About Me

I condition mission-driven leaders and organizations to do meaningful work for decades. I partner with leaders and organizations to produce high quality results, design exquisite processes and cultivate trusting relationships. I have more than 25 years’ experience in leadership and organizational development. My areas of expertise include: strategic planning, culture change, team building, group dynamics, facilitation, communication, presentation training, leadership embodiment, supervision and management, partnerships/collaborations, power, equity and inclusion/diversity issues, executive and career coaching, and training. I use an outcomes-based approach to promote organizational and individual health, growth, and sustainability. I have designed and taught numerous multi-day workshops on leadership mastery, embodied leadership and executive presence.

In the several decades I have led Conditioning Leaders, I have worked with over 75 corporate, non-profit and government agencies. I coach clients from all walks of life including C-level executives, doctors and gang members. Executive roles I have held include Managing Director at The Tracing Center, the educational non-profit based on the Emmy nominated movie, Traces of the Trade and Co-Director of City Year Boston. Prior to starting my practice, I spent a year studying and doing international development work in Kenya, East Africa and Senegal, West Africa.

I have guest lectured at Boston University’s Non-Profit Management Program, am an adjunct faculty member at Lesley University, teaching Leadership and Community Engagement to master level students. I am a certified Leadership Embodiment Coach and Trainer and a certified Integral Yoga and partner yoga teacher. My B.A. is in Development Studies from Lewis and Clark College and an M. Ed. from Temple University.

I live in Newton, MA with my husband and elementary age daughter. I love gardening, montessori education, racial justice organizing and traveling.