From Stuck to Sought-After
Break limiting patterns. Navigate transitions. Thrive through change.
"Design to Grow, LLC" helps professionals and organizations move forward with clarity and confidence using neuroplasticity, design thinking, and clinical expertise. Whether you're navigating a career transition, leading through organizational change, or breaking through limiting patterns, you'll gain the frameworks and support to create meaningful transformation.
The proprietary Neural Space Model is an evidence-informed framework integrating neuroplasticity research (Doidge, Pert, Hanson), design thinking (Stanford), somatic psychology (Levine, van der Kolk), and narrative therapy.
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Who I Work With
Whether you're navigating a career transition or job loss, leading your team through organizational change, stuck in a limiting pattern you can't break alone, or building resilience in uncertain times, you deserve support that goes beyond surface-level advice.
I work with mid- to senior-level professionals and organizational leaders who recognize that sustainable change requires more than willpower—it requires rewiring the patterns that keep you stuck.
My clients are intelligent, accomplished individuals who know something needs to shift but haven't found the right framework or support to make it happen. They're ready to do the deeper work that creates lasting transformation.
Career Transitions
Professionals navigating job changes, industry pivots, or return to work after career gaps
Leadership Challenges
Executives and managers leading teams through uncertainty and organizational change
Limiting Patterns
High performers who find themselves repeating unproductive behaviors despite their best efforts
Organizational Change
Companies implementing workforce transitions, managing transformation, or building adaptive cultures
The Neural Space Model
My approach integrates neuroplasticity, design thinking, and clinical counseling to create sustainable change. The Neural Space Model provides a structured pathway from recognition to lasting transformation.
Recognize
Identify the pattern keeping you stuck. We bring unconscious behaviors into conscious awareness, examining the triggers, beliefs, and responses that create your current reality.
Reframe
Challenge limiting beliefs with new possibilities. Using evidence-based tools from neuroscience and cognitive psychology, we create space for alternative perspectives and interpretations.
Redesign
Co-create your personalized path forward. Through design thinking methodology, we prototype new approaches, test assumptions, and build a concrete action plan aligned with your values.
Rewire
Anchor change in your body and mind. Somatic practices and consistent action create new neural pathways, transforming temporary insights into permanent patterns.
This isn't about quick fixes or motivational speeches. It's about understanding how your brain creates patterns and using that knowledge to deliberately create new ones. The work is intensive, evidence-based, and transformative.
Services for Individuals
Personalized breakthrough sessions and coaching engagements designed for professionals ready to create meaningful change. Each service leverages the Neural Space Model to deliver concrete results and lasting transformation.
90-Minute Breakthrough Session
An intensive 1:1 session using the Neural Space Model to help you break through stuck patterns and gain clarity on your path forward.
Executive Coaching
6-month personalized coaching engagement for directors, VPs, and C-suite executives navigating transitions, leadership challenges, or strategic pivots.
Career Transition Coaching Cohort
Custom 6-8 week programs for professionals navigating job loss, career pivots, industry changes, or return to work after career gaps.
What Makes This Different
Unlike traditional coaching that focuses solely on goals and accountability, or therapy that explores past experiences, this work integrates the best of both—plus neuroscience and design thinking.
You'll understand why you're stuck at a neurological level, experiment with new approaches using design thinking methodology, and anchor change through somatic practices that create new neural pathways.
Who This Is For
  • Professionals navigating career uncertainty or transitions
  • Leaders facing complex challenges requiring fresh perspectives
  • High performers stuck in limiting patterns despite their success
  • Individuals ready for intensive, evidence-based work
  • People seeking transformation, not just temporary motivation
Services for Organizations
Strategic solutions for companies navigating change, developing leaders, and building resilient teams. From workshops to comprehensive leadership programs, these offerings bring the Neural Space Model to your organization.
Organizations face unprecedented challenges—from AI adoption to workforce transitions to cultural transformation. Standard training programs often fail because they don't address the underlying patterns and beliefs that drive behavior.
My organizational work goes deeper, helping teams and leaders understand how to break limiting patterns at both individual and systemic levels. The result is sustainable change that survives beyond the workshop or program.
Corporate Workshops
90-minute to half-day workshops for teams navigating change, building resilience, or breaking limiting patterns.
  • Breaking Limiting Patterns in Uncertain Times
  • Leading Through Disruption
  • Building Resilient Teams
  • The Future of Work Mindset
Leadership Development Programs
Custom cohort programs for leadership teams navigating organizational change, transformation, or strategic shifts.
6-8 week programs with weekly group sessions, individual coaching, and team accountability.
Organizational Change Consulting
Custom Engagement
Strategic support for companies implementing workforce transitions, managing AI adoption, or building adaptive cultures during periods of transformation.
Comprehensive consulting combining neural science, design thinking, and change management expertise.
90-Minute Breakthrough Session
An intensive experience designed to create clarity and momentum
What You'll Experience
This isn't a typical coaching session. It's an intensive deep dive using the complete Neural Space Model to identify the specific pattern keeping you stuck and create a concrete plan to move forward.
We'll move through all four phases—Recognize, Reframe, Redesign, and Rewire—in a single focused session. You'll leave with clarity about what's been holding you back and exactly what to do next.
The session integrates neuroplasticity principles, design thinking methodology, and clinical counseling techniques to create both insight and actionable change.
What's Included
  • 90-minute intensive 1:1 session
  • Pattern identification and analysis
  • Evidence-based reframing tools
  • Personalized 30-day action plan
  • Somatic practices to anchor new patterns
  • Two 15-minute follow-up check-ins (at 2 weeks and 30 days)
  • Custom resources and frameworks
  • Email support between check-ins
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Pre-Session Prep
Complete a brief questionnaire to help us make the most of our time together
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90-Minute Session
Intensive work through the complete Neural Space Model to create your breakthrough
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30-Day Action Plan
Clear, concrete steps customized to your situation and goals
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2-Week Check-In
15-minute call to assess progress and troubleshoot challenges
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30-Day Check-In
15-minute call to celebrate wins and plan next steps

This session is ideal for professionals who need focused support on a specific challenge or transition. If you're looking for ongoing support, ask about Executive Coaching packages during your curiosity call.
What Clients Say
"My session with Lena was exceptional—I was able to release key internal blocks and gain the clarity and wisdom to move forward with a focused 30-day action plan."
"Her neuroscience-based approach delivered profound insight and meaningful transformation. I highly recommend Lena!"
— Tiffany Jeffers
Executive & Celebrity Coach
"I have been feeling stuck in my career journey for 9 years… During my consultation, Lena taught me how to do breathing work and physical postures to strengthen my affirmations. Additionally, Lena helped me heal the little girl in me regarding [some of] my limiting beliefs and I gave the gift of healing to my mom. At the end of the session, I was feeling 0 out of 10 [in terms] of my stuckness."
"I left feeling rejuvenated and empowered to face my career journey with joy and excitement. I highly recommend services with Lena for those wanting sustaining change and breakthrough!"
— Seun Blose
Client Health Specialist
Results-Focused
Clients consistently report concrete breakthroughs within the first session, with lasting impact that extends far beyond our work together.
Evidence-Based
Every tool and framework is grounded in neuroscience research, design thinking methodology, and clinical best practices.
Deeply Personal
While the approach is structured, the application is completely customized to your unique situation, challenges, and goals.
About Lena Jackson, MS, NCC, LGPC
I'm an adjunct faculty member at a distinguished university, neuroplasticity researcher, and licensed counselor who helps professionals and organizations navigate transitions using an integrated approach that combines brain science, design thinking, and clinical expertise.
My work exists at the intersection of multiple disciplines because I believe that's where the most powerful transformation happens. Traditional coaching often lacks the depth to address unconscious patterns. Therapy can get stuck exploring the past without building the future. Design thinking provides innovation tools but sometimes misses the psychological complexity of human behavior.
The Neural Space Model integrates all three—helping you understand why you're stuck at a neurological level, experiment with new approaches, and anchor lasting change in your body and mind.
Education
  • MS, Clinical Counseling — Johns Hopkins University
  • Design Thinking for Innovation — Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
  • Stanford Life Design Certified
Certifications
  • Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC)
  • Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor (LGPC), Maryland
  • ICF-Trained Coach
Professional Experience
  • Adjunct Faculty, Johns Hopkins University
  • Neuroplasticity Researcher
  • Clinical Counselor
  • Executive Coach
Before founding Design to Grow, I worked with hundreds of clients navigating career transitions, leadership challenges, and personal transformation. I've seen firsthand how traditional approaches often fall short—not because they're wrong, but because they're incomplete.
The integration of neuroplasticity, design thinking, and clinical counseling creates something more powerful than any single discipline alone. It's this integration that allows clients to create breakthroughs in a single session and sustain that change over time.
Why This Approach Works
Most coaching and consulting focuses on what you should do differently. But knowing what to do doesn't create change—if it did, you would have already done it. Lasting transformation requires understanding why you're stuck and how to rewire the patterns keeping you there.
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Neuroplasticity: Understanding How Your Brain Creates Patterns
Your brain is designed to create efficient patterns—neural pathways that automate behavior so you don't have to consciously think about every action. This is incredibly useful for things like walking or driving, but problematic when you've automated limiting patterns like self-doubt, avoidance, or overwork.
Neuroplasticity is your brain's ability to create new pathways. But it requires more than willpower—it requires understanding the triggers, beliefs, and rewards that reinforce your current patterns, then deliberately designing new ones.
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Design Thinking: Prototyping Your Way Forward
Design thinking provides a methodology for innovation that's equally powerful when applied to your career, leadership, or life. Instead of trying to plan the perfect solution, you prototype small experiments, test assumptions, and iterate based on what you learn.
This approach reduces the risk and fear that often keeps people stuck. You're not committing to a massive change—you're running small experiments to gather data about what works for you.
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Clinical Counseling: Addressing the Deeper Patterns
While coaches can help with goals and accountability, clinical training provides tools for working with the unconscious beliefs, defenses, and patterns that often drive behavior. Many limiting patterns have roots in early experiences or trauma responses that require clinical expertise to address effectively.
This depth allows us to work with the real obstacles to change, not just the surface-level symptoms.
The Integration Is the Innovation
What makes this approach unique isn't any single element—it's the integration of all three. Neuroscience helps us understand the mechanism of change. Design thinking provides a methodology for experimentation. Clinical counseling addresses the deeper psychological patterns.
Together, they create a framework for sustainable transformation that goes beyond insight or motivation to actual rewiring of limiting patterns.
Evidence-Based and Results-Focused
Every tool, framework, and practice is grounded in research. From the neuroscience of habit formation to the clinical psychology of cognitive restructuring to the design thinking principles of rapid prototyping—this isn't theory, it's applied science.
The result is work that's both deeply personal and rigorously evidence-based. You'll understand the research behind why we're doing what we're doing, while experiencing customized support that addresses your specific situation.
Ready to Get Unstuck?
Whether you're an individual professional navigating a transition or an organizational leader seeking strategic support for your team, the first step is a conversation.
For Individuals
Book a free 15-minute curiosity call to explore if the 90-Minute Breakthrough Session or Executive Coaching is right for you.
We'll discuss your current challenge, what you've already tried, and whether this approach is a good fit for your situation and goals.
For Organizations
Schedule a consultation to discuss corporate workshops, leadership development programs, or organizational change consulting.
We'll explore your team's challenges, organizational goals, and how the Neural Space Model could support your specific needs.
Contact Information
Design to Grow
Coaching & Consulting
Based in Maryland
Serving clients nationally via video sessions
The Neural Space Model is a proprietary framework created by Lena Jackson and owned by Design to Grow, LLC.
It may not be copied, taught, reproduced, or adapted in whole or in part without formal written authorization.
What to Expect
During our initial conversation, there's no pressure or sales pitch. I'm genuinely interested in understanding your situation and determining if this work is right for you.
If it's not a fit, I'll tell you. If it is, we'll discuss next steps. Either way, you'll leave with clarity about your path forward.

Not sure which service is right for you? That's completely normal. The curiosity call is designed to help you get clear on what type of support would be most valuable for your specific situation. Book a call and we'll figure it out together.