Emergence with Rachel Weissman is a weekly exploration of the profound interconnections between consciousness, technology, and planetary flourishing.
Through personal narrative, contemplative poetry, and integrative essays, I weave together insights from my journey as an artist, coach, designer, entrepreneur, meditator, speaker, and technologist. For over a decade, I've explored how individual awakening and systemic change are inseparable—how the quality of our inner landscape directly shapes the technologies we create and the futures we manifest.
What makes Emergence unique is its recognition that our most pressing challenges—from AI development to ecological crisis—cannot be solved through fragmented approaches. Instead, they require what I call integrity-driven responses: solutions that honor both ancient wisdom and emerging possibilities, that bridge analytical mind with embodied awareness, and that recognize technology as a mirror of our collective consciousness.
You'll find explorations of how consciousness becomes infrastructure for wise decision-making, how we can design technology that strengthens rather than fragments human attention, and how individual practices like meditation connect us to collective intelligence. I examine the dissolving boundaries between self and system, the embodied wisdom found in nature's patterns, and the urgent need for leadership that serves life rather than extraction.
Through these writings, we discover that emergence isn't just a concept—it's a lived practice of allowing authentic expression while staying accountable to the whole. Each essay invites you into the creative tension between structure and flow, between visionary possibility and grounded presence, between honoring what is while creating what could be.
Join me in exploring how personal awakening and planetary healing are one seamless movement, where every moment of authentic presence becomes a thread in the larger web of regenerative transformation.
Welcome to Emergence—I'm grateful you're here.
With gratitude,
Rachel 💜
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About Rachel
Rachel Weissman is a serial entrepreneur and award-winning designer turned executive coach and keynote speaker, helping ambitious leaders transform uncertainty and change into a catalyst for growth, creativity, and innovation.
As a former Google design leader, Rachel shaped flagship products like Maps and Search, impacting over two billion monthly users, and pioneered human-centered AI design principles at Salesforce. As a serial entrepreneur, she has founded ventures in education, emotional intelligence, and AI for communication.
Her meditation expertise spans 5,000+ hours of practice. She is a certified meditation and yoga teacher, trained to teach over 20 meditation styles. Her current primary personal practice is Mahamudra, along with other nondual wisdom traditions. Rachel has taught meditation at Google and serves as a volunteer at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.
Her unique perspective bridges Silicon Valley innovation with contemplative wisdom, enabling leaders to access breakthrough performance without burnout.
Today, Rachel helps people transform uncertainty and change into a catalyst for growth, creativity, and innovation. She illuminates this mission through the following paths:
Executive Coaching: Rachel is the coach to CEOs, startup founders, Fortune 500 executives, public figures, and cultural icons, enabling them to access new dimensions of impact and aliveness.
Keynote Speaking: Rachel is a leading keynote speaker on human flourishing, delivering transformational experiences that enable leaders, teams, and organizations to unleash their creativity, innovation, and purpose.
Energy Work: Rachel is a certified Kundalini Activation Process facilitator, an energy transmission practice that awakens your life force energy. She offers public, private, and corporate sessions.
Bespoke Consulting: Rachel partners with organizations ready to accelerate their growth through consulting in AI Strategy, Product & Design, People & Culture, and Storytelling & Communications.
She is a selected member of Forbes Coaches Council, an invitation-only community for top executive coaches, and has been published in Fast Company, Forbes, and The Information.
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