Elena Sigman Bio

ELENA SIGMAN, Affiliate Coach Trainer

WAVE Training & Consulting LLC

Elena Sigman is a trainer and coach with 30 years of experience in social justice program design, startup, and operations management.  Elena co-designs and delivers leadership development trainings where supervisors expand their repertoire of best practices to strengthen supervisory relationships. As Director of Collaborative Learning at the John Jay College Institute for Justice & Opportunity, Elena has created certificate training programs in partnership with academic faculty, nonprofit employers and people with lived experience in the criminal legal system: the Navigator Certificate in Human Services & Community Justice and the Collective Leadership Supervisor Training (CLST).  She also partnered with the NYC Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity and CUNY School of Professional Studies to create training for City-contracted workforce development providers.  A Results Trained Coach with certification from the NeuroLeadership Institute, Elena has a BA from Yale University and MFA from Columbia University.  She previously served as Director of Food Programs at Hazon and as Director of Operations at the Women’s Prison Association, among other roles.