Executive and leadership coaching, leadership development, and organizational consulting for senior leaders and others navigating loss, identity, complexity, and the anxiety that uncertainty and change provoke - whether they know it or not. Seeing things as they are can help us move forward. A trusted space and partner can be priceless.

Leadership can be a demanding, risky, and often lonely practice. It involves holding uncomfortable tension that others want resolved, sitting with ambiguity longer despite the pressure to act, and containing the anxiety that complexity and change generate in people. It can involve loss and letting go of who we are, what we know, or what used to work. Most coaching, consulting, and leadership development avoids this — intentionally or not. My work starts here…with a sense of curiosity.

I’ve learned this myself from twenty years of federal service, including in the U.S. Senior Executive Service (i.e., C-suite), in roles investigating, mitigating, or preventing leadership failures and advising other senior leaders on strategy and culture at the highest levels of government, across various agencies and missions.

My work is influenced by adaptive leadership, adult development, grief and loss, and the unconscious dynamics that shape how people and organizations actually behave when the stakes are high. I often use creative and innovative methods, including cinema, literature, poetry, music, and photography — not as entertainment, but as paths to new learning and deeper exploration.

I’ve found that this results in an approach to leadership that is more genuine, human, and effective than what most people have encountered before. If we let it, change might change us, helping us grow and find meaning in the process.