Location: Chicago, IL (Central)

Experience/Qualifications: I'm a Learning & Development professional with a decade of experience at high-growth tech companies including Dropbox, Zendesk, Lyft, and Grubhub. My path into coaching, like many paths in life, came naturally. As a C-suite executive assistant early in my career, I was often the person helping a first-time director prepare for a conversation with the CEO, or talking a new manager through their first hard personnel decision. The formal coaching came later. The instinct was always there.

That background shapes everything about how I work. I understand organizational dynamics from the inside and how decisions get made, what it actually feels like to lead in ambiguity, and the gap between what a role looks like from the outside and what it demands once you're in it. My L&D work has spanned leadership development, manager capability programs, onboarding, and underrepresented talent development — and across all of it, the through line has been helping people find their footing faster and lead with more intention.

Area of Expertise: I specialize in working with emerging and mid-level managers navigating the shift from individual contributor to people leader, and with teams in transition: whether that's a reorg, new leadership, a shift in scope, or the less formal transition where the old way of working just isn't cutting it anymore. I'm drawn to the moments where things are in flux, because that's usually when the most meaningful growth is available.

Coaching Philosophy: My approach is deeply human-centered. I believe most of us already hold our own truth, and sometimes we just need help unpacking what's getting in the way of accessing it. I'm not here to tell you what to do or hand you a framework but to ask the questions that help you think more clearly and move more intentionally.

I also like to ensure our own expectations don't get in the way of progress. You might come in focused on one thing and leave having unlocked something you weren't expecting. Any real progress is good progress, and sometimes the most important thing that happens in a session isn't the thing you came in with.