About

I started my career as an educator, spending 10 rewarding years teaching writing at San Francisco State University. This work combined my love of language with my passion for working with people and helping them grow as learners and thinkers.

 Now I use all of the skills I developed as a teacher in the work I do in organizational development and employee engagement. Work in these areas requires effective, transparent, human communication and an ability to understand not just the big picture as a whole but all of the brushstrokes that make the big picture emerge. It’s work I find challenging, captivating, and immensely satisfying.

 After several years away from the classroom, I’m back again, but as a student this time, working on my second graduate degree: an M.A. in Organizational Learning and Effectiveness. I earned my first Master’s in English Literature, and while literature may not seem like something we immediately connect to “practical application,” I haven’t found a single area yet in my life where having a broad understanding of the world and how writers have depicted it is anything other than a great asset. Studying literature deepened my understanding of other people—what motivates us, engages us, or breaks us down, and I am grateful for the knowledge and perspectives being an avid reader continuously affords me. I bring those perspectives to my study of organizational behavior and to my work helping organizations make—and keep—great teams.