Organizations are dynamic ecosystems. We provide culture consulting, leadership development, executive coaching services, and training and facilitation to help you adapt and perform. Our work builds inclusive, equitable, high-performance cultures grounded in data and practical execution. Expertise includes inclusive leadership and values-based coaching and strategy.
As a manager overseeing a large team, I found tremendous value in working with Lida. The tools she provided enabled me to identify areas for self-improvement and develop strategies for empowering my team. By enhancing self-awareness and communication, I was able to improve relationships and performance. Realizing that these skills were applicable to staff at all levels, I brought her in to work to cultivate those same skills in my staff. The insights gained from Lida not only have benefited me personally but also have allowed me to provide more effective leadership within my organization. If you're looking to grow as a manager or enhance your skills at any level, Lida provides a framework and practical strategies to encourage that growth.
1,400+ staff
Multi-group year-long leadership program
Outcomes:
Pre/post evaluations and manager feedback indicate sustained improvements in leadership skills and identity, more effective conflict resolution and elevated belonging and inclusion relative to starting benchmarks.
Leadership team
Training on feedback, trust and values
Outcomes:
100% of leaders reported clarity on shared organizational goals and alignment; stronger collaboration, communication, confidence and boundary setting.
Dr. Lida Rafia founded Veer Insight around an argument she formed from the inside: organizations invest seriously in developing their leaders, then send those leaders back into systems that reward the opposite of what they just learned.
She spent sixteen years inside higher education before starting the firm, most recently as Dean of Student Success and Equity at Grossmont College. That is where the argument took shape; watching capable people return from genuinely good training into unchanged meeting structures, feedback that only traveled downward, and unwritten rules about who gets told what and when. The training was rarely the problem. The architecture around it was.
Veer Insight works on that architecture. Lida leads culture assessments that combine data with sustained listening, designs leadership programs built for practice rather than lecture, and facilitates strategic planning for institutions at real inflection points. Her work has spanned a 1,400-person cultural institution, community colleges across three states, and university-affiliated nonprofits.
She holds a Ph.D. in Educational and Organizational Leadership from Oregon State University and an M.Ed. from Portland State. She writes for Forbes on leadership development and organizational culture, serves as a trustee of High Tech High, and sits on the board of San Diego Youth Services. She grew up in Tehran and works in English and Farsi.
Clients describe her as warm and direct in the same breath, which she considers the point. She will tell you what she thinks the data says, including when it is inconvenient, and she will not write a plan your organization has no realistic way to carry.
Partner with VEER Insight for expert leadership coaching, culture assessment, and training programs that create human-centric workplaces.
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