About Marcia Narine Weldon

Illuminating Human and Organizational Potential Rooted in Leadership, Law, and Light

I am Marcia Narine Weldon. Founder of Illuminating Wisdom® and Legally Lucid™, Executive Coach and Leadership Scientist, Stress Alchemist, AI Navigator, and proud Lawyer-Lightworker.

In an AI-powered world, I serve as the human and the lawyer in the loop when judgment, ethics, and accountability matter most.

This page reflects the human side of my work, especially for individuals and organizations seeking grounded leadership, resilience, and meaningful change. 

My work is powered by NeuroLUCID™, a practical, brain-based method that brings together applied neuroscience, leadership science, and behavioral design so people and organizations perform with steadiness and intention in demanding environments.

My mission is to help high achievers and high-stakes organizations strengthen judgment, protect well-being, and lead from a place of grounded presence.

I look at well-being as risk management. Not a perk. A necessity. I help clients lead with consciousness, courage, steadiness, and purpose.

What Fuels This Work

My work is personal.

After decades of visible success, I burned out. Not because of the work itself but because of how I carried it.

Six hospitalizations in six years for what doctors believed were heart attacks or strokes forced me to look closely at how I worked, how I lived, and what I believed about achievement.

That experience taught me that sustainable success requires more than strong thinking. It requires understanding the body, emotions, and energy that shape human behavior. It requires a leadership system that can hold pressure without collapsing.

I rebuilt my life using neuroscience, mindfulness, and a deeper respect for the connection between stress, identity, and leadership. That journey led me to become certified in executive coaching, trauma-informed coaching, and mental health first aid. It expanded my understanding of resilience and human potential.

This insight shapes how I guide clients. When we understand what shaped us, we understand how we lead. When we can see the patterns clearly, we can shift them.

Sometimes that means helping a leader stay steady under pressure. Other times it means supporting someone who is recovering from chronic stress or major change.

I help people move forward safely, effectively, and with a grounded sense of self. It is science-backed transformation that honors the full human system.

The same tools that helped me rebuild my health and leadership are the ones I teach. They help teams think clearly, communicate cleanly, and stay steady when stakes rise.

A Career Rooted in Real-World Demands

I have walked the path my clients now face.

• Fortune 500 executive roles spanning legal, privacy, government relations, compliance, ethics, HR, enterprise risk management, and sustainability

• Current General Counsel to nonprofits, former GC of an AI startup and a boutique law firm, and advisory board member to a startup

• Consultant to global technology companies, training AI models on legal accuracy and decision-making

• Former associate and paralegal at three AmLaw 100 firms

• Law professor and Director of Transactional Skills at a major U.S. law school, and professor of technology ethics at an engineering school

• Federal appointee to the Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee under the Obama Administration, with testimony before Congress on compliance programs under Dodd Frank

• Former Miami Dade County ethics commissioner

I also bring credentials in applied neuroscience, neurolinguistic programming, executive coaching, energy psychology, breathwork facilitation, meditation facilitation, emotional freedom technique, hypnotherapy, and more.

All of this is paired with lived experience of what high-stakes leadership truly demands.

Across every engagement, I help organizations strengthen judgment, reduce friction, and build cultures where people perform well without burning out.

Leaders become more effective.

Teams become more aligned.

Organizations gain a healthier, more resilient operating rhythm.

Clients bring me in when the stakes are high, when performance needs to improve fast, or when they want grounded transformation that holds under pressure.

Why I love Working With Entrepreneurs

While much of my work focuses on organizations, law firms, and leadership teams, I also saw the same decision gaps showing up outside institutional settings.

Entrepreneurs, consultants, and independent professionals are regularly asked to sign agreements written by people with legal teams, financial leverage, and risk tolerance they do not share.

They move quickly. They rely on AI and templates. They assume nothing bad will happen.

Legally Lucid™ was created to address that gap — not by replacing lawyers, but by teaching foundational legal judgment before pressure, scale, or conflict enters the picture.

Legally Lucid™ applies the same principles that guide my work with executives and institutions: clear thinking under pressure, ethical decision-making, and risk awareness before consequences set in.

It exists because judgment is not innate. It is built. And most people are never taught how.

If You Are Ready

If you want grounded, evidence-based transformation that supports both performance and well-being, I am ready to partner with you.

Let us elevate how we lead, live, and create work that sustains people.

Let us illuminate what is next.