Alice Chen

Alice Chen is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), facilitator, and creative based in Asheville, North Carolina. She is the founder of The Unlearning Studio — a space for leaders, creatives, and seekers doing the real work of personal transformation through coaching, creative workshops, and immersive retreats.

Alice has spent her entire career in human development — beginning as an elementary school teacher, moving into coaching teachers and school leaders, and spending the last two decades working with executives, creative professionals, and organizations navigating complexity and change. She has worked with leaders from Google, Amazon, Salesforce, Facebook, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Hewlett Foundation, UCSF, the State of Hawaii, and dozens of other organizations across education, tech, philanthropy, and social impact.

Her approach blends executive coaching with somatic awareness, adult development, creativity, and ancestral wisdom traditions — particularly Polynesian wayfinding. She is especially drawn to work with creative seekers, women, leaders of color, and third culture individuals ready to lead from their full, integrated selves.

Alice holds a B.A. from Wellesley College and an M.Ed. from the University of Hawaii, and is a Professional Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation. Additional training includes Adult Development Coaching, Adaptive Leadership, Immunity to Change, Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness, Polarity Wisdom, and the Neuroscience of Change.

After years in Silicon Valley, Hawaiʻi, and Texas, she now lives in the mountains of Asheville, NC and works with clients worldwide — online and in person, including through international retreats.

She founded The Unlearning Studio on a simple belief: most of us are living at least partly in someone else's version of our lives. The work of reclamation — coming home to who we actually are — is both deeply personal and profoundly cultural.