About
Potency is a strategic consulting practice specializing in organizational support, crisis prevention, leadership development, and wellness coaching for organizations navigating challenges in a dynamically changing society. We assess the specific needs of a client in order to design tailor made interventions that support clients’ unique challenges and conditions. If needed, Potency pulls totogether a team with specific expertise to ensure the most effective solutions.
Meet the Team
Yalini Dream, Founding Director
Meet Yalini Dream, the visionary force behind Potency. With a background in storytelling and culture shift, Yalini seamlessly integrates an artistic lens into a consulting and coaching practice. For over 20 years, Yalini has provided guidance to organizations contending with conflict, recognizing the importance of proactive measures in preventing crises, particularly in high-pressure environments. Leveraging expertise in somatics movement and creative practices, Yalini empowers leaders to innovate and align their ethics with action, making tangible and strategic impact towards their vision. Yalini has worked with a diverse range of clients, including the Center for Constitutional Rights, National Lawyers Guild, Borealis Philanthropy, and the Transgender Law Center, among others. Yalini has expertise in supporting leaders navigate oppositional attacks and hostile conditions.
Colleen Thompson, Relationship Strategist
Colleen Thompson is a relationship strategist, program designer, and founding director of Thrive Culture. As a facilitator, she utilizes artistic and contemplative tools to engage in transformative conversations and skills-building that cultivate group synergy and ethical, healthier, organizational cultures. Colleen has excelled in community engagement at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and as a consultant for biwa-Emergent Equity in North Carolina. Colleen expertise lies in cultivating the social-emotional dexterity needed to collaborate and move through the cultural impacts of change in healthy ways. Colleen serves Potency Clients through retreat facilitation, project management, and culture shift projects
Kweku Sylvester Gbewonyo Jr., Asset Manager
Kweku Sylvester Gbewonyo Jr. is a practicing Applied Mathematician and fund manager at Noble Capital Fund, a New York-based private equity firm focused on investing in people and making a social impact.
Kweku Sylvester Gbewonyo Jr. has been a career-long financier with a focus on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing. For the past 24 years, Kweku has been successful in over 350 capitalizations and involved in mergers and acquisitions of middle-market publicly traded and private businesses, with a special focus on sustainable agriculture, cannabis and hemp since 2013. Kweku coaches Potency Clients on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Integration as well as Merger and Acquisitions.