I work with leaders, teams, and organizations who are trying to navigate something genuinely hard — and who suspect that the way they've been thinking about it might be part of the problem.

My path to this work wasn't linear. I grew up in Alaska, served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bulgaria, and spent years working across contexts most consultants never encounter — evaluating community development in indigenous communities, facilitating strategy sessions in Tunisia, leading disaster management workshops in Nigeria and Israel, and teaching leadership programs for staff at the World Bank Group, U.S. government agencies, and nonprofits around the world.

What those experiences gave me wasn't a methodology. It was a deep respect for complexity — and a lot of practice helping people think more clearly under pressure, across difference, and in situations where the right answer wasn't obvious.

That's still what I do. Whether I'm facilitating a leadership retreat, coaching an executive, or helping an organization work through a difficult transition, the work is fundamentally the same: creating the conditions for people to slow down, see their situation more clearly, and move forward with greater confidence.

I hold a graduate certificate in Leadership and Organizational Development from American University and am completing a master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Trinity Washington University — training that has deepened how I listen, and sharpened my attention to the patterns that keep people and organizations stuck. I'm also a certified Wilderness First Responder and regularly partner with Cairn Leadership Strategies to facilitate leadership programs in the outdoors.

If you'd like a sense of how I think, I write a newsletter called Relaxed and Alert, where I explore leadership, psychotherapy, meditation, and the outdoors — not as separate topics, but as different lenses on the same question: how do people grow and change?