I’ve spent my life studying people—how they grow, how they lead, how they struggle, and how they find their way back to one another when things get hard.

I was a clinical psychologist serving with the US Military in Germany when the Berlin Wall came down. Watching individuals, teams, and entire institutions navigate the collapse and reinvention of a society in real time, I saw with unmistakable clarity that you cannot separate a person from the systems they inhabit.

That experience drew me to the intersection of the ”I” and the “We”, the individual and the collective. I shifted from approaching individuals and organizations as separate entities to realizing that the health and stability of one depends on the health and stability of the other. 

I’m a psychologist by training, a coach and advisor by profession, and a lifelong student of human systems, group dynamics, and change.

I spent over 20 years at the Center for Creative Leadership, working with some of the most complex organizations in the world — global enterprises, universities, nonprofits, family legacy businesses, law schools, utilities, communities, and arts organizations. I dove deeper into the intersection of individual and team development, publishing in the Harvard Business Review, co-authoring foundational texts on coaching and organizational leadership, and earning a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in applied systems theory.

My work is informed as much by decades inside executive teams as by the enduring lessons found in nature, community, and around the family table.

I’m a mountain-town yogi and mother of three with a reverence for food and gathering. I believe some of life’s best wisdom is found in nature.