Leadership development for complex organizations
Develop the people leaders your business needs next.
I partner with organizations to develop effective, self-aware leaders, helping technically strong people step into broader leadership responsibility.
Through customized leadership programs, Leadership Circle Profile 360s, executive coaching, and facilitated offsites, I help leaders communicate clearly, decide well, and create results through others.
MBA, Systems Design · ICF-ACC Certified · New Ventures West · 10+ years corporate & startup leadership
Experience supporting leaders in global technology, aerospace, and purpose-driven organizations.
Technical expertise does not automatically translate into people leadership.
Organizations often promote people because they are exceptional at the work. Their next role requires something different: setting direction, building trust, coaching performance, navigating conflict, and creating results through others.
Without deliberate development, capable leaders become overwhelmed, teams grow dependent on them, and avoidable friction slows the business.
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Emerging & first-line leaders
Make the shift from being the expert who solves the problem to the leader who builds capability in others.
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Mid-level & senior leaders
Understand how their patterns affect others and lead effectively through greater complexity.
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Leadership teams
Create clarity around priorities, decisions, roles, and how leaders work together.
Ways to work together
Leadership development built around the business need
Every engagement begins with your context: who needs to develop, what the business requires of them, and what would be different if the work succeeds.
Leadership Development Programs
Customized programs for emerging, first-line, midlevel, or senior leaders — combining live sessions, practice, peer coaching, and sponsor involvement.
- From expert to people leader
- Coaching & empowering others
- Difficult conversations
- Accountability & trust
360s & Executive Coaching
Focused development for leaders whose growth matters to the organization — a Leadership Circle Profile 360 plus coaching that turns insight into lasting change.
- Sponsor alignment up front
- Leadership Circle Profile 360
- Six months of coaching
- Midpoint & closing reviews
Offsites & Facilitation
Designed and facilitated sessions where leadership teams address real work — strategic alignment, decision-making, role clarity, or a significant transition.
- Stakeholder interviews
- Custom session design
- Live facilitation
- Decisions & commitments
engagement snapshot
What this looks like in practice
A cross-functional group of emerging leaders needed to motivate teams, retain people, and lead beyond their silos — without a development pathway to get there.
The situation
Emerging leaders facing team motivation, retention, and communication challenges — operating in silos with no structured development or peer support.
The work
A six-month program: biweekly cohort sessions on trust, decision-making, and coaching skills — alternating with 1:1 coaching and peer pods that applied the learning to real leadership challenges.
What changed
Leaders reported clearer vision, stronger relational skills, and more confidence leading through change — and built a peer community that outlasted the program.
700+
leaders coached and developed
80+
Net Promoter Score across engagements
95%
participant satisfaction in workshops
How I work
Custom where it matters. Structured where it helps.
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Diagnose
Clarify the business context, leadership population, key stakeholders, and what success looks like.
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Design
Build an engagement around your people, culture, constraints, and level of development required.
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Develop
Create real learning through reflection, practice, feedback, coaching, and application on the job.
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Embed
Reinforce the work through sponsor involvement, commitments, and follow-up sessions.
Engagements range from focused executive-coaching assignments to multi-month leadership-development programs.
Development that changes how leaders operate
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Leaders create clarity instead of becoming bottlenecks
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Managers coach and delegate instead of doing it all
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Hard conversations happen - directly and productively
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Decisions get made once, with real accountability
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My team and I are part of a Fortune 100 company leading several hundred software and hardware engineers in multiple geos across the world. Creating a collaborative, highly functional team is critical to our business. The insights gained, along with rigorous discussions, resulted in actions that improved our team's trust, communication, and collaboration, and set a solid foundation for our long-term development.
— Engineering leader, Fortune 100 technology company
About
Deep development, grounded in real organizations
I bring an unusual combination: developmental coaching, organizational facilitation, and firsthand operating experience as a startup co-founder and corporate leader. I work both the human dimensions of leadership and the practical realities leaders face - competing priorities, organizational pressure, difficult relationships, and the need to produce results.
Operating experience
Startup co-founder and corporate leadership roles across technology and purpose-driven organizations.
Developmental depth
MBA in Systems Design; New Ventures West integral coach training; ICF-ACC certified.
Program delivery
Leadership programs, 360 debriefs, and coaching for first-line to senior leaders — 700+ leaders to date.
Practical details
What to expect when engaging me
Format
Virtual, onsite, or blended - programs and offsites travel; coaching works well remote.
Cohort size
Programs run best with 7-30 participants; offsites for intact leadership teams of 2-20.
Timeline
Coaching engagements run 6-9 months; programs typically 3–9 months; offsites 1–2 days plus design.
Getting started
A complimentary scoping conversation, then a written proposal with clear deliverables and pricing.
Build the leadership capacity your strategy depends on.
Tell me about the leaders, transition, or organizational challenge you're facing. We'll explore what's needed, and whether coaching, assessment, facilitation, or a broader program would create the greatest value.
Initial conversations are complimentary and focused on fit.