Expertise

Integrating Healing-Centered Practices Across Education, Business, and Technology

Dr. Angel Acosta is a pioneering educator and thought leader whose work bridges the worlds of healing, leadership, and innovation. With over a decade of experience spanning educational equity, mindfulness, and racial justice, Dr. Acosta now leads cutting-edge initiatives at the intersection of healing-centered education, business transformation, and ethical technology.

Through the Acosta Institute and his work with organizations like the Garrison Institute, B Lab U.S. & Canada, SYPartners, and many others, Dr. Acosta has helped thousands of educators, nonprofit leaders, and corporate changemakers cultivate more resilient, inclusive, and human-centered systems.

His areas of expertise include:

• Healing-Centered Education: Grounded in his doctoral research and consulting work, Dr. Acosta develops frameworks that integrate mindfulness, racial literacy, and restorative practices to help educators and school systems foster equity and belonging.

• Purpose-Driven Business Innovation: Dr. Acosta coaches executives and teams to lead with authenticity, courage, and emotional intelligence. His approach helps organizations move from burnout to purpose through “slow work,” creativity, and values-aligned decision-making.

• Ethical Technology & AI for the Common Good: With an emerging body of work in AI literacy and community-centered AI education, Dr. Acosta is equipping educators and purpose-driven business leaders to engage with new technologies from a place of integrity, cultural responsibility, and human flourishing.

• Racial Equity & Restorative Dialogue: A skilled facilitator, Dr. Acosta creates open spaces for organizations to reckon with race, identity, and systemic injustice—guiding difficult conversations with compassion, structure, and strategic insight.

• Creative Storytelling for Healing & Systems Change: From the Wounded Healers portrait series to immersive workshops like Contemplating 400 Years, Dr. Acosta uses art, narrative, and contemplative practice to unlock healing and communal imagination.

• Executive Coaching for Healing-Centered Leadership Development:
  Dr. Acosta provides transformational coaching for executives, founders, and emerging leaders seeking to lead with integrity, clarity, and courage in turbulent times. Drawing on mindfulness, adaptive leadership, social & emotional learning theories, he helps clients to navigate complexity, growth and their well-being. Whether working with education leaders, nonprofit directors, or tech innovators, Dr. Acosta offers a reflective and strategic space for sustained, values-aligned growth.