Elena Aguilar is a writer, teacher, coach and podcaster, and the founder and CEO of Bright Morning, where she trains educators and school leaders in transformational coaching. She is the author of eight books, among them The Art of Coaching, The Art of Coaching Teams, Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators, Coaching for Equity, and Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching.
She hosts The Bright Morning Podcast, co-founded Kenya Big Picture Learning, sits on the advisory board of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and is a certified mindfulness meditation teacher. Her ninth book, How to Coach Resistance: Turning Pushback into Possibility, arrives in September 2026.