OUR FACILITATORS

Angela Williams, MA

Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.

• Resilience Training
• Social Emotional Learning [SEL]
• Child and youth well-being and leadership development
• Intercultural competency training and consulting

PL work

Angela Williams, MA, teaches Personal Leadership as a powerful capacity-building tool for communicating, building relationships and working across differences. She sees PL as a guiding light for awareness and as a beacon for navigating times of ambiguity and change.  

Angela founded Lodestar Life Skills, LLC to bring PL learning to a younger audience. She loves to meet children and youth where they are in life. She creates engaging PL resources, and facilitates accessible learning experiences for mentoring, workshops, summer camps and family-centric courses.

Angela volunteers with Women of the World, a non-profit organization empowering forcibly displaced women who are making Salt Lake City their new home. During her mentorship work, she discovered that PL practices brought immense benefits to her own resiliency as well as the refugees she works with. She therefore offers to facilitate monthly workshops to lend intercultural support and resilience training to service providers and mentorship volunteers.

Other work and personal background

Angela’s career has always centered on helping people adapt to new cultures and learn to communicate in new ways. Her focus is to support her clients in gaining the self-understanding needed to thrive. She has worked as a French and ESL language instructor, intercultural trainer, and international relocation specialist for corporate clients. 

Her passion for this work originated in her childhood. When her father’s work unexpectedly moved her family to the French countryside, she and her family had to learn the language, navigate the culture and adapt to the public school system quite on their own.  Having experienced the struggles and joys of her intercultural childhood, she and her husband embraced a similar experience with their young family. Her three sons also attended local schools when a corporate relocation took the family to Taichung, Taiwan, for three years.

With her deep understanding of how to thrive during times of stress and transition, Angela finds ways to help her family, neighbors, church community and corporate relocation clients thrive. For example, while living in Taiwan, she served as president of the International Women’s Association of Taichung [IWAT], and worked extensively with board members, international members of the community and Taichung city government officials to support the goal of a more international-friendly city. She has also been an advocate of the needs of expatriate spouses as a presenter at the Center for International Business Education and Research [CIBER].

Academic

Angela holds a BA in French, and an MA in French Studies with an emphasis in International Business, from Brigham Young University. Her 2004 thesis research was on the intercultural adaptation of expatriate accompanying spouses living in France.  

Other interests

Angela enjoys finding metaphors that bring greater understanding and clarity in life. A ballerina in younger years, she continues to explore the flow of movement and awareness while learning Tai Chi and Feldenkrais® mindful movement. Angela faces her fears on mountain biking trails as she and her husband serve as riding coaches for their sons’ mountain biking teams, and she loves the exhilaration of summit hiking with friends.