professional listener and speaker | wife of a fellow coach | mom of boy-girl twins | Native New Yorker | voracious reader | pit bull lover | world traveler | foodie and eatie | Broadway fan
Current: Helping leaders and teams communicate more effectively, beginning with how they talk to themselves in their own heads. Encouraging and challenging people to present themselves and their ideas clearly, concisely, credibly, compellingly, and courageously. Inviting leaders to take meaningful risks and run motivating experiments in their work and relationships. Taking the work seriously without taking ourselves so seriously. Celebrating all wins.
Past: In high school, I spent my after-school hours, weekends, and summers competing in public speaking competitions. I won the National Championship in public speaking when I was 17, after losing the year prior to now Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. In college, did improvisational and stand-up comedy while teaching public speaking at schools and corporations during the summers. After graduate school, I trained senior citizens to become lobbyists for Medicare, Social Security, and other entitlements. I went on to teach non-profit volunteers and professionals to ask for money for philanthropic causes. I taught leadership communication at Wharton, Columbia, Duke, and Peking University’s business school. I have traveled the world with my family, and our favorite places include Berlin, Singapore, Edinburgh, Kyoto, and Botswana.
Future: Will spend several months each year living in a different country, attending language classes while my husband takes baking classes. Will get better at swimming and yoga and mindfulness and napping. Will find something to do with my hands, like ceramics or jewelry-making. Will tell myself that I won’t write another book – and mean it this time. Will reach the end of Netflix.
