Marion H. Biglan, Co-Founder

Marion H. Biglan, PCC, brings decades of experience as a founder, team leader, coach, and consultant. She is passionate about partnering with leaders and their organizations to help them thrive.

After graduating with a history degree from Southern Methodist University, Marion started her career as a 5th-grade teacher through Teach For America in rural Louisiana, then became the founding executive director of Teach For America’s Chicago site. Marion went on to help found Teach For America’s Human Assets team, where she spent almost ten years building and ultimately leading the Business Partner team. In 2015 Marion launched her business, MHBiglan Consulting, now called Illuminate Collective, and partners as a coach and consultant to leaders and organizations in a variety of businesses. As a former founder herself, Marion has a deep affinity for start-up organizations and is skilled at working with all types of organizations – from B-Corps to global corporations to school districts to non-profits.

Marion holds a Professional Coach Certification (PCC) from the International Coach Federation and a Professional Diversity Coach Certification from the Coach Diversity Institute. She is certified through the Leadership Circle to offer their globally recognized 360 leadership assessment and is a certified practitioner of the Enneagram. She has also trained with the Immunity to Change Program, the Social Justice Mediation Institute, and Coaches Rising.

A parent of two young adults and a cute rescue pup, Marion is a proud resident of Cheltenham Township outside of Philadelphia. She loves being active in our local community, serving as a board member of the Cheltenham Education Foundation and the co-leader of a group she founded called Women in Community, a network of women who come together to build deeper relationships across race.

Miwa Kamras, Co-Founder

Miwa Kamras is passionate about building relationships, cultivating community, and coaching and developing leaders to achieve their purpose. She brings over twenty-five years of experience as a teacher, non-profit executive, and human capital partner to her work as an executive coach and facilitator with Illuminate Collective. Throughout her career, Miwa has partnered with a range of mission-driven leaders and organizations to build more inclusive and impactful teams.

Miwa’s experience as an elementary school teacher in the DC Public Schools and Atlanta Public Schools deeply informs her work. Inspired by her time in the classroom, she spent fourteen years developing and leading teams at Teach For America, including serving as the Executive Director of Teach For America DC and a Senior Managing Director on the Human Assets team. Miwa started her own coaching and consulting business in 2016 and co-founded Illuminate Collective with Marion in 2021. She serves as an executive coach to leaders across multiple sectors and a consultant and facilitator focused on leadership development, organizational culture and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Miwa holds an A.B. from Harvard University and an Ed.M. from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education in Early Childhood Risk & Prevention. She holds a Professional Diversity Coach Certification from the Coach Diversity Institute. She is a certified practitioner of the Enneagram and has also trained with Coaches Rising. Miwa serves as a Voices of Jubilee board member and meets weekly with her “To Be Continued” writing group. She lives in Richmond, VA with her husband, sons, and rescue dog and can always be counted on for a great children’s book recommendation.

Natalie Basham, Partner

Natalie Basham has led as a teacher, counselor, school leader, nonprofit board member, and volunteer.  She began her career as a teacher in rural Missouri before working as a teacher in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas.  Then as Founding Principal, Natalie designed and managed a team of volunteer students and parents to recruit over 300 middle-school students to enroll and graduate from one of the first dual language STEM middle and high schools in south Texas.  Her experiences designing and launching a school cultivated her interest in talent management and culture practices that lead to diverse teams that achieve high performance and sustain it.   After several years as an educator, Natalie made a career transition to Human Resources as a Business Partner providing talent management and planning consulting and advice to executive directors and their direct reports.  

Now, in addition to partnering with Illuminate Collective as a coach and facilitator, Natalie founded N.O.V.A. Services LLC, a consulting firm providing third-party ombuds support,  grievance responses and investigation, conflict mediation, and restorative dialogues.  N.O.V.A. Services partners to address immediate, time-sensitive needs as well as build the capacity of people and teams to sustain change and engage in healthy conflict with confidence and compassion after they engage with N.OV.A. Services.  Natalie earned certifications in Social Justice Mediation, SHRM-CP,  and Somatic Coaching.  She is a member of the Texas Association of Mediators, the International Ombuds Association, HR Houston, SHRM, and BNI.  When she is not building and strengthening bridges between people and within teams, she enjoys time with her family and the outdoors.