Jessica Rios, Founder of Leaning into Light, is a writer, leadership consultant and Love Coach. For more than 25 years, Jessica has embodied Love-Based Leadership.Her greatest passion is to illuminate the beauty of the human spirit. She fortifies organizations by consulting as Chief Love Officer, listening for where the system is calling for the greatest human need: Love — and guiding it from there. Her commitment to serve in this way was deeply affirmed by a NDE after brain surgery in 2021.
Since childhood, Jessica has been a prolific letter writer and a student of relationships and communication. She is a commissioned letter writer and has written for Upstate Business Journal(California),Findhorn Foundation (Scotland),Braided Way (USA), Natural Parent (New Zealand), Mothering Arts (California), Holistic Parenting (Florida) and Wild + Free (USA). She has also written for a global thought leader in AI and a Smithsonian featured sculptor.
Born on International Women's Day (March 8th) in 1975, International Women's Year, Jessica has always been a big fan of the power of feelings. One of her heroes since childhood is Fred Rogers, a saintly role model of EQ and the power of feelings and friendship.
In Jessica's words, "One human superpower is to feel the Love we ARE. From there, we create a world — we create one moment of Now, and another, and another — based in Love instead of fear."
Expressing her passion for interdisciplinary and self-directed learning, Jessica designed her BA in Social Ecology & Personal Ethics at CSU Chico in 1998. She completed life coach training in 2004 with the most prestigious coach training program in the world,Co-Active Training Institute (CTI).
As a social entrepreneur, in 2004, Jessica founded Love Events and innovated a model of blending relationship coaching with green wedding planning in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2008, she founded The Co-Lab and led two Top Ten U.S. health care systems, UCSF Medical Center and UCLA Health System, through sustainability launches that led to both clients receiving awards from Practice Greenhealth.
Jessica is endlessly grateful for her 11-year-old daughter Helena Beam and for the medicinal art of singing Love songs to the divine. She lives in Sonoma County, California. You can reach her via email.
Some kind words...
Jessica Rios and I were initially brought together by our mutual interest in creating transformative, human friendly work spaces. From that moment to the present day, I continue to be amazed by the talents, wisdom and vision of this extraordinary person. Our professional and personal collaborations have provided me with a number of opportunities to experience Jessica's brilliance as a coach, writer, leader and human being.
Jessica is amongst the most brilliant communicators I've encountered, with an uncanny ability to detail the human experience with words that inspire and help the reader glimpse their own complex and beautiful humanity. And she is a visionary leader who is capable of helping others to stretch towards their highest potential.
When it comes to my professional ventures, there are a few people in my circle of friends and colleagues who will always have a seat at any table I convene, and Jessica Rios is absolutely leading that list.
- Monica Moody, Certified Life Purpose and Career Coach, Owning Change