What Brought Me to Coaching

My coaching work is the conceptualization of several decades of my personal and professional growth.

I have been fortunate to walk a rich and varied career path: from starting out in investment banking to helping to scale one of the fastest-growing international educational nonprofits on record, to working with incredible social entrepreneur-led organizations creating global change and with organizations seeking to support inner work and the evolution of human consciousness. Along the way, I have worked in the trenches in resource-constrained environments, spent three years solo backpacking around the world, juggled 11 direct reports while leading a team of 30, supported leaders through professional and personal challenges, and learned from my own challenges and obstacles, including overcoming neuro-adrenal fatigue, sleep issues, and rampant anxiety.

In parallel, I have had a personal passion for the development of self and others for several decades. I discovered Vipassana meditation in 2004, which anchors my spiritual practice, and I've studied mindfulness, nutrition, healthy communication, alternative healing, and other development/spiritual modalities since then.

Integral coaching is a deep marrying of my professional and personal worlds and one that I am excited to pursue with those who are committed to their own growth.

Education

Georgetown University
BS in Business Administration – 1998

New Ventures West 
Certified Integral Coach – 2019

International Coaching Federation
ACC Certified Coach – 2020

Aletheia Coaching Methodology
Level 1 – 2020
Level 2 – 2020/21

CP Enneagram Institute
Understanding Subtypes – 2020

Enneagram Prison Project
9 Prisons One Key – 2020

Racial Healing Allies
Racial Healing Allies Workshop – 2020

HeartMath
Add Heart Facilitator – 2020

Strozzi Institute
Embodied Leadership Core – 2020/21

Professional Background

I am an experienced nonprofit executive and philanthropic leader with nearly 20 years in the corporate and nonprofit worlds. When I am not coaching, I serve as the Philanthropic Advisor for the Evolve Foundation, funding the evolution of consciousness, and as a Board Member for Muso, a leading global health organization.

Venture Philanthropy Provides the Seeds for Coaching

Prior to this most recent chapter, I humbly oversaw the Peery Foundation’s two portfolios of social entrepreneur-led organizations. I provided relationship management and thought partnership on fundraising, organizational strategy and growth, operations, and monitoring & evaluation to nearly 40 dynamic, fast-growing nonprofits. It was during my time at the Peery Foundation when the seed of coaching began to germinate – where asking “how are you?” to incredibly passionate, visionary, and exhausted Founders felt like a rhetorical question that I yearned to get underneath and really support.

A Decade in International Development… and the Stresses it Comes With

Before joining Peery, I spent a decade raising money and contributing to the strategic leadership of several international organizations. I was fortunate to be in the right place at the right time to be a key part of scaling Room to Read, a leading global educational nonprofit, to grow from $5million to over $40million in seven years. Towards the end, I oversaw a team of 30+ individuals and a budget of over $40 million as the Deputy/Acting Chief Development Officer. I also watched many dear colleagues struggle to balance the passion for building an incredible organization that was impacting millions of young lives with the strains of fast growth, competing demands, and severely limited resources. I witnessed many talented people finally break and leave the organization, until the day when I realized that it was my turn to leave to heal from neuro-adrenal fatigue and the dark hole that it had begun to create in my life.  

I was fortunate to dig myself out over the span of three years, along the way discovering new insights on spiritual growth, wellness, balance, vulnerability, and authentic leadership – all of which contribute to my coaching support.