I’m Megan O’Grady Greene – consultant, coach, embodiment practitioner and cultural thinker. I work with individuals and groups navigating the terrain where personal transformation and purposeful work converge.

I came to this work from the inside out.

The early years were defined by a relationship with myself that was largely subterranean — a self I hadn’t yet met, living inside an experience I didn’t yet have the tools to navigate. Childhood bullying. A body and an inner world that felt more like territories of confusion than sources of knowing. Years of learning, slowly and not always gracefully, what it actually takes to come home to yourself.

That journey — through the chaos, through the unravelling and the recovery, through the long slow expansion into a full-spectrum relationship with life — is not a backstory I carry. It is the foundation of everything I do. It is why I can meet a client in the precise texture of their stuck. Not because I read about it. Because I have been there, in my own version of it, and I know what moving actually requires.

What I discovered — and what continues to animate this work — is that how we are in relationship to ourselves is inseparable from how we are in relationship to the world. How we know ourselves, care for ourselves, accept ourselves: this is not a private project. It ripples outward into every collaboration, every creative act, every attempt to build something that lasts. We cannot give what we have not found in ourselves first.

I have been a contemplative since childhood — drawn early and instinctively to the interior life, to stillness, to the kinds of questions that don’t resolve quickly.

I studied Religion — with an emphasis on Tibetan Buddhism and mystical traditions — at Columbia University, and hold an MSc in Social and Public Communication from the London School of Economics. I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

But the foundation was laid long before any of that.

The eight years between high school and university were the beginning of the long journey inward and outward simultaneously — producing large-scale events and environmental campaigns, lobbying, immersing in holistic and contemplative practice, learning to inhabit my own body and intelligence. I was recognised early by teachers who saw something before I fully did myself. At Foothill College I found theatre, deep immersion into the arts and the social sciences, and — as assistant to the Dean of Anthropology — facilitated one of the nation’s first online courses.

Then Columbia, and the formal beginning of a lifelong interdisciplinary inquiry into the nature of mind, consciousness and transformation.

India followed — an extended period of living, travelling and teaching that deepened everything. It was there that The Monastic Project was born, from a genuinely personal crossroads: I was seriously considering whether my path was monastic — whether the most meaningful contribution I could make to the world was through the dedicated practice of understanding my own mind and its nature. Rather than answer that question in the abstract, I travelled across the subcontinent and spent hours in depth conversation — on camera — with men and women who had made that choice across Buddhist, Christian, Jain and Hindu traditions. The question I brought to each of them: how did you know? The research that resulted sits at the intersection of vocation, identity, inner knowing and the nature of calling. It is currently being shaped into a public-facing offering through Nest Move Bloom.

That inquiry into the interior life — into what it means to truly hear oneself think, to reclaim one’s own inner landscape as a source of intelligence, creativity and direction — runs through everything I do. It is at the heart of what I offer clients: a return to their own imaginative and creative capacities as the primary wellspring of self-knowledge and purposeful action. Not a framework imposed from the outside. A reconnection with the intelligence that was always already there.

Then London and the LSE — a heavyweight training ground in research, analysis and the deconstruction of how human beings think, communicate and make meaning. My analytical mind found its full range there. The years that followed, as a strategist for a leading brand and advertising agency and for a UN-affiliated peace charity, extended that into the real world: blue-chip executive culture, wildly creative thinkers and designers, the full complexity of how organisations and human beings actually behave under pressure. I learned to hold strategy and creativity in the same hand — and to read a room, a brief, a human being and a cultural moment simultaneously.

Then San Francisco, and the chocolate era — an award-winning, industry-pioneering venture that was everything I had ever done rolled into one: business, strategy, creativity, leaps of faith, and a deep belief in food as medicine, in how what we consume shapes how we think, feel and exist in the world. It opened new marketplaces. It also confirmed something I had long suspected: that the most powerful work happens at the intersection of rigorous thinking and genuine conviction.

Then The Red Book Hours — a final, luminous collaboration with artist and psychotherapist Dr. Jill Mellick in the last years of her life, bringing a twenty-year dialogue at the intersection of art, dreams and the psyche to its close. That work shaped the depth dimension of everything I now do.

My embodiment lineage runs alongside all of it — including workshops with Gabrielle Roth, the pioneering movement artist and creator of 5Rhythms, and training with Judith Komoroske, Silicon Valley Arts Laureate, whose integration of movement, imagination and creative intelligence influenced the architecture of my teaching and practice.

I bring to every engagement a quality of attention that is both analytically precise and somatically informed. My neurodivergent cognition — I am dyslexic — is not incidental to this. It is the engine of it: rapid pattern recognition across domains, non-linear synthesis, the instinct to locate the signal within complexity.

This lineage — academic, professional, embodied and contemplative — is not decorative. It is the epistemological foundation of this work: the conviction that embodied self-knowledge, rigorous inquiry and imaginative capacity are not supplements to human flourishing. They are its preconditions.

Nest Move Bloom is the platform for my ongoing research, framework development and public work — inquiry that moves between contemplative traditions, the social sciences, communication, deep ecology, and the study of imagination and creativity as essential, and chronically undervalued, human capacities.

Two bodies of work are currently in active development.

The first explores an innate human capacity — one that sits at the intersection of embodied presence, imaginative intelligence and self-directed inner life. It is not dissociating. It is not numbing. It is not catastrophizing. It is something closer to a birthright inner capacity that most of us were never taught to develop — and the ground zero of genuine creativity, self-knowledge and meaningful action in the world. A forthcoming book, course and international speaker campaign are being built around this work.

The second is The Monastic Project — original qualitative research into vocational calling and spiritual discernment, born from a personal crossroads and shaped into a body of research across traditions. It is currently being developed into a public-facing offering through Nest Move Bloom.

Both projects share a root question — the same question that animates my work and everything offered through Nest Move Bloom: what does it take for a human being to truly flourish, in relationship to themselves and in co-creation with the world around them?