About Saima Jay
My vision is to help clients and teams bring about personal and professional transformations; to help develop their potential and recover meaning and purpose in their lives and careers.
As a certified Coach, with over 15 years of experience leading teams and agile transformations, I offer transformational coaching to clients who are ready to lead a life of passion and purpose. As a Zen practitioner and Integral® Coach, I support others on their own paths of transformation.
“What keeps us from joining the dance the dust particles do? We are out of our cages. With our wings spread, Yet we do not lift off.”
— Rumi
My Hopeful Beginnings
On a cold winter evening in 1995, I landed in Manhattan - a young Pakistani woman eager to live a success story worthy of a best selling novel. After graduating college I climbed the ladder to a top-tier financial firm on Wall Street. Fast forward several years, I was a budding co-founder of a trading technology start up. A high-end career in Agile transformations for technology teams in Silicon Valley followed. I had made it. Why was I miserable?
Finding Myself
As glamorous as life looked on the outside, it felt meaningless so my inner life was growing restless and dark. I found myself filling a growing void with addictive behaviors. Moving cities, changing jobs, shopping, drinking, going from relationship to relationship, all felt like temporary Band-Aids.
I needed to transform my life, integrating the disparate parts of myself. My inner and outer life needed harmony. I embarked on a journey to uncover and nourish my passion to connect to the deeper truths and learn what truly helps embody change and connection. On a trip to Pakistan visiting schools in villages in interior Sindh, an innocent question from a 10 year old child caused me to breakdown to tears. She asked “Why did you go to America?” In that shattering moment, I realized how imprisoned I felt, a startling contrast to the playfulness naivete of this sweet child.
Upon my return to San Francisco CA, I delved into formal studies and practices of human development and Recovery in all matters of Self, questioning what is of true value and worth pursuing.
What If You Did?
No more surrendering to fear and resistance.
Your time on this planet is precious.
Trust your wings.
No matter what script you followed to bring you to this point, your beauty, goodness and truth is always within you, waiting for you to stop, be still and try something more daring. You can attain the life you envision no matter where you are right now.
Take that first step, and book a free consult call with me. I am here to inspire you and be an evolution guide in your next transformational move.