Executive coaching, leadership development, and organizational consulting for senior leaders navigating what conventional approaches don't — loss, identity, complexity, and the anxiety that uncertainty and change provoke.

Leadership can be a demanding, risky, and often lonely practice. It involves holding uncomfortable tension that others want resolved, sitting with ambiguity longer when the pressure is to act, and containing the anxiety that complexity and change generate in the people. It involves loss and letting go of who we are, what we know, or what used to work. Most coaching, consulting, and leadership development avoids this — knowingly 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, in roles investigating, mitigating, or preventing leadership failures and advising 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.