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Sir Aaron Mason, MSMFT ABD

I’m a leadership coach, facilitator, and systemic thinker — but before any title, I’m a neurodivergent Black man who has lived through trauma, silence, and the weight of navigating systems never built for people like me. My work is shaped as much by my lived experience as by my professional training.

I grew up carrying the wounds of childhood sexual trauma, and for years, I learned to survive by staying quiet, staying small, and staying out of the way. I know what it’s like to move through the world feeling unseen, misunderstood, or reduced to labels that never captured my full humanity. I also know the power of telling the truth — the way honesty can break open shame and create space for real healing.

For years, I worked as a Marriage and Family Therapist, supporting individuals, couples, and families through trauma, identity challenges, and relational pain. While I no longer practice as a licensed clinician, I carry those years of clinical work with me. They inform how I coach leaders, train organizations, and build systems rooted in cultural awareness and sensitivity. My lens is trauma-informed, neurodivergent-informed, socially conscious, and grounded in systemic understanding.

My lived experience is inseparable from my professional work. As someone who has navigated racial trauma, neurodivergence, and the complexity of multiple marginalized identities, I understand what it means to hold contradictions: strength and vulnerability, belonging and otherness, clarity and confusion. These realities shaped my commitment to helping others build bridges — within themselves, within their organizations, and across cultural divides.

This commitment led me to develop the Cultural Effectiveness Training (CET) Model, a framework that blends neurobiology, cultural consciousness, systems thinking, and lived experience. The CET Model helps people and organizations grow through awareness and sensitivity, moving beyond performative inclusion into genuine transformation.

Today, I coach leaders, teams, and companies seeking to deepen cultural competence, strengthen communication, and build relationally attuned environments. I don’t show up as an expert who has it all figured out. I show up as someone who has done — and continues to do — the work. Someone who believes that healing, growth, and cultural change require honesty, humility, and presence.

If you’re a leader, a team, or an organization seeking to align your values with your practices — to cultivate spaces where people feel seen, safe, and empowered — I’m here. I don’t offer judgment. I offer clarity, systemic insight, and a deep respect for your journey.

I once thought I had to hide the parts of myself that hurt. What I’ve learned is that those very parts made me who I am. And that’s the self I bring into this work — because no one should have to navigate transformation alone.