ACTO Board Member Candidates

Kaan Aksu

As a Transformational Coach and Coach Educator, my passion is helping others define their purpose and challenging them to live an intentional life by overcoming their limiting beliefs. I have transformed my own life by leaving 20 years of successful corporate career at global multi-billion-dollar companies to create a new digital nomad lifestyle around Coaching. I have been privileged to contribute to the growth and development of many leaders from diverse cultures around the world, and I look forward to helping many others.

Jagruti Gala

Jagruti Gala considers herself an agent of transformation and constantly pushes the edge of consciousness in self and in others, to create a world of greater peace, truth, and compassion! Her calling in life is shaped and informed by India’s mind-numbing diversity and inequity.

Since 2010, she has been working with leaders, who want to find the Hero Within, and together they explore a way of holding shared power, relating and just being. Her clients are from all walks of life and include Top Management in corporates and educational institutions; as well as parents; couples and women who want to grow as leaders.

Jagruti holds an ICF accredited PCC with more than 1800 hours of coaching and mentoring experience. She is Faculty and Director of Mentoring, at Leadership that Works India. Jagruti also serves on the mentor team of the University of Wisconsin Professional Coaching Program and JST Coach Training program. Jagruti is pursuing a Diploma is Coaching Supervision from Coaching Supervision Academy.

Jagruti is also the Founder and Managing Trustee of a non-profit, AURA – A Learning Place.

She is the author of 99 Marigold Mornings, a book of prayer poems.

Steve Galloway

Steve Galloway is an organizational development consultant, executive/leadership coach, and believer in positive change with over 25 years’ experience across both the private and public sectors. Steve helps leaders and rising stars take a transformational approach to emerging change challenges and opportunities.

As a Leadership coach, Steve purposely partners with people who want to learn how to better leverage themselves to enhance overall professional and personal effectiveness while fulfilling their purpose.

Currently Steve is a Partner with ChoicePoints Learning, an organizational and leadership development consultancy specializing in leading effective DEI & B strategic efforts.

Jessie Justin

Based in Providence, RI, Jessie Justin is a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant and educator, and a certified personal coach/equity coach. Through life experience and educational pursuits, Jessie has learned to weave social justice consciousness into everyday life. Jessie brings a keen awareness of the intersectional identities that affect who we are and how we respond to our surroundings. As a transgender/gender non-binary, queer, white person, Jessie is dedicated to helping communities become aware of and challenge systemic oppression and racial injustice.

Rei Perovic

Rei Perovic, PCC, CMC, is a Self Leadership Coach, Certified Mentor Coach, Coaching Instructor, and the Founder of Realign Project (realignproject.com). She is passionate about working with purpose-driven professionals in non-dominant groups, especially BIPOC, AAPI, immigrants, and women, to empower themselves as leaders at all levels to create a positive impact. Rei has coached over 1,500 clients internationally across industries to live and work from a resonant place of authenticity and alignment with their core values and vision.

Originally from Tokyo, Japan, Rei moved to Massachusetts at the age of 15 by herself to attend High School for the Arts and has lived about two-thirds of her life in the US. She and her husband live in NYC with their beloved pitbull, Prince, and tuxedo cat, Zoe.