Erica Peng
Executive Coach, Senior Consultant, Facilitator
Erica Peng is Faculty at University California at Berkeley Haas School of Business, and founder of Deep Stream Leadership, a coaching and consulting firm focused on leadership, organizational culture, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Erica has over ten years of experience designing and delivering interpersonal development and leadership courses at Haas School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), and University of San Francisco Law School. Her course, “Interpersonal Skills and Embodied Leadership,” has been profiled in Poets and Quants as one of the favorite MBA classes among top business schools.
Erica equips individuals with both internal resilience and emotional literacy, and external interpersonal skills and competencies, foundational to being an effective and influential leader amidst the complexities and stress of our dynamic and uncertain global context. Erica draws on extensive work through Strozzi Institute, generative somatics, and author and deep ecologist, Joanna Macy, as a member of Joanna’s leadership and design team. Her expertise includes: innovative somatic* and experiential approaches; a systems and neuroscience perspective grounded in awareness of the greater ecological system; and addressing trauma within organizational systems.
Having lived, worked, and traveled extensively in Asia, Latin America, and Europe, Erica speaks Mandarin and Spanish, and brings nuanced awareness and skill in navigating leadership and organizational challenges involving social identity, power, status, and other dimensions of difference.
*Somatic means “of the body” and comes from the Greek root, soma.