Elaine Lou Cartas is a trauma-informed and award-winning WOC business coach, a certified executive coach, and a speaker. Her favorite title? Oldest daughter of a Filipino immigrant farmer. In the past 8 years, Elaine has worked with 20,000+ clients in 58 different countries. More importantly, she is known for her 300+ client reviews.

MSN awarded Elaine as the #1 Business Coach and a Top Leadership and Executive Coach of 2024. LA Weekly acknowledged Elaine as the #1 Thought Leader of 2023 for her Conscious Conversations® framework. Elaine was also the #1 SCMSDC Pitch Winner for 2025. Elaine offers a trauma-informed certified space to guide recovering perfectionist leaders and their high-achieving teams to simplify workloads, overcome overwhelm, have conscious conversations and achieve sustainable results by their own definition of success.) She is also a LinkedIn Learning Instructor. She additionally has courses on career navigation and AI with Brown, Duke, John Hopkins, USC and LMU.

Her work, and her podcast, WOC & Allies: Business & Career Realtalk™, has been featured in Forbes and Business Insider. She has coached and spoken to Fortune 500 leaders from Kellogg’s, Coca-Cola, Visa, Target, Procter & Gamble, Nestlé, Universal Music Group. Elaine is a Professional Certified Coach, and Certified Executive Coach with a Master’s in Leadership and Management from the University of La Verne. She brings experience as a former community organizer and fundraiser, during which she raised $11 million for mission-driven initiatives. She lives in Los Angeles with her partner and loves Muay Thai.