My Beliefs

Over the years, I’ve been blessed to have managers who have shown me how to lead others with conviction and care, and coaches who have taught me how to lead myself with love and gratitude. Leadership is so much more than a job title. It’s a way of doing and being that means so much to me. 

When I was leading a large team, I was often asked, “what’s the most important quality of a good leader?”

My answer: the power of belief.

As a leader, I hold these 4 core beliefs:

I believe in myself
I believe in you
I believe what we’re working on together is valuable and worth the effort
I believe everyone is worthy of respect, understanding and love

Being a good leader starts with leading yourself first. Self leadership is the devotion to investing in caring about yourself, observing and connecting with your thoughts and feelings, making choices that align with your values, and continually expanding your vision of what’s possible in your internal and external world. 

As your Coach, I help you tune into your capability to align with what feels right for you, and to develop core leadership beliefs within yourself. This is the foundation of serving yourself and others in a healthy, sustainable way.

My Background

The past three decades of my career were focused on Design and Leadership. I’ve been the founder and Creative Director of a NYC brand design studio, sole UX Designer at a social e-commerce startup, and Senior Director at LinkedIn, leading a 50 person UX Design team to deliver a $4B enterprise product platform. You can learn more about my professional experience on my LinkedIn profile and my 10 year journey from UX Designer to Senior Director here (on Medium) and here (on LinkedIn).

I’m also a formerly terrified and now passionate public speaker who has presented Design and User Research strategy at Product School, managing difficult conversations at Harvard WeCode, and leadership and career guidance at AIGA, Grace Hopper, Designers + Geeks, San Francisco Design Week, and more.

Born and raised in New York City, I now live in the San Francisco bay area with my husband. My husband and I share a strong belief in the power of love, mutual support and cultivating growth mindsets. We also enjoy taking Argentine tango dance lessons and spending time with our amazing nephew. 

My Calling to Coach

After years of passionately championing products that deliver “less friction, more happy”, I’m now focusing on the deeper source of that passion - helping people experience more clarity, fulfillment and joy in their personal and professional lives.

As your Coach, I draw on my experience in creative leadership, management, mentoring, and teaching to share valuable tools and practices that have helped me overcome fear and achieve things I never imagined I was capable of before. Our journey together will focus on exploring creative ways to connect with your values and passions, so that you too can move into a place of greater belief in yourself and the possibilities you can create with and for others. 

I am a professionally certified coach through New Ventures West, the global leader in Integral Coach training and leadership development. I chose New Ventures West because the philosophy of Integral coaching resonates with my own experience that fulfillment comes from awareness and alignment in the heart, mind, body and spirit.

My Invitation to You

I’d love to help you experience more clarity, fulfillment and joy in your personal and professional life. 

I invite you to share a challenge you’re experiencing right now. I offer a free, confidential, no commitment discovery call, simply to listen and answer any questions you may have. Contact me here or connect and message me on LinkedIn.