You Don't Have to Navigate Life's Next Chapter Alone
Whether you're an artist discovering your distinctive voice, a leader navigating change, or someone standing at a personal threshold, my work is about creating space for you to listen deeply, reconnect with what matters most, and move forward with clarity and confidence.
For more than four decades, I've helped people grow through leadership, storytelling, teaching, coaching, and the performing arts. Along the way I've learned that meaningful transformation rarely begins with having all the answers.
It begins with asking the right questions and having someone who knows how to listen.
Today, I bring together a lifetime of experience in leadership, theatre, coaching, speaking, and creative development to help people become more fully themselves. My work has taken me from boardrooms to rehearsal halls, from directing productions to mentoring artists, and from leading organizations to walking alongside people through seasons of change.
At the heart of eveything I do is one belief:
Every Person Has a Unique Voice Worth Discovering and a Story Worth Living.
We don't lose our voice.
We learn to quiet it.
Hide it.
Doubt it.
Or set it aside while meeting the expectations and responsibilities of our lives.
But that voice is still there.
When we create enough space to listen, we learn to trust what we hear, express what is true, and connect more fully with ourselves, others, and the life we are called to live.
Listen. Trust. Express. Connect.
The Work I'm Called To Do
I work with capable, creative, and thoughtful people who may be:
- Navigating a personal, or professional change
- Questioning whether the life they've build still fits
- Preparing to share their voice, talent, or ideas more confidently
- Discovering or rediscovering a creative part of themselves they set aside
- Feeling a quiet pull toward something more
My role is to not fix or tell them who they should become.
I believe my role is to create a space where they can hear themselves more clearly, recognize what they already know, and take meaningful steps toward what is true for them.
Sometimes this happens through coaching, in a rehearsal room, during a workshop, through a story shared from the stage, or in a conversation on The Creative Connection podcast.
Whatever the setting, the intention remains the same—to help people
reclaim their voice, reconnect with what matters most, and to realign and move forward with greater clarity.
A Few Things About Me
My work brings together a lifetime of experience in leadership, theatre, storytelling, teaching, and coaching.
A few parts of the journey have shaped me:
- More than 35 years of leadership, including executive and operational roles in retail, hospitality, and tourism
- More than 25 years of directing and teaching, including community theatre, and K12 schools as an independent contractor or volunteer
- Artisitc and Managing Director of a community theatre
- Coach and mentor to artistics (performers, writers, musicians), leaders (nonprofit and for profit), and people navigating meaningful transitions in relationships and careers
- Host of The Creative Connection Podcast
I hold both a bachelor's degree and an MBA. My professional training includes transformational coaching, mindfulness, relationship work, and embodied presence—all of which inform the way I listen, lead, teach, and create.
I live near Seattle, Washington, with my husband, Dan. We have shared more than four decades together and have three adult sons. My experiences as a wife, mother, leader, artist, and lifelong learner continue to shape who I am and how I serve.
