I don't just design "change" frameworks - I make transformation "stick".
For 20+ years, I've helped leaders and organizations navigate the messy middle between strategy and execution, connecting people to results in a way that works.

The Path Here

I didn't start in a boardroom - I started in crisis care.
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My first professional work was as a behavioral health counselor - supporting women navigating homelessness, trauma, and systemic barriers while trying to hold their families together.
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That work taught me something that's shaped everything since: sustainable change is possible when people are seen and met where they are.
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From those first days I moved into organizational consulting - first at Booz Allen Hamilton, where I built and led a $10M+ change practice serving federal clients. Then at Avaap, where I co-led a $12M advisory practice and scaled organizational change capability across enterprise technology implementations. Then at Accenture, where I was brought in as a strategic hire to build what didn't exist and untangle what didn't work.
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Along the way, I earned a PhD in Organizational Development & Leadership, got a certificate in Organization Design (Cornell-ILR) and Change Management (Prosci Advanced Instructor), and became a Vanderbilt-trained Generative AI Strategic Leader.

Now, I teach graduate-level organizational change and undergraduate psychology at Walden University. And I was named a Top 50 Women Leader in Cleveland - two years running.
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I've spent two decades in the space where strategy meets reality - and I've got practical insight and research-backed solutions to avoid common transformation hiccups and fail points.

I've built my career building programs that address and fix programs that ignored the signals upfront.

I partner with women-led, small-business enterprises though:
+ Organizational Advisory & Consulting
+ Strategic Leadership Development

Organizations don't transform. The people inside them adapt.

Leaders navigating the transformations are the ones carrying the invisible load, often figuring it out without a playbook.

I've been that leader.
+ I've walked away from titles
+ Taken the non-traditional path
+ Made moves that looked risky on paper

So, when I work with organizations, I'm thinking about the people expected to work a new way - not just the people designing it.

When I work with individual leaders, I bring the same strategic rigor I'd bring to an enterprise transformation - because you deserve frameworks that actually fit your reality, not platitudes.
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My edge is blending behavioral science, workflow design, and delivery discipline.

I focus on:
+ Why people resist -  and how to design around it
+ Cognitive load, decision fatigue, and attention - as finite resources to be protected, not ignored
+ Systems that make the right behaviors easier - not just required
+ Adoption as an outcome to be architected - not an after-thought

This isn't theory.

It's 20+ years of practice - leading large-scale transformations, advising senior leaders, training hundreds of practitioners, and studying and teaching what actually moves people.

The Bottom Line

I equip leaders and organizations to design change that people actually adopt and organizations can measure.
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