Booking engagements
Making work more human, and making strategy actually work.
Organizations rarely come to me because everything is going perfectly. Usually there is a harder conversation underneath the request.
Culture has become fragmented. People are exhausted. Leaders are trying to navigate change without losing trust. Inclusion efforts are not translating into belonging. Psychological safety sounds great in a slide deck but does not quite exist in the room.
Senior Advisor, Foundation Culture, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Pennsylvania.
I am a strategist, organizational advisor, executive and C-suite coach, and culture change-maker who helps leaders turn complicated people problems into practical, sustainable strategies. My work sits at the intersection of organizational effectiveness, inclusion and belonging, psychological safety, workforce well-being, culture transformation, and human behavior.
And yes, I bring psychology into the strategy room. Because organizations are systems, but systems are made of people. If we design a brilliant strategy that ignores how people actually experience work, we have not really solved the problem.
Sometimes I am the strategic thought partner in the room, the person helping an executive make sense of what is happening beneath the surface. Sometimes I am facilitating the conversation nobody else wants to have. Sometimes we are building the strategy, operating model, governance structure, measurement framework, or roadmap that turns good intentions into something an organization can actually sustain.
My approach is rigorous, relational, and deeply human. I am interested in outcomes, but I am equally interested in whether the people responsible for delivering those outcomes have the capacity, trust, clarity, and support to make them happen.That is why well-being is not an add-on to my strategy work. It is part of the strategy.
What an engagement looks like
- Executive advising
- Strategic planning
- Organizational and culture assessment
- Leadership development
- Workshops
- Keynote speaking
- Facilitated dialogue
- Workforce well-being strategy
- Longer term advisory partnerships
Speaking topics
28 talks and workshops across four areas, developed and delivered. Every one can be shaped to a room.
Psychology, play and creativity
- Why Play Is Serious Business: The Psychology of Adult Play
- Adult Play and Nostalgia: Finding Our Way Back to the Inner Child
- The Psychology of Toys: What Our Playthings Teach Us About Ourselves
- Geek Therapy: When Fandom Becomes a Pathway to Connection and Healing
- The Neuroscience of Play, Creativity and Connection
- The Magic of Imagination: Creativity as a Tool for Resilience
- From Toys to Therapy: How Objects, Stories and Play Help Us Make Meaning
Trauma, well-being and the body
- Trauma-Informed Care for Professional Artists
- When the Mind and Body Stop Talking
- The Body Aesthetic: Body Image, Dysmorphia, Dysphoria and Wellness
- Beyond Burnout: Rethinking Workplace Well-Being
- Psychological Safety Is a Human Need, Not a Buzzword
- The Emotional Cost of Being “Fine”
- Resilience, Recovery and the Things That Help Us Keep Going
Inclusion, identity and culture
- Toxic Masculinity: Who’s It For?
- Representation Matters: What Pop Culture Teaches Us About Belonging
- Queer Representation, Play and the Psychology of Belonging
- Authenticity at Work: What Happens When People Can Actually Be Themselves?
- From Inclusion to Belonging: The Missing Ingredients
- The Psychology of Otherness: What Happens When We Feel Like We Don’t Fit?
Leadership, organizations and the future of work
- Diplomatic Disruption: How to Have a Seat at the Table
- Making Work More Human: Strategy, Culture and Psychological Well-Being
- The Culture You Think You Have vs. The Culture People Actually Experience
- Leading Through Collective Strain
- The Human Side of Organizational Change
- Well-Being Is the Strategy
- Building Psychological Safety That Actually Works
- When Culture Gets Complicated: How Leaders Navigate the Messy Middle
Start a conversation
If your organization is ready to have the honest conversation, rethink what is not working, and build something better, let’s talk.