Rev. Dr. Devaa Haley Mitchell is a transformational leader who helps people reconnect with their spiritual depths, unleash their leadership gifts, and step into their full potential. 

Devaa, the co-founder of The Shift Network, helped launch the company and build its culture, contributed to the design and structure of many core offerings, and set up Shift’s social change initiatives and  philanthropic activities. She is also the founder and host of the Inspiring Women with Soul series, which has served over 130,000 women from more than 160 countries. 

Devaa works as a Leadership Trainer and Coach at Aurum Leadership International, where she supports corporate and nonprofit clients on the “people side of business.” Aurum is dedicated to creating vibrant, thriving, human-centered environments where individuals and teams can thrive and do their best work.

Through her private practice, Radiant Essence Services, she offers personal coaching and VIP retreats for clients from around the world. She guides her clients to work on both the “outer” work of strategy and implementation as well as the “inner” soul work of visionary leadership.

Devaa earned both her BA and MA from Stanford University. She received her doctorate in Ministry from Wisdom University (now known as Ubiquity University) and is also an ordained interfaith minister. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for her ecological anthropology work with Indigenous groups in the Brazilian Amazon.

Earlier in her career, Devaa was a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group where she consulted with Fortune 500 Companies. She later worked as the founding Executive Director of the Full Circle Fund, a thriving venture philanthropy group, followed by a senior director role at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. She is also a member of the prestigious Evolutionary Leaders group.