For change-makers ready to strengthen leadership, navigate complexity, and deliver meaningful results.
EXECUTIVE COACHING
Emerging Leaders → Senior Executives → C-Suite
Coaching is where leaders do their most important thinking.
Coaching engagements support leaders navigating complexity, transition, and expanded responsibility.
FOCUS AREAS
Self-Leadership
- Strengths-based leadership
- Leadership identity and values alignment
- Authentic presence, confidence, and voice
- Emotional intelligence and self-awareness
Leading Through Change & Transition
- Career and leadership transitions
- Navigating ambiguity and uncertainty
- Leading through high-stakes change
- Decision-making under pressure
Sustaining Performance
- Resilience and adaptive leadership capacity
- Work-life integration and sustainable productivity
- Preventing burnout and restoring clarity
- Leading with energy and intention
Expanding Leadership Impact
- Executive presence and influence
- High-stakes communication
- Leading across systems and stakeholders
- Strategic thinking and clarity
APPROACH
- Confidential, high-trust partnership
- Grounded in real leadership experience (not theory)
- Deep listening + systems thinking
- Practical, action-oriented coaching
- You set the agenda; we focus on what matters most now
SELECT IMPACT
Coaching Teams Through Crisis & Complexity
Challenge:
Executive leaders were overwhelmed, systems were failing, and families faced long delays in essential services.
What We Did:
Coached executive leaders through operational clarity, high-stakes communication and crisis decision-making. Created resources to diagnose bottlenecks and guide team performance under pressure.
Results:
- Improved outcomes 5%–20% across multiple regions
- One organization improved from 82% → 95%
- Framework adopted nationwide within the agency
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Turning Around a Low-Morale, Low-Trust Team
Challenge:
The organization struggled with burnout, misalignment, and fractured communication.
What We Did:
Conducted needs assessment, established clear expectations, coached executive leaders and supervisors, and created leadership routines to rebuild trust.
Results:
- Employee engagement rose 72% → 88%
- Trust in leadership improved 86% → 97%
- Diversity in leadership roles increased 60%
- Team became a model of healthy culture within the agency
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Leading Large-Scale Rollouts Under Pressure
Challenge:
Agencies needed to launch a brand-new system under high stakes and very short timelines.
What We Did:
Coached executive leaders on crisis leadership, stakeholder alignment, and strategic communication. Led cross-functional teams from planning through execution.
Results:
- Delivered over $1B in public assistance benefits
- Strengthened operational capacity
- Recognized for high-impact leadership under pressure
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Building Inclusive, High-Performing Young Leaders
Challenge:
National youth leadership service program experienced high conflict, turnover, and low interpersonal skills.
What We Did:
Designed experiential leadership development for executive & senior leaders and emerging leaders, focused on coaching, communication, inclusion, emotional intelligence, and teamwork.
Results:
- 96% of participants gained measurable leadership skills
- Retention rates became the highest nationally for this organization
- Leadership model scaled nationwide
ADVISORY & CONSULTING
Strategy • Systems • Execution
Advise leaders and organizations operating in complex, high-stakes public systems across government, philanthropy, nonprofit, and cross-sector environments.
This work focuses on aligning strategy, leadership capability, and operational execution in interdependent systems where outcomes are shaped by policy, funding flows, regulatory constraints, technology infrastructure, and workforce capacity.
CORE ADVISORY AREAS
Strategy & Organizational Alignment
- Strategic planning and execution design
- Organizational structure and workforce alignment
- Translating strategy into operational clarity
Systems Change & Transformation
- Large-scale transformation initiatives across public benefit systems
- • Modernization of safety net infrastructure across SNAP, Medicaid/healthcare, and affordable housing systems
- Multi-state and national implementation efforts involving complex intergovernmental coordination
- Integration of policy design, operational execution, and technology-enabled service delivery
Change & Transition Leadership
- Leading through uncertainty and disruption
- Change strategy and implementation
- Building organizational readiness for transformation
- Sustaining momentum through transition
Stakeholder & Cross-Sector Collaboration
- Government, nonprofit, and philanthropic alignment
- Coalition and partnership building
- Cross-sector strategy and engagement
- Navigating competing priorities and interests
DOMAIN EXPERTISE
• Safety net systems: SNAP, healthcare, and affordable housing
• Public sector implementation in complex, regulated environments
• Cross-system policy-to-operations translation and execution design
• Multi-state and federal program delivery and transformation
• Systems-level workforce, technology, and service delivery modernization
SELECTED ADVISORY ENGAGEMENTS
The Aspen Institute — Financial Security Program
National EBT real-time transaction blocking pilot focused on preventing SNAP benefit theft and strengthening program integrity across state systems.
Quadel — Affordable Housing Systems
Advisory and executive coaching supporting Housing Choice Voucher and affordable housing program operations, stakeholder coordination, and service delivery performance.
MO Studio — Public Sector Modernization
Advisory support for SNAP and Medicaid modernization initiatives, including intergovernmental coordination and implementation readiness assessments.
IMPACT
Leading Transformational Change Across Multiple States
Challenge:
A large regional operation lacked direction, clarity, and engagement.
What We Did:
Led a strategic reset—clarified priorities, rebuilt partnerships, coached leaders, and created a scalable structure aligned to people, purpose, and performance.
Results:
- 3× increase in project demand within 12 months
- +40% partner engagement across multiple states
- Leadership model adopted nationwide
- Recognized for transformational leadership regionally and nationally
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Strengthening Executive Decision-Making & Accountability
Challenge:
Decision-making was inconsistent, opaque, and slowing performance.
What We Did:
Built a multi-state steering committee, facilitated comparative case reviews, and coached executives on collaborative, transparent decision-making.
Results:
- #1 nationwide performance ranking the following year
- 35% improvement in decision accuracy & follow-through
- 45% increase in leadership alignment across regions
- Additional regions joined the initiative after seeing results
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Creating a Clear, Aligned Leadership Culture
Challenge:
Teams operated in silos, roles were unclear, and leadership behaviors were inconsistent.
What We Did:
Clarified roles, improved communication, built decision-making structures, and coached leaders to model trust and accountability.
Results:
- 30% faster decision-making
- 50% increase in cross-team collaboration
- 40% improvement in role clarity, reducing overlap and rework
- Unified leadership expectations across all teams
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Individuals • Teams • Organizations
Leadership development experiences that strengthen capability, alignment, and performance across systems.
CORE DEVELOPMENT AREAS
Leadership Fundamentals
- Leading self and personal effectiveness
- Curiosity, reflection, and adaptive thinking
- Strategic clarity and decision-making
Team & Culture Development
- Psychological safety and trust
- Communication and collaboration
- Building aligned and accountable teams
Resilience & Peak Performance
- Mental resilience and mindset
- Leading under pressure and uncertainty
- Sustaining performance in complex environments
- Adaptive leadership in change
Purpose & Alignment
- Purpose-driven leadership
- Engagement, autonomy, and mastery
- Aligning people, mission, and outcomes
- Leading with meaning and intention
FORMATS & DELIVERY
- Workshops (interactive, applied learning)
- Keynotes (high-impact, experiential talks)
- Leadership development programs
- Cohort-based leadership experiences
- Retreats and immersive leadership journeys
- Virtual, onsite, and hybrid delivery
All engagements are experiential, applied, and designed for immediate implementation
SELECTED KEYNOTES & PROGRAMS
Resilience & Peak Performance
Strategies from endurance sport and leadership to build focus, steadiness, and resilience under pressure.
Leadership Above the Clouds: The F.L.Y. Framework
Lessons from co-leading a high-altitude expedition on mindset, shared leadership, and reframing failure in complex environments.
Purpose-Driven Leadership: Purpose, Autonomy and Mastery
How to move from managing tasks to creating engagement through purpose, autonomy, and mastery.
Strategic Compass: Leadership Direction & Clarity
Tools to pause, reset, and translate vision into clear, actionable direction.
Work-Life Alignment: Leading with Intention and Boundaries
How to design sustainable leadership through intentional priorities, energy management, and boundaries.