Life is a Journey. Leadership is a Choice.
Ulumination is a global coaching and leadership development company dedicated to serving both individuals and organizations. We are passionate about creating strong authentic leaders who whole-heartedly impact, influence, and inspire others.
Our clients span the globe including Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. Whether thru individual coaching, group facilitation or multi-day experiential leadership programs, we are masterful at creating the space for people to learn, grow and evolve their leadership to the next level. We believe strongly in the concept of Embodied Leadership and strive to integrate the mind, body and soul into every program and experience we facilitate.
We work with leaders in Academia, to the Big-4, to Global Non-Profits, to Healthcare, to the US Government and everything in-between. Rather than focusing on becoming industry experts, we have crafted our skills to become experts on creating extraordinary leaders who Dare to Shine Brighter in all aspects of their lives and leadership.
The Story of Ulumination –The Never-Ending Evolution of Light
Ulumination was founded by Cassi Christiansen
I have always been drawn to the Light. At the age of 5 my favorite song was “This Little Light of Mine”, I’m going to let it Shine… I started my company in 2001 with the vision of helping women step into their Light and Wise Woman International was born. As my vision continued to evolve, I knew that only working with women was no longer serving me, my clients or the world and Ulumination was born. Ulumination is a soul-crafted word that combines the power of illumination with the power of you (U). Ulumination was created with the tagline of You were Born to Shine.
Ulumination’s logo was created around the Sun which is the Source of Light I have always been most drawn to and captured the energy of my soul. When I became a facilitator for Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead™ Program and stepped into the power of vulnerability and courage, the tagline evolved into Dare to Shine Brighter.
The pandemic has brought oh so many learnings, but one of the greatest ones has been around the Power of Darkness. I’ve never experienced such places of darkness. So much struggle, sadness, uncertainty, fear, grief, loss, and heart-break. But sometimes the heart must be broken open, for more light to be let in. And sometimes that new light can only be seen and let in thru the darkness. During my Dark Night of the Soul, I’ve found comfort and a new heart-felt connection to the Moon; sitting under her for hours asking for guidance, support and wisdom… hoping she would light the way out of the darkness.
But what I’ve come to understand is there is no way out of the darkness as we need darkness to evolve to our next levels of light. We are always moving towards wholeness but what the moon teaches us is that our wholeness is always there even if we can’t see it, sense it or feel it. The moon is always whole and yet the phases of the moon change nightly; but always moving back towards the wholeness/fullness that we can see and trust.
The word integrate means to come back into wholeness so Ulumination is now integrating the Power of the Sun AND the Moon. Both are powerful, never-ending sources of Light but by combining the two, there is an acknowledgment that the Power of the Dark is just as important as the Power of the Light and to continue to evolve to our next levels of Light and Wholeness, we must embody and embrace both.
We were born to Shine in both the dark and the light. And if we Dare to Shine Brighter we must allow both the darkness and the light to lead the way to our holy wholeness. We are meant to Shine and Ulumination’s vision is to help you do so.
Ulumination is a global coaching and leadership development company dedicated to serving both individuals and organizations. We are passionate about creating strong authentic leaders who whole-heartedly impact, influence, and inspire others.
Our clients span the globe including Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. Whether thru individual coaching, group facilitation or multi-day experiential leadership programs, we are masterful at creating the space for people to learn, grow and evolve their leadership to the next level. We believe strongly in the concept of Embodied Leadership and strive to integrate the mind, body and soul into every program and experience we facilitate.
We work with leaders in Academia, to the Big-4, to Global Non-Profits, to Healthcare, to the US Government and everything in-between. Rather than focusing on becoming industry experts, we have crafted our skills to become experts on creating extraordinary leaders who Dare to Shine Brighter in all aspects of their lives and leadership.
The Story of Ulumination –The Never-Ending Evolution of Light
Ulumination was founded by Cassi Christiansen
I have always been drawn to the Light. At the age of 5 my favorite song was “This Little Light of Mine”, I’m going to let it Shine… I started my company in 2001 with the vision of helping women step into their Light and Wise Woman International was born. As my vision continued to evolve, I knew that only working with women was no longer serving me, my clients or the world and Ulumination was born. Ulumination is a soul-crafted word that combines the power of illumination with the power of you (U). Ulumination was created with the tagline of You were Born to Shine.
Ulumination’s logo was created around the Sun which is the Source of Light I have always been most drawn to and captured the energy of my soul. When I became a facilitator for Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead™ Program and stepped into the power of vulnerability and courage, the tagline evolved into Dare to Shine Brighter.
The pandemic has brought oh so many learnings, but one of the greatest ones has been around the Power of Darkness. I’ve never experienced such places of darkness. So much struggle, sadness, uncertainty, fear, grief, loss, and heart-break. But sometimes the heart must be broken open, for more light to be let in. And sometimes that new light can only be seen and let in thru the darkness. During my Dark Night of the Soul, I’ve found comfort and a new heart-felt connection to the Moon; sitting under her for hours asking for guidance, support and wisdom… hoping she would light the way out of the darkness.
But what I’ve come to understand is there is no way out of the darkness as we need darkness to evolve to our next levels of light. We are always moving towards wholeness but what the moon teaches us is that our wholeness is always there even if we can’t see it, sense it or feel it. The moon is always whole and yet the phases of the moon change nightly; but always moving back towards the wholeness/fullness that we can see and trust.
The word integrate means to come back into wholeness so Ulumination is now integrating the Power of the Sun AND the Moon. Both are powerful, never-ending sources of Light but by combining the two, there is an acknowledgment that the Power of the Dark is just as important as the Power of the Light and to continue to evolve to our next levels of Light and Wholeness, we must embody and embrace both.
We were born to Shine in both the dark and the light. And if we Dare to Shine Brighter we must allow both the darkness and the light to lead the way to our holy wholeness. We are meant to Shine and Ulumination’s vision is to help you do so.