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Courageous Leader. Dynamic Visionary. Magnetic storyteller.

Transformational Speaker. Insightful Strategist. Compassionate Facilitator.

Work with Seena
Work with Seena
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About Seena

Seena Hodges (she/her) is a visionary CEO, speaker, strategist, and public voice committed to helping people see the world—and themselves—more clearly.

As the Founder & CEO of Bravely Seen™, Seena leads a platform that confronts hard truths, elevates bold voices, and empowers leaders to cultivate courage as a daily practice. Through storytelling, media, and public learning experiences, she helps people move beyond intention and into purposeful, consistent action.

  • A lifelong connector and a champion for racial equity, Seena founded The Woke Coach® in 2018 to help individuals and organizations deepen their analysis of race, bias, and systemic injustice. The company’s transformative work, anchored by her signature From Ally to Accomplice® framework, helped thousands confront the world—and their role in it—with greater insight, empathy, and responsibility. Clients often describe working with Seena as challenging, transformative, and life-changing.

  • Through Bravely Seen, Seena steps even more publicly into her role as a provocateur for courageous leadership. Her work makes the invisible impossible to ignore, and then asks leaders to respond with clarity, honesty, and action. She teaches that courage is not a personality trait or a single moment—it’s a practice rooted in the choices leaders make every day.

  • Seena is a trained equity, diversity, and inclusion facilitator; a Certified Public Manager; a certified IDI® and CliftonStrengths® administrator; and a seasoned communications professional with a background in Broadway public relations, arts administration, and nonprofit leadership. Her work blends rigorous analysis, deep emotional intelligence, and the joy that sustains long-term change.

    A graduate of Columbia College (SC) and Columbia University (MFA), Seena is currently pursuing a PhD in Management & Public Service at Hamline University. She has been recognized nationally for her leadership, including the Beloved Community Award and multiple honors as one of the Twin Cities’ most influential leaders.

Seena is deeply committed to community, cultural stewardship and collective progress and has been widely recognized for her Civic and Professional leadership.

board & membership appointments

  • Walker Art Center (Past Board President, Trustee)

  • Minnesota Women’s Economic Roundtable (Member, Board Member)

  • Women Presidents Organization (Member, National DEIB Steering Committee)

  • Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums

  • The Links, Incorporated

  • Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.

Honors & Awards

  • Beloved Community Award, Hamline University – 2025.

  • Women in Business Honoree, Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal – 2023.

  • 200 Black Leaders to Know in the Twin Cities, Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal – 2023.

  • Women of Color Achievement Award, Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal – 2022.

Let’s practice courage

together

What People Are Saying

“Working with Seena is transformational. Her ability to cut through the excuses and barriers to get to the truth of what is required to authentically exist as an accomplice allows anyone who works with her to find themselves not only enlightened and empowered to do the work, but to have no other choice. You cannot ‘unsee’ reality. ”

Trish Santini

“[Seena Hodges] brings candor and compassion to the process and her pursuit of facilitating conversation in a brave space allows for greater transparency and therefore, so much genuine, good work. I’m grateful for her diligence, passion and expertise as it’s profoundly generous and deeply inspiring. Hire her, buy her book, do what she tells you to do.”

Trish Santini

“Working with Seena gave me a dedicated time and place to deepen my relationship with the world I’m living in. I better understand myself and how I’m showing up (or not showing up). If you have an opportunity to engage in this work with Seena, you should absolutely take advantage of it 1M out of 10!”

Leslie J. Morse

Your Team’s transformation starts here

Invite Me to Speak
Invite Me to Speak
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Whether on stage, on air, or in conversation, Seena’s mission is clear:

Illuminate the truth.
Build the courage.
Shift what’s possible.

Courage is a practice.
Let’s get to work.

Work with Seena
Work with Seena
In her own words
In her own words