About Nina

Nina Guilbeault, PhD is a Harvard-trained sociologist, author, and executive coach trusted by leaders to reconnect to Intuitive Intelligence.

Nina’s career has spanned co-founding the award-winning nonprofit Plant Futures, lecturing at Harvard University and UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and publishing The Good Eater (Bloomsbury, 2024), which launched at a sold-out event at Harvard Bookstore in conversation with Michael Pollan. She also served as Research Associate to Pollan on his forthcoming book on consciousness. For her doctoral research, Nina conducted over 150 interviews across the United States, France, and Israel, studying how ideology-based movements become mainstream and create transformation through invisible fields of shared meaning.

As a former academic, Nina knows what it's like to live from your head, and how it disconnects you from your heart, body, and deeper wisdom. After leaving academia, she experienced a profound initiation where intellectual understanding could no longer provide answers. This unraveling led her to train as a coach and certified mindfulness teacher, deepening her contemplative practice across Vipassana, Mahamudra, and Insight traditions, and studying parts work, shadow work, and somatic and embodiment practices.

Nina is a bridge between rigorous, systematic thinking and intuitive, wisdom-centered capacities. Her coaching integrates intellectual training with somatic, parts work, and non-dual practices. Her approach isn't about abandoning the analytical mind—it's about integrating it with channels of higher consciousness. She works with founders and CEOs to access the intelligence that lies dormant within, waiting to be remembered.