educate and Empower Leaders to trust and develop their intuitive capacity, so they can model it for others and strengthen team dynamics, decision-making, and business outcomes.
Provide Holistic Experiences grounded in simple, practical tools that support wellbeing through mindfulness, nervous system regulation, and embodied awareness.
Coaching with Horses:
Empowering clients to access insight and wisdom in the space between.
Nora often works with horses as co-facilitators in her coaching and leadership development work. Horses are highly attuned to subtle cues in their environment and communicate primarily through nonverbal signals, offering immediate, honest feedback. This creates powerful opportunities for awareness, presence, and insight.
Through expertly facilitated horse and human interactions, Nora helps clients interpret and integrate these experiences, translating what unfolds in the moment into practical learning that can be applied to leadership, relationships, and everyday life.
Working with horses also helps clients reconnect with their own intuitive awareness—the ability to sense, notice, and respond beyond purely analytical thinking. Clients learn how to trust this capacity and apply it intentionally as part of their ongoing growth and self-discovery.
What might you discover by exploring your space between?
