About Me
In the 8 years after I left undergrad, I held 4 different jobs across three different sectors. In graduate school, I spent 4 years exploring higher education research only to take a job in healthcare education. It would be another dozen or so years until I started my training as a coach.
Compared to the timeline of many specialists in healthcare, the inefficiency of my career path is obvious. Less obvious, though, is the limitless benefit of it. Turns out, my meandering career path is my superpower: giving me the ability to see problems and opportunities with an outsider’s lens. Thanks to this eclectic resume, I dance pretty comfortably on the rim of several different depths of expertise.
Our CVs and resumes are such small slivers of our stories. In fact, our superpowers hide underneath: in the roads we traveled, the ways we learned, and the curiosity and effort we bring to the next chapter. Even if we have to crawl there.
In my journey, I learned that most people in most places sincerely underestimate their fearlessness, curiosity, creativity, and potential.
This is especially true for women.
While my career never started with intention to address this untapped potential, it’s definitely ended up that way. Over the past 20 years, my expertise aligned to serve one purpose: helping people be and do better. Now - as a educator, leader, scholar, and coach – my work drives down different lanes of the same highway, applying best evidence and best practice towards championing the success of others, particularly those in the health professions.
“Tell the story of the mountain you climbed. Your words could become a page in someone else’s survival guide.”
— Morgan Harper Nichols
My Purpose
I want to improve lives by encouraging people to learn, grow, and influence. And, if I’m honest, I also want them to publish their own papers and creatively teach their expertise and connect with learners and sign themselves up — and generally dare to show up in the world.
I am particularly called to this work in academic medicine, where those who lead and teach face tremendous pressures. As Director of Scholarship and Professional Development at the Zamierowski Institute for Experiential Learning, I am lucky enough to do this work every day.
My Coaching
I am certified through the International Coaching Federation as an Associate Certified Coach (ACC). I trained with CTI Co-Active Coaching, a model that emphasizes partnership between the client and coach that results in transformation. Women - especially women of color - face tremendous barriers in their professional lives. My coaching helps them remove the ones they can control to give them power and energy to address the ones they can’t.
Working primarily with women in the health professions, my coaching tends to center around career growth, leadership, and academic progress (writing, scholarship, promotion, etc).