Here are some kind things people have said about my work and impact.

  • “Sunshine combines her sharp intellect to engage easily across various complex topics, her empathy to understand your perspective, and an engaging approach to get to the heart of challenging questions. She's both patient and assertive and knows when to listen and when to push the conversation forward. She helped me work through some complicated long-term entrepreneurial decisions that I didn't think anyone could help me with. As a result of my coaching sessions with Sunshine, I have a clear plan as well as an understanding of what I'm looking for in my work and in my life. Questions that I thought might be insurmountable became much more manageable—and even fun—to work through.”

    —Founder, Cambridge, MA

  • “Sunshine has an innate ability to take complex information and distill it into something clear and succinct. I have asked her to help me sort through my prioritization of work, my approach to making change within [our team], my approach to working with colleagues and leadership, and how to focus on my own professional development. On each occasion, she has been understanding, patient, kind and intelligent. She is directive when I need to sort what to do immediately, and contemplative and experimental when I need to sort what to do in a longer timeframe. She has boosted my performance, interactions with leadership, and my general outlook at work. I wish she were available to coach everyone on the team.”

    — Staff Product Designer, San Francisco

  • “As we are moving so quickly to scale, Sunshine's coaching is a true gift. Our global team love working with her, as she is very authentic and honest and truly committed to individual and team success. She is incredibly accessible and people pull actively on her time, expert opinion, or simply ask for an ear in tougher times (where a case complexity has gotten to them).”

    —Partner, Consulting Firm, San Francisco

  • “Sunshine constantly manages stakeholders with strong opinions and differing viewpoints. Her ability to integrate multiple perspectives, evaluate trade-offs, and generate one, integrated outcome requires a level of strategic thinking and awareness of stakeholders that is truly rare.”

    —Partner, Consulting Firm, San Francisco

  • “The result was a kind of double benefit: I feel better about the work I’m doing on a daily basis, and I'm also gaining the necessary experiences that will help me feel more confident going into interviews and positioning myself for the next role. Before, it was ‘anything but this,’ and now I can approach things with a more intentional mindset because I have a better sense of what I want. I also learned the small steps I can be doing in my current life that are moving towards this goal. It's not binary/all-or-nothing. I have a lot more confidence now in my career. I gained more confidence in myself, such as my ability to act on my feet. The one word I would use to describe my coaching experience with Sunshine is ‘enlightening.’”

    — Litigation Associate, Los Angeles

  • “Sunshine makes sure that we are able to deliver in an environment where a lot of the existing tools don’t quite match our needs. She is also really good at finding unmet needs / gaps in the people provision that we have and suggesting fixes for them. Countless times I have seen Sunshine go above and beyond to solve problems, take action, and work within, around, and through complex (and often red-tape-laden) systems, to get [our] team members the tools, technology, and systems to do our best work.”

    —Associate Partner, Consulting Firm, San Francisco

  • “Sunshine is an excellent communicator and facilitator. She led a session to develop our team's working norms. She led the room...seemingly easily and with little effort. It was an important and exhausting conversation. She pushed us through ten pages of information and decisions in two hours with an upbeat attitude, and with decisions made by the end of it. I think this speaks to her bias towards action and outcomes.”

    —Senior Manager, Consulting Firm, San Francisco

  • “Sunshine is a powerhouse. She is highly visible and respected across our team globally. She has a gift for finding and facilitating consensus between opposing parties and aligning them on a path forward. She cares deeply about people. One of her great skills, beyond listening, is keeping track of ten systems in her head. We would be a mess without her.”

    —Design Team Lead, San Francisco

  • “Sunshine has been a guide and mentor to me, a partner in doing some of the most difficult work of my career, and an inspiration in the way she approaches her own work.”

    — Director of Operations, San Francisco

  • “I know that when I go to Sunshine, I'm going to get the help I need - she'll help me get unstuck, drive things forward, and will be a thoughtful listening ear. She asks insightful and thorough questions that help break through and get to what's important.”

    —Senior Manager, Consulting Firm, Los Angeles

  • “This is the most important course that I took in law school. To be a lawyer is to be an adviser. You can't advise clients by looking solely at legal doctrine. You have to understand your client and the way the world appears to them. The course helped me identify my strengths and weaknesses in how I work, how I collaborate, and how to create a satisfying legal practice. I value myself and my classmates more because of this class. I am looking forward to my career because of this class.”

    — Berkeley Law Student (course evaluation)

  • “100% RECOMMEND! I would absolutely recommend this course to everyone. I learned SO much from each section of the class...as my classmates and I tested different tactics, learned how to have difficult conversations, how to balance everything and be happier in the drudgery of law school. Every single book is relevant and backed in research from leading scholars in the field. This class was refreshing because it brought me out of my comfort zone as we did in-class group activities, outside-class group activities, I bonded with my classmates, and will be taking valuable skills into my career. Professor Yin is incredible and is constantly thinking about how to help students succeed. Both professors took time out of their personal lives to meet with so many students and to help guide them. This class is the smartest course offering Berkeley Law has.”

    — Berkeley Law Student (course evaluation)