LaTesha Hinton

I came to coaching from an unusual direction: public health. Before I ever facilitated a coaching conversation, I was studying how systems shape human behavior and how institutions either support or undermine the people inside them. That lens, combined with more than 15 years of senior leadership experience across hospitality and higher education, built a coaching perspective grounded not just in individual growth but in the organizational conditions that make growth possible or prevent it entirely.

In my coaching work, I partner with professionals navigating leadership transitions, team dynamics, and the challenge of leading authentically inside complex institutional systems. I coach them to move from uncertainty to aligned, confident action — closing the gap between who they are and how they show up at work. My focus areas include leadership identity and development, equity-centered leadership, organizational complexity, and personal sustainability.

My coaching draws on Tuckman’s stages of team development to help clients understand exactly where their teams are and why, so they can lead with strategy rather than instinct. I integrate public health principles and equity-centered frameworks that keep the full person in view, not just their professional role. Clients often describe our work as helping them see not just what to do differently, but how to sustain themselves while doing it. One client reflected that our sessions helped her “reconnect with her purpose and stop managing from a place of depletion.”

What shapes my coaching most is the conviction that sustainable leadership requires self-knowledge. I have watched capable people stall not because they lacked skill or strategy, but because they had lost their connection to why they were leading in the first place. The cross-sector range I carry, from hotel floors to university halls, gives me unusual standing to say: the environment shapes the leader, and I know how to work with both.

I hold a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES®) credential and a Master of Science in Public Health from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, as well as a Tulane University Leadership Institute Certified Leadership Coach certification.

My own wellness practice keeps me honest about what I ask of clients: how we care for ourselves is not separate from how we lead.