Heather Wong, M.Ed., ACC

Coaching Leaders. Designing Learning. Building Community.

Experience, Training & Credentials

  • M.Ed., Curriculum, Instruction & Design
    Concordia University Texas

    B.S., Communication Sciences & Disorders
    The University of Texas at Austin

    Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
    International Coaching Federation

    Presence-Based Coaching Core Practitioner

    Language Environment Analysis (LENA) Certified Coach

    Certified Texas Educator
    Special Education EC–12 | ESL Supplemental | Generalist EC–6 | Deaf & Hard of Hearing EC–12

    Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist Assistant | 2010–2020

    Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) Training
    Children’s Autism Center

    • Lead Clinician & Speech-Language Pathology Assistant (SLP-A)
      Capitol School of Austin | 2010–2014

    • Founder & Principal Coach / Consultant
      H.E. Wong Coaching & Consulting | 2014–Present

    • Director of Academic Services
      Academic Answers | 2015

    • Special Education Teacher
      Austin ISD | 2016–2020

    • Curriculum Coordinator
      University of Texas at Austin Child Development Centers | 2022–2023

    • STEM Instructional Coach
      Austin ISD | 2023–2025

  • Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT 200, RYT 500) & Continuing Education Provider
    Yoga Alliance | 2022–Present

    Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher (RPYT)
    Yoga Alliance | Since 2023

    300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training (Community, Prenatal & Postpartum Focus)
    Practice Yoga Austin | 2021

    200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training (Wellness & Social-Emotional Learning)
    Breathe For Change | 2018

    85-Hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher Trainings
    Prenatal Yoga Center | 2022
    My Vinyasa Practice | 2023

  • My community roots come to life through two ventures I co-founded:

    ATX116 — a grassroots network advancing Austin public education through systems-level advocacy, community building, and courageous communication.

    SunRoot Creative Space — a relational hub where leaders, parents, and artists cultivate balance, resilience, and creative renewal.

About

I’m Heather Wong (she/they) — a leadership coach, systems thinker, and community builder with fifteen years inside complex, high-stakes environments: public education, organizational design, community organizing, and somatic practice.

I work with leaders who are used to holding everything together—and are ready to stop doing it alone.

I know what it costs to lead from depletion. I’ve done it.

I’ve been the last line of defense for kids pushed out of systems not built for them. I’ve coached inside environments where pressure, ambiguity, and burnout were constant. I navigated a high-risk pregnancy while supporting leaders through systemic collapse. I returned to coaching seven weeks postpartum—and watched the community I poured myself into be dismantled by a state mandate.

I’ve co-founded community ventures while raising two kids, working full-time, and trying to stay connected to why any of this mattered in the first place.

That’s not a résumé flex. It’s why I can sit with you in the hard season—and not flinch.

How I Work

I hold both the system and the person inside it.

Most coaching happens at one level or the other. I work at both—because I’ve lived at both—and that’s where real leverage is.

I don’t simplify by leaving things out. I find the thread running through the complexity—and return it to you as clarity and next steps.

This is what founders and leaders tell me they can’t find elsewhere: someone who can zoom all the way out to the system—and all the way in to the body—in the same conversation.

My coaching is rooted in presence, somatics, and neuroscience. Because insight that only lives in your head won’t hold under pressure.

The work has to land in the body to last.

Who I am

I’m a sixth-generation Texan with deep roots in Austin and ancestral ties to New Orleans and North Carolina. That lineage shapes how I understand care, systems, and community.

I’m queer, neurodivergent, and a parent of two.

I didn’t come to this work from the outside looking in. I built it from within systems that weren’t designed for me or my family.

That’s why I know how to help you navigate yours—so you’re not just carrying it, but leading it with clarity and sustainability.

If something here feels familiar—if you recognize yourself in the weight, the responsibility, or the moment you’re in—I’d love to hear from you.

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