Aysha Griffin is a certified business coach, marketing and communications professional, journalist/editor, blogger and desktop publishing pioneer who loves to travel and connect with people of vision and heart to co-create a saner, more just and sustainable world.
As Communications Director and executive coach for the Merriman Financial Education Foundation since 2012, one of her passions — besides coaching “Third Act” clients — is her passion for financial education and advocacy, particularly for women’s empowerment and peace of mind.
Since 1985, she has helped to shape the vision of businesses, organizations and professionals; and designed and led workshops for corporations, civic leaders, and creative individuals. She supports the success of her client’s goals through well-designed project collaboration.
From 2011-2014, as faculty of the San Miguel Writers’ Conference, Aysha began to coach writers, offering publishing options, self-publishing services, and her paradigm-shifting techniques in Marketing Your Book With Love workshops.
A lifelong student of philosophy and mind-body-spirit awareness, Aysha’s workshops and coaching integrate the practical, visionary, and artistic to foster healthier, more joyful relationships to Self, Others and Work.
Additionally, Aysha is a certified relationship coach and faculty member of the Hendricks Institute/Foundation for 21st Century Leadership. She helps individuals, couples and work teams understand and resolve relationship issues, improve communication/appreciation skills and implement effective health, fiscal and time management techniques.
Following a journalism career as a newspaper and magazine reporter, editor, photographer, and on-air radio news director, Aysha founded and managed a marketing and communications agency, creating marketing strategies and materials, facilitating workshops and consulting to more than 100 businesses and non-profit organizations.
She completed a Master’s level course in Sustainable Ethical Enterprise Design (SEED) in 1999, accredited by Goddard College.
From 2002 to 2008, as a real estate broker and relocation expert, she established and managed her own Buyer’s Agency, assisting scores of people in relocating to Santa Fe, New Mexico, the “Land of Enchantment.” She maintains an interest in real estate law and international real estate opportunities.
Aysha has been published extensively, with more than 400 business and travel articles and scores of workbooks and trade publications including ‘Santa Fe Green Building Guidelines’ for Sustainable Communities, Inc., and ‘All About Working From Home’ for America Online, where she conducted the “Home Business Forum” (1994-2000). She is author and/or editor of more than 25 books and an avid independent traveler who sometimes blogs at InhabitYourDreams.com.
Her 2012 self-published book, Leonardo’s Revenge and Other Stories, is available through Amazon.
Since 2017 she lives between Rome, Italy — pursuing a passion for the Etruscan civilization — and the Costa Brava, Spain.
Aysha welcomes opportunities worldwide to enhance business and personal growth. Whether undertaking a business development or strategic marketing plan, facilitating a creative break-through or business growth workshop, or presenting on self-publishing and marketing strategies, she brings decades of expertise, enthusiasm and accountability in working with hundreds of diverse organizations and individuals to help you enjoy healthy, abundant and fulfilling relationships to self, others and work. For more, visit her travel blog and her financial empowerment blog
