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Welcome to my profile! With over two decades of experience in executive leadership roles at Crescent Hotels and PM Hotel Group, I have honed my skills in developing high-performing leaders and driving commercial success. As EVP of Sales, Marketing, & Revenue Optimization and SVP of Commercial Strategies, I partnered with executive teams to foster growth and innovation across diverse portfolios. My passion lies in mentoring professionals to think strategically and lead with confidence, helping them achieve results beyond their expectations. Having coached 18 individuals, I am dedicated to expanding leadership capacities and navigating complex business challenges. Let's work together to unlock your potential and elevate your leadership journey!

I coach managers and senior leaders through the moments where competence stops being enough: leading former peers, a reorg you did not ask for, conflict you have avoided too long, or a role that outgrew your current operating system. I am an ICF PCC credentialed coach with 20+ years of leadership experience. I spent a decade at Deloitte, leaving as an Audit Senior Manager, then served as a Global Leadership Development Coach and program manager at eBay, coaching high-potential leaders through their development. I have also co-founded a software company that sold to a Fortune 100 acquirer and owned an operating business with my wife, so I understand leadership when the decisions and the payroll are yours. More than 100 people have worked with me one on one. My method is structured, not freeform. I use a framework I call The Reality Model to separate what is actually happening from the story around it, then move to decisions you can defend. Bring the situation you are actually stuck on to the intro call. We will use the time on that.

Leadership doesn’t happen in a vacuum. You bring your thinking into every meeting, every difficult conversation, every decision, and every room you lead. That’s where I coach. For more than 15 years, I’ve helped leaders recognize how their thought patterns influence the way they communicate, make decisions, respond under pressure, and lead others. As an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), I’ve coached more than 150 clients and spent much of my career inside a Fortune 100 organization, coaching leaders, facilitating leadership development, and seeing firsthand what happens when capable people begin thinking differently about themselves and the way they lead. I’m fascinated by what happens before the leadership behavior everyone else sees—the thought, belief, assumption, or story underneath it. That’s where I like to work. Because when we change what’s happening beneath the surface, what happens above it often changes too. Your leadership changes when your thinking does.

For more than 20 years, I've helped executives navigate the moments that define their leadership—stepping into larger roles, leading through transformation, building high-performing teams, influencing stakeholders, and making difficult decisions under pressure. As a former Principal Director at Accenture and AVP of Leadership Development at Verisk, I've coached more than 300 senior leaders and executives across Fortune 500 organizations in life sciences, financial services, technology, manufacturing, and healthcare. My coaching is grounded in real executive experience. I've advised leaders through enterprise transformation, organizational change, executive transitions, AI adoption, and culture transformation while helping organizations build stronger leadership capability. I also designed Verisk's Human Judgment leadership capability to help leaders strengthen the uniquely human skills that matter most in an AI-enabled workplace: sound judgment, curiosity, accountability, communication, and ethical decision-making. Clients describe me as a highly creative coach/advocate who creates trust quickly, asks thoughtful questions, balances empathy with accountability, and helps leaders turn insight into meaningful action. Whether I'm coaching an emerging executive, a seasoned leader, or a founder navigating growth, my goal is the same: to help people become more intentional, effective, and authentic leaders who create better outcomes for their teams and organizations.

With over two decades of experience in talent management and leadership development, I am passionate about helping individuals and organizations unlock their full potential. As the Co-Founder of Viante Talent Solutions, I leverage our proprietary FORWARD™ framework to deliver personalized, human-centered coaching that taps into each client's unique strengths and aspirations. My extensive background includes leading global talent strategies at companies like Carrier and Driscoll's, where I successfully improved internal leadership pipeline strength and employee engagement related to leadership effectiveness. Whether you're looking to enhance your leadership skills, drive greater team performance or transform your organization's talent strategy, I'm here to guide you on your journey. Let's connect and explore how I can support your growth and success!

My approach combines active, engaged listening with targeted questions to help you move efficiently toward your goals. I also integrate neurocoaching techniques and adapt each coaching engagement to your needs, context, and specific challenges. My strength: 20 years of experience in the luxury industry in Paris, including 14 years at L’Oréal, in management, communications, and media training roles, working in environments involving managers and senior leaders. Trained as a professional coach in Paris through a rigorous coaching program, I now bring together these two areas of expertise — coaching and corporate experience — to help you strengthen your leadership, improve your communication, and prepare effectively for your next professional steps. I look forward to working with you and supporting you along the way.

I spent much of my 30-year career learning how to lead people, progressing from artist to manager, department head and eventually Managing Director. I’ve directly led teams of 45+ people and been responsible for businesses with 100–200+ employees. Along the way, I learned that leadership isn’t simply about having authority — it’s about creating the conditions for other people to succeed. As Head of The Mill’s New York 2D department, I focused heavily on 1:1s, career development, hiring, communication, team cohesion and culture. During my five years leading the department, we achieved a 98.2% employee retention rate. Later, as Managing Director at Harbor Picture Company, I applied many of the same principles and helped grow the business by 42% in three years. I understand the transition from being good at your job to suddenly being responsible for other people, as well as the very different challenges that come with senior leadership. Today, I combine that experience with professional coach training as an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) and iPEC Certified Professional Coach (CPC), helping leaders think through the challenges, decisions and responsibilities that come with leading people.

Much of my leadership experience has come without formal authority. During five years at Reddit, I led complex product work across engineering, design, data, and partner teams, and learned early in my career how to create momentum even when I did not control the people or resources needed to get something done. I operated through repeated organizational and leadership changes, including periods with limited direct management support, which pushed me to become highly independent and deliberate about building alignment. Outside my formal product role, I repeatedly created and led initiatives from scratch. I formed and led groups of employees and volunteers, negotiated directly with senior executives including CEOs, built support across VP and C-suite stakeholders, and helped secure more than $250K in budgets and resources for intrapreneurial, mentorship, and tech-for-good initiatives. Doing that required understanding what different stakeholders actually cared about, reframing ideas around their incentives, recruiting supporters, handling objections, and turning projects with no obvious owner into real programs. I’m especially useful for people trying to lead cross-functional work, win executive buy-in, build an initiative outside their formal remit, influence stakeholders they don’t manage, or increase their impact before they have a senior title. My approach is practical: identify the real constraint, understand the incentives in the system, build the coalition you need, and create enough alignment to move the work forward.

I bring extensive leadership experience developed throughout a career in banking, financial services, sales management, and advisor development. I’ve served as a Sales Manager, Partner, and Senior Partner at New York Life, where a major part of my responsibility was recruiting, training, coaching, and developing financial professionals and future leaders. I’ve led teams, conducted individual coaching, taught professional development classes, managed performance and accountability, and helped professionals strengthen their sales and leadership skills. My approach to leadership coaching is practical and experience-based. I help clients become better communicators, build accountability, coach more effectively, manage performance, develop talent, and create teams that can perform without being micromanaged.

My coaching comes from the trenches. As a founder and recovering burnt-out overachiever, I deeply understand the challenges you face as you build your company and yourself. I leave the BS behind — drawing instead on repeatable tools and methodologies from ancient wisdom and modern science, which we use to co-create a custom plan for your success. My training & certifications: - Coaches Rising: The Power of Embodied Transformation (in progress) - Peak Performance Coach certified through Heroic (2021) - Other modalities I am trained in: The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership from the Conscious Leadership Group, Internal Family Systems