we are raising up leaders who are globally minded and locally rooted

Backed by a (com)passionate team of professionals, we provide community resources, comprehensive strategy development and project execution for progressive changemakers.

We help our private clients tell their stories and make their impact through guided mythologizing, heart-based branding, intuitive systems design, and authentic conversation – building businesses that champion equity, fairness and timeless wisdom in the modern marketplace.

All Bijou Collective's programs and services are designed to ignite your creative spark and encourage you to rise up inspired, nourished, and ready to step into your role as a leader in the progressive economy.

safa bee wesley

Safa Bee is a corporate escapee on a mission to trailblaze the conscious economy. She teaches social changemakers how to decolonize their magic, restore their wellbeing, and create alignment between the impact of their business and their progressive intentions. She dreams of seeing the next generation of rebel leaders serving and receiving from a place of deep abundance. In addition to her work with Bijou, she is building a regenerative urban garden with her family in the highlands of Chiapas.

jamie elle toscani

Jamie is an operations strategist with a keen eye for detail. She has spent a decade making women-led businesses run well from the inside. She brings that experience to Bijou, responsible for how the company delivers, scales, and keeps its promises to the community it serves. Having seen firsthand how traditional workplaces fail women, she’s helping build Bijou into proof that a company can be run differently, while protecting the health and humanity of the people within it.

maxyne tanha

Maxyne has been investing her genius into Bijou Collective for over a decade. She has played a pivotal role in shaping our internal structure, systems and company values, ensuring that we execute all our endeavors with efficiency and integrity. She now extends her vision & creativity to internal and client projects. When she is not busy with Bijou Collective, Maxyne can be found perusing farmer's markets, drinking artisan coffee, and hiking with her dogs through the sun-kissed mountains and beaches of Southern California.

yunus wesley

Yunus applies his background in linguistics, editing, printing and art to supporting clients with content optimization and project implementation services – and he also contributes his deep resonant voice, which is available for podcasts and audio books whenever client projects require. When he is not in front of a computer, Yunus pours his love and sense of wonder into every leaf, rock, worm and bug in his regenerative urban garden, where he lives with his family in the highlands of Chiapas.

madeline love

Madeline begins her work with deep listening, reaching into the heart of every story by using her keen powers of observation and intuition; she then puts her creativity to work, expressing the essence of each project in gorgeous visual language. Her areas of expertise include graphic design, photography, and Instagram growth & account management. Madeline's happy places include thrifting for hidden gems, scouting local designers, and basking in dappled garden sunlight with her daughters.

claire baujard

Claire has provided heartfelt & intuitive copywriting for Bijou since 2016. Sorbonne educated, professional stripes earned at Barefaced, Blondie, and French ELLE, Claire's keyboard is our team's secret weapon – helping our clients find their voice and craft wildly creative and personally meaningful content. Side note: Claire loves baking, reading, drinking tea and brainstorming ways to make the world a better place.

polina batishcheva

Polina got her start in media working 'in studio' for television and radio stations in Moscow, but soon took an interest in working directly with heart-based entrepreneurs to help them tell their stories and reach audiences online. Polina applies her prodigious tech skills to transforming our clients' audio and visual content into podcasts, sales videos, multimedia-rich blog posts and social media content.

marta lourenço

With her background in journalism and communications, using language and multimedia to tell stories is where Marta feels most at home. She provides the final step in transforming our content creation strategies into published work, overseeing a rich calendar of blog posts, social media and audience interactions. At Bijou, we all rely on Marta's keen editorial eye – not to mention her calming, sunny disposition!