When you’re moving at a breakneck pace, with requests for your time and attention coming at you from every angle, slowing down to bring someone up to speed isn’t always an option.
Because you want rapid results, forward motion, and someone to hold you accountable.
And you trust that getting those things doesn’t have to be so hard.
That inspiring action in your people, and leading with purpose, can be easy.
It’s my job to be up to speed— even ahead of you—with the nuances of what being a senior leader in today’s business landscape looks, sounds, and feels like.
When we get started together, there’s no delay in getting traction. I get where you are. I’m already there.
Here’s what to expect when we get to work
The direct coach-advisor
My style has been described as tough love, high touch, annoyingly intuitive, sharp, and eerily accurate. I blend coaching skills with expert insight—meaning I share ideas more often than I pull them out of people. I'm direct yet thoughtful.
It’s all about semantics
I have a passion for communication and a knack for helping others find the right words at the right time. What we say, how we say it, and when: these get you closer to exceptional leadership.
ALL ACCESS
Have a fast question, a new roadblock, or want to do a "reality" check? My number is yours. You’ll have access to me to work through what’s coming up for you as it arises—live and in person and on the go, over text and cell.
I’ve been honing a keen understanding of how we communicate, learn, and develop for my entire career. I’ve been a community college English instructor, technical writer, and technical trainer. I then ran the learning and development organization at CNET.com, after transferring from IT to HR (that’s a not a typo: I was in IT before HR).
AT CNET, I coached and trained leaders, worked 1:1 with executives, training them to facilitate and co-facilitating offsites with them. I designed the corporate university and planned team trainings in conjunction with Toyota’s corporate university (lean thinking for everyone).
Coaching executives became my passion, and having grown up watching my parents run their own business, I decided to combine my two interests and started my own business. And as fate would have it, I chose to transition from a place where everyone knew my name and the gig was full time with great benefits to my own business, right before the recession hit in 2008. Talk about starting out on a shaky foot.
Coach in a way that works
It took commitment, focus, patience, and grit to start a business in the most trying financial times. Persistence paid off. I’ve dedicated my coaching practice to helping leaders on their way to the C-Suite know what to say and how to say it; to leverage communication to activate teams and catalyze incredible results. I’m also a well-recognized partner for founders and new CEOs.
I’ve developed the ability to coach in a way that works and sticks. From start-up executives to seasoned profssionals at Fortune 100 companies, technical experts (like the cofounder-CTO) managing teams for their first time to newly promoted directors with a new (and huge) span of control, I’ve cultivated my coaching career around helping incredible leaders navigate transitions.
I can help you navigate yours.
In the media
I’m regularly tapped to offer expert insight in leadership and have been mentioned in a number of notable publications.
My work’s been featured in The Wall Street Journal, BBC.com, Women’s Health, Marketplace Radio, NBCNews.com, Glassdoor, Fast Company, CBS, Forbes.com, HR Magazine, The Rotarian, Cosmo Japan, SHRM.org, and others.
Here are some examples that are available online; some are only in print (yes, really) or behind a paywall.
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