As an independent coach, I help people surface their hidden skills and tacit values, in order to make conscious and conscientious choices. I aim to develop our curiosity to explore barriers and become a partner to our understandable fears. Previously, I was a lecturer and fellow at Stanford University's Life Design Lab, where I taught courses, coached students and staff, and designed workshops.

I help people generate detailed stories of success from multiple contexts, articulate their strengths and wisdom, and make that knowledge explicit to outside audiences. I teach people to recognize the stories inside them, to see that who we have been leads us to who we are, and where we can go. I approach my coaching work by listening carefully to unearth genuine insight and derive manageable action plans. 

With a background in architecture, design, and the arts, I've trained with Leadership that Works, an ICF-accredited coaching program focused on transformation and equity. I use assessments like the Enneagram and CliftonStrengths to provide clients with specific guidance and language for articulating their self-concept.

Over 20 years in higher education, activism, and creative industries, I've developed ways of incorporating design thinking and reflective practices, training students in transferable skills, activating individual/group/institutional change, educating on high-impact teaching, and developing interpersonal relationships and goal-setting strategies. As a coach, I work actively towards access and equity, teaching principles of social justice for conscientious civic engagement.