Since 1986, Ms. Celia Young has utilized her consulting and coaching work to promote social justice within FORTUNE 500 corporations worldwide. She has coached and developed authentic individual leaders and work teams to follow their north stars, preserve their integrity, and become who they truly are. These leaders and employees have been courageous enough to speak their truth, stand on their highest principles, and help create an inclusive organizational culture that values and nurtures its people's diversity and creativity.  In this turbulent time, where the world is struggling with climate change, wars, poverty, erosion of human rights, attacks on democracy, and deterioration of institutions, people are struggling with basic economic life and death survival, emotional isolation, and spiritual starvation. Answering the call to help lift the human spirit, Ms. Young went back to Divinity School. She was ordained as an interfaith chaplain in 2022 so that she is fully prepared to apply a holistic approach to help develop authentic human beings from the workplace into society at large, where she can heal the traumatized and suffering, mend the broken human spirit, and restore the basic goodness of humanity.  Since then, she has provided comfort for and accompanied cancer patients, veterans, first responders, and asylum seekers. She created space for anyone searching for meaning in life and for becoming who they really are, regardless of their spiritual practices.  

Through the Authentic Being Center, Rev. Young continues to provide leadership and life coaching, and wellness counseling for individuals and groups. She serves as a community and guest minister and works as a spiritual activist. She also provides consulting for non-profit organizations to help reimagine their futures. 

Ms. Young has a BA in Business Administration, an MBA in Marketing, an MA in Counseling Psychology, and a Master of Divinity (equivalent). She was specifically trained in Gestalt Psychology’s Whole-System Development Methodology, Carl Rogers’s Person-Centered-Therapy Model, and Interfaith Chaplaincy Practice that honors universal truth and diverse human dignity.

 She is a Unitarian Universalist and Buddhist.