Yoga Alliance
Liz Pratt, PhD, serves as the User Research Program Director at IBM, focusing on Automation & AI and Data & AI, where leadership of a team of 33 user researchers integrates user and customer needs into product strategy for a comprehensive software portfolio. With an extensive background in user experience research, Liz has held significant positions at Express Scripts and PayPal, and successfully managed UX research teams influencing business strategies for leading firms. Currently, Liz also contributes to academia as a Course Instructor at The University of Texas at Austin, teaching IBM's Design Thinking practices. Additionally, Liz is a certified yoga instructor and sound practitioner with specialized training in trauma-informed practices. Liz holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Connecticut and a BA in Psychology from Wittenberg University.
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Yoga Alliance
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Yoga Alliance is the leading nonprofit association representing the yoga community worldwide. Our work is a direct reflection of yoga professionals’ needs and feedback, and supports and fosters the high quality, safe, accessible, and equitable teaching yoga everywhere. We do this through: • Celebrating and uplifting the many diverse yoga styles, traditions, and lineages; • Upholding the worldwide growth of yoga through education and community, including Digital Event programming; • Encouraging safe yoga instruction via quantitative Standards and a member-wide Ethical Commitment, which includes an enhanced Code of Conduct, Scope of Practice, and responsibility to equity in yoga; • Advocating for self-regulation in the yoga industry, our community's protection from unfair or unnecessarily burdensome patents, taxation, or government regulation; and universal access to high quality, safe, accessible, and equitable yoga practices; • Serving the member community by providing tools for professional growth and development, exclusive benefits, and timely resources and information including those on COVID-19 and Social Justice; • Fostering accountability within our standards, membership, and internal team; and • Providing yoga schools and yoga teachers with effective business practices to help achieve success.