Amina AlTai

Amina AITai (pronounced AH-MIN-UH) is a business and career coach, proud immigrant and chronic illness advocate. A leading coach to notable female leaders and impact-driven celebrities-AITai's mastery is in connecting us to our brilliance and teaching us to live and lead from it each day. As a woman of color of Iraqi descent, she often works with underrepresented communities to help them realize possibilities in a way that honors their particular lived experiences. She’s a Success Magazine 125 Leaders Finalist, A Forbes Contributor, an Entrepreneur Magazine expert-in-residence and has been featured In The New York Times, goop, NBC, Entrepreneur and more. She is the author of "The Ambition Trap" in collaboration with Penguin and The Open Field and is the host of the "Amina Change Your Life Podcast."

As a graduate of NYU with a degree in marketing and economics, she started her career with luxury brands and worked for companies such as Cartier, Dolce & Gabbana and Vera Wang before co-founding a marketing agency to work with emerging female entrepreneurs. She then went on to lead marketing for two wellness companies— Spafinder Wellness and Bliss. After spending a decade grappling with a fast-paced career in marketing and two autoimmune diseases, AITai hit burnout. In hopes of healing her own life, she sought training in coaching, nutrition, movement and mindfulness and her goal became to teach others how to balance a thriving career, body and mind. She takes a holistic approach to coaching¬ examining any blocks in the mindset, in our bodies and in how we lead.

In addition to her business, AITai lead Coaching with Inspire Justice as their VP of Social Impact Empowerment Coaching where she trained celebrities on how to lead more equitably. She is also a Founding Guide for Chief, the largest and most prestigious women’s leadership network in the country. For her corporate leadership training, AITai has partnered with progressive companies such as Deloitte, Roku, Snapchat, Google, Y&R, Outdoor Voices, NYU, HUGE and more.

Amina AITai is available in partnership with Collective Speakers.