I am a coach, consultant, teacher, writer, artist and advocate. My mission is to create sustainable, generative, socially accountable change, with groups and individuals.
My main work is as a partner in The Potential Group, a small firm that specializes in strategy and change leadership in healthcare and education. Although coaching has been part of my practice for many years, I recently completed my training as a Certified Professional Co-active Coach (CPCC), and expanded my coaching beyond work environments to include people exploring personal, advocacy, spiritual and creative questions.
I began exploring how we make meaning, communicate to hear and be heard, create generative relationships, and develop authentic life purpose during my PhD work in Human and Organizational Systems (Fielding Graduate University, 2008). Along with coaching, I use these principles to teach generative leadership and change resilience in two programs for leaders in healthcare and higher education.
For the past 13 years, I’ve also been the volunteer Co-Director of a children’s development project in Kasese, Uganda called Nikibasika Learning and Development Program. Nikibasika supports a group of 52 orphaned and vulnerable children and youth to become community oriented, globally aware, self-sustaining citizens. I co-lead all fundraising, strategic direction and hands-on management of the program.
I’m also a weekly contributor to a popular feminist fitness blog, a collage artist, a runner and a writer. I’ve been privileged to travel to more than 60 countries, many of them on bikes.
I view coaching as part of my life commitment to a world of connection, inclusiveness, equity and shared purpose. As a White, cis-gendered, able-bodied, queer woman, I have a fierce commitment to lifelong learning about what it means to be an ally with Black, Indigenous, racialized, disabled and trans people. As a coach, I commit to working with clients in ways that acknowledge and honour their diverse identities and lived experience, and which recognize the impact of oppressive structures.