For nearly two decades I’ve helped leaders in the non-profit and for-profit sectors successfully compete in the marketplace, find their "voice" in leadership, and strategize around how best to proceed to be effective with others, with themselves, and in their work places. I’ve helped people stay at their jobs and grow their careers when they thought they needed to leave (Job-Crafting), or helped others pivot away from their workplaces into others—or into their own ventures.
I’m an ICF-certified (International Coach Federation, the governing body of coaches)) coach. For many years, I was a program developer and workshop director in wellness and personal growth at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, in Lenox, MA, the largest holistic health center in the U.S. I’ve worked in communications—radio and advertising—and felt like Robinhood when I helped lift businesses up and compete against the big box stores.
Improving Leaders’ confidence, capacity, communications; career builders, changers, and crafters; and making more effective orgs are all parts of helping people become better at work—finding greater purpose, meaning, ability in their daily work so they can feel successful at life and work.
I'm a student of Positive Psychology, aka, the science of what makes people flourish and thrive, become more resilient and perform at their best. I’ve trained with some of the best minds in the field: Tal Ben-Shahar, PhD., prolific author and educator of Harvard's most popular class (on “happiness”); Robert Biswas-Diener, PhD., author, instigator, and brilliant mind behind Positive Psychology coaching; and Rick Hanson, PhD., author and neuropsychologist, whose work in meditation and neuroscience teaches how we can rewire our brains for greatest effectiveness and well-being.
The average person spends about 90,000 hours at work in a lifetime. It's my mission to help anyone find meaning in the workplace—and in their lives—because that’s a lot of hours to waste—or to gain. Research shows that people who feel more meaning have greater well-being, which means they’re also more engaged in life and work, and more productive. They make better leaders, and create more positive work environments for others to work in, as well.
I can get behind that.
