A little about me, and how I got here.
Over the years, my work has taken me into senior leadership conversations across different industries, countries, and cultures. But some of the most important things I've learned came from questioning the direction of my own life and career.
The path that shaped my perspective.
I've changed careers, worked in different cultural environments, and spent years pushing myself to reach the next level. I was ambitious, determined, and often convinced that the next achievement would make everything fall into place.
Professionally, over the past 13 years, I have built a career I'm proud of: I've held senior-level roles, worked closely with C-suite executives and their leadership teams, and led work spanning people strategy, organizational development, performance, culture, leadership development, and internal communications. I've helped shape decisions and build practical systems that affect how people experience work. Those experiences taught me how much responsibility sits behind a strategy, and how much trust it takes to make change stick.
Personally, I also learned that being capable of reaching a goal doesn't mean it's the right goal forever. Changing careers and working across cultures made me examine the expectations I had absorbed, the environments I was in, and what success actually meant to me. I had to step away from the constant push to achieve, pay attention to what wasn't working, and decide what I wanted to carry forward.
I don't pretend those questions are simple. They have made me more curious, more thoughtful, and more willing to look beyond the obvious, whether I'm speaking with someone reconsidering their path or a leadership team trying to change how its organization works.
The work I do today.
In organizations, I work on the structures, conversations, and leadership practices that help good intentions become better everyday experiences.
In coaching, the focus is on the person in front of me: what they want, what they may have outgrown, and what they are ready to explore.
I value thoughtful conversations, practical thinking, and the willingness to challenge assumptions.
In both, I care about helping people move beyond what they think they should do and toward choices that make sense for who they are, what matters to them, and the realities they're navigating.
Grounded in people and organizations.
Master of Science
Organizational Development · University of San Francisco
Bachelor of Arts
Public Relations & Psychology · San José State University
Additional training
Prosci change management · Professional coach training through iPEC · 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) certification
Credential designations and completion status to be confirmed before publication.
What keeps me grounded.
The experiences that shape my perspective do not all happen in meeting rooms. I value time to learn, explore, reflect, and connect with people outside the usual demands of work.
Context changes everything.
Living and working across different cultures has taught me to pay attention to the unspoken rules, the expectations we inherit, and the systems that shape our choices. What works in one environment may not work in another.