I have been working in dimensions of strategic change for more than 15 years.  However, it is only in the last 5 that I have made a shift toward including the body, the holistic self and person in embodied learning.  This moves me into the places I really care about – and it allows me to work with others creatively and deeply while being grounded in traditions of neuroscience, human development, relationships, and organizational change.  We all seek integration, and possibilities open as we operate more from our center and who we are.

I have a PhD in Energy and Resources from U.C. Berkeley.  I am also a certified professional coach from New Ventures West in San Francisco.  I also serve as adjunct faculty in the professional course at New Ventures West.

I am a vast Midwesterner, and I love facilitating from the inside->out.  The Bay Area is now my home.

I am deeply connected to the neuroscience of the brain and how it is connected to other knowledge traditions showing how we relate and make our way as human beings.  I enjoy working with people in companies, and in personal coaching as well.  My love is in meeting people where they are.  In meeting people in all of what is there.  Something changes when allow ourselves to be, in this way.

My first career was in energy and international development.  I worked with private institutions, consulting companies, government agencies, universities, and non-profits.  I was a researcher, adviser, scenarist, and social scientist.  Earlier, I was also a physical scientist.

I opened myself to a stillness (both chosen and unchosen) that took over my life and moved me disjuncturally, toward a pathway of working somatically.   I engage the mind, but put it in service of something.  That includes the heart but is also something is authentic in our body, but its reach is also vast.  Dare I say a mystery.

Learning in our real lives and our personal-professional roles is exciting, but it is also messy.  I have a deep alignment and respect for people in these times.  I devote my intellect, skill, and practice to these spaces.  I open and invite you to share that space, to own it and make it yours.

Change is personal, but principles move through it.  I live in Berkeley with my husband and my 4yo daughter, and I love spending time with them.