moral courage | collective care | sustainable service
supporting those who serve—sustainable leadership for a changing world
leaders in humanitarian work, public service, social justice, and mission-driven fields face immense challenges. You don’t have to navigate them alone. Through trauma-informed, human-centered leadership strategies, I help leaders and organizations build resilience, navigate moral injury, and lead with moral courage.
how can I support you?
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leadership support
human-centered training and coaching for resilience, trust, moral courage, and values-driven decision-making.
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speaking + facilitation
inspiring keynotes, fireside chats, and panel discussions on moral injury + trauma-informed leadership
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workshops + trainings
Interactive, trauma-informed workshops grounded in neuroscience, positive psychology, and experiential learning.
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collective care circles
collaborative dialogue circles to foster brave spaces, connection, and real-time problem-solving.
we’re living in an era for which we were never prepared
But as challenging as it is, we have what it takes to meet this moment.
We’ve entered an era of polycrisis—a time of overlapping global crises that are exposing the fragility of our institutions and the limits of traditional leadership models. Political instability, systemic injustices, environmental collapse, and public health failures are pushing mission-driven professionals to their breaking point.
Leaders in advocacy, public service, healthcare, education, and humanitarian work are being asked to do more with less, navigate ethical dilemmas, and sustain their missions amid deepening distrust and institutional failure.
Doing this work without breaking under the weight of the polycrisis requires sustainable leadership rooted in moral courage, collective care, and systemic change.
At Roots in the Clouds, we work with individuals and organizations to meet this moment with integrity and moral courage to drive systemic change, foster collective care, and create sustainable impact through trauma-informed, human-centered leadership.
Want to learn more about how we can support you?
trauma and burnout don’t fully capture the moral dimensions of our current experiences
Burnout, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue are common in mission-driven work—but they don’t tell the whole story. What we’re experiencing isn’t just exhaustion or disillusionment; it’s a deeper wound to our collective sense of right and wrong.
Moral injury happens when we are forced to act against our values, witness harm we cannot stop, or are pressured to stay silent in the face of injustice.
Institutional betrayal occurs when the systems meant to support us instead prioritize power, financial interests, or self-preservation, leaving those who serve feeling abandoned and disconnected from their purpose.
These experiences erode trust, well-being, and the ability to sustain service. Yet, most organizations are unprepared to address them, relying on outdated leadership models that fail to recognize the moral weight of this moment. And if we can’t name what is happening, we cannot heal and change it.
At Roots in the Clouds, we help individuals and teams understand moral injury and institutional betrayal, providing trauma-informed, human-centered frameworks that address both the personal and systemic roots of these harms. Our workshops and group coaching programs guide leaders and organizations in building cultures of sustainability, accountability, and collective care.
moral courage isn’t just about taking a stand—it’s about staying rooted in your values, resisting burnout and embracing collective care—because none of us can do this work alone.
you don’t have to carry the weight of this moment alone—join us.
For too long, mission-driven professionals have been conditioned to believe that self-care is a personal responsibility and that self-sacrifice is the price of leadership and service.
But resilience isn’t about enduring alone—it’s about shared responsibility, connection, and care. Self-care is necessary, but collective care is what makes service sustainable over the long term.
Our Collective Care Circles create brave spaces where leaders, changemakers, and service-driven professionals can:
Process the weight of trauma, burnout, moral injury, and institutional betrayal in community.
Strengthen trust, belonging, and psychological safety.
Develop shared practices that sustain leadership and service for the long haul.
When we hold space for one another, we transform pain into connection, healing, and action.
we were never meant to carry the weight of this moment alone
Leadership in an era of polycrisis cannot rely on outdated models of hierarchy, control, and detachment. The future demands empathetic leaders who have the skills to build trust and foster connection in a volatile and uncertain world.
Our signature leadership programs are designed to cultivate moral courage through:
Trauma-Informed Strategies to understand and address individual and organizational trauma, moral injury, and institutional betrayal with empathy and care.
Tools for Building Trust to foster connection and psychological safety to unify teams during crises.
Resilience Practices to equip leaders with techniques to manage their own stress and practice collective care.
An Understanding of Crisis Communication to strengthen clarity, transparency, and care in messaging during critical moments.
The Ability to Create Sustainable Impact by aligning crisis leadership practices with long-term organizational stability and success.
Leaders going through our programs leave bettered positioned to:
Engage in critical reflection about power, ethics, and responsibility.
Develop courageous decision-making skills for navigating uncertainty and systemic injustices.
Cultivate human-centered leadership rooted in trauma-informed care, integrity, and sustainability.
We partner with colleges, universities, and mission-driven organizations to prepare the next generation of leaders to reimagine service, embody integrity, challenge harmful systems, and create lasting positive change and spaces of belonging.
How we choose to lead now will shape what comes next.
now is the time to build the next generation of rooted leaders
For generations we’ve been conditioned to believe that service requires sacrifice—that burnout is just part of the job, and exhaustion is a badge of honor. But what if that story is wrong?
In Tell Me My Story: Challenging the Narrative of Service Before Self, I unpack the hidden costs of mission-driven work, the impact of moral injury and institutional betrayal, and how we can build a future where service is sustainable.
Named a 2024 NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite, 2025 Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorite, and excerpted in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, this book is part memoir and part manifesto, and a call to action—an invitation to reimagine leadership in a way that sustains both people and purpose.
the stories we tell about service need to change
For too long, the culture of service has told us that caring for others means sacrificing ourselves—that exhaustion is a badge of honor, and burnout is just part of the job. But sustaining ourselves for the long haul requires something different: hope, healing, and a new way forward.
Service Without Sacrifice is a limited-series podcast inspired by Tell Me My Story–Challenging the Narrative of Service Before Self. Hosted by Dimple Dhabalia, this series explores the silent struggles of service-driven professionals, including vicarious trauma, moral injury, organizational trauma, and the healing power of storytelling.
Through candid conversations with leaders in the humanitarian and public service sectors, each episode delves into themes of empathy, resilience, and finding harmony between serving others and caring for ourselves
Service Without Sacrifice isn’t just a podcast—it’s part of a movement to transform workplace cultures, challenge outdated narratives, and create a future where service is sustainable, and those who serve are supported.
