About
Golux Strategies is a boutique consulting and coaching practice founded and led by Rachel Gans.
Meet Rachel Gans, Founder
Rachel Gans is a strategist, educator, and coach with more than two decades of experience helping people and organizations navigate complex systems.
With an innate sense of curiosity, Rachel has a diverse set of expertise spanning pedagogy, communication scholarship, workforce development, executive functioning coaching, developmental and organizational communication, and special education advocacy.
Her work is unified by a consistent approach: understanding how complex systems function, identifying where they break down for the people within them, and designing initiatives, interventions, and curricula that work at the programmatic and human levels.
Rachel holds a BA in History from Brandeis University, an MA in Media Ecology from New York University, and an MA in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She trained as a coach with the Coaches Training Institute and holds certificates in Strategic Management and Innovation from the Copenhagen Business School and Human-Centered Strategy from IDEO.
An award-winning educator, Rachel served as Associate Professor of Practice at the Gwen Ifill College of Media, Arts, and Humanities at Simmons University for seven years, and has held visiting faculty positions at Northeastern, Clark, and Brandeis Universities. She currently teaches in the graduate school at Lasell University. Across her career, Rachel has been recognized for her pedagogy, notably receiving the Toby Sloan Teaching Award and being named in the Princeton Review's Best 300 Professors. At Simmons, she was awarded a year-long faculty fellowship to develop best practices for teaching students navigating mental health challenges — research that drew directly from her experience as a coach and her work with neurodivergent learners.
She has designed and managed major grants for the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Bringing her academic expertise into the private sector, she served for four years as partner at NOVL, a management consulting firm, and has led workforce development initiatives for the City of Boston and Meet Boston.
She brings to her work as a coach and consultant the same approach that defined her pedagogy — high expectations, strong scaffolding, and a genuine commitment to accountability and results.
Rachel operates from a simple conviction: with guidance, support, and planning, organizations, families, and individuals can navigate complexity and build capacity — no matter how insurmountable the problems seem. That conviction drives every engagement, inspires every workshop, and shapes every coaching and consulting relationship.
She is based in Massachusetts and works virtually with clients across the country.
