Meet
Dr. Ebony Green

Author. Speaker. Executive Culture Strategist.
Who we are

The team behind the work.

Each of us has spent decades inside the systems we now help organizations rebuild. Tap a name to read the full story.

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Dr. Ebony I. Green

Founder and CEO

Dr. Ebony I. Green is an Executive Culture Strategist who helps leadership teams stabilize culture by strengthening emotional regulation under pressure. She works with executives navigating high stakes environments where burnout, communication breakdown, and reactivity threaten performance and trust.

With more than 25 years of experience as a teacher, principal, and district leader, Dr. Green understands how pressure reshapes leadership behavior and organizational systems. She has led through crisis, institutional strain, and large scale change, equipping leaders with practical frameworks that embed emotional intelligence into daily leadership practice.

As the Founder of Hello Kind Soul, she bridges emotional intelligence with operational strategy and helps organizations prevent cultural self destruction while protecting both results and people.

Through keynote addresses, executive intensives, and advisory partnerships, Dr. Green partners with leaders who are committed to building cultures that remain steady even when pressure rises.

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Amy Pittari, LCSW-R

Director of Sustainable Performance

An LCSW-R with over 30 years of experience in social work. As Director of Sustainable Performance at Hello Kind Soul, Amy leads with empathy, vision, and a deep commitment to cultivating environments where people feel seen, safe, and supported.

With a background in trauma-informed care, restorative practices, and organizational wellness, Amy designs and implements experiences that center emotional intelligence, community care, and holistic healing.

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Dr. LaShawnna Harris, Ed.D.

Director of Culture Repair

Dr. Harris is a trailblazer in education innovation and the force behind sharEDtalent, a platform that redefines how schools connect with expert vendors to achieve excellence. A proud native of Queens, New York, Dr. Harris refuses to accept the status quo in education. With over 22 years of experience, she is on a mission to dismantle outdated systems and build smarter, more dynamic pathways for schools to thrive.

Before founding sharEDtalent, Dr. Harris spent 16 transformative years in the New York City Department of Education as a teacher, math staff developer, assistant principal, founding principal, and principal coach. These roles gave her a front row seat to the systemic challenges holding schools back, and the courage to disrupt them.

Through sharEDtalent, Dr. Harris delivers bold solutions that empower school leaders to cut through red tape, mobilize the right resources, and accelerate impact. She is an expert in improvement strategy design, change management, and leadership development, with a focus on leveraging networks and social capital to challenge norms and push boundaries.

Dr. Harris earned her bachelor's degree in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, master's degrees from Fordham University and Mercy College, and a Doctorate in Executive Leadership from St. John Fisher University.

Our Story

In a world shaped by constant pressure, rapid change, and rising disconnection, organizations are not failing because of strategy. They destabilize when leaders and teams lose the ability to regulate, communicate, and stay connected under stress.

Hello Kind Soul exists to address that reality.

Founded in Newburgh, New York by Dr. Ebony I. Green, an award winning keynote speaker and Executive Culture Strategist, Hello Kind Soul is a leadership and culture transformation company that helps organizations stabilize performance by strengthening emotional intelligence where it matters most, under pressure.

What began as a deeply personal response to burnout and unsustainable success has evolved into a clear and urgent mission to redefine how leadership operates in high stakes environments.

Today, Hello Kind Soul partners with corporations, school systems, and nonprofit organizations to build what we call emotional infrastructure. This is the internal capacity of leaders and teams to navigate stress, communicate clearly, and sustain trust when it matters most.

Through keynote experiences, leadership development, and culture focused engagements, we help organizations move beyond surface level solutions and into real, measurable change.

Because culture is not built in moments of ease. It is revealed and reinforced in moments of pressure.
This is where our work lives.

At our core, we still believe in the power of kindness, but not as a slogan or a soft skill. We believe kindness is load bearing. It shapes how people experience leadership, how teams function, and how organizations sustain performance over time.

This is not just a brand. It is a shift in how leadership is understood and practiced.
A move from reaction to regulation.
From burnout to sustainability.
From disconnection to trust.

We are building a future where emotional intelligence is not optional. It is the standard.

And this is just the beginning.

What we believe

Three principles we lead with.

The work is not soft. It is disciplined, regulated, and built to hold under pressure. These three ideas guide every keynote, workshop, and partnership.

Kindness is load bearing

Not a slogan. A practical, disciplined skill that shapes how teams communicate and how leaders make decisions when stakes are high.

Regulation is infrastructure

Emotional regulation is not a personal wellness add-on. It is the internal capacity that determines whether trust, performance, and culture hold under stress.

Sustainability over heroics

High standards do not require exhausted leaders. We help organizations align performance expectations with human capacity, so success is repeatable.

Work with us

Build culture that holds under pressure.

Schedule a discovery call to talk through your team's goals, the pressure points you are navigating, and what a partnership with us could look like.