I’ve been where you are.
There’s a way through.
Twenty years working with senior leaders at the moments that ask the most of them. I know this terrain because I walked it.
I work with senior leaders at the crucible moments — when the old way of leading stops working, when the identity that carried them here no longer fits, when the professional and personal costs are pointing at the same thing.
The doorway looks different for everyone. A new country, a new culture, the instincts that built the career suddenly unreliable. The biggest role of a career arriving — and standing at the precipice unsure they can inhabit it. A PE acquisition that changed all the rules. AI transforming not just a role but an entire organization and the world their children will inherit. Or something purely personal. A marriage fraying. A parent dying. The last kid leaving and the silence that follows.
The doorway doesn't determine the work. It just determines when they arrive.
What they share when they get here: they've done everything right. The leadership programs, the coaches, the 360s. Built something real. The achievement is genuine. But somewhere in the back half of life they're quietly asking — was that definition of success actually theirs? Or was it handed to them?
That's where the work starts.
How I work
The work isn't about optimizing performance or managing the impression of it. It's about using this moment — disorienting as it is — as the threshold it actually is. A chance to lead more honestly, think more clearly, and close the distance between who you are and how you're showing up.
We look at who you are beneath the accumulated identity — your history, your patterns, the systems around you, where your energy actually goes, what's really driving your behavior. Fear, an old wound, a reactive habit the system rewarded — or something true.
I don't remove the discomfort. I sit in it with you and help you make meaning of it. Find what it's pointing toward. See what becomes possible when you stop working around it.
Leaders who do this work make better decisions. They lead with more clarity and less reactivity. They close the gap between the leader they're performing and the human they actually are. What they almost always say afterward: for the first time in years they had one person in their corner with no agenda except theirs.
And the next chapter stops being something to wait for and starts being something to build deliberately.
Selected Background
Twenty years of executive coaching and leadership facilitation across the U.S. and Europe, including The Energy Project, PwC U.S. Leadership Coaching Center of Excellence, PwC Germany Workforce Transformation, UNC Executive Development, and global leadership programs across EMEA.
ICF PCC · Georgetown Leadership Coaching · ORSC · Leadership Circle · Hogan · HBDI
A More Personal Note
I know this terrain because I walked it. Changed careers. Moved across the world. Lost people I love. Grew up in a home that was equal parts difficult and beautiful. I've rebuilt from scratch more than once — not as a metaphor but as a lived reality.
That's not a credential from a training program. It's why I can sit with another person in their hardest moments without looking away — and why I know when the work needs someone else's hands, not mine.
I work with a small number of leaders at a time. The work is built around what's actually happening — not a generic program.
Selected Credentials
ICF PCC · Georgetown University Leadership Coaching · ORSC · Hogan Assessment · Leadership Circle 360 · HBDI · Positive Psychology & Wellbeing Coaching · The Energy Project Certified Facilitator · Global Team Coaching Institute · National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach · Unified Mindfulness
Want to connect?
If something here is landing — I'd be glad to hear more.
The best next step is a conversation. No pitch. No agenda. Just an honest look at where you are and whether this work is the right fit.