About

Alison Avigayil Ramer is a health and wellness coach, writer, and program leader with 10+ years of experience supporting high-demand professionals and mission-driven communities to build sustainable routines, reduce stress and burnout, and strengthen follow-through. Her coaching integrates executive functioning support, and trauma-informed, culturally responsive facilitation for individuals and groups.

In addition to coaching, Alison has led and contributed to research, assessments, and reports for organizations working at the intersection of wellness, youth development, human rights, and digital safety—including the International Committee of the Red Cross, UN Women, War Child UK, Meta, and 7amleh. Her work has included youth wellbeing tools, early childhood development advocacy, and studies on children’s digital safety and psychosocial risk in high-stress environments.

Alison’s writing explores grief, resilience, and the inner mechanics of change—how people and communities metabolize crisis and continue to choose life. Her essays have appeared in outlets including the Boston Globe, Newsweek and Yes Magazine and her work has been included in anthologies from Sternberg Press and the 7th Berlin Biennale.

She also speaks and teaches internationally on grief and gratitude practices, civic resilience, and the role of storytelling in social change.

You can download a version of her CV here.

Alison Ramer CV

Wellness Coach & Consultant | 1:1 + Group Coaching | Remote & In-Person

Coach with 10+ years supporting high-demand professionals and mission-driven teams to build sustainable routines, reduce stress and burnout, and strengthen follow-through. Experienced in behavior change planning, accountability systems, and group facilitation. Background includes wellbeing tool development, program leadership, and cross-cultural work across the U.S. and global settings.

Core Competencies

  • Health coaching, lifestyle routines, behavior change planning

  • Stress management, burnout recovery, energy management, boundaries

  • ADHD-informed executive functioning support (planning, prioritization, follow-through)

  • Habit formation, tracking, accountability, motivational support

  • Group coaching, workshops, psychoeducation, psychosocial facilitation

  • Trauma-informed, culturally responsive coaching practice

  • Program design, participant engagement, evaluation & continuous improvement

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Health & Wellness Coach Training — (NBHWC-approved) Headspace | 2024–2025

Internal Family Systems Training | Body Based Somatics | Non-Violent Communication
B.A., Politics — Mount Holyoke College (2009)
Languages: English (native), Spanish (proficient), Arabic (intermediate), Hebrew (intermediate)

EXPERIENCE

Executive & ADHD-Informed Coaching (1:1 + Small Groups) | 2015–Present

  • Coach founders and executives on executive functioning and sustainable performance: prioritization, time-blocking, task initiation, decision-making, and follow-through systems.

  • Support stress reduction and burnout recovery through pacing, boundary-setting, workload redesign, delegation, and “minimum viable routines.”

  • Partner with clients to implement consistent health-supportive routines (sleep, energy regulation, stress practices) using goal-setting, habit tracking, and accountability.

  • Build simple, repeatable self-management systems (weekly reviews, templates, decision logs, dashboards) that reduce overwhelm and improve adherence to personal and professional goals.

Social Change Sanctuary | Founder — Coaching & Group Facilitation | 10/2023–Present

  • Provide individual and group coaching supporting stress reduction, grief support, nervous-system resilience, and sustainable coping strategies for high-stress populations.

  • Design and facilitate psychoeducational workshops on burnout prevention, emotional regulation, meaning-making, and community support practices.

  • Develop participant-centered coaching frameworks and reflection tools to support behavior change, coping skills, and long-term wellbeing maintenance.

  • Partner with community organizations to deliver accessible wellbeing programming for diverse groups (remote and in-person).

SEEN TV — Short-Form Mobile Video & AR | Strategic Lead | Los Angeles | 7/2021–7/2022

  • Led strategic planning and operations for a high-growth media company producing youth wellbeing programming focused on mental health and sexual health reaching 7M followers.

  • Led cross-functional teams across product, creative, engineering, community, and business development; improved throughput via agile planning, dashboards, and streamlined workflows.

  • Advanced partnerships with mission-driven organizations including Plan International, Oxfam, and World Vision to support youth-facing programming.

Meta | Consultant — Human Rights Policy & Wellbeing Tools | 1/2021–12/2021

  • Contributed to human rights assessment and recommendations in collaboration with cross-functional teams (policy, product, data, legal, communications).

  • Conducted research and development of youth health and wellbeing tools.

  • Supported safety and risk-reduction work focused on user protection.

7amleh — The Center for the Advancement of Social Media | Director of Development | 6/2018–12/2020

  • Positioned the organization as a leading advocate in digital rights and technology policy through partnerships, monitoring systems, and global policy influence.

  • Secured $250K and grew budget to $1M annually with support from EU, UN and OSF.

  • Developed partnerships with platforms and stakeholders (including social media companies, nonprofits, academia, governments) to strengthen monitoring and response to online harms.

  • Presented research and recommendations to key audiences, including at the United Nations.

Guidance, Training and Counseling Center | Development Manager | Palestine | 1/2016–12/2017

  • Supported the launch of a Master’s-level Psychology program, expanding access to advanced training in a region with limited behavioral health capacity.

  • Built partnerships with international universities and organizations to strengthen curriculum resources, faculty development, and program sustainability.

Social Change Studios | Principal Consultant (Program Strategy & Operations) | 1/2015–Present

  • Led program strategy and operational systems for global organizations working in high-stress, high-stakes environments; improved clarity, execution, and sustainability across initiatives.

  • Designed lightweight operating systems (planning, coordination, dashboards, decision-making rhythms) that reduced overload and improved team follow-through.

  • Conducted needs assessments and facilitated capacity-building programs with multidisciplinary teams across cultures and time zones.

  • Clients include humanitarian and international organizations (e.g., ICRC and UN agencies).

Oxfam | Executive Leadership Program Manager | Jerusalem | 6/2013–6/2015

  • Managed design, planning, and delivery of an executive leadership program, including curriculum adaptation, participant recruitment, and partner coordination.

  • Owned workplan, communications, and a $1M budget; hired and managed staff and vendors.

  • Built evaluation tools to track outcomes and strengthen program delivery through continuous improvement.

World Vision | Project Manager (Youth Wellbeing Communications) | Jerusalem | 4/2011–6/2013

  • Managed a youth wellbeing media initiative translating community-identified risks to children’s health and safety into accessible short-form content; trained 60 children and partners.

  • Developed project identity and distribution strategy across web and social channels; produced multimedia content to increase reach and engagement.

  • Led stakeholder engagement events elevating child wellbeing priorities with institutional audiences (including events at the Australian Parliament and the White House).

  • Coordinated with child protection/safeguarding staff to support consent, privacy, and risk protocols.

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