Life Force Strategies

Through thoughtfully led individual holistic coaching sessions and curated workshops, Romana helps individuals connect more deeply with themselves, building a foundation for physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual awareness and healing, allowing them to connect more meaningfully with others, which she believes is the foundation for authentic leadership. Authentic leadership creates the conditions for healthy organizations.

Romana considers herself fortunate to have studied with the best in her respective fields. With a social work degree from Bryn Mawr College’s Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Romana now proudly serves on the College’s advisory board, where she is considered a highly successful alumna of the program. She credits her years as a leadership development coach to her deep influence from the Center for Asian Pacific American Women and the APA Women’s Leadership Institute (APAWLI), where she is a fellow. She is currently training to receive a certification as a Five Elements Practitioner. The Five Elements methodology, created by Kevin John Fong, combines the best practices in business and science with East Asian principles of well-being to expand and deepen our capacity to thrive in an increasingly complex world. At its core, The Five Elements helps people realize their personal and professional goals in healthful, balanced, and beneficial ways.

Not only has Romana received culturally centered leadership training, but she has also created highly impactful leadership development programming during her time at United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, WOMEN’S WAY, and Eisenhower Fellowships. Her executive leadership roles at numerous nonprofit and government institutions demonstrate that she puts her own teachings into practice and that her practice has informed her coaching content.

Trained in Baptiste Power Yoga and a certified 200hr Registered Yoga Teacher, she began offering classes in 2019, utilizing the methodology developed by the founder, Baron Baptiste, who previously trained elite athletes, including the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles. This invigorating practice, grounded in personal empowerment, continues to be the foundation for the philosophy that Romana uses in curating classes and individual practices she designs for clients. Romana blends her certification in Yin Yoga, earned in 2019 with Corina Benner, a beautiful practice inspired by Traditional Chinese Medicine principles in easeful sequences that focus on stillness and gravitational holds.

Lastly, Romana trained under White Light and Karuna Reiki (c) Master Cristy Chung, and is certified at White Light Reiki Level 3 Expert. Romana’s immersive training on the island of O’ahu in Hawaii was a transformative experience where she not only learned the practice of reiki and received her attunements, but also deeply connected to the land and Indigenous practices of the Kanaka Maoli, or Native Hawaiian people.

As a mixed-race second-generation Chinese American, Romana is fluent in cultural preservation, strengths-based and liberatory identity development, racial and cross-cultural reconciliation, and healing. She brings this awareness and lens into all of her work as a holistic executive coach, healing practitioner, curator, and facilitator.