Rana Eshtiagh

I help cultural institutions stop performing coherence they don't feel and start building psychological infrastructure that actually holds. Former VC/M&A strategist and startup founder who spent fifteen years behind the scenes before recognizing that museums face the same crisis as founders: leaders operating from empty, organizations on borrowed language, systems optimized for visibility instead of depth. Behavioral psychologist, narrative architect, and painter with NY gallery representation, fluent in five languages, working at the intersection of culture, psychology and arts, what endures when performance ends. I sit with directors and curators asking questions nobody else asks until we find the thread of what they actually believe underneath the strategic plan. Based between studios in Europe, most comfortable in silence, available for fractional engagements with leaders ready to admit they're in freefall and brave enough to learn how to move with it.