THE TEAM
MAJIA LEE
Majia Lee brings over thirty years of professional experience at the intersection of technology, organizational systems, and human behavior. Her career spans information technology, software development, business analysis, organizational change management, and leadership development coaching, placing her inside the lived realities of how systems are designed, implemented, and strained under pressure.
She holds a doctorate focused on creative emergence and ethical innovation within the Information Technology business sector, examining the conditions and structural capacities organizations must develop in order to change without extracting vitality from people, bodies, or technologies. Her doctoral work investigates why change efforts repeatedly fail—not due to resistance, lack of will, or insufficient tools—but because organizations lack the capacity to hold uncertainty, shared accountability, symbolic meaning, and rhythm without collapsing potential space.
Her formal training includes a master’s degree in psychology, Prosci (c) Change Management certification, business management certification, and professional certification in mediation. Over the course of her 30 year career, she has worked as a strategic IT business analyst, change management consultant, software developer, organizational advisor, and leadership development coach and consultant—roles that allowed her to observe firsthand how technological and organizational systems are often asked to carry relational, ethical, and cultural loads they were never designed to hold.
From this vantage point, Majia presents a methodology for ethical innovation and transformative change within organizations, combining theory developed through rigorous scholarship and insight shaped by decades of professional practice. Her methodology does not offer quick fix solutions or interventions. Instead, it clarifies the conditions and capacities required for ethical innovation and creative emergence to be possible—and names what happens when organizations attempt change without building those capacities first.
PAULA DESANTO
Paula has developed programs that serve people with mental illness and/or substance use issues for over 40 years. She has dedicated her career to advocating for person-centered, common sense, compassionate care. She has provided both leadership and clinical services in a variety of settings. Paula also taught for 4 years at the University of Minnesota at a Master Level Integrated Behavioral Health Program.
She is currently a co-owner of Expanse MN, a state-of-the-art mental health clinic that opened in January 2022.
She has a master’s degree from Boston University in Psychiatric Rehabilitation Counseling and is a licensed social worker.
TESTIMONIALS
"Majia has been instrumental in my leadership journey to grow beyond my patterns. As an Asian-American man, I appreciate her ability to help me uncover how issues around race and gender have informed my decisions, capacities for change. I am particularly grateful for her gentle yet intrepid approach, holding me accountable whenever I try to avoid." Tom C
"I have found Majia to be a trustworthy support, helping me navigate and take accountability for the most hidden, dysfunctional corridors of my psyche with intuitive precision and compassionate grace. Her non-judgmental, and caring presence allows me to reveal even my most vulnerable underbelly that is influencing my ethics and decision making. With both professional confidence and heartfelt honesty, I recommend her wholeheartedly." Eric L