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YOL

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

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

09/29/2026

Over the past couple of months, we've introduced some of the people behind YOL.

A learning scientist trained in neuroscience. A Microsoft leadership veteran. A UN emergency-response veteran. An award-winning producer. Executive coaches and mindfulness teachers who came up through eBay, Citibank, and the military. Somatic educators. A co-founder bringing YOL's work to new audiences in Europe. And people who first came to YOL as participants and stayed to help lead the work.

It is just a snapshot of the bench.

One shared conviction runs through all of them: people and teams change through experience, not information.

Featuring: Johnson Wallis Bouvier Parks Busby McNeil Perls Pierce Zabel

This is part of what your team gets when you work with YOL.

09/24/2026

This week, as we wrap our series spotlighting some of the people behind YOL, meet our co-founder, Kari Zabel.

In her words:

"Hard to believe it's been more than a decade since the very first YOL experience. I was there for that one, and what struck me then is what still strikes me now: how quickly people change when you design the right conditions for them to reset, connect, and show up differently.

Eleven years on, I'm still based in Munich, still leading experiences across Europe, and more excited than ever about what's ahead. There's a real appetite here for this kind of work, and I'm looking forward to helping bring YOL to Europe in a bigger way.

Grateful to be part of this from the beginning, and for what comes next."

From the first experience to the next chapter, this is the spirit behind YOL.

09/22/2026

This week in our series on the people behind YOL, meet Elizabeth A. H. Pierce.

Elizabeth came to YOL first as a participant. The experience moved her enough that she's now part of the work herself, as an advisor and facilitator. That arc, from the room to the front of it, is the best proof we have of what this work does.

In her words:

"My YOL experience brought together a group of L&D peers and gave us the chance to step away from our usual routines. Through yoga, breathing exercises, community outreach, and time in a remote outdoor setting, I was encouraged to slow down, look inward, and get a little outside my comfort zone. It was a game changer for me both personally and professionally, and it taught me to stretch while still being my authentic self.

Most of us don't get many opportunities to truly pause and reflect. With so much change and uncertainty, having the chance to reconnect with what matters can be incredibly grounding. It's also a reminder that before we are employees, leaders, or colleagues, we are human."

That's what it feels like to work with YOL.

09/15/2026

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

Executive coach, mindfulness teacher, and leadership facilitator. The first half of his career was in senior strategy roles at eBay, Charles Schwab, and Landor. He is a certified MBSR teacher through Brown University's School of Public Health, and is currently pursuing a doctorate in adult learning and leadership at Columbia.

He has taught mindfulness inside some of the most demanding organizations there are: Google, Meta, Adobe, the San Francisco Giants, Stanford, and the U.S. Air Force.

A memorable YOL moment, in his words: "Helping a team at Amazon find new inner resources and enhance community, to meet the emerging unknowns we all faced as the pandemic unfolded."

What makes David effective is that he speaks the language of the people he works with. He helps employees navigate complexity and change with practices that operators respect, because he was one.

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

09/10/2026

AI is going to handle more of the work. It is not going to handle the humans.

The capabilities that matter most right now are the ones no tool provides: trust inside a team, judgment under pressure, resilience through change, honest communication when the stakes are high.

Those are trainable. They're also perishable. Teams that don't invest in them lose them, usually right when they need them most.

This is why we do what we do, and why demand for this work is growing, not shrinking.

The next two years will be defined by how well your people work together. That's worth a real investment.

09/08/2026

What working with YOL actually looks like:

Leadership intensives for senior teams and high potentials. Offsites and onsites we design and run end to end. Custom experiences built around your team's specific challenge. Wellbeing and resilience programs, in person or virtual. And a certification track that trains your internal people to carry the work forward.

Every engagement starts the same way: a conversation about what your team is actually facing. Then we design for that, not for a template.

Cohort-based. Grounded in behavioral science. Delivered by the people you've been meeting in this series.

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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.

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