My heart breaks for people “stuck” when I know they have everything they need to transform their situation. Whether it's a CEO blaming everyone else for team dysfunction, a single mom convinced she has no options, or a leader afraid to ask for feedback, I see potential where others see problems. That's why I've spent my career creating safe spaces for hard truths. From helping patients get life-saving medications to opening a homeless shelter to raising foster children to coaching leaders toward ownership. Real transformation happens when people feel safe enough to be vulnerable and courageous enough to own their choices.

Background

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From Healthcare Crisis Response to Consulting to Creating Ownership Culture

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I started in the workforce early, drawn to understanding what impacts culture and creates change when employees are dealing with really hard life situations. Work and life are rarely separate, and I discovered my strength was helping people navigate both simultaneously. At 24, I became Director of Operations for a healthcare technology company, managing 60 people across three locations including a call center. We weren't just processing orders—we were helping get critical medications to patients in dire need, which required my entire team to show up with emotional intelligence and compassion even when their own lives were challenging.

 

This early experience taught me that when people feel psychologically safe, they can handle incredibly difficult work. I carried this insight through roles in healthcare marketing and client success before starting my own consulting company, where I helped small organizations build a foundational core so they could scale. In every role, the pattern was the same: create safety, enable vulnerability, drive results.

 

Five years ago, when I learned our local women's shelter had closed, leaving vulnerable single mothers and children without safe housing during crisis transitions, it felt like my calling to create safety, enable vulnerability, and drive results. I opened a new shelter that has since served over 500 people. Around the same time, I welcomed two foster children into my family—getting my oldest at 3 years old and youngest at just 5 days old. These experiences deepened my understanding that people's greatest growth happens during their most challenging seasons, if they have the right support and safety to own their journey.

 

Six months ago, I joined Encouraging Leaders as COO and have been learning alongside Marc D. Braun how to scale this model of courageous, ownership-driven leadership development. Every day, I get to help leaders create the same psychological safety in their organizations that I've been creating my whole career.

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My Coaching Approach

 

I work with leaders who have a strong desire to reach their full potential and are willing to do whatever it takes.   They want everyone on their team to move from victim mentality to ownership impact and recognize they must lead by example. Through stakeholder assessments and interviews, I help leaders understand their current reality, including the hard truths. But I've learned that people can receive difficult feedback when they feel truly seen and supported. I create safety by being vulnerable myself and helping them realize that everything is figureoutable once they understand they're actually in control of their life and leadership.