Unlike most coaches who focus exclusively on one end of the talent pipeline, I very intentionally designed my business over a decade ago to work with clients at every stage of the talent pipeline:
Early Career | Mid-Career | C-Suite & Senior Management | Chairman & Boards
As a result, I have depth across each career phase and am an expert on the talent ecosystem.
I also serve clients outside the corporate world and work with many artists, creatives, designers, academics, philanthropists, serial entrepreneurs, and first-time founders.
Clients drawn from F500 Corporations, Big Tech & Fin Tech including:
My original interest in coaching was as a life coach many years ago. I quickly realized that you cannot compartmentalize work and life and treat them separately so I switched gears and became a career and executive and leadership coach over a decade ago. My coaching programs incorporate both your work and your life so that you can truly thrive personally and professionally and learn how to not burn out while you advance and stay in your zone of genius.
I have worked with young talent at the undergraduate, graduate, and PhD level at these institutions.
I recently added high performance to my coaching programs because I believe that talent needs to understand and cultivate the agile mindset and daily habits of high performers to be able to thrive in today’s disruptive, technologically-driven landscape. I have also trained under both top coach Brendon Burchard in his High Performance Academy™ and Shirzad Charmine in his global coaches’ grant program Positive Intelligence™ to explore cutting-edge research around the neuroscience of positive intelligence.
My clients value the versatility and depth of my professional experience prior to coaching which includes work on both the professional services side (management strategy consultant with BCG, The Boston Consulting Group) and the corporate side (global strategy director at biotech firm Bayer and commercial banker at The Northern Trust). I know firsthand how decisions are made in these milieus and what it takes to build influence and advance. When I was in my early 30s, I was already persuading Fortune 500 CEOs and Boards to accept my business cases and to take the bold and decisive action I recommended.
Forbes Coaches Council: serve every year since original nomination in first cohort of 2016, publish articles for Forbes and frequently quoted in their Expert Panels.
Duke University Alumni Career & Executive Coach: serve current students and global alumni of Duke University since original nomination in first cohort in 2014. Consult with Duke Career Office and Alumni Association on career education and readiness.
Media: contributor to Huffington Post and CNN.
Awards and recognitions: 2024 Women’s Empowerment Top Coach, 2024 Top Executive Coach of Chicago; 2022 Executive Top Coach, 2021 Power Woman.
I am constantly learning the latest research and innovation in the open talent ecosystem and hold multiple certifications including
ICF accredited Co-Active Professional Coach (CPCC)
Certified High Performance Coach (CHPC)
I currently serve on the Board of Directors of United Planet and am passionate about helping this global non-profit achieve its mission of creating global citizens and building peace. I am also a current Patron of TWIN Global (The World’s Innovation Network) and actively support its mission of fostering innovation across international borders. I have completed a six year term on the Kellogg Alumni Council and a three year term on the President’s Task Force for Career Redesign of Duke University. I am currently an advisor to Duke on careers and career education. I advise founders in a private capacity. I mentor people on getting jobs pro bono.
I am a keynote and motivational speaker and have a TEDx talk from 2015 entitled “How To Get Unstuck in Work and In Life.”
My education is a BA cum laude from Duke University in Economics with Distinction and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University with a focus on Strategy/ Policy, Marketing, and Finance. I studied International Economics in a study abroad program with Bryn Mawr through the University of Montpelier.
I live in a small town north of Chicago and I am the proud mother of three sons, Charlie, Malcolm and Robert. I have 4 rescue cats which is a story for another day. My passion is watching movies and tv shows and discussing them with other people who are equally hooked.
Aside from my beloved family and friends, what I am most grateful for is the clients I get to serve who inspire me everyday with their courage, smarts, tenacity, humor, grace, innovation, and ambition. Thank you to them all and I would love to work with YOU!
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