Growth is my core value. It’s not only defined my career and coaching, but how I live my life. Growth is fundamental to who we are as humans, and human potential has been the driving force in my journey so far. So much so that being called to coach as a career was inevitable. Guiding others to their greatest potential as leaders is a gift of service that I take to heart.

And transforming the underrated founder seeking to do the impossible into the integrated leader manifesting a unique vision that motivates me. Whether they’re battling the legacy competitor in the market, competing against better networked peers with safety nets or any number of adversities on their way up, most founders are discounted in some way.

I know, because it’s also my story. So much of what drove me was feeling underrated.

From the teachers who placed me in ESL even though English is my first language. Or the early bosses that discounted my ability to close the big deals. To the founders who didn’t think I had the chops to build a company. Underrated was my story. And it served me for a long time.

Or so I thought.

I proved to everyone whom I thought mattered that I could do the impossible from securing campaign wins for underdog candidates in politics to helping scale and sell three upstart startups in business.

But it couldn’t sustain me. 

What kept me going over two decades of work was asking for help to integrate what I was experiencing. This started with therapy, after suffering but not knowing I had PTSD from being locked up abroad decades ago. And it continued with coaching through almost losing my company in a co-founder breakup and having to rebuild our product and team.

I’m indebted to my guides – therapists, coaches and advisors – who shepherded me through the peaks and valleys of a glorious and gut-wrenching career that took me around the world and back again. And I want to honor the work I did to heal – practicing self-compassion and self-love – in the face of a world that seems to tell us the opposite.

Looking back, this healing journey started early. I attended my first meditation retreat when I was 16. And you could find me reading spiritual books in college, not the required texts. I took every personal growth course from The Landmark Forum to Tony Robbins before digging in deeper with The Hoffman Process and later coming back to my heritage in ancient Hindu and Buddhist wisdom traditions.

But it was my early work with Nonviolent Communication which planted the seed for coaching and leadership. And as a startup executive and later founder, I started coach training and got certified through the Co-Active Training Institute, did work with the Conscious Leadership Group and also served as a Fellow with Leaders in Tech.

The area I’m most excited to explore with clients is embodied leadership. So much of how we live our lives is in our heads, not in our bodies. We’re dissociated from how we sense and feel, and this not only impacts our health but how we show up to lead. Meditation and mindfulness are helpful, breath work and movement are more powerful.

This is a part of my journey from head to heart, and I invite you to come join me for the ride.