Founder of out there communication, Laila Makled’s (they/them) years of experience as a corporate trouble maker led them to becoming a care and communication educator, writer, facilitator, and coach with a passion for holding space for folks to be vulnerable and learn together.

Laila has a B.A. in Social Relations & Policy from Michigan State University. They were trained as a Somatic Consent Educator by Mia Schacter. They also completed a 12-week intro to decolonized communication training by Meenadchi. They are a moderator and facilitator in training for Radical Mental Health First Aide by Oumou Sylla.

In general, over the past decade, Laila has grounded in and is self taught in disability justice, Black, Indigenous, and transgender knowledge and liberation ideologies.

Over the past decade, Laila has served as a lead organizer for numerous campaigns and projects, where they facilitated and nurtured hundreds of relationships, workshops, and project plans. To see Laila’s full resume, click here.

Today, Laila builds programming, content, and processes for organizations and individuals to center care in their personal lives, facilitation, management, event production, and organizational operations through:

• care and joy-centered event production & programming

• facilitation, communication, & management educational programs

• values-aligned strategic planning & content development

• 1-on-1 confidence and communication skill building

Laila identifies as a trans human; grandchild to Lebanese immigrants, a Palestinian refugee, & a Texan Baptist settler; Muslim-ish; sensory sensitive; anti-capitalist; anti-racist; and non-monogomist. At their core, Laila believes communication is medicine, and through learning to listen to our bodies & getting clarity around communication to ourselves & others, we can build luscious ecosystems of care.