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YOL

Name: YOL
Address: Mill Valley, CA, 94941, US
Telephone: +14154804676

Strengthen Leadership. Improve Workforce Effectiveness. Build High-Performing Teams.

09/03/2026

Some of the most powerful moments in our programs have nothing to do with leadership frameworks.

They happen when a team spends a day in service. Working with local community organizations on real problems: poverty, health, environmental preservation.

Something shifts when a group does work that matters for someone other than themselves. Hierarchy flattens. Purpose gets concrete. People see each other differently.

We've built long-term partnerships with community organizations wherever we run programs. The service is real, the impact is real, and teams come back changed.

09/01/2026

This week in our series on the people behind YOL, meet Nadine McNeil.

Twenty years with United Nations emergency response efforts, in some of the hardest environments on earth. Nadine and YOL founder David Cherner first met in Haiti, in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake.

In her words:

"What struck me most wasn't simply his desire to help. It was the sincerity with which he moved through the world. So when he later invited me to collaborate on bringing YOL to Jamaica, my answer was an immediate yes.

Together, we partnered with the Rockhouse Foundation to create an experience that blended yoga, art, gardening, and community with children in Westmoreland. Watching those children open up over the course of the day, finding confidence, joy, and connection with themselves and one another, was unforgettable. A reminder of what becomes possible when people come together with open hearts and a shared commitment to making a difference."

Why she does this work: "I believe every human being deserves to know that they matter. Everything I do, whether through yoga, education, storytelling, or community, is simply another way of helping people remember that truth."

That's who's in front of your team when you work with YOL.

08/27/2026

Next in our series on the people behind YOL, meet Kelley J Busby.

Award-winning film and television producer. Twenty years of mindfulness practice. Kripalu-certified yoga instructor. And the operational force behind YOL's experiences.

One of her favorite YOL moments, in her words: the closing circle at Forget Me Not Farm, at the end of a day that combined service work, time in nature, yoga, and a hearty lunch. The team had cleaned up garden beds and spent time with the farm animals, and "everyone's faces were glowing."

That's a produced outcome. Multi-day experiences with senior teams are complex productions, and Kelley's film and TV background is why YOL programs feel effortless to the people in them.

Why she does it: "I love helping guide people toward more steadiness and ease in their bodies and minds. Our work helps clients reset and recharge, and gives them takeaways they can rely on when challenges arise."

This is who's behind the scenes when you work with YOL.

08/25/2026

CEO, YOL | Founder, Clinical Workforce Retention Initiative | Leadership, Wellbeing, and Team Performance
San Francisco Bay Area

This week in our series on the people behind YOL, meet David Parks.

David comes from a family of nurses and physicians. He built a business career first, senior leadership roles in the UK, then pivoted 25 years ago to leadership development and executive coaching. Since then: General Electric, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Salesforce, Stanford Medicine, Mayo Clinic.

The healthcare work is the most personally meaningful. In his words: "In a regular business, poor leadership creates friction, confusion, and underperformance, but nobody is going to die. In healthcare, the stakes are much higher."

At Mayo Clinic, David helped launch the Physician Well-Being Coaching Initiative. Results published in JAMA showed: a 22% overall reduction in burnout rates and a 29.3% overall reduction in the symptoms of emotional exhaustion.

Today he is Lead Coach for CWRI, Clinical Workforce Retention Initiative, YOL's program helping hospitals retain nurses by strengthening their managers.

Why he does it: "I can still hear the voice of my mother quietly saying, 'You have to care, David. You have to care.' That is what makes this work worth doing."

This is the depth on YOL's bench.

08/20/2026

Here's a problem every L&D team knows: people register for the wellbeing program, then don't show up. Zoom fatigue wins. Another calendar invite feels like a burden, not a break.

A global retailer came to us during the pandemic with exactly that. Rising stress and languishing across their teams, an uncertain return-to-office ahead, and low turnout for the very programs meant to help.

We designed a custom four-week virtual program for their senior managers and directors. Experiential, tailored to their culture, built around real practice rather than lecture. Each participant got a partner to lean on between sessions, plus a Teams channel with guided practices they could actually use.

The results:
96% attendance. Not 96% registration. Attendance. For a virtual program, in the middle of Zoom fatigue.

28% more participants left feeling equipped to handle challenge in their lives.
23% more felt confident performing at their best under uncertainty.
90% said the sessions gave them something they could apply to their job immediately.

The company expanded it to three more cohorts, added workshops for individual contributors, and a mindful movement program, all in year one.

The lesson we keep relearning: people show up for what actually helps them. Build the real thing, and attendance takes care of itself.

08/18/2026

This week in our series on the people behind YOL, meet Michelle Bouvier.

Somatic educator. Certified yoga therapist and teacher trainer. Founder of the Kutilaa School of Embodied Resilience. Thirty years of embodied practice.

Michelle works with the piece most leadership development skips entirely: the nervous system. She recently led a Biochemistry of Breath session for leaders, going deeper than the usual breathwork trends into what actually happens under the hood, in our biochemistry, nervous system, and mindset, when we use breath as a tool.

In her words:

"The times we are living in invite us to remember the value of being human: our somatic intelligence and our wiring to connect with others in real, tangible, compassionate, and collaborative ways."

That's who's in front of your team when you work with YOL.

08/13/2026

Most corporate retreats and offsites fail before anyone books a flight.

They fail because they're built as rewards, not interventions. A nice hotel, a ropes course, a keynote, and everyone returns to the same dynamics on Monday.

A retreat works when it's designed around a real question the team is facing.

When the setting creates honest conversation that can't happen at the office. When there's skilled facilitation in the room, not just an agenda.

We've spent 12 years learning the difference. Happy to compare notes if you're planning one.

08/11/2026

This week in our series on the people behind YOL, meet Shannon Wallis, a longtime advisor, and one of the most experienced facilitators we can put in front of a team.

Former global leader of High Potential Leadership Development at Microsoft. Author of WE the Change. Client work spanning Amazon, Coca-Cola, Google, Guidehouse, and Zillow Group.

Shannon has built leadership programs at the largest scale there is. Here's why she stays close to YOL, in her words:

"I believe the most effective leaders are those who can be fully present, with themselves, with others, and with the challenges they face. Yet modern work environments make that increasingly difficult. That is why I value YOL's work and encourage my clients to work with them.

In a world of constant distraction, pressure, and change, presence is increasingly difficult, and increasingly essential."

That's the kind of person who stands behind, and steps into, the work at YOL.

08/06/2026

+76.

That's YOL's Net Promoter Score, measured across our programs.

For context: most professional services firms live between +20 and +40. Software companies celebrate +50.

We earn that number the unglamorous way. World-class facilitators, careful design, and experiences people still talk about a year later.

Amazon. Google. Sephora. Bank of America. Multiple continents. Twelve years.

The people behind that number are the ones we're introducing this fall.

08/04/2026

To kick off our series introducing the people behind YOL, meet Zanette Johnson, PhD.

Our Director of Learning. A learning scientist trained in neuroscience, with 25 years of mindfulness practice, and the science underneath every YOL experience.

We asked Z why she does this work. In her words:

"Picture a blazing Arizona landscape, and 300 technical engineers gathered in an elegant ballroom for what they expected would be their next air-conditioned conference session. I invited them to turn toward one another and encounter their shared humanness, deeply unusual in the context of their workplace.

A wave of visceral surprise moved through the room. Some folks looked mortified. But as people experienced being genuinely seen, heard, and met, the discomfort gave way to openness, connection, and joy.

Witnessing people unfurl new parts of themselves is what keeps drawing me back to YOL."

That's who's in front of your team when you work with YOL.

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Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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http://www.ExperienceYOL.com/

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