I am a Certified Professional Coach (CPC). I completed my training locally at the ICF accredited Invite Change with their 16 month CPC program in Transformational Coaching.
I current hold a current credential of Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
This reflects my dedication to providing high-quality, ethical coaching that creates a safe, supportive environment for clients.
With 10 years as a professional landscaper and 25 years of experience in the tech industry, including time at Microsoft (10 years), Amazon (5 years) , Groupon (4 years) and Apple, I incorporate tools like Needs-Based Awareness (NBA), Emotional Intelligence, and elements of Nonviolent Communication aka Collaborative Communication (NVC) to empower you beyond our sessions, ensuring growth and clarity throughout your journey.
Transitioning from blue-collar work to the tech industry in my 30s taught me invaluable lessons about imposter syndrome, boundaries and saying “no” gracefully.
I learned about servant leadership in high school youth group of all places, and find the echoes of what I learned there in the secular business version of servant leadership.
As my professional career grew in the tech industry as a Quality Assurance Analyst, from Microsoft to Amazon, I became aware of the massive push for people to judge their lives by how “productive” they are. Having watched “productivity” devolve into just being “busy” I began to look into redefining productivity for myself. I encourage all my clients to so the same. “Being busy” is not the same as being productive.
After a year of working 6 day weeks early in my career at Microsoft, and realizing my early-career mistake of missing all that family time, I learned the lesson that the corporation will take whatever you give (time management and work-life balance are yours to define),
With the advent of AI, and the massive push by almost all tech companies to blindly run down this path, and as I was working to wedge more AI into Siri at Apple in 2025, I realized I would no longer work in the tech industry, severely limit my personal use of AI online where possible, and moved to the education of humans.
Currently, in the mornings, I am a paraeducator at local school district working with special needs students in a vocational program and I am currently pursuing my Master in Teaching, Special Education degree (2026,27). In the afternoons and evenings I am a professional coach.
(AI-free zone: All rambling sentences, misspellings, and poor grammar are my own.)