Pronouns
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What do you do as a consultant/coach?
I work with leaders, teams, and organizations facing change, complexity, or challenging questions without clear answers. As a consultant and coach, I partner with people to bring important issues into focus, make sense of what’s happening, surface assumptions and tensions, and turn ideas into meaningful action.
My work often involves strategic thinking and planning, organizational and governance development, facilitation, leadership coaching, and helping groups strengthen how they work and make decisions together. I’m especially drawn to challenges where the goal is not just to fix a problem, but to understand and shift the deeper conditions that keep it in place.
What is your approach?Â
My approach is a bit like making a collage. I gather more than I’ll ultimately use, look for patterns and connections, and help bring what matters most into focus.
I prepare deeply, but I don’t arrive with a predetermined answer. I ask questions, listen for what’s underneath the surface, help people see where there’s agreement or tension, and create opportunities to slow down and think differently. I pay close attention to power, relationships, culture, and structure, because how people work together often shapes what’s possible.
Whether I’m consulting, coaching, or facilitating, my role isn’t to do the thinking for others. Instead, I create the conditions for people to wrestle with meaningful questions, make choices, take ownership, and move ideas into action. I’m comfortable with complexity, but I believe it doesn’t have to mean complication.
How has your experience/background contributed to your work?
My path to consulting and coaching has been anything but straight. I started out as a kindergarten teacher, moved into technology, became a CIO, and later built consulting practices, first helping social benefit organizations use technology effectively, and then focusing on broader questions of strategy, leadership, culture, and organizational change.
Working in such different environments taught me to look beyond the surface. Technology problems were often really about people, processes, power, communication, or organizational clarity. Strategic challenges frequently pointed to deeper questions about culture and relationships. And even the best-designed solution rarely worked unless the people involved understood it, shaped it, and could carry it forward.
Over time, my work shifted more toward facilitation, organizational development, and leadership coaching. My own learning in systems change, organizational development, racial equity, participatory facilitation, and executive coaching has continued to deepen my practice.
I bring all of those experiences with me. I’m curious not just about how things work, but why they work the way they do, who has voice and power, what might be getting in the way, and what becomes possible when people see their situation in a new light.
Relevant certifications or trainings
- Certified Executive Coach, College of Executive Coaching
- Organizational Development Foundations & Intermediate, New York University
- Theory U: Awareness-Based Systems Change
- The Art of Hosting, participatory leadership and group facilitation practices
- Undoing Racism, People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond