About Us

Banana Tree Consulting & Coaching LLC partners with leaders, teams, and organizations to build the human and organizational capacity needed to thrive in an increasingly complex world.

We help people and organizations navigate change, strengthen leadership, improve communication, transform conflict, and create cultures where both people and performance flourish.

Our work is grounded in a simple belief: organizations achieve their greatest potential when people are empowered to bring their best selves, best thinking, and full humanity to the work they do together.

Today’s leaders are navigating uncertainty, rapid change, competing priorities, workplace tensions, and increasing demands for collaboration across differences. Technical expertise alone is no longer enough.

Organizations need leaders who can communicate effectively, build trust, navigate conflict constructively, foster belonging, strengthen accountability, and create the conditions where excellence can be broadly shared.

At BTCC, leadership is not simply about managing people or achieving short-term results. Leadership is about creating the conditions that allow individuals, teams, and organizations to achieve meaningful and sustainable excellence while honoring the humanity of every person involved.

BTCC’s approach integrates leadership development, emotional intelligence, coaching, mindful communication, conflict navigation, cultural agility, and organizational consulting into a practical pathway for sustainable growth and transformation. We help clients:

• Lead with clarity and purpose.
• Strengthen emotional intelligence and leadership self-mastery.
• Communicate across differences with courage and care.
• Build trust, psychological safety, and shared accountability.
• Navigate difficult conversations constructively.
• Transform conflict into opportunity, learning, accountability, and repair.
• Strengthen team effectiveness and collaboration.
• Align people, culture, strategy, and performance.
• Create sustainable organizational excellence that benefits people, organizations, and communities.

Our signature framework, Leadership for Broad-Based Excellence, provides a practical pathway for helping leaders and organizations move beyond performative commitments and short-term success toward lasting impact.

Dr. Elavie Ndura is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Banana Tree Consulting & Coaching LLC.

She is a Certified Executive Coach, Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), Genos Emotional Intelligence Certified Practitioner, leadership consultant, facilitator, conflict transformation practitioner, keynote speaker, and internationally recognized university professor and scholar who has spent more than four decades helping leaders and organizations thrive across education, business, nonprofit, government, healthcare, and community sectors.

For more than four decades, Dr. Ndura has helped individuals and organizations navigate complexity, build stronger relationships, engage across differences, navigate conflict, and lead meaningful change. Clients value her ability to create environments where people feel heard, respected, challenged, and empowered to grow.

Her facilitation style combines warmth, authenticity, intellectual rigor, practical wisdom, strategic clarity, and a deep commitment to human dignity. A multilingual educator and global citizen, Dr. Ndura brings a unique intercultural perspective to her work. Having lived, studied, and worked across multiple cultural contexts, she understands both the challenges and the transformative possibilities that emerge when people with different experiences, identities, and perspectives come together.

“How can we build stronger relationships, stronger communities, and stronger organizations while honoring the humanity of every person involved?”

• Founder and Principal Consultant, Banana Tree Consulting & Coaching LLC.
• Certified Executive Coach, Center for Executive Coaching.
• Associate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coaching Federation (ICF).
• Genos Emotional Intelligence Certified Practitioner, Genos International.
• University Professor and Educational Leader.
• Author, co-author, and co-editor of seven books.
• Author of more than thirty peer-reviewed publications.
• Presenter of more than two hundred keynote addresses and professional conference presentations.
• Facilitator of leadership development initiatives across multiple sectors.
• Conflict transformation and dialogue practitioner.
• Internationally recognized scholar of leadership, education, communication, culture, and human development.

“Organizations do not thrive because leaders have all the answers. They thrive because leaders create conditions where the best answers can emerge.”