Niyonu D. Spann
About the Teacher
Why study with them?
Niyonu D. Spann has been assisting organizations and individuals to effectively fulfill their mission since founding Niyonu Spann Associates in 1994. She is a visionary leader, highly experienced in group facilitating and leadership coaching, with a focus on whole systems transformation and liberation training. Drawing on a graduate degree in Organization Development, she designs and facilitates interventions and small group processes that surface shared vision, tap internal resources, and map out a strategic and dynamic plan to achieve and maintain alignment between day-to-day operations, values, and core mission.
In 1999, she designed and facilitated the first Beyond Diversity 101, a five-day intensive workshop that has since been attended by hundreds of people from organizations and communities throughout North America and Canada.
Niyonu recently transitioned from her role leading CEIO – Co-Creating Effective & Inclusive Organizations,
in New Haven, CT, a project she co-founded with Bill Graustein, with the purpose of increasing inclusivity, justice and equity. She founded the non-profit, 4 Circles Beyond, Inc., which is currently working to create
a high school: Academy for Peace & Liberation Education with an intended opening in 2025. Her first book, with the working title: Whole System Transformation: When you mean to radically transform the system (including you!) is in progress. Niyonu is also a singer-songwriter who founded and directed the group, Tribe 1 for twenty-three years. She released her second solo album, Spirit Fuel! In 2021.
You can see/hear Niyonu's music and podcast appearances by clicking the links below:
Nuyoni YouTube Channel
Up, Up and Aware podcast
Integrity and Radical Truth: Remembering who we are with Niyonu Spann
Coming Soon:
Onward, Wilder, Free The Other Chair Podcast
In 1999, she designed and facilitated the first Beyond Diversity 101, a five-day intensive workshop that has since been attended by hundreds of people from organizations and communities throughout North America and Canada.
Niyonu recently transitioned from her role leading CEIO – Co-Creating Effective & Inclusive Organizations,
in New Haven, CT, a project she co-founded with Bill Graustein, with the purpose of increasing inclusivity, justice and equity. She founded the non-profit, 4 Circles Beyond, Inc., which is currently working to create
a high school: Academy for Peace & Liberation Education with an intended opening in 2025. Her first book, with the working title: Whole System Transformation: When you mean to radically transform the system (including you!) is in progress. Niyonu is also a singer-songwriter who founded and directed the group, Tribe 1 for twenty-three years. She released her second solo album, Spirit Fuel! In 2021.
You can see/hear Niyonu's music and podcast appearances by clicking the links below:
Nuyoni YouTube Channel
Up, Up and Aware podcast
Integrity and Radical Truth: Remembering who we are with Niyonu Spann
Coming Soon:
Onward, Wilder, Free The Other Chair Podcast
