A steady place for clear thinking when life feels complex.
Personal and executive coaching for people navigating complexity, important decisions, and moments that benefit from perspective.
Where a New Perspective Begins
Vela works as a steady thinking partner—creating a grounded container for inquiry when situations feel unclear, charged, or difficult to untangle. Engagements support people across personal, relational, and organizational contexts as they navigate uncertainty, competing demands, or moments that call for clearer judgment.
Through careful questioning, reflection, and dialogue, sense-making emerges. Clients engage with layered challenges, emotional dynamics, and strategic considerations—restoring perspective, strengthening agency, and arriving at insight and practical direction that are difficult to reach alone.
Facilitating Inquiry
Facilitation at Vela is structured and attentive—designed to slow the pace of conversation so underlying assumptions, tensions, and priorities can be examined with care. Whether in one-to-one sessions or team settings, the work centres on listening closely, asking well-timed questions, and holding space for perspectives that are often overlooked in ordinary conversations.
Inquiry unfolds through deliberate dialogue rather than advice-giving. Complex topics are explored in ways that support sense-making, alignment, and forward movement—allowing insight to translate into decisions and actions that clients can carry into their own contexts.
One-to-One and Team Support
Vela works with individuals through one-to-one sessions and with teams through facilitated conversations and strategy sessions. Engagements are shaped around moments that call for clearer thinking—whether navigating a personal crossroads, preparing for a difficult conversation, or working through complexity within a group or organization.
Sessions are available remotely, with in-person work offered by arrangement. Each engagement is thoughtfully scoped to fit the context, pace, and needs of the people involved, rather than following a fixed program or formula.
Meet the Founder
Vela is led by Julianna Ogden, a coach and facilitator who works with individuals and teams navigating emotional, relational, and organizational complexity.
With over a decade of experience in leadership, facilitation, and inquiry-based coaching, her work draws on established frameworks and evidence-informed practices, applied with care and adapted to context. Her judgment has been shaped through years of working alongside people in situations where stakes are high—whether in leadership roles, family systems, or moments of personal transition where clarity and agency matter.
Julianna is often sought out as a steady thinking partner—relied on to hold nuance, ask incisive questions, and support clarity in moments that matter. Her work is grounded in careful listening, clear ethical boundaries, and deep respect for the intelligence and experience each person brings.
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