Thought Leadership in Action: Coaching for Writers with AX Mina
Thought Leadership in Action: Coaching for Writers with AX Mina
AX (Ana) Mina
As a nonfiction writer, you have great ideas. How do you get the word out and build a platform? I offer coaching as a tool to help you refine your ideas, communicate them effectively and find the right people to support your work.
You have great thoughts to share — how do you communicate them crisply and precisely for public consumption? Think of thought leadership as a layer that supercharges your communications efforts. Building from my experience developing communications strategy, we’ll develop a custom strategy for getting the word out there about your work and your best ideas.
Every writing client has different needs, and we’ll work on a toolkit that will help you take action on bringing your ikigai, or life’s purpose, into fruition through guided exercises on a tool called Quenza and ongoing coaching sessions. Here’s an example of some of the tools we can explore together:
Brainstorming and ideation sessions — start with your idea, no matter how rough, and let’s refine it through active feedback and idea generation
Working through creative blocks, using creative strategy and ideation, meditation, yoga, tarot and somatic wellness practices (I’m a certified trauma-informed yoga teacher with training in secular mindfulness)
Getting the word out: Public speaking skills, and telling the story of yourself and your work
Leadership and management skills, whether for those leading creative communities and mission-driven organizations or those running their own business.
Clarifying your core values and mission as a writer (i.e., your ikigai)
Coaching is a partnership, and I’m happy to take a first 30 minute call for free to determine two things: (1) how we vibe together as people and creative and (2) whether there’s a fit with what you’re looking for and where I can help. If we mutually agree to move forward, we’ll develop a coaching package that works for you — whether that’s finding your ikigai, developing your platform or something more custom. We can also do ad hoc, ongoing coaching to help you work through creative blocks.
Sessions are a sliding scale of $125-200 for up to 75 minutes (with a suggested rate of $150), and a 5 pack is available for $500 - 800 (20% discount).
About Me:
I’m an experienced global executive with a radically inclusive approach as a coach and strategist. I’ve worked on creative projects larger and small, and my career has taken me from the busy streets of Shenzhen to the Oscars red carpet. I have over a decade of experience in writing, creative media, public speaking, and organizational strategy and leadership that I bring to my coaching practice for creatives.
An author myself, I’ve worked on three books — Memes to Movements, a nonfiction analytic book about media and social movements; The Hanmoji Handbook, a young adult book about emoji and the Chinese language; and I helped edit Ai Weiwei: Spatial Matters, an overview of the artist’s work. And I’ve written and given expert commentary in venues like Hyperallergic, the LA Review of Books, the Atlantic, the Economist, the Aspen Institute, TED and the New York Times.
