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What makes me feel alive

With 15+ years of professional experience across industries, and as a certified ICF coach, embodiment coach, leadership & entrepreneurship consultant, life coach & eco-spiritual guide, I bring a uniquely tailored, whole human approach to coaching. I’ll meet you exactly where you are, offering tools and practices to nourish both you and your vision.

I feel most alive in my work when I’m supporting a brave leader to reclaim their authentic creative power (aligning their values, vision, and well-being).

I love experimenting with bringing new paradigms and ways of being to life and finding the unlikely connections between people, ideas, or concepts.

I’m inspired by taking cues from art, ecology, the natural world, or imaginal worlds as alternative lenses to encouraging growth and change within leadership or organizations. 

I’ve been based in New York City for the last eight years, and I thrive on creative energy, intellectual curiosity and the arts, cultures, and variety. I feel grateful to have a rich community of fellow heart led dreamers/thinkers, and enjoy time in nature, playing with art, homemade dance parties, cuddling my dog, and a regular dose of live music. (Enneagram 7w8, Manifesting Generator, ENFP, Pisces sun, Taurus Moon, Scorpio Rising).

Who and what has influenced my work:

Certifications:

Trainings:

  • Illuminate Work: Completed one year cohort of women building alignment between values and work

  • Coaching with Kerri Van Kirk - Completed private coaching: helps creatives & entrepreneurs leave behind their ordinary and truly thrive in life, art & business.

  • Center for Wild Spirituality Completed their intensive eco- spirituality leadership cohort

  • Starting Bloc - Completed their Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship Cohort in NYC

Professional Work Experience:

  • Leadership Coach and organizational development consultant

  • COO for Center for Wild Spirituality.

  • Director of first NYC citywide mentorship program for Center for Social Innovation, home to 350 social entrepreneurs.

  • Co-Founder of a social justice arts network with 80 global artists and visual exhibitions

  • First employee for global eye health coalition based in NYC.

  • international aid/ development worker & philanthropic Consultant. Lived and worked from Ethiopia, Namibia and Burundi working on rural health networks, USAID HIV/AIDs programming, Neglected Tropical Disease research and national advocacy. Manager of Anti-Human Trafficking program, pioneering first pooled private multi-million dollar fund to fight modern slavery.

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Why I do this work:

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I grew up surrounded by people who were trying to make the world better—my mum a psychologist, my dad an organizational change expert, and our home often filled with volunteers and global conversations. By the time I was two, I had lived in 15 countries. From an early age, I understood that change—personal, collective, and systemic—is not only possible, but necessary.

What I also came to understand:
We’re not meant to do it alone.

I also know what it’s like to chase success, and meaning—and still feel like something’s missing.
To be the one who holds it all together, shows up, performs, and over-delivers—while quietly wondering:
Is this really it?

I followed what I thought was the path of purpose.
I studied international politics, then spent years working in global development and philanthropy across Africa, Asia, and the Americas—leading projects in healthcare, education, anti-trafficking, and emergency response.

The work was meaningful. But I was always in motion.
Always doing. Always giving.
And somewhere along the way, a quiet disconnection grew inside me.

I had done everything “right,” and given everything to the mission.
But I didn’t feel like myself anymore.

I had tied my identity to my work, my worth to my output, my belonging to how useful I was.
When I hit burnout—panic attacks, depression, a loss of motivation—I realized I wasn’t just tired.
I was having a dark night of the soul.

A death of identity.
A crumbling of everything I thought made me valuable.

Without the title, the impact résumé, or the LinkedIn updates, I didn’t know who I was.
And like so many women, I had internalized the belief that to be a good leader, a good woman, a good human—
I had to do more. Give more. Be impressive. Be useful. Always.

And the truth is—since then, I’ve lived as at least four different more deaths & rebirths different selves.
Each one necessary.
Each one eventually outgrown.

This journey of alignment hasn’t been a single turning point—it’s been a series of accepting deaths and rebirths.
And each time, I’ve had to ask, not just “What’s next?” but:

  • What actually feels meaningful to me?

  • What does my body need?

  • What is the unlived life within me?

  • If I didn’t care what anyone else thought - what would I be choosing right now?

  • What would it look like to live in alignment with my truth—not just what work, culture, or family expects?

Again and again I’ve returned to stop performing and begin to listen deeper—to my limits, my longings, and the parts of me I had pushed aside.

And come back to my own path—
not around achievement, but around alignment.

This is why I do the work I do now.

Because I know there are so many brilliant, caring, exhausted women who are doing everything—and still feel like they’re not enough.
They’re navigating systems that reward self-sacrifice, disconnection, and external validation—and quietly wondering if there’s another way.

And collectively, we’re are at a tipping point.
The old models of working and leading—built on hustle, over-functioning, and perfectionism—are no longer sustainable. They’re burning us & the earth out
They’re keeping us cut off from the very things that make us powerful: creativity, clarity, intuition, rest, desire.

And the world around us is changing too.
Institutions are crumbling. The future feels uncertain.
Now more than ever, we need leaders who are grounded, self-aware, and real—who lead from integrity and love, not fear.

That’s why I help womxn come back to themselves, their inner authority, and what truly matters to them.

I work with leaders, creatives, and entrepreneurs who are ready to lead differently—not by pushing harder, but by leading from within.

Together, we unlearn the old stories—of perfectionism, burnout, and performative success—and rebuild from a foundation of self-trust, clarity, and wholeness.

Because success without soul isn’t sustainable.
And leadership without authenticity isn’t leadership—it’s survival.

You deserve more than survival.
You deserve to feel grounded, clear, nourished—and aligned with the life you’re building.

When you’re rooted in your truth—your rhythms, your needs, your body, your values—your leadership becomes something entirely different:
Sustainable. Creative. Impactful. Real.

Your work becomes more meaningful and has ripple effects. Your presence becomes more magnetic. And you begin to move through the world not from striving—but from sovereignty.

The world doesn’t need more perfect women.
It needs more whole ones.

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