From “fixing” leaders to finding the inner conflict that keeps them from their best.

My mission is to support people in expressing their genius, to be fulfilled and unstoppable in their life and work while creating the conditions for others to be the same.

I believe every one of us has tremendous talent and we need to unleash it fully to tackle the complex, important challenges the world is facing. The problem is, we make it hard for ourselves and others to operate at that level. We don’t do it on purpose, but it happens every day.

MY STORY

Early in my career, I believed that success comes from hard work and smarts. My experiences largely supported that thinking until I started seeing lots of people – myself included – doing just that and yet feeling dissatisfied and not quite able to get where they wanted.

I sensed there was a lot of potential being left untapped in every workplace, spurring my desire to get into the field of adult development.

When I began coaching, my well-meaning intent was to fix my clients’ leadership approach.

This helped them resolve short-term issues, but over time I would watch them fall back into old patterns and face the same obstacles over and over.

I realized I needed to stop looking for a problem or fault and focus on my clients as humans with uniquely layered – and mostly unconscious! – ways of making sense of themselves and their environment.

Suddenly, there was no more “right” or “wrong”; just multiple perspectives at play, each influencing behavior differently and often creating conflict between what my clients desired and how they were showing up.

The work became about bringing into focus the self-reinforcing systems that keep them stuck despite their best efforts and then figuring out how to minimize or completely remove the obstacles to fully expressing their genius.

The result? More substantial and lasting change.

CERTIFICATIONS

  • The Leadership Circle Profile and Collective Leadership Assessment
  • Immunity to Change™ Facilitator and Coach
  • Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching (Advanced Certified)
  • Multipliers™ Master Practitioner
  • Growth Edge Coaching Qualified
  • Keirsey Temperament Sorter
  • International Coaching Federation Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
  • Master of Science – Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, VA
  • Master of Education – Special Studies, Harvard University Graduate School of Education, MA

Are You Ready to Get Started?

Get in touch with me today and let’s start amplifying genius and unlocking potential inside your organization.

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LIFE BEFORE COACHING

  • 6 years as an Engineer | Managing high-profile global projects to solve complicated production and design problems for Hardees, General Motors, The Washington Post, and Cummins
  • Strategic Staffing Analyst, Harvard University Management Fellow for the Center for Workplace Development | Addressing systemic changes to improve employee engagement and career mobility
  • Associate Director, Professional Development, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University | Supporting leadership and career development needs of full-time MBA students
  • Technical Planning and Leadership Development Manager, Cummins | Designing a program to develop junior engineers for the next level of engineering leadership