About Whitney Ortiz

Whitney Harrelson Ortiz is the founder of The Connection Atelier, a private advisory supporting women navigating identity, leadership, meaningful connection, and legacy through periods of growth, transition, reinvention, and expansion. 

She brings together decades of experience across the public, private, and non-profit sectors, along with a lifelong commitment to cultivating connection across people, cultures, communities, and disciplines. In 2017, Whitney founded Eliana's Light in loving memory of one of her daughters, whose life and medical journey continue to shape her understanding of whole health, resilience, caregiving, identity, and the power of compassionate human connection.

Whitney's work integrates research- and evidence-based training in women-centered coaching, mindfulness, meditation, and whole health approaches to self-care with intuitive relational insight and real-world leadership experience. Her approach is deeply relational, women-centered, and grounded in the belief that meaningful transformation begins by strengthening connection within ourselves and between one another.

Whitney lives in Washington, DC with her husband, who is from a different culture and country, and together they are raising their teenage daughter within a multicultural family shaped by curiosity, connection, and a global perspective.

The Connection Atelier a private advisory for women navigating identity, leadership, meaningful connection, and legacy through periods of growth, transition, reinvention, and expansion.

Grounded in the philosophy of relational architecture, The Connection Atelier supports women in strengthening connection to themselves as the foundation for greater clarity, whole health, relational depth, and aligned leadership.

Through private advisory, connection intensives, and relational strategy, founder Whitney Harrelson Ortiz creates thoughtful spaces for reflection, identity-level expansion, and meaningful transformation so women can lead, create, and contribute in ways that are more intentional, sustaining, and aligned with who they are becoming.

The Connection Atelier is rooted in the belief that when women strengthen their inner foundation, their capacity for authentic connection, purposeful leadership, and human flourishing expands outward into their relationships, work, families, and communities.

If you are interested in learning more, I invite you to reach out and begin a conversation.

Warmly,

Whitney