There was a man who saw me completely.
Not the version I presented to the world. Not the accomplished professional or the capable leader or the woman who had it together. The whole thing — the depth and the struggle and the soul underneath all of it.
His name was John. And in our kitchen in Carnation, Washington, on an ordinary afternoon, he said something I didn’t fully take in at the time:
“The world needs you and your gifts. You have the gift of true empathy. You see people and help them see each other. The world needs your deepest gifts.”
He said it like it was simply true. Because for him, it was.
John died on August 6, 2012. A paragliding accident in British Columbia, five days after his 55th birthday. And in the unimaginable grief that followed, something cracked open in me that has never closed.
I learned — at the deepest possible cost — what it feels like to be truly seen. And I have spent every year since giving that away.
That is why I do this work.
Not because I studied it. Not because I built a methodology around it. Because a man stood beside me in a dressing room when I felt broken and told me I was beautiful and meant it. Because he rode the waves of me without trying to fix them. Because he saw my soul underneath my struggle and never once confused the two.
I know what it feels like to be seen that way. And I know — because I have witnessed it hundreds of times — what becomes possible for a person, a leader, a team, when they finally experience it.
That is the work. That has always been the work.
It just took me a while to say it out loud.
I work with leaders who are not fully seen. Teams that have forgotten how to tell the truth to each other. And women standing at the threshold of who they are becoming — uncertain, capable, and quietly desperate for someone to see past the performance to the person underneath.
I know this territory. Not because I studied it. Because I have lived every inch of it.
I have been on the floor. I have built things from the wrong place for the wrong reasons. I have loved and lost and surrendered and found — over and over again — that the only way through is the truth. Your truth. The one that lives underneath everything you’ve been performing.
That is what I am here to help you find.
Not to fix you. Not to build you into something you’re not. But to see you — clearly, completely, without judgment — and reflect back what I find.
The way John saw me.
The way I believe every human being deserves to be seen.
At least once. In this lifetime.
For more than twenty years I have worked at the intersection of truth, trust, and human potential. Before I was a coach and facilitator, I was a leader — president of three companies, a strategic planning consultant, and a facilitator and coach of CEO peer groups, guiding executives through the kind of thinking that changes the direction of organizations.
I have spent years working across three continents with teams and leaders at every level and in every industry. My work has taken me inside some of the most mission-driven and industry-leading organizations in the world — global foundations, biotech pioneers, and nonprofits doing work that genuinely matters.
Certified Executive Coach • Master Facilitator • Certified Spiritual Companion
If something in these words feels familiar — like something you’ve been trying to articulate but couldn’t quite find — I’d love to talk.
Not a sales call. Not a discovery session with a hidden agenda. Just a real conversation between two people who take truth seriously.
The first conversation is simply that — a conversation.
"I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become." — Carl Jung
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