I began as a teacher.
Teaching showed me that people do their best work when they know they are seen—not only for the role they perform, but for the person beneath it.
Students did not care only that I knew the material. They cared whether I recognized their gifts, their aspirations, and what might prevent them from doing what they were capable of doing. Care did not lower the standard. It helped make high performance possible.
The setting changed. The question remained.
I moved from teaching and school leadership into organizational development, leadership learning, DEI, and relationship-systems work. Across education, public institutions, financial services, and social impact, I kept returning to the same question:
What is happening between these people—and what could become possible if they understood it differently?
This work is personal too.
I have ended relationships because I did not yet have the tools, language, or a different story about what conflict and difference meant. I mistook an uncomfortable edge for evidence that the relationship had failed.
I now understand that difference is part of being human. When we become curious about it, we can discover deeply held values, unspoken dreams, inherited expectations, and information that can help a relationship deepen, reinvent itself, or reach an honest ending.
What it feels like to work with me
I pay attention to what happens in the space between people—the patterns, assumptions, shifts in energy, and moments that are easy to miss. I listen before judging. I ask questions that help people reconsider what they thought was happening and see what else may be possible.
I can carry a heavy conversation without making the people in it feel heavy.
Experience
More than 15 years across education, public institutions, financial services, and social impact · Experience at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York · ORSC-trained systems coach · Hunter College 40 Under 40