Clients, Workshops, and Speaking Engagements

I've reinvented myself more times than I can count on two hands — accountant, philosopher, professor, career coach, podcast host, forest documentarian — and I've used every tool I now teach to do it. If you're standing at one of your own crossroads, I'm not going to hand you a five-year plan. I'm going to help you get curious, get moving, and build a life that actually fits.

My approach is equal parts rigor and joy. I believe reflection and playfulness aren't opposites — they're both how real change happens.

Why you can trust me with your one wild life:
I'm a Certified University Educator in Stanford's Designing Your Life method, a Life Design Catalyst Facilitator, and an NCDA Certified Career Services Provider (CCSP). I spent several years teaching life design, job search strategy, and workplace behavior at Western Connecticut State University's Career Success Center, and I recently completed a term as Career Services Coordinator at CT State: Northwestern. I am an NCDA Certified Career Services Provider. Today, I'm Director of Life Design at Boston Global and run my own private coaching practice.

Before any of that, I taught philosophy at WCSU — including a popular Philosophy of Happiness class that let me combine my two favorite things: big questions and helping people actually build lives of meaning and fulfillment. My student-centered approach earned me the Adjunct of the Year Teaching Award across the Connecticut State system's 17 colleges and universities. I'm also a Bridging Differences in Higher Education University Fellow from Berkeley and hold a trauma-informed education certificate from the University of Florida — so wherever you're starting from, you'll be met with real listening, not a script.

The creative side of the ledger:
I created and coordinated a career-exploration program for high schoolers at Housatonic Valley Regional High School, and I'm a co-creator and co-host of the Main Street Moxie podcast and a senior contributing writer for Main Street Magazine. Most recently, I conceptualized and completed an oral history project on the longtime foresters of Great Mountain Forest — a total passion project, done purely for the joy of it. You can listen and watch here.

And yes, I really do have a bachelor's in accounting and philosophy, plus a Ph.D. in philosophy — proof that even I took the scenic route. Along the way, I worked in the corporate and nonprofit worlds, at places like Arthur Andersen & Co. and The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, before landing where I was always headed--helping you find a path that's yours.